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* MauveShirt - A character is introduced and given a rather full backstory, such as the fact that she's on her way back from cheating on her husband, and how she realizes she's not wearing any underwear, ''while she's in the act of dying.''
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* MauveShirt - A character is introduced and given a rather full backstory, such as the fact that she's on her way back from cheating on her husband, and how she realizes she's not wearing any underwear, ''while she's in the act of dying.'''' This is done to the point that she even believes that her husband and the neighbors, who are gathered after the death of the paper boy have figured out she is cheating are there to confront her moments before she is killed.
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an alternate universe version of ''The Regulators''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', ''Literature/{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an alternate universe version of ''The Regulators''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* [[spoiler:AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence[=/=]DiedHappilyEverAfter]] - [[spoiler: The end implies that Seth and Audrey are living together as ghosts in the past.]]
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* SiblingSwitchSquick - Thanks to the alternate universe, the Carver family from one version of the story reverts who are siblings and who is married. In other words, David and Pie would be brother and sister in ''Desperation'', and their parents Ellen and Ralph, but in ''The Regulators'', they're married.
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* SiblingSwitchSquick - Thanks to the alternate universe, the Carver family from one version of the story reverts who are siblings and who is married. In other words, David and Pie would be brother and sister in ''Desperation'', and their parents Ellen and Ralph, but in ''The Regulators'', they're married.married, with Ellen and Ralph as their children.
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* StepfordSuburbia - StephenKing spends the first 5 or 6 pages of the novel practically gushing over Poplar Street's all-American ''normalness'' with narration so upbeat it's almost manic. And then everything goes [[WouldHurtAChild straight]] [[{{Gorn}} to]] [[EldritchAbomination hell]], in typical King style.
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* EnemyMine - In Seth's favorite show, the heros team up with their enemy to stop a something from destroying Earth. Tak channels this as the final assault on the protagonists.
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* OpenHeartDentistry: Subverted. Marielle Soderson's arm is torn off by a gunshot. Tom Billingsley, a vet, tries to treat her, but she soon dies. Billingsley remarks that she needed a trauma unit, not "an old veterinarian with shaky hands".
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'''''The Regulators''''' is a novel written by StephenKing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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'''''The Regulators''''' is a 1996 novel written by StephenKing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
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* BodyHorror - Less so than ''Desperation'' in which Tak's possession of the body would cause the host to expand and eventually fall apart; here, his possession of Seth is more of the psychic variety. That being said, Tak is unable to possess anyone else but Seth because their minds are too strong. When he tries, [[spoiler: their heads explode]].
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse version of ''The Regulators''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse alternate universe version of ''The Regulators''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* Gorn - It's definitely of King's goriest works.
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* Gorn {{Gorn}} - It's definitely of King's goriest works.
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* DarkerAndEdgier - To ''Desperation'' given that it's written by Bachman.
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* Gorn - It's definitely of King's goriest works.
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* EnemyMine - In Seth's favorite show, the heros team up with their enemy to stop a something from destroying Earth. Tak channels this as the final assault on the protagonists.
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* BangBangBANG - Gunshots are incredibly loud; a sound of a shotgun is described as the sound of "a detonating backpack missile". Justified, because the shooters are actually figments of Seth's imagination, made real by Tak.
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* MauveShirt - A character is introduced and given a rather full backstory, such as the fact that she's on her way back from cheating on her husband, and how she realizes she's not wearing any underwear, ''while she's in the act of dying.''
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* HappyPlace - Seth manages to create such a refuge for his aunt/guardian Audrey (using a vacation she took in her college days as source material) to give her a way to get away from Tak's various torments.
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* NightmareFuelColoringBook - Seth draws pictures of the drive-by shooting in which his entire family was killed. The pictures are actually included in the text.
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* KitschCollection - Kirstie Carver collects Hummel figurines. Her goal in life is to design one that looks like her son.
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* HypotheticalCasting - After Johnny Marinville and his black neighbor, Brad Josephson have a hard time climbing a fence to escape from monsters, Johnny jokingly suggests that they should make a movie called ''Black Men Can't Clmb Fences'', where Brad would be played by LaurenceFishburne.
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* TrashOfTheTitans The Wyler/Garin household; Seth/Tak doesn't care what the place is like, and his aunt/guardian Audrey, the only surviving adult in the household, has much bigger problems occupying her time and energy.
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* TrashOfTheTitans - The Wyler/Garin household; Seth/Tak doesn't care what the place is like, and his aunt/guardian Audrey, the only surviving adult in the household, has much bigger problems occupying her time and energy.energy. As a result, the place is a huge mess.
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* TrashOfTheTitans The Wyler/Garin household; Seth/Tak doesn't care what the place is like, and his aunt/guardian Audrey, the only surviving adult in the household, has much bigger problems occupying her time and energy.
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* SiblingSwitchSquick - Thanks to the alternate universe, the Carver family from one version of the story reverts who are siblings and who is married. In other words, David and Pie would be brother and sister in ''Desperation'', and their parents Ellen and Ralph, but in ''The Regulators'', they're married.
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse version of ''Desperation''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse version of ''Desperation''.''The Regulators''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
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* CaptainErsatz - The characters of Seth's favorite cartoon ''MotoKops 2200'' are a take on the PowerRangers.
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'''''The Regulators''''' is a novel written by StephenKing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
In the town of Wentworth Ohio, an autistic boy named Seth has gained power to control the reality around him thanks to the machinations of the sinister Tak into a caricature of The WildWest based off the shows that Seth watches. Creatures from Seth's imagination begin to attack the town and the residents are forced to work together to stop Tak.
* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse version of ''Desperation''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
* AnyoneCanDie
* [[spoiler:AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence[=/=]DiedHappilyEverAfter]] - [[spoiler: The end implies that Seth and Audrey are living together as ghosts in the past.]]
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind - Between Seth and Tak.
* CaptainErsatz - The characters of Seth's favorite cartoon ''MotoKops 2200'' are a take on the PowerRangers.
* DemonicPossession - Tak's possession of Seth.
* EldritchAbomination - Tak.
*TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou - Various television characters from Seth's imagination wreck havoc on the town.
* ScrapbookStory - Interweaved within the narrative are diary entries from Audrey detailing her life with Seth and Tak's growing influence.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - Was originally a script that King wrote for Sam Peckinpah.
* YourHeadAsplode - [[spoiler: The result of Tak's failed attempt to possess Cammie.]]
In the town of Wentworth Ohio, an autistic boy named Seth has gained power to control the reality around him thanks to the machinations of the sinister Tak into a caricature of The WildWest based off the shows that Seth watches. Creatures from Seth's imagination begin to attack the town and the residents are forced to work together to stop Tak.
* AlternateUniverse - ''{{Desperation}}'', another book by StephenKing, is an AlternateUniverse version of ''Desperation''. It has the same characters, but in different roles (a brother and sister become a married couple for example, with their parents in one book becoming their children in the other).
* AnyoneCanDie
* [[spoiler:AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence[=/=]DiedHappilyEverAfter]] - [[spoiler: The end implies that Seth and Audrey are living together as ghosts in the past.]]
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind - Between Seth and Tak.
* CaptainErsatz - The characters of Seth's favorite cartoon ''MotoKops 2200'' are a take on the PowerRangers.
* DemonicPossession - Tak's possession of Seth.
* EldritchAbomination - Tak.
*TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou - Various television characters from Seth's imagination wreck havoc on the town.
* ScrapbookStory - Interweaved within the narrative are diary entries from Audrey detailing her life with Seth and Tak's growing influence.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen - Was originally a script that King wrote for Sam Peckinpah.
* YourHeadAsplode - [[spoiler: The result of Tak's failed attempt to possess Cammie.]]
