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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] matter, since everyone is going to die anyway.

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* ShootTheShaggyDog: Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] children (he chooses to leave them behind to save the girl he loves)]] matter, since everyone is going to die anyway.

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* AdvancingWallOfDoom - the Wave
* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow - Class 5: all organics on the whole planet are going to die!]]
* ApocalypticLog - The protagonists make one, so the tragedy won't be repeated.
* ChildrenAreInnocent - [[spoiler: And thus deserve to be saved.]]
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul - Camillo.
* DoNotGoGentle - People continue to do useful things during the Wave's approach.
* FaceDeathWithDignity - [[spoiler:The entire adult population of the planet]] ends up doing it in the end. The cake definitely goes to the intended first human 0-T tester team, who swim into the Wave of their own accord ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome while singing]]''.
* FailsafeFailure - "Charibdas"
* ForScience - Motivates many of the protagonists.
* GoneHorriblyWrong - The Wave.
* IgnoredExpert - Camillo.
* ImmortalLifeIsCheap - Camillo+.
* ImmortalityHurts - Camillo (both literally and emotionally - [[spoiler:"I have risen from the dead thrice today. It hurt a lot every time. [...] Soon, I will raise from the dead for the fourth time, all alone on a dead planet covered by ash and snow."]])
* LoveMakesYouEvil - Robert, who [[spoiler: leaves a couple of children behind.]]
** Robert was aware of this but [[spoiler:he knew that he cannot save all the children anyway, having only a tiny airplane. (Gaba: "But they are children!" Robert: "And those that stay here - they are not children? Who will choose the four of them who will fly to the Capital and to Earth? You will? Go and choose them!")]]
* SadisticChoice
* ShootTheShaggyDog - Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] matter, since everyone is going to die anyway.

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%% * AdvancingWallOfDoom - the AdvancingWallOfDoom: The Wave
* ApocalypseHow: [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow - Class 5: all organics on the whole planet are going to die!]]
%% * ApocalypticLog - ApocalypticLog: The protagonists make one, so the tragedy won't be repeated.
%% * ChildrenAreInnocent - ChildrenAreInnocent: [[spoiler: And thus deserve to be saved.]]
%% * CyberneticsEatYourSoul - CyberneticsEatYourSoul: Camillo.
%% * DoNotGoGentle - DoNotGoGentle: People continue to do useful things during the Wave's approach.
* FaceDeathWithDignity - FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:The entire adult population of the planet]] ends up doing it in the end. The cake definitely goes to the intended first human 0-T tester team, who swim into the Wave of their own accord ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome while singing]]''.
%% * FailsafeFailure - FailsafeFailure: "Charibdas"
* ForScience - FictionalPainting: The painting "Wind", the MagnumOpus of a famous artist visiting the title planet, is the only inanimate object transported off the planet before it is devastated by the Wave.
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Motivates many of the protagonists.
%% * GoneHorriblyWrong - GoneHorriblyWrong: The Wave.
%% * IgnoredExpert - IgnoredExpert: Camillo.
%% * ImmortalLifeIsCheap - ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Camillo+.
* ImmortalityHurts - Camillo (both ImmortalityHurts: Camillo, both literally and emotionally - -- [[spoiler:"I have risen from the dead thrice today. It hurt a lot every time. [...] Soon, I will raise from the dead for the fourth time, all alone on a dead planet covered by ash and snow."]])
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* LoveMakesYouEvil - LoveMakesYouEvil: Robert, who [[spoiler: leaves a couple of children behind.]]
** Robert was aware of this but [[spoiler:he knew that he cannot save all the children anyway, having only a tiny airplane. (Gaba: "But they are children!" Robert: "And those that stay here - they are not children? Who will choose the four of them who will fly to the Capital and to Earth? You will? Go and choose them!")]]
%% * SadisticChoice
* ShootTheShaggyDog - ShootTheShaggyDog: Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] matter, since everyone is going to die anyway.



* TeleportersAndTransporters - The research is about them.
* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Gorbovsky]] appears in latter novels, but the Rainbow incident is not discussed.
* YouShallNotPass - Done by Robert (and [[spoiler: Patrick]]) with regards to the Wave.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong - They know about the Wave, yet the planet has no escape ships ready? Were it not for "Tariel", ''nobody'' would survive!
** A partial excuse is that the 0-T scientists, according to their theory, never expected the Wave to be so strong; their calculations were flawed but they did not bother to check them because they considered the Wave to be only a bothersome side effect.
* YouAreTooLate - The "Strela".

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%% * TeleportersAndTransporters - TeleportersAndTransporters: The research is about them.
%% * UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Gorbovsky]] appears in latter novels, but the Rainbow incident is not discussed.
%% * YouShallNotPass - YouShallNotPass: Done by Robert (and [[spoiler: Patrick]]) with regards to the Wave.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong - WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: They know about the Wave, yet the planet has no escape ships ready? Were it not for "Tariel", ''nobody'' would survive!
** A partial excuse is that the 0-T scientists, according to their theory, never expected the Wave to be so strong; their calculations were flawed but they did not bother to check them because they considered the Wave to be only a bothersome side effect.
%% * YouAreTooLate - YouAreTooLate: The "Strela".
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''Far Rainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Far Rainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse.Literature/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' ''Far Rainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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* SuicideBySea: In the bleak ending, the Tester Group swims to their deaths into the approaching Wave (a colossal wall of negative energy spawned by a scientific experiment Gone Horribly Wrong) while singing, rather than wait passively for it on the coast.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Gorbovsky]] appears in latter novels, but the Rainbow incident is not discussed.
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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', ''Literature/OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse.Franchise/NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers Creator/StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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Removing misuse of renamed trope


* HeGotBetter - [[spoiler:Leonid Gorbovsky, although he dies at the end of the book, is alive again in a story that occurs later.]]
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A physician is a kind of medical doctor.


Rainbow is a lush green planet far away from Earth, which is one big test ground for physicians. Their recent research is about [[TeleportersAndTransporters 0-T, a teleportation technique]]. Besides them, the planet is inhabited by their families, a couple of escapists, and few artists. When one of the experiments [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires]], the whole planet is threatened by the deadly Wave...

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Rainbow is a lush green planet far away from Earth, which is one big test ground for physicians.physicists. Their recent research is about [[TeleportersAndTransporters 0-T, a teleportation technique]]. Besides them, the planet is inhabited by their families, a couple of escapists, and few artists. When one of the experiments [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires]], the whole planet is threatened by the deadly Wave...
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Camillo is an interesting character; added one more trope to his name.

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* ImmortalityHurts - Camillo (both literally and emotionally - [[spoiler:"I have risen from the dead thrice today. It hurt a lot every time. [...] Soon, I will raise from the dead for the fourth time, all alone on a dead planet covered by ash and snow."]])
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Camillo is a good example of an Ignored expert (he is quite literally ignored).

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* IgnoredExpert - Camillo.
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* HeGotBetter - [[spoiler:Leonid Gorbovsky, although he dies at the end of the book, is alive again in a story that occurs later.]]


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** Robert was aware of this but [[spoiler:he knew that he cannot save all the children anyway, having only a tiny airplane. (Gaba: "But they are children!" Robert: "And those that stay here - they are not children? Who will choose the four of them who will fly to the Capital and to Earth? You will? Go and choose them!")]]


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** A partial excuse is that the 0-T scientists, according to their theory, never expected the Wave to be so strong; their calculations were flawed but they did not bother to check them because they considered the Wave to be only a bothersome side effect.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity - [[spoiler:The entire adult population of the planet]] ends up doing it in the end. The cake definitely goes to the intended first human 0-T tester team, who swim into the Wave of their own accord ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome while singing]]''.
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Harsher In Hindsight is a YMMV trope and it\'s already on the YMMV tab


* HarsherInHindsight - When the novel was written, the idea of a ''technological experiment'' damaging a planet big style was inconceivable (as opposed to global nuclear war, which the novel was actually based on). Then came Tchernobyl...
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* HarsherInHindsight - When the novel was written, the idea of a ''technological experiment'' damaging a planet big style was inconceivable (as opposed to global nuclear war, which the novel was actually based on). Then came Tchernobyl...
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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 film adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.
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Just tidying up.


''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressive and was directly inspired by the 1959 adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

Rainbow is a lush green planet far away from Earth, which is oine big Test ground for physicians. Their recent research is about [[TeleportersAndTransporters 0-T, a teleportation technique]]. Besides them, the planet is inhabited bey their families, a couple of escapists and few artists. However, when one of the experiments [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires]], the whole planet is threatened by the deadly Wave...

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''Literature/FarRainbow'' (Russian: "Далёкая Радуга", alternate translation: ''Distant Rainbow'') is the third novel by the StrugatskyBrothers to be set in the NoonUniverse. It is extremely depressive depressing and was directly inspired by the 1959 adaptation of the PostApocalyptic novel ''OnTheBeach'', which the Stugatskys saw in 1962 and were devastated by.

Rainbow is a lush green planet far away from Earth, which is oine one big Test test ground for physicians. Their recent research is about [[TeleportersAndTransporters 0-T, a teleportation technique]]. Besides them, the planet is inhabited bey by their families, a couple of escapists escapists, and few artists. However, when When one of the experiments [[GoneHorriblyWrong backfires]], the whole planet is threatened by the deadly Wave...



* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow - Class 5: all organics on the whole planet is going to be dead!]]
* ApocalypticLog - they protagonists make one, so the tragedy won't be repeated.
* ChildrenAreInnocent - [[spoiler: and thus deserve to be saved]]

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* [[spoiler: ApocalypseHow - Class 5: all organics on the whole planet is are going to be dead!]]
die!]]
* ApocalypticLog - they The protagonists make one, so the tragedy won't be repeated.
* ChildrenAreInnocent - [[spoiler: and And thus deserve to be saved]]saved.]]



* DoNotGoGentle - people continue to do useful things during the Wave's approach.

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* DoNotGoGentle - people People continue to do useful things during the Wave's approach.



* ForScience - Motivation of many protagonists.
* GoneHorriblyWrong - The Wave

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* ForScience - Motivation of Motivates many of the protagonists.
* GoneHorriblyWrong - The WaveWave.



* LoveMakesYouEvil - Robert, who [[spoiler: leaves a couple of children behind]]

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* LoveMakesYouEvil - Robert, who [[spoiler: leaves a couple of children behind]]behind.]]



* ShootTheShaggyDog - Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] matter, since all people are going to die anyway.
* TeleportersAndTransporters - the research is about them.
* YouShallNotPass - done by Robert (and [[spoiler: Patrick]]) with regards to the Wave.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong - the know about the Wave, yet the planet has no escape ships ready??? Were it not for "Tariel", ''nobody'' would survive!

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* ShootTheShaggyDog - Robert. Neither his heroics nor his [[spoiler: betrayal of children]] matter, since all people are everyone is going to die anyway.
* TeleportersAndTransporters - the The research is about them.
* YouShallNotPass - done Done by Robert (and [[spoiler: Patrick]]) with regards to the Wave.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong - the They know about the Wave, yet the planet has no escape ships ready??? ready? Were it not for "Tariel", ''nobody'' would survive!

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