History Literature / TheGirlWithAllTheGifts

* AdaptedOut: Most of the named soldiers from the book, the junkers and two of the teachers: Miss Mailer, who while more reserved than Miss Justineau also has some PetTheDog moments towards the kids, and alcoholic Mr. Whittaker.
%% * TheAlcoholic: Mr. Whittaker and most of Parks' soldiers.

** Dr. Caldwell. While she doesn't mind doing things like [[spoiler:a vivisection of a child]] and treats them all as medical specimen and test subjects, her ultimate goal is to provide a cure that would save humankind or at least make what's left of it immune to the fast-acting pathogen.
** [[spoiler:Melanie is eventually revealed as one. She just wants to end the struggle. By removing humans from the equation]].
* ApocalypseHow: Class 1, if not 0. The British Isles are definitely in state of complete chaos and "government" is reduced to few military bases and manufacturing facilities, all barely holding, but it's implied life goes on in other places much better. [[spoiler:After Melanie releases the spores, it turns into full blown Class 3 - all humans around the world outside airtight environments will catch the infection]].

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: The feral children's society, such as it is, operates on this.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Selkirk, a GuiltRiddenAccomplice, is this to Caldwell. Gallagher also has some of this, but it has less to do with any fault on Parks side and more with the extreme situation they're in.

* BrokenAesop: In the movie. The moral of the story is that everybody has a right to live and no one person can claim the right to take someone's life for their own sake. This is all well and good, except in the end, [[spoiler:Melanie deliberately commits genocide against the human race so her kind can survive and inherit the Earth.]]

* CrazySurvivalist: The "junkers". They play a minor role in the book, [[spoiler:causing the collapse of the military base. In the film, not counting a briefly mention, they are completely absent]].
%% * CreepyChild[=/=]TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In spades. Their innocence just makes their actions even creepier. And when it comes to [[spoiler:Gallagher's death]] - well, all gloves are off.
%% * DarkAndTroubledPast: Miss Justineau.

* DevouredByTheHorde: The name "hungries" didn't came from nowhere. [[spoiler:And almost all characters die this way]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: At least in the film version, it is implied [[spoiler:Melanie didn't really realize all the implications of her final decision]]. Not so much in the book.
* DistractedByTheSexy: [[spoiler:Gallagher at the newspaper stand, full of adult magazines]].

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler:Starting from three soldiers, a doctor, a teacher and a little girl, by the end of the story only the teacher and the girl are still alive]].
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:After the spores are released, non-immune humans are doomed.]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: While still relatively distanced, Gallagher is the only one of the soldiers to show any emotional attachment to the children. [[spoiler:Which further explains why he was unable to bring himself to blow the feral children into pieces with his grenade]].

* FesteringFungus: The hungries are caused not by a virus but by the fungus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Ophiocordyceps]], which strips them of all but the most basic instincts like [[HorrorHunger hunger]] [[spoiler:and sex]]. Melanie is a child who is infected with the fungus [[spoiler:and partially immune to it, due to being the child of a hungry and thus having a symbiotic relationship with the fungus]]. In the end, [[spoiler:she ensures that the fungus is spread throughout the entire world, so that the partially-immune hungry children will inherit the Earth]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the movie, there is a [[spoiler:lone soldier who managed to get to the vehicle depot, get himself a jeep, drive all the way to the main gate, open it and ''almost'' get back to his car, only to be swarmed right when he's about to board the car]]. We are only there to witness the very end of his desperate struggle. For all it's worth, Dillon [[MercyKill puts a few bullets in him]], saving him from further pain.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: A well-justified case happens in the film, where [[spoiler:Parks asks Melanie to shoot him, fully knowing he might lose his motor control to infection before pulling the trigger and thus being unable to reliably kill himself]].

** Fully aware how dangerous and irreversible the bites are, [[spoiler:Devani is just standing and watching Melanie bite and kill her fellow soldier, rather than riddling them both with bullets. She then tries to take the girl off the body for no reason at all and gets bitten herself. Should she fire her rifle, the entire story would have ended before they even leave the base]]. It's especially obvious in the film due to visible aimless standing.

* LifeWillKillYou: [[spoiler:Dr. Caldwell is dying out of sepsis caused by a relatively minor palm injury]].
* LostInTransmission: [[spoiler:The radio call from the Beacon starts to get cranky right after the operator on the other side informs their fence is barely holding and will fall within next few hours. Everything after that turns into static and the connection is lost permanently]].

* NotSoHarmless: [[spoiler:Just because she's a little kid doesn't make Melanie any less dangerous or vicious. She effortlessly kills two soldiers and beats to death leader of the feral children. But nothing tops the fact she consciously and intentionally releases the spores into the atmosphere, in the process wiping out human race as we know it]].

* ObviousTrap: [[spoiler:Sure, Kieran, why not follow a trail made out of canned food, with the last can conveniently lying right behind barely lifted shop shutters. It quickly reaches the point of Gallagher being TooDumbToLive when he stops inside to check some porn magazines, without carrying his rifle or at least having the radio at hand]].
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The zombies are caused not by a virus but by the fungus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Ophiocordyceps]]. They are still alive, they require food and don't suffer from ZombieGait, but also lack any reactions above most basic instincts and the only way to kill them reliably is [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain solid head trauma]]. [[spoiler:They can have kids, who have a symbiotic infection that makes them TheImmune, but naturally prone to a HorrorHunger.]]
* PornStash: Gallagher mentions that one of the other soldiers, Private Brooks, had an ancient ''playboy'' magazine from before the breakdown that he'd occasionally rent out to the other soldiers.

** In the book, she also reveals [[spoiler:there is no possibility to develop a cure nor a vaccine]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' and ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', sharing countless common elements fitting for each of those settings.
* ShoutOut: The ending is one toward [[spoiler:Literature/IAmLegend, with a new "branch" of humanity taking over the planet and eventually building their own civilization. [[AmbiguousEnding Maybe]]]].
%% * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted with Mr. Whittaker, the only male teacher.

* TooDumbToLive: Private Dillon. He ignores Sergeant Parks' order to equip a suppressor, resulting in him luring a bunch of hungries to the group after he instinctively fires his rifle into the bushes upon hearing a noise. [[spoiler: This not only causes their [[MurphysBullet truck to become disabled by a stray bullet]], but Dillon himself to become infected and killed.]]

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:This happens right after Dr. Caldwell confirms to Melanie that she no longer considers her a specimen, but a human being]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Most of the [[RedShirt soldiers]] at Hotel Echo (and two of Ms. Justineau's co-workers, Miss Mailer and Mr. Whittaker) just vanish after the fall of the base. Their final fates aren't revealed, but if they did survive the attack itself, [[spoiler: they would almost certainly have been infected by the end anyways]].

* ZombieInfectee: Averted. The infection takes hold within less than a minute, making any hidden infectees highly unlikely. [[spoiler:When Dillon got bitten, Parks held him at gunpoint just to be sure and shot him the moment Dillon started to twitch]].

* TheAlcoholic: Mr. Whittaker and most of Parks' soldiers.

* BittersweetEnding: ''And how.'' [[spoiler:Parks dies and the fungus that causes the hungries is spread throughout the entire world. Melanie reveals, however, that when hungries breed, their children have partial immunity, making them the new generation to inherit the world. Melanie gets Miss Justineau to start educating the other hungry children so they won't be feral.]]

* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:"Rosalind Franklin," the armored science van mentioned in the beginning, shows up near the end.]]

* CreepyChild[=/=]TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: In spades. Their innocence just makes their actions even creepier. And when it comes to [[spoiler:Gallagher's death]] - well, all gloves are off.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Miss Justineau.

* DroneOfDread: In the movie, obviously. Alternates with OneWomanWail.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:After the spores are released, non-immue humans are doomed.]].

* FesteringFungus: Like in ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', the hungries are caused not by a virus but by the fungus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Ophiocordyceps]], which strips them of all but the most basic instincts like [[HorrorHunger hunger]] [[spoiler:and sex]]. Melanie is a child who is infected with the fungus [[spoiler:and partially immune to it, due to being the child of a hungry and thus having a symbiotic relationship with the fungus]]. In the end, [[spoiler:she ensures that the fungus is spread throughout the entire world, so that the partially-immune hungry children will inherit the Earth]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In the movie, there is a [[spoiler:lone soldier who managed to get to the vehicle depo, get himself a jeep, drive all the way to the main gate, open it and ''almost'' get back to his car, only to be swarmed right when he's about to board the car]]. We are only there to witness the very end of his desperate struggle. For all it's worth, Dillon [[MercyKill puts a few bullets in him]], saving him from further pain.

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Like ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', the zombies are caused not by a virus but by the fungus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Ophiocordyceps]]. They are still alive, they require food and don't suffer from ZombieGait, but also lack any reactions above most basic instincts and the only way to kill them reliably is [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain solid head trauma]]. [[spoiler:They can have kids, who have a symbiotic infection that makes them TheImmune, but naturally prone to a HorrorHunger.]]

* SoleSurvivingScientist: Dr. Caldwell. For better or worse, she wasn't among the original science team chosen to research the virus responsible for the ZombieApocalypse. Since that team went missing, it leaves Caldwell as the most competent person still alive.
** Actually, Caldwell mentioned that she was the twenty-seventh highest ranked candidate for that mission, which had twelve scientists actually chosen. This could potentially mean that there are still fourteen other scientists considered better than her, although some likely died during the years between that mission and her operation being established, others were likely too scared to leave Beacons walls after the research teams went missing and still others may have simply been a different type of scientist than the kind required to cut apart bodies looking for a cure.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted with Mr. Whittaker, the only male teacher.

It has been made into [[TheFilmOfTheBook a motion picture]] that premiered late 2016.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler:After the spores are released, humanity as a whole is doomed]].

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Like ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', the zombies are caused not by a virus but by the fungus [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis Ophiocordyceps]]. They are still alive, they require food and don't suffer from ZombieGait, but also lack any reactions above most basic instincts and the only way to kill them reliably is [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain solid head trauma]].

* TooDumbToLive: Private Dillon. He ignores Sergeant Parks' order to equip a suppressor, resulting in him luring a bunch of hungries to the group after he instinctively fires his rifle into the bushes upon hearing a noise. [[spoiler: This not only causes their truck to become disabled by a stray bullet, but Dillon himself to become infected and killed.]]

* WouldntHurtAChild: Gallagher [[spoiler:doesn't detonate the spare grenade he stashed when he's cornered by the feral children, because he just can't bring himself to kill them when they have no comprehension that it's a danger. And besides, he dies either way.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Private Dillon. He ignores Sergeant Parks' order to equip a suppressor, resulting in him luring a bunch of hungries to the group after he instinctively fires his rifle into the bushes upon hearing a noise. [[spoiler: This not only causes the truck to become disabled by a stray bullet, but Dillon himself to become infected and killed.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Private Dillon. He ignores Sergeant Parks' order to equip a suppressor, resulting in him luring a bunch of hungries to the group after he instinctively fires his rifle into the bushes after hearing a noise. [[spoiler: This not only causes the truck to become disabled by a stray bullet, but Dillon himself to become infected and killed.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: There is just no way a single sergeant would be the top ranking soldier in a military base that appears to house ''at least'' a company inside. To put that into perspective, sergeant is usually commanding a squad, which is never bigger than 12 soldiers. Parks would either get a field promotion a long time ago or there would be simply some officer dispatched as a CO, since there is still enough manpower to form a company in the first place.
** This is lampshaded by Sergeant Parks himself, who is not happy with the situation and suspects it reflects the internal poor leadership and manpower shortage being experienced by Beacon.

* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: The feral children's society, such as it is, operates on this.

* CanonForeigner: Dillon wasn’t in the book.

* AdultFear: Miss Justineau [[spoiler:accidentally killed a kid before Breakdown, so she is adamant that nothing bad happens to Melanie. She goes to ''extreme'' lengths to stop anyone from hurting her.]]

%%* ZombieApocalypse

* ZombieApocalypse

* HorrorHunger: The scent of a human compels a hungry to attack and attempt to devour that human. [[spoiler:Melanie and others like her don't have triggers like sound and movement, but she cannot control herself around human smell. Although she does not want to eat humans, she tells Parks she sometimes needs to, and she admits that nothing else tastes as good.]]