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* AssholeVictim: What [[spoiler: Spook]] does to [[spoiler: Darren]] is horrific. [[PayEvilUntoEvil One could easily argue that it was deserved]], but it isn't done as punishment for [[spoiler: Darren's]] many, many crimes. It's done because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'd become more trouble than he was worth]], and he [[BullyingADragon kept mouthing off anyway]].
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: What [[spoiler: Spook]] does to [[spoiler: Darren]] is horrific. [[PayEvilUntoEvil One could easily argue that it was deserved]], but it isn't done as punishment for [[spoiler: Darren's]] many, many crimes. It's done because [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he'd become more trouble than he was worth]], and he [[BullyingADragon kept mouthing off anyway]].
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Angelina has one of these after a more traditional date with Jason. The teenage years can be a frustrating time.
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* OffingTheAnnoyance: Darren tries to [[BullyingADragon threaten and intimidate]] [[spoiler: Spook]], who doesn't actually care, but is tired of his lip. It doesn't work out well for Darren at all.
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* SoulEating: Souls are literally the Heart Eater's diet. A particularly horrific version, since the victims are endlessly "digested" while trapped in personal nightmares. Also has a certain "you are what you eat" aspect, since the Heart Eater, being essentially mindless, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters wasn't capable of greed, spite, or cruelty until it started eating humans]].
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* ContraceptionDeception: Practiced by many young men of Belford, resulting in a lot of the TeenagePregnancy.
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* ContraceptionDeception: Practiced by many young men of Belford, resulting in a lot of the TeenagePregnancy.
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* BreakTheHaughty: As the Changed Ones take over the town, the unChanged are ostracized and persecuted. This includes Natasha, and by the time things come to a head, she's even more isolated than the protagonists.
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* FreudianExcuse: Natasha [=VanDyne's=] mother is emotionally abusive, perfectionist and demanding.
** FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a hypercompetitive, bullying, viciously-misogynist sociopath. In no way does this make him more sympathetic.
** FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Darren's father deliberately raised him to be a hypercompetitive, bullying, viciously-misogynist sociopath. In no way does this make him more sympathetic.
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* BigDamnKiss: This is how [[spoiler: Marc]] is able to convince Vicki that [[GoodIsBoring Good Is Not Boring]].
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* GiveGeeksAChance: [[spoiler: Marc]] is able to convince Vicki to do so, once he's able to convince her that [[GoodIsBoring Geeks needn't be passionless and boring]].
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* GoodIsBoring: Vicki believes this. [[spoiler: Marc is able to prove otherwise]].
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* DefiledForever: Related to AllGirlsWantBadBoys. On some level, Vicki believes she doesn't deserve to be in a relationship where she's treated well. [[spoiler: She breaks the pattern with Marc]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Natasha and Alan Chadwick are both devastated by Maura Weston's death.
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* DefeatByModesty: Averted. While Natasha is inflicting [[BreastAttack Breast Attacks]] on Vicki, she accidentally tears Vicki's shirt, exposing her breasts. Vicki could not care less.
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* BreastAttack: During a fight between Natasha and Vicki, Vicki gets Natasha into a headlock and Natasha rakes Vicki's breasts with her nails while trying to escape.
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* BullyHunter: Vicki can take abuse directed at herself, but when she sees someone being bullied she just ''has'' to intervene, often violently. This usually makes things worse for her.
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* DefeatByModesty: Averted. While Natasha is inflicting [[BreastAttack Breast Attacks]] on Vicki, she accidentally tears Vicki's shirt, exposing her breasts. Vicki could not care less.
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: [[spoiler: Spook]] kills Natasha's dog and horse as revenge for her bullying Vicki, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood something Vicki would never have wanted]].
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* VirginShaming: A non-malicious example. Vicki and Val [[DeliberateValuesDissonance consider Angelina and her friends to be silly and naive]] for counting some of the examples of QuestionableConsent as rape. They attribute this naivete to them being virgins.
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* SlutShaming: A large part of the bullying directed at Vicki and Val.
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* BullyBrutality: People who cross Darren tend to suffer career-ending injuries. While they're in the locker room with Psycho Mike.
** While Natasha [=VanDyne=] is usually a social bully, she crosses over into this when she pours hot stew down Vicki's back, causing painful burns.
** While Natasha [=VanDyne=] is usually a social bully, she crosses over into this when she pours hot stew down Vicki's back, causing painful burns.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Vicki and Val both have a tendency to end up with boys who are bad for them. They are aware of it and struggle with it, but occasionally fall back into bad habits.
** Downplayed for the women of Belford in general, who consider Darren to be a charming rogue instead of the dangerous sociopath that he really is.
** Downplayed for the women of Belford in general, who consider Darren to be a charming rogue instead of the dangerous sociopath that he really is.
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** Darren is a viciously misogynist sociopath who makes a sport of DateRape. We see one of his cruel games in the backstory of Alma Lorn, but even his "official" girlfriends don't escape.
** Rodney Dupre is more typical, as a boyfriend who doesn't take "no" for an answer from his girlfriends. Less violent than Darren, he [[ButLiquorIsQuicker prefers to take steps to make sure he never even has to hear it]].
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Played utterly straight. Positive characters are caring and thoughtful lovers. Their skills may not be that great - [[TheirFirstTime we are talking about inexperienced teenagers, after all]] - but even Kara's [[LastHetRomance last het fling]] goes relatively well. Meanwhile, two serious JerkAss characters are revealed as such by their selfish and callous treatment of their partners, while no fewer than three human villains are rapists.
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* SexualKarma: For a certain value of "good". [[TheirFirstTime We are dealing with inexperienced teenagers, after all]]. That said, positive characters are caring and thoughtful lovers, while no less than three human villains are rapists, and two serious jerkass characters are revealed as such by their selfish and callous treatment of their partners.
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%%* AnAxeToGrind: Luther Harfield's weapon of choice.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: For a certain value of "good". [[TheirFirstTime We are dealing with inexperienced teenagers, after all]]. That said, positive characters are caring and thoughtful lovers, while no less than three human villains are rapists, and two serious jerkass characters are revealed as such by their selfish and callous treatment of their partners.
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** [[spoiler: Taken UpToEleven with Angelina. The Heart Eater didn't know what it was getting into...]]
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Horrible as it is, the Heart Eater is ultimately little more than an animal. It was only after it started eating human souls that it started developing traits such as greed, spite and vindictiveness. Where it once would have stuck to weak souls like any other predator going after easy prey, it starts going after the strong souls of people who otherwise would have "gotten out" of Belford. And it is nothing compared to the human AbusiveParents, the vicious [[spoiler:Spook]] who aids the entity, and the misogynistic Darren. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when Spook becomes its mind.]]
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Horrible as it is, the Heart Eater is ultimately little more than an animal. It was only after it started eating human souls that it started developing traits such as greed, spite and vindictiveness. Where it once would have stuck to weak souls like any other predator going after easy prey, it starts going after the strong souls of people who otherwise would have "gotten out" of Belford. And it is nothing compared to the human AbusiveParents, the vicious [[spoiler:Spook]] who aids the entity, and the misogynistic Darren. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven up to eleven when Spook becomes its mind.]]
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* EntitledToHaveYou: Rodney's attitude toward Vicki. [[spoiler: Also Spook's]]. Darren's attitude toward any woman who takes his interest at the moment.
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* AbusiveParents: The first time we see Brenda Powers, she throws a glass at her daughter's face. Vicki ducks it with no difficulty, since it had happened so many times before, she knew it was coming.
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** The first time we see Brenda Powers, she throws a glass at her daughter's face. Vicki ducks it with no difficulty, since it had happened so many times before, she knew it was coming.
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* [[spoiler: BuryYourGays: Kara. Val might count, too. She showed a few hints of being bi-curious in Kara's direction when they were alive, which apparently blossomed while they were trapped in the Heart Eater. Hard to say how much is IfItsYouItsOkay.]]
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* [[spoiler: HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Horrible as it is, the Heart Eater is ultimately little more than an animal. It was only after it started eating human souls that it started developing traits such as greed, spite and vindictiveness. Where it once would have stuck to weak souls like any other predator going after easy prey, it starts going after the strong souls of people who otherwise would have "gotten out" of Belford. Taken And it is nothing compared to the human AbusiveParents, the vicious [[spoiler:Spook]] who aids the entity, and the misogynistic Darren. [[spoiler:Taken UpToEleven when Spook becomes its mind.]]
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* PsychoForHire: Except for Alma Lorn, the ghosts seem to serve this purpose for [[spoiler: The Heart Eater]].
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* QuestionableConsent: A number of girls are pressured or manipulated into sexual activities (''in addition'' to the outright [[DateRape date rapes]]). The story actually begins with a scene where a couple is having unprotected sex and the boy "forgets" to practice withdrawal as he'd promised.
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** A number of girls are pressured or manipulated into sexual activities (''in addition'' to the outright [[DateRape date rapes]]). The story actually begins with a scene where a couple is having unprotected sex and the boy "forgets" to practice withdrawal as he'd promised.
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** [[DeliberateValuesDissonance In keeping with the values of her time, place, and social class]], Vicki dismisses her DateRape by Rodney as being this at worst. After all, all he did was show up at [[spoiler: Val's funeral]] [[ButLiquorIsQuicker with a LOT of strong booze]] at the exact moment that she would be desperately wanting to [[DrowningMySorrows Drown Her Sorrows]] and made sure to never take a sip himself...
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