History Literature / TheTomorrowSeries

* FiveManBand: Although the characters shift somewhat between books, the most prominent band is as follows:
--> TheHero - Ellie
--> TheLancer - Homer
--> TheBigGuy - Kevin
--> TheSmartGuy - Lee
--> TheChick - Fi
** Robyn tends to float between TheBigGuy, TheSmartGuy, and TheChick [[spoiler: before she died.]]

* FiveManBand
--> TheHero - Ellie
--> TheLancer - Homer
--> TheBigGuy - Gavin
--> TheSmartGuy - Jeremy / Lee (depending on the book)
--> TheChick - Jess

It also got a LiveActionTelevision adaption also called ''Series/TomorrowWhenTheWarBegan'' but unreleated to the the film that premiered on Creator/ABC3 in 2016.

* AnyoneCanDie: Although audiences were certainly shocked by [[spoiler:Corrie, Chris and Robyn's deaths]], the AnyoneCanDie feel was cemented after [[spoiler:seven year old Davina]] dies in ''The Night Is For Hunting''.

* CharacterNarrator: The series is Ellie's written record of the things they do. During the Ellie Chronicles, she confirms that she did [[RecursiveCanon publish the stories]] after the war. [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs They apparently sold poorly]], and only the first three were published, which may be a TakeThat to the series' poor US sales in the mid 90s that caused only the first three books to be released initially. The full series was not released in mass-market form until 2008, after the Ellie Chronicles had already begun in Australia, and the final book in the Ellie Chronicles has still not been released.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Ellie takes an interest in Jeremy, but nothing ultimately comes of it when Jeremy expresses jealously over her closeness to Homer and refuses to believe her assurances that they're JustFriends.
* DaylightHorror: An attempt to reunite Gavin with his little sister sees him attacked by his former step-father, who murdered Gavin's mother in the early hours of the war. This results in him chasing down Ellie and Gavin through the streets and a local park with a knife, all on a sunny Saturday morning.

* BewareTheQuietOnes: The identity of the Scarlet Pimple.

* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The "Enemy" is is left unnamed; John Marsden deliberately kept it ambiguous so as not to portray any one real country in a negative light. [[http://www.rsimpson.id.au/books/tomorrow/explore/enemy.html This page]] points out that there is ''no one'' close to Australia that fits what information is given about them. The general fan consensus is that they're Indonesia, which meets almost all of the criteria and only lacks an aircraft carrier (but could easily build one).

* LaResistance: Liberation in ''The Ellie Chronicles'', an covert-ops organisation involving civilians with the unspoken consent of the military, who carry out missions across the border. The Wirrawee faction is headed by the mysterious [[PunnyName Scarlet Pimple]].

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Ellie is orphaned in chapter one of the first book. Ellie suspects and the narrative strongly implies that the attack was intended specifically as a reprisal for her activities during the war.

* YouKnowTheOne: The name of the country that invaded Australia is never mentioned, for obvious pragmatic reasons. They are referred to as 'the enemy' or 'them' throughout. This becomes quite awkward as the characters have no in-story reason for dancing around the name, and are quite willing to name friendly countries such as New Zealand, the United States and Japan.

* RealEstateScam: In ''While I Live'' Ellie discovers a plot to force her to sell the farm so the land can be used to develop a holiday lodge for rich tourists.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. See AnyoneCanDie above.

''The Tomorrow Series'' was a series of books aimed at {{young adult}}s by Australian author John Marsden. They are written from the perspective of rural teenager Ellie Linton. She and a small group of friends head into an unexplored area of bush for a week-long holiday, and return to find that their houses are abandoned and their animals are dead or dying. They soon realise that Australia was invaded on Commemoration Day, and they are among the very small number of people who have avoided being taken prisoner.

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: The series is Ellie's written record of the things they do. During the Ellie Chronicles, she confirms that she did publish the stories after the war.
** WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: They apparently sold poorly, and only the first three were published, which may be a TakeThat to the series' poor US sales in the mid 90s that caused only the first three books to be released initially. The full series was not released in mass-market form until 2008, after the Ellie Chronicles had already begun in Australia, and the final book in the Ellie Chronicles has still not been released.

* PossibleWar

* LineOfSightName: Ellie poses as 'Amber Faulding', from the sound of ambulances and a word she saw on a bottle of pills, when she's [[spoiler:taken prisoner in ''The Other Side of Dawn''.]]

* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The "Enemy" is is left unnamed; John Marsden deliberately kept it ambiguous so as not to portray any one real country in a negative light. [[http://www.rsimpson.id.au/books/tomorrow/explore/enemy.html This page]] points out that there is ''no one'' close to Australia that fits what information is given about them. The closest match is probably Indonesia, which meets many of the criteria and only lacks an aircraft carrier.

* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The "Enemy" is is left unnamed; JohnMarsden deliberately kept it ambiguous so as not to portray any one real country in a negative light. [[http://www.rsimpson.id.au/books/tomorrow/explore/enemy.html This page]] points out that there is ''no one'' close to Australia that fits what information is given about them. The closest match is probably Indonesia, which meets many of the criteria and only lacks an aircraft carrier.

* EnfantTerrible: Gavin in both ''Tomorrow Series' and ''Ellie Chronicles''.

* NoExportForYou: Only the first three books were released as part of the series' first American print run, with the other four being held back due to poor sales. The full series got a full American release in 2008, but poor sales ''again'' prevented the release of ''The Ellie Chronicles'' stateside. And who knows if we're ever gonna get [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie]]...

** John Marsden gave a ShrugOfGod explanation that he didn't know who the invading country was, and in any case, did not want to name them for fear of provoking a racist response from people who "knew they couldn't trust" that country.
*** Off the beaten path, the most likely identity of the enemy is probably Indonesia, to the extent that matters.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Most of the enemy seem to be honorary graduates.

* HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection: The "Enemy" is hinted to be Indonesia or possibly China, but is left unnamed; JohnMarsden deliberately left it ambiguous. [[http://www.rsimpson.id.au/books/tomorrow/explore/enemy.html This page]], on the other hand, points out that there is ''no one'' close to Australia that fits what information is given about them.

* KangarooCourt: Ellie and her friends face these a couple of times after capture. Even though they ''are'' guilty, being tried in a foreign language by one's enemies is not generally considered the fairest possible procedure.

* BandofBrothers / TrueCompanions: The main characters form one.

A [[{{Film/Tomorrow When the War Began}} movie]] premiered on August 8, 2010, and got a wide release in Australia on September 2, 2010. It was successful enough that [[http://www.joblo.com/red-dawn-ish-aussie-movie-tomorrow-when-the-war-began-gets-more-tomorrows the rest of the series is also being adapted.]] Available in the United States on home media. The trailer is up [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxb8rgq_Un8 here.]]

The original series is usually refered to as ''TheTomorrowSeries'' and consisted of seven books published between 1994 and 1999. These are:

The Tomorrow Series was a series of books aimed at {{young adult}}s by Australian author John Marsden. They are written from the perspective of rural teenager Ellie Linton. She and a small group of friends head into an unexplored area of bush for a week-long holiday, and return to find that their houses are abandoned and their animals are dead or dying. They soon realise that Australia was invaded on Commemoration Day, and they are among the very small number of people who have avoided being taken prisoner.

* GunsDontWorkThatWay: Throughout both series Ellie finds numerous revolvers featuring slides and magazines.

* ''The Night Is for Hunting''

* AmoralAttorney: Mr Sale is the small-country-town version.

TheTomorrowSeries was a series of books aimed at {{young adult}}s by Australian author John Marsden. They are written from the perspective of rural teenager Ellie Linton. She and a small group of friends head into an unexplored area of bush for a week-long holiday, and return to find that their houses are abandoned and their animals are dead or dying. They soon realise that Australia was invaded on Commemoration Day, and they are among the very small number of people who have avoided being taken prisoner.

** Also, under the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War they shouldn't have been tried at all; they should have been treated as francs-tireurs and sent to PoW camps, not executed - though as they failed to wear any sort of uniform it is possible to argue they do not fall under the protections, depending on whether Protocol I was ratified by the invading state or not.