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** Gardner wakes up after a bender early in the novel on Arcadia Beach near the Alhambra Hotel from ''Literature/TheTalisman''.
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** Gardner Gardener wakes up after a bender early in the novel on Arcadia Beach near the Alhambra Hotel from ''Literature/TheTalisman''.
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* DisabilityImmunity: Gardner is immune to the effects of the spacecraft of the titular aliens, as he has a metal plate in his head due to a ski accident. Two other characters experience this to a lesser extent, Ev Hillman (smaller plates in his head from a war injury) and Anne Anderson (extremely extensive metal dental work).
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* DisabilityImmunity: Gardner Gardener is immune to the effects of the spacecraft of the titular aliens, as he has a metal plate in his head due to a ski accident. Two other characters experience this to a lesser extent, Ev Hillman (smaller plates in his head from a war injury) and Anne Anderson (extremely extensive metal dental work).
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** A point is made about Gardner being a mean and impulsive drunk, while the Tommyknockers in general are impulsive and violent to draw paralles between Gardner's vice of choice and the alien's destructive dependency on the changing atmosphere.
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** A point is made about Gardner Gardener being a mean and impulsive drunk, while the Tommyknockers in general are impulsive and violent to draw paralles between Gardner's Gardener's vice of choice and the alien's destructive dependency on the changing atmosphere.
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* IdiotSavant: The townsfolk can invent antigravity, but go through batteries at a terrific rate, because they need direct current and wall current is alternating. When Gardner hears this, he rages at Bobbi in utter disbelief; you can buy an AC/DC converter at any electronics store and nobody just picked one up on a shopping run, or built a few? Bobbi responds that it just never occurred to any of them. Bobbi actually calls herself an idiot savant early on.
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* IdiotSavant: The townsfolk can invent antigravity, but go through batteries at a terrific rate, because they need direct current and wall current is alternating. When Gardner Gardener hears this, he rages at Bobbi in utter disbelief; you can buy an AC/DC converter at any electronics store and nobody just picked one up on a shopping run, or built a few? Bobbi responds that it just never occurred to any of them. Bobbi actually calls herself an idiot savant early on.
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** A point is made about Gardner being a mean and impulsive drunk, while the Tommyknockers in general are impulsive and violent to draw paralles between Gardner's vice of choice and the alien's destructive dependency on the changing atmosphere.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gardener's few allies die to get him to the ship, he himself dies after being forced to kill Bobbi, and the rest of the townspeople (who are all irreversibly transformed into Tommyknockers) all either die from withdrawal or are killed by the federal government, but Gardener's sacrifice manages to remove the ship as a threat to Earth and even saves David Brown. The film has a more upbeat ending with most of the town including Bobbi surviving and the ship being permanently destroyed (its destruction causes the townspeople to revert to normal), though Gardener still dies via HeroicSacrifice]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gardener's few allies die to get him to the ship, he himself dies after being forced to kill Bobbi, and the rest of the townspeople (who are all irreversibly transformed into Tommyknockers) all either die from withdrawal withdrawal, commit suicide or are killed by the federal government, but Gardener's sacrifice manages to remove the ship as a threat to Earth and even saves David Brown. The film has a more upbeat ending with most of the town including Bobbi surviving and the ship being permanently destroyed (its destruction causes the townspeople to revert to normal), though Gardener still dies via HeroicSacrifice]].
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* CranialPlateAbility: Gardener and Ev Hillman are immune to the BodyHorror effects of the spaceship, because they have metal plates in their heads (Gardener because of a skiing accident, Ev because of a war wound).
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* CranialPlateAbility: Gardener and Ev Hillman are immune to the BodyHorror effects of the spaceship, because they have metal plates in their heads (Gardener because of a skiing accident, Ev because of a war wound). The plates also prevent the Tommyknockers from reading their minds.
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* CranialPlateAbility: Gardener and Ev Hillman are immune to the BodyHorror effects of the spaceship, because they have metal plates in their heads (Gardener because of a skiing accident, Ev because of a war wound).
