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* ChekhovsGag: Early on, Max idly thinks to herself that Billy's car sounds "like a thunderstorm that rains douchebags". [[spoiler:A few chapters later, Dustin is busy trying to revive his unconscious friends when he thinks he hears thunder off in the distance... [[FromBadToWorse only for Billy to show up in the driveway instead]].]]
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* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Steve notes in the last chapter that one of his first interactions with Dustin was Dustin getting him a Cherry Mash from the hospital vending machine while they were all waiting for Will to wake up in Season 1, with the implication that it was an incredibly weird choice because no one likes them. Rewind to Chapter 8 where Steve gets ''himself'' a Cherry Mash from the motel vending machine when he's worried about Dustin.
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* HilariousInHindsight : Lucas insisting that the broadcast is a Russian number station and Dustin thinking that it's going to be way less cool to be the Cubs than the Wolverines when they 'inevitably end up the ones that have to fight Russians' is this considering [[spoiler: the events of Season 3]] doubles as a HarsherInHindsight [[spoiler: considering what they do to Steve.]]
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Happens to Billy Hargrove in the epilogue. He backs down from a potential fight ''immediately'' when it's four punks with no qualms about casual violence who fish him out of the trunk of his car instead of Hopper or Steve.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: AlwaysABiggerFish:
** Happens to Billy Hargrove in the epilogue. He backs down from a potential fight ''immediately'' when it's four punks with no qualms about casual violence who fish him out of the trunk of his car instead of Hopper or Steve.
** Happens to the Aboleth [[spoiler: when Will's presence in the Upside Down alerts the Mind-Flayer that it's there. There's a ''reason'' it's been going out of its way to avoid anything related to Will Byers.]]
** Happens to Billy Hargrove in the epilogue. He backs down from a potential fight ''immediately'' when it's four punks with no qualms about casual violence who fish him out of the trunk of his car instead of Hopper or Steve.
** Happens to the Aboleth [[spoiler: when Will's presence in the Upside Down alerts the Mind-Flayer that it's there. There's a ''reason'' it's been going out of its way to avoid anything related to Will Byers.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes :
** At least if you're an eldritch abomination from the Upside Down. In a Party full of Nice Ones it's the three most unambiguously kind characters-[[spoiler: Dustin, Mr. Clarke, and Will]] who put the Aboleth out of commission.
** Sam Owens presents himself as excessively amicable, mostly harmless, and an Almightly Janitor but his internal monologue points out that you don't end up joining 'CIA Black Ops thinking it's the Red Cross' and while his place on the chain of command is never explicitly stated the fact that he seems to have UltimateJobSecurity within the CIA and appears to only answer to *one* direct superior who answers directly to to RAWHIDE and TIMBERWOLF- AKA Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush suggests that Doc Owens has serious sway.
** At least if you're an eldritch abomination from the Upside Down. In a Party full of Nice Ones it's the three most unambiguously kind characters-[[spoiler: Dustin, Mr. Clarke, and Will]] who put the Aboleth out of commission.
** Sam Owens presents himself as excessively amicable, mostly harmless, and an Almightly Janitor but his internal monologue points out that you don't end up joining 'CIA Black Ops thinking it's the Red Cross' and while his place on the chain of command is never explicitly stated the fact that he seems to have UltimateJobSecurity within the CIA and appears to only answer to *one* direct superior who answers directly to to RAWHIDE and TIMBERWOLF- AKA Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush suggests that Doc Owens has serious sway.
* CelebrityParadox : Due to CanonWelding the fic explicitly crosses over with the (a?) universe of Creator/StephenKing with an appearance by The Shop and mentions of John Rainbird and The Dark Tower - but Billy and Steve both make pop-culture references to Film/TheShining which means Stephen King exists in universe too...
***Kali asks Hopper if he ever hated anyone enough that he would take poison if it meant that they would die and he all but states that the answer is ''himself''. In the last chapter Hopper's POV reveals that the reason Diane left him was that she found him after he attempted to kill himself with sleeping pills shortly after Sara's death.
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* DirtyCoward: It's pointed out that the Aboleth is basically the schoolyard bully of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, in that it only picks on entities it's pretty sure are incapable of offering any kind of resistance to it. Which makes it rather unfortunate for it that it encounters The Party, who despite being nominally outclassed in every way are nevertheless more than willing to fight back.
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* DirtyCoward: It's DirtyCoward:
**It's pointed out that the Aboleth is basically the schoolyard bully of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, in that it only picks on entities it's pretty sure are incapable of offering any kind of resistance to it. Which makes it rather unfortunate for it that it encounters The Party, who despite being nominally outclassed in every way are nevertheless more than willing to fight back.
**It's pointed out that the Aboleth is basically the schoolyard bully of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, in that it only picks on entities it's pretty sure are incapable of offering any kind of resistance to it. Which makes it rather unfortunate for it that it encounters The Party, who despite being nominally outclassed in every way are nevertheless more than willing to fight back.
* EvilCounterpart :
**Billy for Steve in regards to the Aboleth's influence, to the point that it haunts each of them as the other. Billy lacks any friends or support system and mostly gives in. Steve has the party and manages to NoSell it's attempts.
** The Aboleth to Kali, having basically the same power-set when it comes to reality-warping. She even calls it her 'evil twin'.
* {{Expy}} : Billy's role in the story shares a lot of similarities with [[{{IT}} Henry Bowers]].
**Billy for Steve in regards to the Aboleth's influence, to the point that it haunts each of them as the other. Billy lacks any friends or support system and mostly gives in. Steve has the party and manages to NoSell it's attempts.
** The Aboleth to Kali, having basically the same power-set when it comes to reality-warping. She even calls it her 'evil twin'.
* {{Expy}} : Billy's role in the story shares a lot of similarities with [[{{IT}} Henry Bowers]].
* HeartwarmingInHindsight: Steve notes in the last chapter that one of his first interactions with Dustin was Dustin getting him a Cherry Mash from the hospital vending machine while they were all waiting for Will to wake up in Season 1, with the implication that it was an incredibly weird choice because no one likes them. Rewind to Chapter 8 where Steve gets ''himself'' a Cherry Mash from the motel vending machine when he's worried about Dustin.
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* KinkyCuffs : Blink and you'll miss it, but when Joyce is hand-cuffing him for their own safety after the Aboleth tries to puppeteer him, Hopper thinks that "it's about as far from how he pictured getting handcuffed by Joyce as it's possible to get and stay on planet earth".
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* KinkyCuffs : Blink and you'll miss it, but when When Joyce is hand-cuffing him for their own safety after the Aboleth tries to puppeteer him, Hopper thinks that "it's about as far from how he pictured getting handcuffed by Joyce as it's possible to get and stay on planet earth".
* LikeFatherLikeSon :
** Billy is unable to separate himself from the cycle of power and violence that his father taught him to the point that once Neil is out of the picture he starts mirroring his speech patterns.
** Averted with Steve, who is noted multiple times to be doing everything he can to NOT be like his dad.
** Billy is unable to separate himself from the cycle of power and violence that his father taught him to the point that once Neil is out of the picture he starts mirroring his speech patterns.
** Averted with Steve, who is noted multiple times to be doing everything he can to NOT be like his dad.
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** With Mr. Clarke in his mid-late 30's he would have been a preteen in 1958- this might not be the first time he's been in a town being menaced by a [[{{IT}}shape-shifting EldritchAbomination.]]
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** With Mr. Clarke in his mid-late 30's he would have been a preteen in 1958- this might not be the first time he's been in a town being menaced by a [[{{IT}}shape-shifting EldritchAbomination.Eldritch Abomination.]]
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** Seems to end on a Type 11, with no indication in Steve's POVs that he has romantic interest in Jonathan or even realizes that Jonathan's interest in him is anything other than platonic.
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* {{Irony}}: At one point, Mr. Harrington lays into Steve for his choice of friends, calling them a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him. This prompts Steve to flash back to meeting the friends his dad pushed him towards hanging out with who, despite their more 'appropriate' backgrounds, actually turn out to ''be'' a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him, and the friends Mr. Harrington disdains are TrueCompanions to him.
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* {{Irony}}: {{Irony}}:
** At one point, Mr. Harrington lays into Steve for his choice of friends, calling them a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him. This prompts Steve to flash back to meeting the friends his dad pushed him towards hanging out with who, despite their more 'appropriate' backgrounds, actually turn out to ''be'' a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him, and the friends Mr. Harrington disdains are TrueCompanions to him.
** The ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possible]]) ghost of Bob Newby cheerfully notes the irony of his showing up as a supernatural presence despite having hated "spooky" stories when alive.
** At one point, Mr. Harrington lays into Steve for his choice of friends, calling them a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him. This prompts Steve to flash back to meeting the friends his dad pushed him towards hanging out with who, despite their more 'appropriate' backgrounds, actually turn out to ''be'' a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him, and the friends Mr. Harrington disdains are TrueCompanions to him.
** The ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane possible]]) ghost of Bob Newby cheerfully notes the irony of his showing up as a supernatural presence despite having hated "spooky" stories when alive.
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** In the final battle, Mike gives Nancy the character class of "gunslinger" even though, as he notes mentally, it's not a type which can be found in ''Dungeons and Dragons''. It is, of course, a class in [[Franchise/TheDarkTower another fantasy epic of interest to a universe inspired by the works of]] Creator/StephenKing.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment : Lucas insisting that the broadcast is a Russian number station and Dustin thinking that it's going to be way less cool to be the Cubs than the Wolverines when they 'inevitably end up the ones that have to fight Russians' is this considering [[spoiler: the events of Season 3]]
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment : Lucas insisting that the broadcast is a Russian number station and Dustin thinking that it's going to be way less cool to be the Cubs than the Wolverines when they 'inevitably end up the ones that have to fight Russians' is this considering [[spoiler: the events of Season 3]]
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* CoolCar : The author's note at the end states that the entire idea of the fic came from how a kid rich enough to be driving a car that cost more than the average person makes in a year as their first car ends up
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* CoolCar : The author's note at the end states that the entire idea of the fic came from how a kid rich enough to be driving a car something that cost more than the average person makes in a year ''year'' as their first car ends up
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* AdultFear: In spite of fighting actual monsters the teen's nightmares at Hawkins Lab are all these rather than being related to the Upside-Down.
** Fear of being mentally ill without realizing and harming the people you care about (Jonathan).
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for sex (Nancy).
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge of (Steve).
** Fear of being mentally ill without realizing and harming the people you care about (Jonathan).
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for sex (Nancy).
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge of (Steve).
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* AdultFear: In AdultFear:
**In spite of fighting actual monsters the teen's nightmares at Hawkins Lab are all these rather than being related to the Upside-Down.
** *** Fear of being mentally ill without realizing and harming the people you care about (Jonathan).
** *** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for sex (Nancy).
** *** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge of (Steve).
(Nancy and Steve).
**After successfully fighting the Aboleth Joyce and Hopper come home to the sight of Billy's car on the lawn and the door broken down. Hopper immediately assumes the worst.
**In spite of fighting actual monsters the teen's nightmares at Hawkins Lab are all these rather than being related to the Upside-Down.
**After successfully fighting the Aboleth Joyce and Hopper come home to the sight of Billy's car on the lawn and the door broken down. Hopper immediately assumes the worst.
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**John Rainbird from Literature/{{Firestarter}} gets mentioned twice in the last chapter.
* CoolCar : The author's note at the end states that the entire idea of the fic came from how a kid rich enough to be driving a car that cost more than the average person makes in a year as their first car ends up
* FamilyOfChoice: These being more meaningful than blood relationships is a major theme of the fic, with both Steve and El fully accepting that they're part of one.
-->''"“Best kinda family is the one you choose yourself. Looks like you picked a good one.”''
-->''"“Best kinda family is the one you choose yourself. Looks like you picked a good one.”''
* ForWantOfANail : Or rather, for ''not'' wanting a nail. If the heroes had done anything differently in Chapter 11- even Dustin taking more than a couple of seconds to rest- either the town would have been destroyed or the monster would have won.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The page breaks throughout the fic have messages from the monster hidden in Zalgo text, directed to the reader.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The page breaks throughout the fic have messages from the monster hidden in Zalgo text, directed to the reader.
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The page breaks throughout the fic have messages from the monster hidden in Zalgo text, directed to the reader.
** With the monster dead the Zalgo text is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
** With the monster dead the Zalgo text is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
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* InsultBackfire: At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy both (a) has much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
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* InsultBackfire: At InsultBackfire:
**At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy both (a) has much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
**At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy both (a) has much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
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** Jonathan calls Steve a 'competent asshole' Steve cheerfully decides to only focus on the first half.
* KinkyCuffs : Blink and you'll miss it, but when Joyce is hand-cuffing him for their own safety after the Aboleth tries to puppeteer him, Hopper thinks that "it's about as far from how he pictured getting handcuffed by Joyce as it's possible to get and stay on planet earth".
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
**The end notes are all delivered by Mr. Clarke or Murray Bauman, directly.
** With the monster dead the Zalgo text that serves as page breaks is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : The Party, Hopper, Joyce, the Teens, Mr. Clarke, Doc Owens, and Billy Hargrove all have major POV chapters. Others with much briefer ones include Callahan, Axel, Kali, Mr. Clarke's girlfriend Jen, Reed, the Mind-Flayer, and Erica. Non-POV characters that get mentioned include pretty much every named character on the show and a couple from the tie-in novels.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
**The end notes are all delivered by Mr. Clarke or Murray Bauman, directly.
** With the monster dead the Zalgo text that serves as page breaks is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters : The Party, Hopper, Joyce, the Teens, Mr. Clarke, Doc Owens, and Billy Hargrove all have major POV chapters. Others with much briefer ones include Callahan, Axel, Kali, Mr. Clarke's girlfriend Jen, Reed, the Mind-Flayer, and Erica. Non-POV characters that get mentioned include pretty much every named character on the show and a couple from the tie-in novels.
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* LovecraftCountry: Or rather, Stephen King Country. The eclipse Mr. Clarke mentions is the same one featured in [[Literature/DoloresClaiborne Dolores Claiborne]] and [[Literature/GeraldsGame Gerald's Game]]. Mr. Clarke grew up in Haven Village, Maine the setting of [[Literature/TheTommyknockers The Tommyknockers]], and mentions going to the movies at the Aladdin- the movie theater in nearby [[{{IT}} Derry.]]
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* LovecraftCountry: Or rather, Stephen King Country. The eclipse Mr. Clarke mentions is the same one featured in [[Literature/DoloresClaiborne Dolores Claiborne]] and [[Literature/GeraldsGame Gerald's Game]]. Mr. Clarke grew up in Haven Village, Maine the setting of [[Literature/TheTommyknockers The Tommyknockers]], and mentions going to the movies as a kid at the Aladdin- the movie theater in nearby [[{{IT}} Derry.]]
**With Mr. Clarke in his mid-late 30's he would have been a preteen in 1958- this might not be the first time he's been in a town being menaced by a [[{{IT}}shape-shifting EldritchAbomination.]]
**With Mr. Clarke in his mid-late 30's he would have been a preteen in 1958- this might not be the first time he's been in a town being menaced by a [[{{IT}}shape-shifting EldritchAbomination.]]
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* MenDontCry: Averted. Steve, Dustin and Hopper cry.
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* MenDontCry: Averted. Steve, Dustin Dustin, Billy and Hopper cry.
* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay : Bob Newby, superhero.
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** Billy and Neil both use the phrase 'take your medicine' in relation to handing out a beating- a phrase frequently used by Jack Torrance in [[Literature/TheShining The Shining]]
** The Aboleth says that 'there was a hole here but it's gone now' a famous piece of graffiti from VideoGame/{{SilentHill2}}
** The Aboleth says that 'there was a hole here but it's gone now' a famous piece of graffiti from VideoGame/{{SilentHill2}}
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* TakeThat: A couple of mild ones to people who think that Billy Hargrove is really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold instead of a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk. One even delivered by Billy himself as he mocks a frightened Nancy with the fact that some of the girls at school just think that "he's misunderstood".
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* TakeThat: TakeThatAudience: A couple of mild ones to people who think that Billy Hargrove is really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold instead of a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk. One even delivered by Billy himself as he mocks a frightened Nancy with the fact that some of the girls at school just think that "he's misunderstood".
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** Steve owns the infamous crop top from ANightmareOnElmStreet.
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** Steve owns the infamous crop top from ANightmareOnElmStreet.Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Happens to Billy Hargrove in the epilogue. He backs down from a potential fight ''immediately'' when it's four punks with no qualms about casual violence who fish him out of the trunk of his car instead of Hopper or Steve.
* BloodOath: Nancy and Jonathan and Steve of the 'cutting their hands open' variety.
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* DarkWorld: The Inbetween is nothing but dark. With all the Stephen King references in the fic it's possible that it's the same as Todash Space - the dark dimension that characters travel through in TheDarkTower when they 'go todash' and that spawns the monsters from TheMist.
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* DarkWorld: The Inbetween is nothing but dark. With all the Stephen King references in the fic it's possible that it's the same as author is assuming that the Void of the show is analogous to Todash Space - the dark dimension that characters travel through in TheDarkTower when they 'go todash' and that spawns the monsters from TheMist.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: A slight deconstruction of Mom!Steve/Good Babysitter Steve Harrington. While Steve is still incredibly protective and a great friend to the kids it's obvious that he's way out of his depth and struggling with personal issues that make his insistence on being a Very Responsible Adult incredibly emotionally draining and physically dangerous. Dustin mentions that The Party are closer to being his babysitters.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: A slight deconstruction of Mom!Steve/Good Babysitter Steve Harrington. While Steve is still incredibly protective and a great friend to the kids it's obvious that he's way out of his depth and struggling with personal issues that make his insistence on being a Very Responsible Adult incredibly emotionally draining and physically dangerous. Dustin mentions that The Party are closer to being his babysitters.
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**Billy Hargrove. For all he talks a big game about violence he never fights fair against someone who could actually beat him.
*TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: The page breaks throughout the fic have messages from the monster hidden in Zalgo text, directed to the reader.
**With the monster dead the Zalgo text is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
**With the monster dead the Zalgo text is replaced by Morse Code- the message? [[spoiler: 'Hawkins AV Club Never Says Die'. Thanks Bob.]]
* KarmaHoudini : James Harrington seems to be this in the epilogue, clearing out and calling a Fixer from the Shop to take care of everything while basically making vacation plans.
** Averted in that John Rainbird is a character from Literature/{{Firestarter}} and definitely [[TheDreaded not a Fixer in the way James thinks he is.]]
** Averted in that John Rainbird is a character from Literature/{{Firestarter}} and definitely [[TheDreaded not a Fixer in the way James thinks he is.]]
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**Axel doesn't refer to anyone by their name. He still calls El Shirley Temple, Mick gets Mickey Mouse, and he calls Billy Hargrove 'Tuff Turf'.
*** In the epilogue Hopper ends up in the unenviable position of having to explain to Steve that killing the Aboleth didn't fix the symptoms of 'psychic drain' because he's actually been suffering from PTSD, completely independent of the monster.
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** Steve owns the infamous crop top from ANightmareOnElmStreet.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Zigzagged, as it's more a case of wouldn't hurt ''specific'' children; it's made clear that the Aboleth is willing to feed on the young, as references to missing children throughout the story suggest, but for some reason it doesn't target Will or his friends. [[spoiler: It's not out of benevolence or mercy, but fear; eventually Will realises that the reason the Aboleth is avoiding anyone connected to him is because it knows full well that the Mind Flayer is watching Will and his friends closely, and it's terrified of the Mind Flayer. So Will decides that the best way to ultimately defeat it is to attract the Mind Flayer's attention...]]
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** Fear of being mentally ill without realizing and harming the people you care about.
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for sex.
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge of.
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for sex.
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge of.
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** Fear of being mentally ill without realizing and harming the people you care about.
about (Jonathan).
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you forsex.
sex (Nancy).
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in chargeof.
of (Steve).
** Fear that someone you're in love with is actually just using you for
** Fear of a thoughtless accident that leads to the death of a friend/the kids that you're supposed to be in charge
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Played with. Adult characters note that the kids are much, much better at coping with the Upside Down than they are. Particularly true in Steve's case where he doesn't bounce back like the kids and lacks an adult's experience at dealing with his emotions.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Played with. Adult characters note that the kids are much, much better at coping with the Upside Down than they are. Particularly true in Steve's case where he doesn't bounce back like the kids and but lacks an adult's experience at dealing with his emotions.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dr. Roethe is an ex-Nazi scientist with no compunctions whatsoever about experimenting on children or murdering teenagers to cover up her secrets, but she seems to genuinely view what she sees as Subject Six "toying" with Jonathan, Nancy and Steve as unnecessarily cruel, and sincerely regrets that they were about to be inflicted with Subject Six's powers while conscious.
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* KillerGameMaster: Mike turns into one of these against Steve when Steve joins the Party's D&D campaigns, ostensibly because Steve destroyed an intricately planned campaign by summoning a horse to ride off a cliff and crush the BigBad. In retaliation, Steve's character dies incredibly horribly in the next session. Never fuck with the DM, kids. [[spoiler: In actuality, Mike later admits that he was worried that Dustin was getting too attached to Steve, but Steve would find an excuse to abandon the Party and break Dustin's heart, and so was trying to drive him away before this could happen.]]
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* KillerGameMaster: Mike turns into one of these against Steve when Steve joins the Party's D&D campaigns, ostensibly because Steve destroyed an intricately planned campaign by summoning a horse to ride off a cliff and crush the BigBad. In retaliation, Steve's character dies incredibly horribly in the next session. Never fuck with the DM, kids. [[spoiler: In actuality, Mike later admits that he was worried that Dustin was getting too attached to Steve, but Steve would find an excuse to abandon the Party and break Dustin's heart, and so was trying to drive him away before this could happen.]]
]] Steve also initially seems to believe that Mike is this towards the others, but this appears to be mainly because he doesn't understand the game when he's first watching them play.
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* BreakTheCutie: In the final chapters, it is all but outright stated that Steve's mom used to be a much kinder and loving person to Steve, but was mentally destroyed by finding out the real reasons that Steve's dad moved them back to Hawkins.
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** Keeping with the theme of tabletop gaming and fighting Eldritch Abominations, Dustin Henderson mentions an uncle that thought a cult was stealing his lawn gnomes and who got the entire family banned from Toronto. [[Fanfic/OldManhenderson That's right. Ol' Uncle Henderson]]
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** Keeping with the theme of tabletop gaming and fighting Eldritch Abominations, Dustin Henderson mentions an uncle that thought a cult was stealing his lawn gnomes and who got the entire family banned from Toronto. [[Fanfic/OldManhenderson [[Fanfic/OldManHenderson That's right. Ol' Uncle Henderson]]
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* KillerGameMaster: Mike turns into one of these against Steve when Steve joins the Party's D&D campaigns, ostensibly because Steve destroyed an intricately planned campaign by summoning a horse to ride off a cliff and crush the BigBoss. In retaliation, Steve's character dies incredibly horribly in the next session. Never fuck with the DM, kids. [[spoiler: In actuality, Mike later admits that he was worried that Dustin was getting too attached to Steve, but Steve would find an excuse to abandon the Party and break Dustin's heart, and so was trying to drive him away before this could happen.]]
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* KillerGameMaster: Mike turns into one of these against Steve when Steve joins the Party's D&D campaigns, ostensibly because Steve destroyed an intricately planned campaign by summoning a horse to ride off a cliff and crush the BigBoss.BigBad. In retaliation, Steve's character dies incredibly horribly in the next session. Never fuck with the DM, kids. [[spoiler: In actuality, Mike later admits that he was worried that Dustin was getting too attached to Steve, but Steve would find an excuse to abandon the Party and break Dustin's heart, and so was trying to drive him away before this could happen.]]
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* KillerGameMaster: Mike turns into one of these against Steve when Steve joins the Party's D&D campaigns, ostensibly because Steve destroyed an intricately planned campaign by summoning a horse to ride off a cliff and crush the BigBoss. In retaliation, Steve's character dies incredibly horribly in the next session. Never fuck with the DM, kids. [[spoiler: In actuality, Mike later admits that he was worried that Dustin was getting too attached to Steve, but Steve would find an excuse to abandon the Party and break Dustin's heart, and so was trying to drive him away before this could happen.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Once again, Nancy and Jonathan (with the added help of Steve) manage to completely ruin the day of a top secret US weird-science project, this time almost by accident. On hearing of this, Dr. Owens ruefully suspects that if they just abandoned the Cold War espionage games and dropped Nancy and Jonathan into Moscow "to see what shakes out", the entire Soviet Union would surrender within a week begging for mercy.
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* ShoutOut: Doctor Brenner would like everyone to follow [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Standard Containment Protocols]] at all times.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Doctor Brenner would like everyone to follow [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Standard Containment Protocols]] at all times.
** At one point, Dustin enthusiastically gushes to Steve and his friends about this "[[Series/DoctorWho weird British show]]" he caught on PBS involving a guy with a long scarf, his blonde assistant and a robot dog flying around time in something called a police box. More specifically, ''Doctor Who'' fans will recognise the story he describes as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]".
** Doctor Brenner would like everyone to follow [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Standard Containment Protocols]] at all times.
** At one point, Dustin enthusiastically gushes to Steve and his friends about this "[[Series/DoctorWho weird British show]]" he caught on PBS involving a guy with a long scarf, his blonde assistant and a robot dog flying around time in something called a police box. More specifically, ''Doctor Who'' fans will recognise the story he describes as "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]".
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* InsultBackfire: At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy has both (a) much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
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* InsultBackfire: At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy has both (a) has much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
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* InsultBackfire: At one point, Nancy finds that her locker has been defaced by Carole with "Nancy Fingercuffs", a crude reference to her [[ThreesomeSubtext friendship]] with Jonathan and Steve. Carole and her friends are eagerly watching for her reaction, clearly anticipating some kind of meltdown on Nancy's part. Except that Nancy has both (a) much bigger fish to fry than some mean-spirited high school bullying these days and (b) [[{{Polyamory}} doesn't exactly hate the idea of being with both Jonathan and Steve even if she doesn't fully realise or understand what she's feeling]]. So she just [[GrammarNazi corrects the grammar of the insult instead]].
-->''"Try proof-reading next time. It's only three words."''
-->''"Try proof-reading next time. It's only three words."''
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* ShipperOnDeck: Murray still seems to be shipping Nancy/Jonathan, judging by his immediate antipathy to Steve.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Murray Bauman takes pleasure in belittling Steve and basically reveals that Nancy and Jonathan hooked up mere days after she and Steve broke up for kicks. He does seem to realise that. he has crossed a line, however, and demonstrates a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] by going on
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* {{Jerkass}}: Murray Bauman takes pleasure in belittling Steve and basically reveals that Nancy and Jonathan hooked up mere days after she and Steve broke up for kicks. He does seem to realise that. that he has crossed a line, however, and demonstrates a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] by going on
on to reveal what TrueCompanions they nevertheless are by revealing how Tommy and Carol tried to screw him over by getting him in trouble for Barbara's disappearance.
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**Also in the transcripts- Subject Six is asked to quote back a line from a book code and replies ''Each one, tripping on his toe/Will be here with mop and mow/Do you love me, master? No?'' a line spoken by enslaved air spirit Ariel in ''The Tempest''- Steve and Dustin both [[FailedASpotCheck fail a spot check]] and don't connect it to a file named ''Ariel'' on Steve's dad's computer until chapters later.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Most of the music foreshadows future events. None of them good.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Most of the music foreshadows future events. None of them good.
** In the transcripts that the teenagers recover from the lab, Subject Six repeatedly asks if she can play with Eleven if she does what her handlers order her to do satisfactorily. [[spoiler: When they are trapped in a secret lab room with Six at the Shop, Jonathan remembers this and calls on her bond with Eleven to save their lives.]]
** Most of the music foreshadows future events. None of them good.
** In the transcripts that the teenagers recover from the lab, Subject Six repeatedly asks if she can play with Eleven if she does what her handlers order her to do satisfactorily. [[spoiler: When they are trapped in a secret lab room with Six at the Shop, Jonathan remembers this and calls on her bond with Eleven to save their lives.]]
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* {{Irony}}: At one point, Mr. Harrington lays into Steve for his choice of friends, calling them a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him. This prompts Steve to flash back to meeting the friends his dad pushed him towards hanging out with who, despite their more 'appropriate' backgrounds, actually turn out to ''be'' a bunch of {{Gold Digger}}s who are just using him as a MealTicket and are a ToxicFriendInfluence on him, and the friends Mr. Harrington disdains are TrueCompanions to him.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Murray Bauman takes pleasure in belittling Steve and basically reveals that Nancy and Jonathan hooked up mere days after she and Steve broke up for kicks. \n He does seem to realise that. he has crossed a line, however, and demonstrates a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] by going on
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* AddledAddict: Steve's mom abuses prescription benzodiazepines.
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* ActorAllusion: According to Bob Newby the Hawkins AV Club [[Film/TheGoonies never says die.]]
* AddledAddict: Steve's mom abuses prescriptionbenzodiazepines.
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* AddledAddict: Steve's mom abuses prescription
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*** The fact that he practically squees the first time he sees her use her powers and ends up nick-naming her Supergirl.
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*** The fact that he practically squees the first time he sees her use her powers (to lift a ''jar'') and ends up nick-naming her Supergirl.
* AgeAppropriateAngst: Played with. Adult characters note that the kids are much, much better at coping with the Upside Down than they are. Particularly true in Steve's case where he doesn't bounce back like the kids and lacks an adult's experience at dealing with his emotions.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Played with. Adult characters note that the kids are much, much better at coping with the Upside Down than they are. Particularly true in Steve's case where he doesn't bounce back like the kids and lacks an adult's experience at dealing with his emotions.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Played with. Adult characters note AnimalMotifs: People being like moths get quite a few mentions, mostly in the context of self-destruction but Dustin also remembers that the kids are much, much better at coping with the Upside Down than they are. Particularly true in Steve's case where he doesn't bounce back like the kids some moths can effectively jam predator's sonar and lacks an adult's experience at dealing with his emotions.takes inspiration from that.
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* AssholeVictim: Neil Hargrove, again. Reed.
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* AssholeVictim: Neil
* BlatantLies: Steve only knows about Krypton because he's seen Superman 3. Obviously.
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** Dustin Henderson's uncle is a crazy old man that thinks a cult was stealing his lawn gnomes. [[Fanfic/OldManhenderson That's right. Ol Uncle Henderson]]
* CentralTheme: Friendship and identity.
* CentralTheme: Friendship and identity.
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** Keeping with the theme of tabletop gaming and fighting Eldritch Abominations, Dustin Henderson's Henderson mentions an uncle is a crazy old man that thinks thought a cult was stealing his lawn gnomes.gnomes and who got the entire family banned from Toronto. [[Fanfic/OldManhenderson That's right. Ol Ol' Uncle Henderson]]
* CentralTheme: Friendship andidentity.
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** Billy and Max moved to Hawkins from [[Film/TheLostBoys Santa Carla, California]]
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** If you go for the magic rather than the mundane explanation of Bob's appearance, Bob Newby isn't going to let a little thing like being ''dead'' stop him from being a superhero and helping save Joyce and the kids.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Steve, pretty consistently.
**He immediately assumes that Dr. Roethe was an ex-Nazi scientist as soon as Murray says she's German since you can just assume 'Germans that do mad science are definitely Nazis'. Even Murray has to give it to him.
**Says that there has to be ''something'' hidden in the National Lab because there's no way a bunch of people who experimented on little girls would pass up an opportunity to screw over their co-workers. He's right.
**Guesses that Nancy and Jonathan are going on an investigation vacation, since after the kids told Mr. Clarke about the Aboleth there's no way they were going to pass up a chance to tell 'their guy'.
**He immediately assumes that Dr. Roethe was an ex-Nazi scientist as soon as Murray says she's German since you can just assume 'Germans that do mad science are definitely Nazis'. Even Murray has to give it to him.
**Says that there has to be ''something'' hidden in the National Lab because there's no way a bunch of people who experimented on little girls would pass up an opportunity to screw over their co-workers. He's right.
**Guesses that Nancy and Jonathan are going on an investigation vacation, since after the kids told Mr. Clarke about the Aboleth there's no way they were going to pass up a chance to tell 'their guy'.
* GainingTheWillToKill: Joyce and Hopper are concerned about this happening to the kids.
** Hopper is both relieved and upset by Steve's willingness to use his bat against a person in Jane's defense.
** Even with their lives on the line Jonathan thinks that they can't let Nancy shoot a human being.
** Hopper is both relieved and upset by Steve's willingness to use his bat against a person in Jane's defense.
** Even with their lives on the line Jonathan thinks that they can't let Nancy shoot a human being.
* GilliganCut:
->'''Dustin''': Don't worry, I have a plan.
->''[Cut to next chapter]''
->'''Steve [worried]''': This is a terrible plan.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Murray is in this, so quite a few get a mention.
** Real life divisions of Project MK Ultra such as Brenner working with Donald Ewan Cameron on psychic driving experiments during Subproject 68 and on Project Artichoke and Bluebird (CIA projects that researched 'enhanced' interrogation methods), and Owens being previously involved with Project SCANATE (aka the Stargate Project, an attempt to use remote viewing for gathering intelligence).
** The Lab kidnapping Bill and Mary Martin and [[spoiler: Sara Hopper]]
->'''Dustin''': Don't worry, I have a plan.
->''[Cut to next chapter]''
->'''Steve [worried]''': This is a terrible plan.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Murray is in this, so quite a few get a mention.
** Real life divisions of Project MK Ultra such as Brenner working with Donald Ewan Cameron on psychic driving experiments during Subproject 68 and on Project Artichoke and Bluebird (CIA projects that researched 'enhanced' interrogation methods), and Owens being previously involved with Project SCANATE (aka the Stargate Project, an attempt to use remote viewing for gathering intelligence).
** The Lab kidnapping Bill and Mary Martin and [[spoiler: Sara Hopper]]
* TheGunslinger: Mike gives this class to Nancy in the Inbetween. She [[TheDarkTower shoots with her mind]]
* InvisibleParents: As is Stranger Things fanfiction tradition, Steve's parents are rarely around. When they are his mother is checked out and his dad fluctuates between being disapproving and deeply disinterested.
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* LovecraftCountry: The eclipse Mr. Clarke mentions is the same one featured in Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game. Mr. Clarke grew up in Haven, Maine the setting of The Tommyknockers, and mentions going to the movies at the Aladdin- the movie theater in nearby [[{{IT}} Derry.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Bob's appearance in Chapter 11 is explained away by Mr. Clarke as a hallucination brought on by an acute stress reaction but this ''is'' Hawkins...
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* LovecraftCountry: Or rather, Stephen King Country. The eclipse Mr. Clarke mentions is the same one featured in [[Literature/DoloresClaiborne Dolores Claiborne Claiborne]] and [[Literature/GeraldsGame Gerald's Game.Game]]. Mr. Clarke grew up in Haven, Haven Village, Maine the setting of [[Literature/TheTommyknockers The Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers]], and mentions going to the movies at the Aladdin- the movie theater in nearby [[{{IT}} Derry.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Bob's appearance in Chapter 11 is explained away by Mr. Clarke as a hallucination brought on by an acute stress reaction but this ''is''Hawkins...
Hawkins...
* MacGyvering: It's not Stranger Things without a DIY project at the end.
** Axel made a bunch of grenades out of pipe, homemade thermite, and sparklers. Just in case Kali wanted to swing by the lab and burn it down.
** Mr. Clarke and Dustin build a radio jammer that's essential to stopping the Aboleth from scratch out of scraps from multiple other radios and a TV.
* MenDontCry: Averted. Steve, Dustin and Hopper cry.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Bob's appearance in Chapter 11 is explained away by Mr. Clarke as a hallucination brought on by an acute stress reaction but this ''is''
* MacGyvering: It's not Stranger Things without a DIY project at the end.
** Axel made a bunch of grenades out of pipe, homemade thermite, and sparklers. Just in case Kali wanted to swing by the lab and burn it down.
** Mr. Clarke and Dustin build a radio jammer that's essential to stopping the Aboleth from scratch out of scraps from multiple other radios and a TV.
* MenDontCry: Averted. Steve, Dustin and Hopper cry.
* TheNicknamer: Quite a few.
** Billy frequently calls Steve 'princess' and refers to Nancy almost exclusively as 'Snow White'
** Steve nicknames El Supergirl.
** Murray refers to Steve, Nancy and Jonathan as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and Velma, Shaggy and Scooby.
** Billy frequently calls Steve 'princess' and refers to Nancy almost exclusively as 'Snow White'
** Steve nicknames El Supergirl.
** Murray refers to Steve, Nancy and Jonathan as Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and Velma, Shaggy and Scooby.
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** Steve paints an incredibly bleak picture of a 'friendship' with Tommy that was made up of almost constant pressure to be 'cool' that encourages TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior; smoking at ten, drinking himself sick but not being able to show it at thirteen, and being afraid that Tommy was going to tell the entire school that he was a loser if he hadn't had sex before High School- and always right on the edge of TallPoppySyndrome if he was exceptional in anyway besides being popular/helping them be popular.
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** Steve paints an incredibly bleak picture of a 'friendship' with Tommy that was made up of almost constant pressure to be 'cool' that encourages encouraged TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior; smoking at ten, drinking himself sick but not being able to show it at thirteen, and being afraid that Tommy was going to tell the entire school that he was a loser if he hadn't had sex before High School- ''High School''- and that was always right on the edge of TallPoppySyndrome if he was exceptional in anyway besides any way that didn't serve him being popular/helping them be popular.
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* ShownTheirWork: In regards to the 80's, parasites, the Vietnam war, Dungeons and Dragons and radio science.
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* ShoutOut: Doctor Brenner would like everyone to follow [[Wiki/SCPFoundation Standard Containment Protocols]] at all times.
* ShownTheirWork: In regards to the 80's, parasites, the Vietnam war, Dungeons andDragons Dragons, MK Ultra and radio science.
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**Both times Steve goes to his mom when he's upset she basically tells him to ignore it. The second time she explicitly tells him he should smile because he 'looks just like [his father] when he frowns'. The reader gets the impression this isn't the first time that she's said this.
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* TakeAThirdOption: El in Chapter 11. She can't save her friends while she's fighting the Aboleth even though she may be able to kill it. She takes the third option and uses her powers to Watch and drag The Party's minds with her into the Inbetween.
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* TakeAThirdOption: El in Chapter 11. She can't save her friends while she's fighting the Aboleth even though she may be able to kill it. it once and for all. She takes the third option and uses her powers to Watch and drag drags The Party's minds with her into the Inbetween.
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** Hopper was part of the Siege of Huế, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war.
** Neil was part of the helicopter crew that intervened during the My Lai Massacre and according to Billy's mom, was never the same after.
** Hopper was part of the Siege of Huế, one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war.
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*** Murray Bauman shows Steve witness testimony that shows the two of them coordinated their statements to the police to make it seem like Steve might have killed Barbara. It's telling that Steve doesn't know if they did it take heat off of Tommy or purely because they thought it was funny.
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* DirtyCoward: It's pointed out that the Aboleth is basically the schoolyard bully of EldritchAbominations, in that it only picks on entities it's pretty sure are incapable of offering any kind of resistance to it. Which makes it rather unfortunate for it that it encounters The Party, who despite being nominally outclassed in every way are nevertheless more than willing to fight back.
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* DirtyCoward: It's pointed out that the Aboleth is basically the schoolyard bully of EldritchAbominations, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, in that it only picks on entities it's pretty sure are incapable of offering any kind of resistance to it. Which makes it rather unfortunate for it that it encounters The Party, who despite being nominally outclassed in every way are nevertheless more than willing to fight back.
