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* EatTheDog: [[spoiler: The TwistEnding inverts this magnificently. As Vic and Quilla escape with nothing but the clothes on their back, they find Blood has been waiting outside the entrance to the bunker for Vic for days without food. Quilla wants them to keep running and leave Blood. Blood needs something to eat. What does Vic do to resolve the crisis? He kills Quilla and feeds her to Blood.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Movie theaters are neutral ground, and any fighting is harshly dealt with, as movies are too precious and rare to risk losing. Vic is even angry when he recalls how another theater was burned down due to a big fight breaking out, and several film reels were lost, since there's no way to replace them.
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* TruceZone: Movie theaters are neutral ground, and any fighting is harshly dealt with, as movies are too precious and rare to risk losing. Vic is even angry when he recalls how another theater was burned down due to a big fight breaking out, and several film reels were lost, since there's no way to replace them.
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* MarsNeedsWomen: The underground society requires healthy sperm from surface dwellers to impregnate their women. Vic thinks he's found his dream job. [[spoiler:It subverts this by forcibly extracting it.]]
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: The underground society requires healthy sperm from surface dwellers to impregnate their women. Vic thinks he's found his dream job. [[spoiler:It subverts this by forcibly extracting it.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: To the degree that Vic [[spoiler:Vic chooses his dog over procreation with a cute girl. girl.]]
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* BlackComedy: [[spoiler:"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."]]
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** "In the 1980s, politicians finally discovered the solution to urban blight." Cue nuclear explosion.
** [[spoiler:"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."]]
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** "In the 1980s, politicians finally discovered the solution to urban blight." Cue nuclear explosion.
** [[spoiler:"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste.
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* TheMovieBuff: The story starts with Vic and Blood going to the movies, which they do as often as they can due to the scarcity of film reels and working projectors.
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* EmbarassingNickname: Blood often refers to Vic as "Albert", which Vic hates.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Movie theaters are neutral ground, and any fighting is harshly dealt with, as movies are too precious and rare to risk losing. Vic is even angry when he recalls how another theater was burned down due to a big fight breaking out, and several film reels were lost, since there's no way to replace them.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Movie theaters are neutral ground, and any fighting is harshly dealt with, as movies are too precious and rare to risk losing. Vic is even angry when he recalls how another theater was burned down due to a big fight breaking out, and several film reels were lost, since there's no way to replace them.
* HiddenElfVillage: The Down Under sees itself as this, but it's actually a subversion; according to Vic's monologue in the theater, the Down Under is already well known amongst the surface survivors, and none of them show any particular interest in finding it, aside from being a fresh source of women.
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* UpliftedAnimal: Blood is the descendant of a pair of dogs produced through two separate breeding experiments in the days prior to World War 3, one of which involved injecting the dogs with cerebral fluid taken from dolphins. The result was a breed of highly intelligent dogs with psychic abilities, Blood being the end result of that genetic line.
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This 1969 ScienceFiction {{Novella}} by Creator/HarlanEllison is a look into the life of Vic and his telepathic dog Blood as they wander a post-apocalyptic United States after [[WorldWarIII World War IV]], scavenging for food and looking for sex. The TropeCodifier for the PostApocalypticDog. When Vic discovers Quilla, a beautiful young woman who appears to have come from one of the last refuges of civilization, he is instantly smitten with lust and assaults her at gunpoint. Before he can do the deed, they have to defend themselves from a band of rogues - they escape and a nascent romance develops.
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This 1969 ScienceFiction {{Novella}} by Creator/HarlanEllison is a look into the life of Vic and his telepathic dog Blood as they wander a post-apocalyptic United States after [[WorldWarIII World War IV]], scavenging for food and looking for sex. The TropeCodifier for the PostApocalypticDog. When Vic discovers Quilla, a beautiful young woman who appears to have come from one of the last refuges of civilization, he is instantly smitten with lust and assaults her at gunpoint. Before he can do the deed, they have to defend themselves from a band of rogues - they escape and a nascent romance develops.
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The TropeCodifier for the PostApocalypticDog. No relation to the [[Film/ABoyAndHisDog1946 1946 short film of the same name]].
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The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 UsefulNotes/HugoAward, became a 1975 film, and was [[{{Sequel}} continued]] with short stories and a graphic novel; ''Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog''. Just before the author's passing in 2018, he published the complete adventures of Vic and Blood in the FixUpNovel ''Blood's a Rover.''
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The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 UsefulNotes/HugoAward, became a 1975 film, film starring Creator/DonJohnson, and was [[{{Sequel}} continued]] with short stories and a graphic novel; ''Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog''. Just before the author's passing in 2018, he published the complete adventures of Vic and Blood in the FixUpNovel ''Blood's a Rover.''
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The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 UsefulNotes/HugoAward, became a 1975 film, and [[{{Sequel}} continued]] with short stories and a graphic novel; ''Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog''. Just before the author's passing in 2018, he published the complete adventures of Vic and Blood in the FixUpNovel ''Blood's a Rover.''
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The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 UsefulNotes/HugoAward, became a 1975 film, and was [[{{Sequel}} continued]] with short stories and a graphic novel; ''Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog''. Just before the author's passing in 2018, he published the complete adventures of Vic and Blood in the FixUpNovel ''Blood's a Rover.''
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* TakeThat: The final version of ''Blood's a Rover'' positions Creator/DonaldTrump's presidency as the last before the apocalypse.
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* UndyingLoyalty: To the degree that Vic chooses his dog over procreation with a cute girl.
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* AFriendInNeed: [[spoiler:Blood can't hunt for himself (although he fights fine and can scent track like radar), a side effect of his gaining the ability to speak somehow]]
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This 1969 ScienceFiction {{Novella}} by Creator/HarlanEllison is a look into the life of Vic and his telepathic dog Blood as they wander a post-apocalyptic United States after [[WorldWarIII World War IV]], scavenging for food and looking for sex. The TropeCodifier for the PostApocalypticDog. When Vic discovers Quilla, a beautiful young woman who appears to have come from one of the last refuges of civilization, he is instantly smitten with lust and assaults her at gunpoint. Before he can do the deed, they have to defend themselves from a band of rogues - they escape and a nascent romance develops.
After much testing of mattress springs, she persuades him to come back to her home and to leave Blood behind. There, he is told that their underground society has stagnated, and their fertility rate has dropped, so they need healthy sperm donors. Despite his initial enthusiasm, Vic takes exception to their methods and escapes with Quilla's help.
The original story was so successful, it won the 1970 UsefulNotes/HugoAward, became a 1975 film, and [[{{Sequel}} continued]] with short stories and a graphic novel; ''Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog''.
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!!This story (including adaptations and sequels) contains examples of the following tropes:
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* AFriendInNeed: [[spoiler:Blood can't hunt for himself (although he fights fine and can scent track like radar), a side effect of his gaining the ability to speak somehow]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: The ending would be much more tragic if Quilla June hadn't been, in the author's words, "meaner than a Drano milkshake". She throws her parents away without a second thought and mows down her neighbors in way that even disturbs Vic.]]
* BlackComedy: [[spoiler:"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."]]
--> "In the 1980s, politicians finally discovered the solution to urban blight." Cue nuclear explosion.
* {{Bros Before Hoes}}: When Blood is dying from thirst and starvation, Quilla tries to convince Vic to abandon him. [[spoiler: Instead Vic kills and cooks Quilla for Blood's lunch;]] it doesn't get any more bros before hoes than that.
* CrapsackWorld: The world above ground is a wasteland populated by sex-hungry barbarians, Vic included; "Down Under" is a {{Dystopia}}n, creepy, oligarchical pastiche of TheDeepSouth where everyone is in whiteface.
%%* DeadlyEuphemism: "The farm, immediately."
* DeadpanSnarker: Blood loves to get his little digs in at Vic and his constant need for sex.
* DeathSeeker: Vic becomes one in further stories, implied to be out of guilt for [[spoiler: killing Quilla.]]
* DesertPunk: Burned Out Earth style.
* EatTheDog: [[spoiler: The TwistEnding inverts this magnificently. As Vic and Quilla escape with nothing but the clothes on their back, they find Blood has been waiting outside the entrance to the bunker for Vic for days without food. Quilla wants them to keep running and leave Blood. Blood needs something to eat. What does Vic do to resolve the crisis? He kills Quilla and feeds her to Blood.]]
* FemmeFatale: [[spoiler:Quilla. Wants to be in charge and openly admits she was using Vic.]]
%%* FriendOrIdolDecision
%%* GratuitousLatin: The dog recites Latin.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: Is a wasteland dweller, whose only thought at the start is getting to rape a woman before some other ones finish with her and shoot her, more or less sympathetic than an oppressive {{Eagleland}} society that offhandedly kills people for a bad attitude? You decide.
* HappinessIsMandatory: The underground society.
* ImAHumanitarian: The underground society has shades of this, with the unspoken implication that "the farm" is both their disposal of dissidents and a source of food.
* IntellectualAnimal: Blood is far smarter and more educated than Vic, teaching him history, keeping him out of trouble and planning tactics in a classic BrainsAndBrawn pairing.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Vic's fate in the underground society.
* MarsNeedsWomen: The underground society requires healthy sperm from surface dwellers to impregnate their women. Vic thinks he's found his dream job. [[spoiler:It subverts this by forcibly extracting it.]]
* MechaMooks: Implied. "Go and get another Michael from the warehouse."
%%* MindlinkMates: Blood and Vic.
* MoodWhiplash: The movie has a pretty solid and consistent tone/premise...for the first hour. After Vic enters Topeka, it undergoes a GenreShift, and turns into a bizarre combination of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' and ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. There's also the SuddenDownerEnding in the original story, that the movie treats as a BlackComedy.
%%* NearRapeExperience: Vic; it's not for lack of trying, though.
* NewWaveScienceFiction: Based on a New Wave story by one of the most prominent New Wave writers, the story was a typical rejection/subversion of classic "golden age" SF tropes.
* TheNoseKnows: Like all dogs, Blood has an excellent sense of smell. Unlike our dogs, he can count foes, pinpoint their direction and distance to the nearest metre and point this out to his partner Vic.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: "Screamers", glow-in-the-dark, wailing zombies who only need to ''touch'' you to make you one of them.
%%* PostApocalypticDog
%%* NuclearNasty: The Screamers
* ThePromisedLand: The main characters are searching for a place called ''Over The Hill.''
%%* RobotBuddy: Michael, complete with creepy smile and Kung Fu [[spoiler:NeckSnap]] Grip!
%%* ScavengerWorld
%%* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Idealism? What's that?
* SmartAnimalAverageHuman: In the film, as well as the original novella, Vic, a semi-literate teenage scavenger living AfterTheEnd is aided by his super-intelligent dog, Blood, who is telepathic and well-read.
* StepfordSmiler: An entire underground town of them, due to their use of clown makeup. Michael also has this effect, [[spoiler: implied to be a malfunction of this particular Michael unit.]]
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