History Literature / UnderTheDome

* HiddenDepths: Who would have guessed the "old hippy" English professor, Thurston, would turn out to be the most capable medic in town?

** The scary thing for [[CanadaEh Torontonian]] readers is how prescient the book seems when comparing Big Jim Rennie to Rob Ford. Likewise, American readers could easily compare him to Donald Trump.

* SelfDeprecation: Carolyn Sturges thinks about what her career future would have been and she dismissed novelist as too risky. Why? "What if you wrote a thousand-pager, and it sucked?" Guess how many pages Under the Dome is.

* ScreamingWarrior: [[spoiler: Chef. ''"SELAH, MOTHERFUCKERS!"''

** To some

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorld: RedShirt special deputy Aubrey Towle, who stacks the shelves at his brothers bookstore, persisting the attack that blows up the propane tanks and kills nearly everyone in town when he was just doing his job and trying to avenge the fallen officers.

* MauveShirt: -quite a few given how there’s a couple hundred characters with multiple lines of dialogue inside the dome and less than [[spoiler: thirty]]. survive.

* AcademicAthlete: Scarecrow Joe is a TeenGenius but also a good basketball player thanks to his 6'2 height at age 13.

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Aubrey Towle, who stacks the shelves at his brothers bookstore, persisting the attack that blows up the propane tanks and kills nearly everyone in town, when he was just doing his job and trying to avenge the fallen officers.

* TrueCompanions: there's a few groups of these Barbie's group, especially the hospital staff, and the three skateboarders and their mothers.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Aubrey Towle, as mentioned unde MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds. Thurston Marshall and Ginnie Tomlinson calling Andy Sanders right before he would have killed himself, causing him to come over to the hospital, go to tell Phil Bushey his wife died and then contribute to the shootout that causes the explosion also count.

** We know Piper Libby’s family died before the dome but not how. Tony Guay’s family is briefly said to have been under the dome but they aren't in Barbie's group and he never mentions them after Visitors Day so they probably die but this gets no mention.

* WhiteSheep: Possibly Petra Searles, Barbie's landlord who is implied to be a relative of Melvin, but is one of the more positively portrayed RedShirts.

* FaceHeelTurn: Downplayed. Rommie Burpee's employee Toby Manning, Barbie's friend and coworker Anson Twitchell, assistant librarian Pamela Chen, and Dinsmore farmhand Manuel Ortega are all pleasant {{Mauve Shirt}}s who join Big Jim's new police force. Anson and Calvin are VillainyFreeVillain's, and Calvin seems like an UnwittingPawn as he talks about his understanding of Jim's actions to Rommie, while Pamela is considered the OnlySaneMan of the new officers and handles herself well during visitors day. Manuel really grabs the JerkassBall, though, and seems fully committed to Big Jim and his cause.

* * FaceHeelTurn: Downplayed. Rommie Burpee’s employee Calvin Moggin, Barbie's friend and coworker Anson Twitchell, assistant librarian Pamela Chen, and Dinsmore farmhand Manuel Ortega join Big Jim’s new police force, although Anson and Calvin are VillainyFreeVillain's, and Calvin seems ObliviouslyEvil as he talks about it to Rommie, while Pamela is considered the OnlySaneMan of the new officers, and handles herself well during visitors day. Manuel really grabs the JerkassBall though, and seems fully committed to Big Jim and his cause.

** "Big Jim" Rennie seems to be a LargeHam combination of Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein, and every CorruptHick imagined.