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* BoringButPractical: While creeping through an abandoned dynamite factory once owned by Alfred Nobel, Pendergast remarks on the irony that atomic bombs get all the hype, but dynamite has killed and maimed exponentially more people since its invention.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Although they're separated, D'Agosta is heartbroken to find his wife is having an affair...which is why he starts a relationship with Laura Hayward.
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* BiggerBad: Diogenes. The very second Pendergast gets a letter from his brother, he uncharacteristically panics, as no matter what goes wrong with the current case it pales in comparison to what Diogenes has planned. [[spoiler: And then Diogenes turns out to have been at Fosco's estate during the climax, and frees Pendergast from the wall he was trapped in at the very end.]]
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* OneWordTitle: As the etymology of "Brimstone" is likely as a fusion of Old English for "Burning" and "Stone", it relates to the deaths of people in the novel, where the cause of death seems to be burning from the ''inside'', and satanic images appear at the deaths.
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* {{Portmantitle}}: As the etymology of "Brimstone" is likely as a fusion of Old English for "Burning" and "Stone", it relates to the deaths of people in the novel, where the cause of death seems to be burning from the ''inside'', and satanic images appear at the deaths.
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: Diogenes saves Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: Diogenes [[spoiler:Diogenes saves Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* VillanousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Count Fosco once he's hit with his own microwave machine. He ironically hallucinates the devil coming for him before he dies. (([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or was he hallucinating?]])]]
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* VillanousBreakdown: VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Count Fosco once he's hit with his own microwave machine. He ironically hallucinates the devil coming for him before he dies. (([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or was he hallucinating?]])]]
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* BuriedAlive: [[spoiler: Fosco walls up Pendergast at the end of the novel, which he admits is "[[Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado something out of]] [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]." Pendergast is subsequently freed by Diogenes.]]
* ContinuityNod: At one point Pendergast and D'Agosta have to question a group of impoverished men, and recall their meeting with Mephisto in ''Literature/{{Reliquary}}''
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* GaiasVengeance: Von Menck believes the murders are a predictor that a natural correction is coming to wipe the corruption of the world away.
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* GaiasVengeance: Von Menck believes the murders are a predictor that a natural correction is coming to wipe the corruption of the world away. [[spoiler: This is a RedHerring.]]
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* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Count Fosco very nearly gets away with everything. He is only stopped by two things. First is that he underestimates the tenacity of D'Agosta, which leads to his own death. Second is his unawareness of Diogenes, who frees Pendergast.]]
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Several characters believe that the murders are the sign of an impending apocalypse hitting New York City. Needless to say, it does not happen.]]
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* VillanousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Count Fosco once he's hit with his own microwave machine. He ironically hallucinates the devil coming for him before he dies. (([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Or was he hallucinating?]])]]
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler: Fosco]] has the opportunity to shoot Pendergast and D'Agosta on multiple occasions near the end, but he wants to kill them in a more clever way. Although it is implied that he was going to have [[spoiler: his butler]] shoot them, if D'Agosta hadn't been fast enough to stop him.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler: Fosco]] has the opportunity to shoot Pendergast and D'Agosta on multiple occasions near the end, but he wants to kill them in a more clever way. Although it is implied that he was going to have [[spoiler: his butler]] shoot them, if D'Agosta hadn't been fast enough to stop him.
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* TheBusCameBack: D'Agosta has returned from his failed writing career and had to take a job that bumps him down two ranks to Sergeant.
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* TheBusCameBack: D'Agosta has returned from his failed writing career and had to take a job that bumps him down two ranks to Sergeant. Laurea Hayward also returns after her first appearance in ''Literature/{{Reliquary}}''
* CelebrityParadox: Count Fosco mentions reading ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite''...despite being [[ShoutOut a full blown reference]] to a character from that novel.
* FormerlyFit: At the beginning of the novel, D'Agosta is not in the physical condition he used to be, and his aim is rusty. [[spoiler: He gets himself back together by the end.]]
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** As indicated in an author's note at the end of the book, Count Fosco is named after and based on a character from''Literature/TheWomanInWhite''.''Literature/TheWomanInWhite''. Which creates a minor CelebrityParadox, see above.
** At one point, D'Agosta introduces himself as [[Literature/TheShining Jack Torrance]].
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* TitleDrop: Pendergast finds brimstone at the scene of Jeremy Grove's murder and notes that it is "good Old Testament brimstone."
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** Pendergast finds brimstone at the scene of Jeremy Grove's murder and notes that it is "good Old Testament brimstone.""
** Latter on, the FBI file on the case is shown to be named ''Brimstone''.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Although they're separated, D'Agosta is heartbroken to find his wife is having an affair...which is why he starts a relationship with Laura Hayward.
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* [[spoiler: ScoobyDooHoax]]: [[spoiler: Fosco orchestrated all the murders as a way to scare Bullard into thinking the Devil was coming to collect his soul so he would "sacrifice" the violin and Fosco could get his hands on it]].
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* ShoutOut: Count Fosco is named after a character from ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite''.
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* BiggerBad: Diogenes. The very second Pendergast gets a letter from his brother, he uncharacteristically panics, as no matter what goes wrong with the current case it pales in comparison to what Diogenes has planned. [[spoiler: And then Diogenes turns out to have been at Fosco's estate during the climax, and frees Pendergast from the wall he was trapped in at the very end.]]
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* TitleDrop: Pendergast finds brimstone at the scene of Jeremy Grove's murder and notes that it is "good Old Testament brimstone.""
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Bullard was being manipulated by Fosco the whole time into recovering his aforementioned violin.]]
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''Brimstone'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2004. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
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''Brimstone'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 2004. It is part of their informal [[Literature/AgentPendergast Agent Pendergast series]].
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* HumanShield: Bullard's mooks strategically position a bunch of kids as a human shield against the Chinese. [[spoiler: They don't care]].
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* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Pendergast and Viola are both taken with each other upon their first meeting. It's obvious enough that D'Agosta immediately catches on just by looking at them.]]
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: The first half of the novel has Bullard acting as the main antagonist before [[spoiler: killing him and revealing Fosco as the BigBad]].
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* DiscOneFinalBoss: The first half of the novel has Bullard acting as the main antagonist before [[spoiler: killing him and revealing Fosco as the BigBad]].BigBad, having been manipulating Bullard's actions]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: D'Agosta sneaks back to [[spoiler: Fosco's mansion]] and [[spoiler: kills him with the microwave death ray he used for his XanatosGambit]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: D'Agosta sneaks back to [[spoiler: Fosco's mansion]] and [[spoiler: kills him with the microwave death ray he used for his XanatosGambit]].{{plan}}]].
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* TheBusCameBack: D'Agosta has returned from his failed writing career an had to take a job that bumps him down two ranks to Sergeant.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: D'Agosta unknowingly sees [[Literature/DanceOfDeath Diogenes]]]] while escaping his pursuers. Diogenes then rescues Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: D'Agosta unknowingly sees [[Literature/DanceOfDeath Diogenes]]]] Diogenes]] while escaping his pursuers. Diogenes then rescues Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler: D'Agosta unknowingly sees [[spoiler: [[Literature/DanceOfDeath Diogenes]]]] while escaping his pursuers. [[spoiler: Diogenes]] Diogenes then rescues [[spoiler: Pendergast]] Pendergast in the epilogue.epilogue]].
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* ItWasHereISwear: [[spoiler: When D'Agosta brings the Italian police back to Fosco's estate, every bit of evidence he and Pendergast had been there has been erased. The count even manages to apply ''cobwebs'' to the room they had supposedly stayed in and engraves his own family crest onto Pendergast's necklace.]]
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: [[spoiler: Diogenes saves Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: [[spoiler: Diogenes saves Pendergast in the epilogue]].
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* TheOnlyOneAllowedToKillYou: [[spoiler: Diogenes saves Pendergast in the epilogue]].
