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* FaceHeelTurn: Played with. [[spoiler: Rather than discuss fully the seriously dangerous situation he and Prendick are in, Montgomery, in HeroicBSOD, insults Prendick and takes his liquor on a drinking binge. He then drunkenly destroys the small boats that are their only means of escape. After he's mortally wounded, he owns up and apologizes to Prendick with his dying words.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: We last see Moreau alive through Prendick's eyes as he chases the Puma-woman. When Montgomery and Prendick find him again, Moreau and the Puma woman have killed each other.]]
** [[spoiler: Played with for Montgomery. We hear the attack, and Prendick finds Montgomery near death. Montgomery has a little time to apologize for his actions before he dies.]]
** [[spoiler: Played with for Montgomery. We hear the attack, and Prendick finds Montgomery near death. Montgomery has a little time to apologize for his actions before he dies.]]
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* OhCrap: Montgomery's reaction [[spoiler: when they find out Moreau has been killed by the unfinished puma hybrid.]]
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** [[spoiler: After the puma-hybrid escapes, Moreau goes after it by himself rather than waiting for Montgomery or Prendick to assist him. It ends very poorly for him.]]
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* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler: After they find Moreau's corpse, which demonstrates that Prendick and Montgomery can be killed, just as Moreau was, Prendick thinks on his feet lightning fast in front of the other beast folk and claims that Moreau isn't dead, he's just ascended to the next level and discarded his body. He later has to do something similar when Montgomery gets killed. The explanation doesn't wash for the more aggressive of the beast folk, but the more docile versions, like the dog man, believe it wholeheartedly, which helps Prendick's ability to survive alone on the island for months and without the complex to hide inside of.]]
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* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler: After they find Moreau's corpse, which demonstrates that Prendick and Montgomery can be killed, just as Moreau was, Prendick thinks on his feet lightning fast in front of the other beast folk and claims that Moreau isn't dead, he's just ascended to the next level and discarded his body. He later has to do something similar when Montgomery gets killed. The explanation doesn't wash for the more aggressive of the beast folk, but the more docile versions, like the dog man, believe it wholeheartedly, which helps Prendick's ability to survive alone on the island for months and awhile without the complex to hide inside of.of, until another boat washes up that he can escape in.]]
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* TheLancer: Montgomery turns into this for Prendick, and have a much closer and friendlier relationship than Prendick has with Montgomery, although to be fair, Moreau is simply more focused on his experiments than playing friendly host.
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It was adapted several times for the screen; one of the earliest was a loose unauthorized German production in 1921 called ''The Island of the Lost''. Other adaptations include ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'', with Creator/CharlesLaughton as Moreau ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1977'', with Creator/BurtLancaster as Moreau, and ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' (a full century after the book), with Creator/MarlonBrando as Moreau. In addition, it was unofficially adapted twice in the Philippines, as ''Film/TerrorIsAMan'' (with a single beast-man) and ''Film/TheTwilightPeople''.
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* KidnappedForExperimentation: A variant; the animals that became the Beast-men were all purchased by Moreau and sent to his island, where he used them for his experiments (which included several weeks of being vivisected and put back together with no painkillers).
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* ArtEvolution: In-Universe, Moreau seems to have gone through this with his Beast Men. Some are very simply just remolded into human-like versions of what they started out as. Others seem to have features of multiple animals. Given Moreau claims he could have easily turned sheep into llama it is clear these Beast Men did start out as one specific animal and got artificial parts of other animals just like the human parts. His last creation escapes while only partially finished and appears to have only gotten to the first phase.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Inverted. The bear man is one of the kindest and more helpful creatures on the island.
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* BearsAreBadNews: Inverted. The bear Inverted with M'ling, a dog-bear-ape man who is one of the kindest and more helpful creatures on the island.island. Played straight with the vile-smelling and evil tempered Fox-Bear woman.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Beastmen revert back to their animalistic nature and a cycle of killing leaves Moreau, Montgomery and M'Ling dead, along with some of the Beastmen. Prendick is marooned after he accidentally burns down the compound and Montgomery destroys the boats in a drunken fit from earlier. Prendick uses his knowledge of The Law to keep most of the Beastmen from killing him. After several weeks of living among them, he discovers a small boat with two dead bodies washed up on the beach (possibly the captain who saved him from early in the book). Prendick uses it to escape and is rescued at sea, returning to London. Keeping his story to himself, Prendick fears he might be sent to an insane asylum if nobody believes him. His experiences leave him jaded and traumatised. He sees the Beastmen in the faces of his fellow Londoners, equating human nature with that of animal. The book ends with him moving to the English countryside, far away from human contact, where he can pursue chemistry and astronomy in peace.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The Beastmen revert back to their animalistic nature and a cycle of killing leaves Moreau, Montgomery and M'Ling dead, along with some of the Beastmen.Beast Folk. Prendick is marooned after he accidentally burns down the compound and Montgomery destroys the boats in a drunken fit from earlier. Prendick uses his knowledge of The Law to keep most of the Beastmen from killing him. After several weeks of living among them, he discovers a small boat with two dead bodies washed up on the beach (possibly the captain who saved him from early in the book). Prendick uses it to escape and is rescued at sea, returning to London. Keeping his story to himself, Prendick fears he might be sent to an insane asylum if nobody believes him. His experiences leave him jaded and traumatised. He sees the Beastmen Beast Folk in the faces of his fellow Londoners, equating human nature with that of animal. The book ends with him moving to the English countryside, far away from human contact, where he can pursue chemistry and astronomy in peace.]]
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* EvilRedhead: Wells repeatedly mentions the fact that Captain Davis, the drunken, abusive schooner captain, has red hair. Admittedly he is a bully.
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* FourFingeredHands: The ape-man is exceedingly proud that he averts this trope, unlike most of the other beastfolk.
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* MakerOfMonsters: Doctor Moreau turns animals into beast-men by grafting them human organs and surgically altering their bodies to be bipedal and anthropomorphic. Over the years he's been doing this, he's created enough such creatures for an entire village of half-man beasts to form in the forests of his island.
* MeaningfulName: The beast men call Moreau's house the House of Pain, and with good reason.
* MeaningfulName: The beast men call Moreau's house the House of Pain, and with good reason.
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* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: The protagonist discovers Dr Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London, experimenting with the uplift of animals to humans through painful surgery.
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* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: The protagonist discovers Dr Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London, experimenting with the uplift of animals to humans through painful surgery.
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* TheAtoner: Played with. Montgomery was once as esteemed as Moreau was as a doctor, but did something terrible and had to flee London. He firmly believes he deserves to be on the island.
* DrowningMySorrows: After [[spoiler: Moreau is killed,]] Montgomery decides to go on a drinking binge with the friendlier beast folk, even giving them alcohol to drink. [[spoiler: It ends badly for him after he runs afoul of a faction that isn't so friendly.]]
* FromBadToWorse: Once [[spoiler: Moreau gets accidentally killed by one of his escaped experiments, things go downhill quickly. Montgomery goes off the deep end, getting drunk and killed by an aggressive faction of beast men, and he and the friendlier beast folk chop up the boats, which were, at the time, the only means of escape. Also, hearing Montgomery's attack, Prendick upends an oil lantern on his way out of the complex to help Montgomery, which results in the entire complex being destroyed by fire. Prendick is left with a pistol or two, a handful of bullets, and a couple of axes to defend himself with. Prendick lives in terror for many months as the beast folk revert back to animal form before he gets another shot to leave.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Moreau ends up killed by one of his animal experiments.]]
** [[spoiler: Montgomery enjoys drinking, but after Moreau's death, he goes on a drinking binge. When one of the more animailistic factions of beast men attack his "party," Montgomery is no match and is mauled and mortally wounded.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Montgomery [[spoiler: goes through this for a time after they discover Moreau has been killed.]]
** [[spoiler: Montgomery enjoys drinking, but after Moreau's death, he goes on a drinking binge. When one of the more animailistic factions of beast men attack his "party," Montgomery is no match and is mauled and mortally wounded.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Montgomery [[spoiler: goes through this for a time after they discover Moreau has been killed.]]
* TheLancer: Montgomery turns into this for Prendick, and have a much closer and friendlier relationship than Prendick has with Montgomery, although to be fair, Moreau is simply more focused on his experiments than playing friendly host.
* NoFullNameGiven: We never are told the first names of Montgomery or Moreau.
* OhCrap: Montgomery's reaction [[spoiler: when they find out Moreau has been killed by the unfinished puma hybrid.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Montgomery decides the best course of action after Moreau's death is to get drunk with some of the beast folk and chop up the boats, which are the only remaining means of escape. After they're attacked by a not-so-friendly group of the beast folk, Montgomery realizes his mistake, but can only weakly apologize to Prendick for his actions before he dies.]]
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* XanatosSpeedChess: [[spoiler: After they find Moreau's corpse, which demonstrates that Prendick and Montgomery can be killed, just as Moreau was, Prendick thinks on his feet lightning fast in front of the other beast folk and claims that Moreau isn't dead, he's just ascended to the next level and discarded his body. He later has to do something similar when Montgomery gets killed. The explanation doesn't wash for the more aggressive of the beast folk, but the more docile versions, like the dog man, believe it wholeheartedly, which helps Prendick's ability to survive alone on the island for months and without the complex to hide inside of.]]
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It was adapted several times for the screen; the earliest was in 1932 as ''Film/IslandOfLostSouls'', starring Creator/CharlesLaughton as the eponymous doctor. Other adaptations include ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1977'', with Creator/BurtLancaster as Moreau, and ''Film/TheIslandOfDrMoreau1996'' (a full century after the book), with Creator/MarlonBrando as Moreau. In addition, it was unofficially adapted twice in the Philippines, as ''Film/TerrorIsAMan'' (with a single beast-man) and ''Film/TheTwilightPeople''.
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* SavageWolves: {{Downplayed}}. There are several wolf people, but they do not seem to be as violent as the feline beasts.
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* StumblingUponTheLostWizard: The protagonist discovers Dr Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London, experimenting with the uplift of animals to humans through painful surgery.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Moreau first experimented on a gorilla to produce his first Beast Man. Later on, Prendick meets an Ape Man.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Moreau is one of "The problem is the 'problem'" type - he has hints of this.a clearly defined goal, to turn animals into humans, which is useless and insane, and he'll do what it takes to achieve it, except, perhaps, learning from his failings and changing the method.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Captain Davis justified marooning Prendick on the island on the assumption he is a cannibal, due to evidence of a scuffle in Prendick's lifeboat. One wonders why he didn't consider the lack of bloodstains in the boat of an alleged cannibal. Then again it’s established Davis didn’t like Prendick, seeing him as an annoyance and would e likely made up any excuse to offload him.
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* FailedASpotCheck: Captain Davis justified marooning Prendick on the island on the assumption he is a cannibal, due to evidence of a scuffle in Prendick's lifeboat. One wonders why he didn't consider the lack of bloodstains in the boat of an alleged cannibal. Then again it’s established Davis didn’t like Prendick, seeing him as an annoyance and would e likely made up any excuse to offload him.
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* ArtEvolution: In-Universe Moreau seems to have gone through this with his Beast Men. Some are very simply just remolded into human-like versions of what they started out as. Others seem to have features of multiple animals. Given Moreau claims he could have easily turned sheep into llama it is clear these Beast Men did start out as one specific animal and got artificial parts of other animals just like the human parts. His last creation escapes while only partially finished and appears to have only gotten to the first phase.
* ArtificialAnimalPeople: Despite being the UrExample, the book [[UnbuiltTrope does not actually play this trope straight]]. While Moreau's "manimals" are indeed animals given human attributes through science, Moreau is not interested in merely making an anthropomorphic animal; no, his true goal is to essentially ''[[HumanityEnsues transform an animal into a human]]'' through surgery. The manimals are just a stepping stone to this achievement, and even the most human-like of them retain [[RedRightHand a few animal characteristics]] and are [[UncannyValley extremely off-putting]].
* ArtificialAnimalPeople: Despite being the UrExample, the book [[UnbuiltTrope does not actually play this trope straight]]. While Moreau's "manimals" are indeed animals given human attributes through science, Moreau is not interested in merely making an anthropomorphic animal; no, his true goal is to essentially ''[[HumanityEnsues transform an animal into a human]]'' through surgery. The manimals are just a stepping stone to this achievement, and even the most human-like of them retain [[RedRightHand a few animal characteristics]] and are [[UncannyValley extremely off-putting]].
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* ArtificialAnimalPeople: Despite being the UrExample, the book [[UnbuiltTrope does not actually play this trope straight]]. While Moreau's "manimals" are indeed animals given human attributes through science, Moreau is not interested in merely making an anthropomorphic animal; no, his true goal is to essentially ''[[HumanityEnsues transform an animal into a human]]'' through surgery. The manimals are just a stepping stone to this achievement, and even the most human-like of them retain [[RedRightHand a few animal characteristics]] and are[[UncannyValley extremely off-putting]].off-putting.
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* ArtEvolution: In-Universe Moreau seems to have gone through this with his Beast Men. Some are very simply just remolded into human like versions of what they started out as. Others seem to have features of multiple animals. Given Moreau claims he could have easily turned sheep into llama it is clear these Beast Men did start out as one specific animal and got artificial parts of other animals just like the human parts. His last creation escapes while only partially finished and appears to have only gotten to the first phase.
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Moreau. In addition, it was unofficially adapted twice in the Philippines, as ''Film/TerrorIsAMan'' (with a single beast-man) and ''Film/TheTwilightPeople''.
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* MakerOfMonsters: Doctor Moerau turns animals into beast-men by grafting them human organs and surgically altering their bodies to be bipedal and anthropomorphic. Over the years he's been doing this, he's created enough such creatures for an entire village of half-man beasts to form in the forests of his island.
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* AssholeVictim: Captain Davis who apparently died a slow death in a lifeboat. Considering that he abandoned Prendick to a similar fate, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
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* AssholeVictim: Captain Davis Davis, who apparently died a slow death in a lifeboat. Considering that he abandoned Prendick to a similar fate, it's hard to feel sorry for him.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:the Beastmen revert back to their animalistic nature and a cycle of killing leaves Moreau, Montgomery and M'Ling dead, along with some of the Beastmen. Prendick is marooned after he accidentally burns down the compound and Montgomery destroys the boats in a drunken fit from earlier. Prendick uses his knowledge of The Law to keep most of the Beastmen from killing him. After several weeks of living among them, he discovers a small boat with two dead bodies washed up on the beach (possibly the captain who saved him from early in the book). Prendick uses it to escape and is rescued at sea, returning to London. Keeping his story to himself, Prendick fears he might be sent to an insane asylum if nobody believes him. His experiences leave him jaded and traumatised. He sees the Beastmen in the faces of his fellow Londoners, equating human nature with that of animal. The book ends with him moving to the English countryside, far away from human contact, where he can pursue chemistry and astronomy in peace.]]
* BodyHorror: In the original book, the creatures aren't mutated, simply mutilated and operated on; anesthetic-free surgery has forced and moulded them into humanoid forms.
* BodyHorror: In the original book, the creatures aren't mutated, simply mutilated and operated on; anesthetic-free surgery has forced and moulded them into humanoid forms.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The Beastmen revert back to their animalistic nature and a cycle of killing leaves Moreau, Montgomery and M'Ling dead, along with some of the Beastmen. Prendick is marooned after he accidentally burns down the compound and Montgomery destroys the boats in a drunken fit from earlier. Prendick uses his knowledge of The Law to keep most of the Beastmen from killing him. After several weeks of living among them, he discovers a small boat with two dead bodies washed up on the beach (possibly the captain who saved him from early in the book). Prendick uses it to escape and is rescued at sea, returning to London. Keeping his story to himself, Prendick fears he might be sent to an insane asylum if nobody believes him. His experiences leave him jaded and traumatised. He sees the Beastmen in the faces of his fellow Londoners, equating human nature with that of animal. The book ends with him moving to the English countryside, far away from human contact, where he can pursue chemistry and astronomy in peace.]]
* BodyHorror: In the original book, the creatures aren't mutated, simply mutilated and operated on; anesthetic-free surgery has forced andmoulded molded them into humanoid animal-like forms.
* BodyHorror: In the original book, the creatures aren't mutated, simply mutilated and operated on; anesthetic-free surgery has forced and
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The House of Pain, Dr. Moreau's dwelling where he surgically alters animals into men, by vivisection, without anesthetics.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. According to him it involved alcohol and a foggy period of ten minutes
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. According to him it involved alcohol and a foggy period of ten minutes
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The House of Pain, Dr. Moreau's dwelling where he surgically alters animals into men, by men-by vivisection, without anesthetics.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. According to him it involved alcohol and a foggy period of tenminutesminutes.
* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. According to him it involved alcohol and a foggy period of ten
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* WasOnceAMan: The main character thinks this is what's going on, but finds out its actually the other way around, the creatures on the island were once animals, turned into men. Or something like it.
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* WasOnceAMan: The main character thinks this is what's going on, but finds out its it's actually the other way around, the creatures on the island were once animals, turned into men. Or something like it.
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* TropicalIslandAdventure: Set on the titular tropical island.
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. The most description we get is "I lost my head, and...."
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* NoodleIncident: Whatever Montgomery did a decade ago that forced him to leave London. The most description we get is "I lost my head, and...."According to him it involved alcohol and a foggy period of ten minutes
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* CatsAreMean: Moreau's final experiment, a puma woman, ends up killing him. The other beasts based on big cats tend to be the more savage ones, even compared to the wolf people.
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* CatsAreMean: Moreau's [[spoiler:Moreau's final experiment, a puma woman, ends up killing him. him.]] The other beasts based on big cats tend to be the more savage ones, even compared to the wolf people.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Upon escaping the island and returning to civilization, Prendick realizes he can no longer live among people for he can see that just like the hybrids, they too are prone to devolving to animalistic savagery.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Upon [[spoiler:Upon escaping the island and returning to civilization, Prendick realizes he can no longer live among people for he can see that just like the hybrids, they too are prone to devolving to animalistic savagery.]]
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* KilledOffscreen: It is heavily implied the corpses in the life boat at the end of the book were Captain Davis and one of his crewmen.
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* KilledOffscreen: It [[spoiler:It is heavily implied the corpses in the life boat at the end of the book were Captain Davis and one of his crewmen.]]
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* MercyKill: Prendick shoots the Leopard-Man to save him from undergoing further operations.
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* MercyKill: Prendick [[spoiler:Prendick shoots the Leopard-Man to save him from undergoing further operations.]]
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* MutualKill: Between Moreau and the puma.
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* MutualKill: Between [[spoiler:Between Moreau and the puma.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:the Beastmen revert back to their animalistic nature and a cycle of killing leaves Moreau, Montgomery and M'Ling dead, along with some of the Beastmen. Prendick is marooned after he accidentally burns down the compound and Montgomery destroys the boats in a drunken fit from earlier. Prendick uses his knowledge of The Law to keep most of the Beastmen from killing him. After several weeks of living among them, he discovers a small boat with two dead bodies washed up on the beach (possibly the captain who saved him from early in the book). Prendick uses it to escape and is rescued at sea, returning to London. Keeping his story to himself, Prendick fears he might be sent to an insane asylum if nobody believes him. His experiences leave him jaded and traumatised. He sees the Beastmen in the faces of his fellow Londoners, equating human nature with that of animal. The book ends with him moving to the English countryside, far away from human contact, where he can pursue chemistry and astronomy in peace.]]
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* ShoutOut: Montgomery studied on Gower Street in London, which is the street that Darwin lived on.
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* ShoutOut: Montgomery studied on Gower Street in London, which is the street that Darwin UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin lived on.
