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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Is it "Alain" or "Alan"? Both are used interchangeably.
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A Date With Rosie Palms is no longer a trope
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* MsFanservice: Alan's teenage sister Marilyn, though dramatically lacking in the area of self-esteem, gets to be this as she starts [[ADateWithRosiePalms exploring]] [[BeautifulAllAlong her femininity]].
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* MsFanservice: Alan's teenage sister Marilyn, though dramatically lacking in the area of self-esteem, gets to be this as she starts [[ADateWithRosiePalms exploring]] [[BeautifulAllAlong exploring her femininity]].femininity.
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** Even more: the town in which the shop is located is also filled with suicide references, from the local florist being named "Tristan and Iseult" to the neighborhing highschool being called Montherlant (a French writer who killed himself after going blind). An interesting case is the boulevard on which the shop is located. In the novel it was called "Bérégovoy" after a French Prime Minister of the 90s that committed suicide after being accused of corruption. However, while the official records and the investigation concluded to a suicide, it stays to this day a muddled case with strange circumstances encouraging the idea of a political murder. Due to the ambiguity of his death, when the novel was adapted into a comic book the boulevard was renamed to Creator/VirginiaWoolf.
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** Even more: the town in which the shop is located is also filled with suicide references, from the local florist being named "Tristan and Iseult" "Literature/TristanAndIseult" to the neighborhing highschool being called Montherlant (a French writer who killed himself after going blind). An interesting case is the boulevard on which the shop is located. In the novel it was called "Bérégovoy" after a French Prime Minister of the 90s that committed suicide after being accused of corruption. However, while the official records and the investigation concluded to a suicide, it stays to this day a muddled case with strange circumstances encouraging the idea of a political murder. Due to the ambiguity of his death, when the novel was adapted into a comic book the boulevard was renamed to Creator/VirginiaWoolf.
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* CrapsackWorld: The reason behind the existence and popularity of the Suicide Shop is because the world has become a desolate wasteland and everyone is miserable. Pollution turned all rain acid, religions such as Christianity and Buddhism are forgotten things of the past, children are regularly sent to train as suicide bombers as one would be sent to a military school, and apparently the entire world is ruled by a unique Dictator.
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* CrapsackWorld: The reason behind the existence and popularity of the Suicide Shop is because the world has become a desolate wasteland and everyone is miserable. Pollution turned all rain acid, acidic, religions such as Christianity and Buddhism are forgotten things of the past, children are regularly sent to train as suicide bombers as one would be sent to a military school, and apparently the entire world is ruled by a unique Dictator.
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* WeightWoe: Inverted. Marilyn and Vincent begin the novel miserable with their bodies. She is ashamed of being overweight and believes she is doomed to be the "clumsy and ugly girl", while he is a dangerously underweight anorexic repulsed by the mere sight of food. Their journey to happiness and appreciating life comes with accepting their bodies: Marilyn realizes that her curves make her a BigBeautifulWoman, and she gains both confidence and sensuality, while Vincent develops a love for food and from a skinny man becomes a jolly and pot-bellied artist.
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* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Or maybe TheHorseshoeEffect, or YouAreWhatYouHate. Due to the ambiguity of the ending, it is hard to pin-point the exact trope. Alan seems to be the complete opposite of his family. He doesn't wish to sell or accept suicide as a natural thing, unlike his parents. He doesn't suffer from depression or self-destructive behaviors like his siblings. He is the only one who fully enjoys life, funny things and happy music. However [[spoiler: the final lines of the novel reveal that, deep down, he was just as suicidal as his siblings, simply in a different way. Alan viewed his life as being there to serve only one goal, the reason he was born, to make his family happy. Once this is done, he thinks his task is completed and that he can stop living.]]
