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''Reliquary'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 1997. It is the sequel to ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]'' and the second in the series of novels fan-named the AgentPendergast series.
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''Reliquary'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child first published in 1997. It is the sequel to ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]'' and the second in the series of novels fan-named the AgentPendergast Literature/AgentPendergast series.
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* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Dr. Frock]], a supporting good guy in ''Relic'', becomes megalomaniacally evil in in ''Reliquary''.
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You sound like a jerk.
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* PsychoSerum: Glaze.
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* PsychoSerum: Glaze. At first, it has zero withdrawal effects - but eventually drives the user insane.
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* ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsLecture: [[spoiler:A SEAL Team member explains to Snow how to use the M16's grenade launcher.]]
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* ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsLecture: ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsClassroom: [[spoiler:A SEAL Team member explains to Snow how to use the M16's grenade launcher.]]
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Can you at least explain why without being rude. i dont know the closest trope, since mephisto calls himself king repeatedly and is clearly off his rocker. (sorry for bad punctuation my english is bad)
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** A much more benign example is Mephisto, considering himself king of the underworld.
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Mephisto has nothing to do with this trope.
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** To a far lesser extent, Mephisto, who considers himself king.
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* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler: Frock plans to release the reovirus to give evolution a kick-start and cleanse the earth]].
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* BavarianFireDrill: Smithback gets in to see Mrs. Wisher this way.
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* MasterOfDisguise: Pendergast makes a very convincing homeless man. D'Agosta only recognizes him when he breaks his phony accent and begins moving and talking in his normal manner.
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** To a far lesser extent, Mephisto, who considers himself king.
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* HandCannon: Inverted when Pendergast recons the tunnels again: he brings along an incredibly small pistol with a round that could "send a bullet through an elephant. Lengthwise."
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-->''He wanted to be God - ''his'' God, the God of evolution.''
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto makes it clear some are simply desperate.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto makes it clear some are simply desperate.
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* OrphanedPunchline: The lead up to [[spoiler: the subway massacre]] starts with one.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Vaguely. Pendergast and D'Agosta infiltrate the homeless community disguised as hobos to try and get any leads on the murders.
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* HorrorHunger: For human hypothalamus.
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* HorrorHunger: For human hypothalamus. D'Agosta treats the homeless community's favored meat of rat as this, to the amusement of Pendergast.
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: After seeing what happened to the other passengers at the hands of the wrinklers, the final victim in the subway massacre steps on the third rail before they can kill him.
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* TitleDrop: Pendergast calls the reconstructed skull hut in the Crystal Pavillion a reliquary.
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* TitleDrop: Pendergast calls the reconstructed skull hut in the Crystal Pavillion Pavilion a reliquary.
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* TitleDrop: Pendergast calls the reconstructed skull hut in the Crystal Pavillion a reliquary.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto makes it clear some are simply desperate.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto talks about an English teacher who wound up with the homeless after a drinking problem.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto talks about an English teacher who wound up with the homeless after a drinking problem.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months (even after the book says Kawakita was KilledOffForReal thanks to some prosthetics only HE had) and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months (even after the book says Kawakita was KilledOffForReal thanks to some prosthetics only HE had) and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
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* AGodAmI: [[spoiler: Frock]], as Pendergast notes, was setting himself up to be one.
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* HorrorHunger: For human hypothalamus.
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* {{Jerkass}}: The incompetent Captain Waxie. Lieutenant Miller as well for his treatment of Hayward and his cowardice in leaving his injured men behind underground.
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* ViralTransformation: In three stages [[spoiler: The first version of Glaze that creates the wrinklers, the more refined version that Kawakita takes, and the "perfected" version that heals Frock's body at the cost of warping his mind.]]
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* AbsurdlySpaceousSewers: Justified in that all the tunnels and spaces below Manhattan actually ''exist'', even with the liberties of placement, names and exact size taken by the authors. It's estimated that there's enough room down there that several thousand people make it their homes.
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes viole
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes viole
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* AbsurdlySpaceousSewers: AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Justified in that all the tunnels and spaces below Manhattan actually ''exist'', even with the liberties of placement, names and exact size taken by the authors. It's estimated that there's enough room down there that several thousand people make it their homes.
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes violehomes.
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes viole
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nt insanity in those afflicted. [[spoiler:This is Frock's ultimate plan - send the world into a rage-filled suicide by spreading the virus to the oceans, and take over what's left.]]
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* AbsurdlySpaceousSewer: Justified in that all the tunnels and spaces below Manhattan actually ''exist'', even with the liberties of placement, names and exact size taken by the authors. It's estimated that there's enough room down there that several thousand people make it their homes.
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* AbsurdlySpaceousSewer: AbsurdlySpaceousSewers: Justified in that all the tunnels and spaces below Manhattan actually ''exist'', even with the liberties of placement, names and exact size taken by the authors. It's estimated that there's enough room down there that several thousand people make it their homes.
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* AbsurdlySpaceousSewer: Justified in that all the tunnels and spaces below Manhattan actually ''exist'', even with the liberties of placement, names and exact size taken by the authors. It's estimated that there's enough room down there that several thousand people make it their homes.
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes viole
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes viole
* IntrepidReporter: Our good friend Bill Smithback appears again.
* KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Wisher might be considered one. [[spoiler: She is largely responsible for the riots that take place and is rewarded with a government position.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Mrs. Wisher might be considered one. [[spoiler: She is largely responsible for the riots that take place and is rewarded with a government position.]]
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* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes violent insanity in those afflicted. [[spoiler:This is Frock's ultimate plan - send the world into a rage-filled suicide by spreading the virus to the oceans, and take over what's left.]]
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The SEAL team\'s massacre does not fit into Big Damn Heroes. They weren\'t out to rescue anyone.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the wrinklers. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the wrinklers. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the cultists. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
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* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the cultists.wrinklers. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: Remember Glaze from the last novel? [[spoiler:Kawakita got horribly mutated when he decided to modify it a little, and the addicts were turned into Frock's cultists.]]
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* DrugsAreBad: Remember Glaze from the last novel? [[spoiler:Kawakita got horribly mutated when he decided to modify it a little, and the addicts were turned into Frock's cultists.wrinklers.]]
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* {{Gonk}}: The cultists, who resemble naked mole rats with reptillian eyes.
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* {{Gonk}}: The cultists, wrinklers, who resemble naked mole rats with reptillian reptilian eyes.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
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* AuthorTract: The plight of homeless people: the afterword asks that the reader donate to charities and understand the homeless.
* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the cultists. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
* ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsLecture: [[spoiler:A SEAL Team member explains to Snow how to use the M16's grenade launcher.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Subverted and played straight: [[spoiler: A Navy SEAL team is deployed to flood the sewers, but all of them are ambushed by the cultists. However, Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
* ChekhovsGun[=/=]ChekhovsLecture: [[spoiler:A SEAL Team member explains to Snow how to use the M16's grenade launcher.]]
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Mephisto and his underground community. In some cases averted: Mephisto talks about an English teacher who wound up with the homeless after a drinking problem.
* DrugsAreBad: Remember Glaze from the last novel? [[spoiler:Kawakita got horribly mutated when he decided to modify it a little, and the addicts were turned into Frock's cultists.]]
* DrugsAreBad: Remember Glaze from the last novel? [[spoiler:Kawakita got horribly mutated when he decided to modify it a little, and the addicts were turned into Frock's cultists.]]
* {{Gonk}}: The cultists, who resemble naked mole rats with reptillian eyes.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months (even after the book says Kawakita was KilledOffForReal thanks to some prosthetics only HE had) and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
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* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Kawakita]]
* PowderKegCrowd: Every time Mrs. Wisher holds a "Take Back Our City" rally it becomes one of these. The first time it resulted in bottles being thrown at the mayor. When she holds her biggest rally, [[spoiler: the teargassed moles emerge right into the middle of it and]] it becomes a full-scale riot.
* PowderKegCrowd: Every time Mrs. Wisher holds a "Take Back Our City" rally it becomes one of these. The first time it resulted in bottles being thrown at the mayor. When she holds her biggest rally, [[spoiler: the teargassed moles emerge right into the middle of it and]] it becomes a full-scale riot.
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* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Kawakita]]
Kawakita]].
* PowderKegCrowd: Every time Mrs. Wisher holds a "Take Back Our City" rally it becomes one of these. The first time it resulted in bottles being thrown at the mayor. When she holds her biggest rally, [[spoiler: the teargassed moles emerge right into the middle of it and]] it becomes a full-scaleriot.riot.
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes violent insanity in those afflicted. [[spoiler:This is Frock's ultimate plan - send the world into a rage-filled suicide by spreading the virus to the oceans, and take over what's left.]]
* PowderKegCrowd: Every time Mrs. Wisher holds a "Take Back Our City" rally it becomes one of these. The first time it resulted in bottles being thrown at the mayor. When she holds her biggest rally, [[spoiler: the teargassed moles emerge right into the middle of it and]] it becomes a full-scale
* ZombieApocalypse: The new reovirus simply causes violent insanity in those afflicted. [[spoiler:This is Frock's ultimate plan - send the world into a rage-filled suicide by spreading the virus to the oceans, and take over what's left.]]
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* PowderKegCrowd: Every time Mrs. Wisher holds a "Take Back Our City" rally it becomes one of these. The first time it resulted in bottles being thrown at the mayor. When she holds her biggest rally, [[spoiler: the teargassed moles emerge right into the middle of it and]] it becomes a full-scale riot.
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* ApocalypticLog: Kawakita's burnt lab journal.
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* CuteBruiser: Hayward's looks, small frame and gracious endowments often cause people to dismiss her as a police officer. She's a skilled martial artist and one hell of a tough cookie. Those that underestimate her usually get a few broken bones for their trouble.
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''Reliquary'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs first published in 1997. It is the sequel to ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]'' and the second in the series of novels fan-named the AgentPendergast series.
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missing heads.
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missing heads.
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''Reliquary'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs Child first published in 1997. It is the sequel to ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]'' and the second in the series of novels fan-named the AgentPendergast series.
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missingheads.heads.
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler: Kawakita prematurely begins taking the modified reovirus and suffers horrible deformity and an allergy to vitamin D. When he reaches out to Dr. Frock for help, it gets him killed for his trouble.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mephisto takes out Frock and a mass of wrinklers by blowing himself up with a landmine. He saves the others and ensures the safety of his community.]]
* KillItWithFire: Pendergast takes a flamethrower into the tunnels to fight the wrinklers.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Judging from the scraps of his journal, [[spoiler: Kawakita]] grew to honestly regret his actions.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Kawakita]]
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missing
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Snow bursts into the Crystal Cathedral just in time to save everyone.]]
* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler: Kawakita prematurely begins taking the modified reovirus and suffers horrible deformity and an allergy to vitamin D. When he reaches out to Dr. Frock for help, it gets him killed for his trouble.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mephisto takes out Frock and a mass of wrinklers by blowing himself up with a landmine. He saves the others and ensures the safety of his community.]]
* KillItWithFire: Pendergast takes a flamethrower into the tunnels to fight the wrinklers.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Kawakita is set up as the big bad in the sequel hook from ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]''. [[spoiler: It turns out he's been dead for several months and ''Dr. Frock'' is the one pulling the strings.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Judging from the scraps of his journal, [[spoiler: Kawakita]] grew to honestly regret his actions.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Kawakita]]
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''Reliquary'' is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs first published in 1997. It is the sequel to ''[[Literature/TheRelic Relic]]'' and the second in the series of novels fan-named the AgentPendergast series.
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missing heads.
It has been eighteen months since the infamous Museum Beast Murders at the New York Natural History Museum. Most of the players have moved on with their lives and left that horrible time as a distant nightmare. They are all dragged back into the horror when two skeletons are dug out of the river with chillingly familiar wounds, including missing heads.
