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* AwesomeMcCoolName: Hell Tanner. Yes, Hell is his given name--according to him, from his birth he was a bit of TheUnfavourite for his father.
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Trope has been merged into Badass Biker, ZCE.
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%%* BikerBabe: Cornelia/Corny.
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* BadassBiker: Primarily Tanner, but also many bad guys.
* BikerBabe: Cornelia/Corny.
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* PostApocalypticDog: Don't worry, they don't get anyone though.
* SociopathicHero: Tanner, at least at first.
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''Damnation Alley'' is a novel by Creator/RogerZelazny, in which Hell Tanner, the last Hell's Angel, is hired/coerced into driving across a post-apocalyptic {{Dystopia}}n US to deliver a desperately needed vaccine.
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''Damnation Alley'' is a novel by Creator/RogerZelazny, in which taking place 30 years after World War III destroyed civilization. Hell Tanner, the last Hell's Angel, is hired/coerced into driving across a post-apocalyptic {{Dystopia}}n what used to be the US to deliver a desperately needed vaccine.
* ApocalypseHow: Class 4. Earth's ecosystem was almost completely annihilated in the nuclear war, with surviving flora and fauna being mutated beyond recognition. Humanity clings to life in isolated enclaves, all of which are police states.
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* TheDulcineaEffect: In a really weird-ass example, Tanner guns down a hostile biker gang, but then he notices one of them is a girl, so he gets out of the car, grabs her, and shoves her in before driving away. He didn't like the idea of a girl dying, he explains.
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* PercussivePrevention: Hell gives his brother a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, breaking some bones in the process, to prevent him making the run.
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* WouldntHitAGirl: Tanner guns down a hostile biker gang, but then he notices one of them is a girl, so he gets out of the car, grabs her, and shoves her in before driving away. He explains it by saying that he didn't like the idea of a girl dying.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: Tanner does not stay in Boston, waiting only long enough to smear some swear words onto a freshly erected monument to himself.
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* TheBlackDeath: It's the illness that hits Boston and kickstarts the plot. Like the trope entry says, it underlines the gravity of the situation more than any other disease would.
* CoolCar: The cars sent by California into the Alley are bulletproof, heavily armed, and equipped with enough provisions and facilities that one theoretically could spend the entire way inside. And just in case, there are backup two motorcycles aboard.
* CosyCatastrophe: The area around Albany is depicted this way. California has its harsh weather, Boston's just been hit with a plague, and the road from Albany to Boston is teeming with biker gangs, but here, you just live on a farm and there are festivals twice a year when a caravan from Boston comes along.
* TheDulcineaEffect: In a really weird-ass example, Tanner guns down a hostile biker gang, but then he notices one of them is a girl, so he gets out of the car, grabs her, and shoves her in before driving away. He didn't like the idea of a girl dying, he explains.
* CoolCar: The cars sent by California into the Alley are bulletproof, heavily armed, and equipped with enough provisions and facilities that one theoretically could spend the entire way inside. And just in case, there are backup two motorcycles aboard.
* CosyCatastrophe: The area around Albany is depicted this way. California has its harsh weather, Boston's just been hit with a plague, and the road from Albany to Boston is teeming with biker gangs, but here, you just live on a farm and there are festivals twice a year when a caravan from Boston comes along.
* TheDulcineaEffect: In a really weird-ass example, Tanner guns down a hostile biker gang, but then he notices one of them is a girl, so he gets out of the car, grabs her, and shoves her in before driving away. He didn't like the idea of a girl dying, he explains.
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* HostileWeather: It's even bigger problem than the mutated wildlife. Stuff like a whole bunch of tornadoes at once or a hail of stones are an everyday occurence in Damnation Alley.
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* SceneryGorn: As much as can be put into words and not visuals, the Damnation Alley is this.
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* TitleDrop: Damnation Alley is the in-universe name for FlyoverCountry, particularly in context of crossing it.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas / ThickerThanWater: At the beginning of the book, Tanner, still very much TheSociopath, takes some pains to prevent his brother making the dangerous run through the wastelands. The means include the knowledge of hidden cache of money and PercussivePrevention.
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* ThickerThanWater: At the beginning of the book, Tanner, still very much TheSociopath, takes some pains to prevent his brother making the dangerous run through the wastelands. The means include the knowledge of hidden cache of money and PercussivePrevention.
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* AllBikersAreHellsAngels: Interesting enough, Tanner is ''[[LastOfHisKind the last]]'' Hell's Angel that exists (the rest were annihilated before the novel).
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AntiHero: Tanner starts out as a NominalHero: he only agrees to deliver the vaccine in exchange for full pardon '''and''' under threat of death. During the travel, he slowly becomes noticeably nobler--and at the end he's a UnscrupulousHero, or maybe even a PragmaticHero.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Many dangers of the Damnation Alley are of this kind. They include giant gila monsters, huge bats, and [[GiantSpider giant spiders]].
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Hell Tanner. Yes, Hell is his given name--according to him, from his birth he was a bit of TheUnfavourite for his father.
* BadassBiker: Primarily Tanner, but also many bad guys.
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ThickerThanWater: At the beginning of the book, Tanner, still very much TheSociopath, takes some pains to prevent his brother making the dangerous run through the wastelands. The means include the knowledge of hidden cache of money and PercussivePrevention.
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GiantSpider: Mutated spiders can be roughly the size of a human.
*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFastMeaningfulName: Hell Tanner.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Again, Hell Tanner. Plus, his fame is rather widespread, although many think that he have been killed during the Raid.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Many dangers of the Damnation Alley are of this kind. They include giant gila monsters, huge bats, and [[GiantSpider giant spiders]].
* AwesomeMcCoolName: Hell Tanner. Yes, Hell is his given name--according to him, from his birth he was a bit of TheUnfavourite for his father.
* BadassBiker: Primarily Tanner, but also many bad guys.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Again, Hell Tanner. Plus, his fame is rather widespread, although many think that he have been killed during the Raid.
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* PostApocalypticDog: Don't worry, they don't get anyone though.
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Inspired a [[Film/DamnationAlley 1977 film of the same name]], which doesn't have much in common apart from the name and a post-apocalyptic setting.
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Inspired a [[Film/DamnationAlley 1977 film of the same name]], which doesn't have much in common apart from the name and a post-apocalyptic setting. A more faithful adaptation would be the ''[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Dredd]]'' story ''The Cursed Earth Saga''.
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'''Damnation Alley''' is a novel by RogerZelazny, Creator/RogerZelazny, in which Hell Tanner, the last Hell's Angel, is hired/coerced into driving across a post-apocalyptic {{Dystopia}}n US to deliver a desperately needed vaccine.
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'''Damnation Alley''' is a novel by RogerZelazny, in which Hell Tanner, the last Hell's Angel, is hired/coerced into driving across a post-apocalyptic {{Dystopia}}n US to deliver a desperately needed vaccine.
Inspired a [[Film/DamnationAlley 1977 film of the same name]], which doesn't have much in common apart from the name and a post-apocalyptic setting.
!!The novel contains examples of:
* AwesomeMcCoolName
* AfterTheEnd: ''Damnation Alley'' is steeped with post-apocalyptic visions, from the forlorn decaying towns to the very air which churns in constant turmoil, ripping apart anything rising up more than a couple of stories.
* BadassBiker
* BikerBabe: Cornelia/Corny
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas / ThickerThanWater
* MeaningfulName
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PercussivePrevention: Hell gives his brother a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, breaking some bones in the process, to prevent him making the run.
* SociopathicHero
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Inspired a [[Film/DamnationAlley 1977 film of the same name]], which doesn't have much in common apart from the name and a post-apocalyptic setting.
!!The novel contains examples of:
* AwesomeMcCoolName
* AfterTheEnd: ''Damnation Alley'' is steeped with post-apocalyptic visions, from the forlorn decaying towns to the very air which churns in constant turmoil, ripping apart anything rising up more than a couple of stories.
* BadassBiker
* BikerBabe: Cornelia/Corny
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas / ThickerThanWater
* MeaningfulName
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast
* PercussivePrevention: Hell gives his brother a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, breaking some bones in the process, to prevent him making the run.
* SociopathicHero
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