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* Sound-OnlyDeath: Miss Kenningston, the manor's cook, is murdered by the madman off-screen as the society hide, with her screams of terror/pain being heard.
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* Sound-OnlyDeath: SoundOnlyDeath: Miss Kenningston, the manor's cook, is murdered by the madman off-screen as the society hide, with her screams of terror/pain being heard.
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* Sound-OnlyDeath: Miss Kenningston, the manor's cook, is murdered by the madman off-screen as the society hide, with her screams of terror/pain being heard.
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* LowTechSpear: What ultimately kills the Madman. A stick that is sharpened to kill. It also symbolizes Lord Darlington's complete transformation from a civilized scientist to a primal caveman.
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* LowTechSpear: LowTechSpears: What ultimately kills the Madman. A stick that is sharpened to kill. It also symbolizes Lord Darlington's complete transformation from a civilized scientist to a primal caveman.
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* LowTechSpear: What ultimately kills the Madman. A stick that is sharpened to kill. It also symbolizes Lord Darlington's complete transformation from a civilized scientist to a primal caveman.
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* BittersweetEnding: The nightmare finally ends with the Madman dead and Charles finding some satisfaction in having his theory proven right. However, many innocents were killed in the process and the Historical Society is likely no more what with two ([[UncertainDoom possibly three) members now dead.
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* BittersweetEnding: The nightmare finally ends with the Madman dead and Charles finding some satisfaction in having his theory proven right. However, many innocents were killed in the process and the Historical Society is likely no more what with two ([[UncertainDoom possibly three) three]]) members now dead.
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* BitterswetEnding: The nightmare finally ends with the Madman dead and Charles finding some satisfaction in having his theory proven right. However, many innocents were killed in the process and the Historical Society is likely no more what with two ([[UncertainDoom possibly three) members now dead.
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* BitterswetEnding: BittersweetEnding: The nightmare finally ends with the Madman dead and Charles finding some satisfaction in having his theory proven right. However, many innocents were killed in the process and the Historical Society is likely no more what with two ([[UncertainDoom possibly three) members now dead.
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* BitterswetEnding: The nightmare finally ends with the Madman dead and Charles finding some satisfaction in having his theory proven right. However, many innocents were killed in the process and the Historical Society is likely no more what with two ([[UncertainDoom possibly three) members now dead.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Madman is allegedly human, despite his GlowingEyesOfDoom and pointed teeth, not to mention how he keeps fighting despite injuries that ought to have killed him several times over.
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* DavidVersusGoliath: Darlington is the David, and the Madman is the Goliath in their final confrontation. The Madman is bigger and stronger, on top of being ludicrously durable. Darlington is a boxing champion, and while his skills in a fistfight do allow him to weave around the Madman’s predictable attacks, he can't beat the larger enemy with his bare hands. When reduced to fighting with a broken spear, his fighting instinct still shows as he dodges most of the strikes by the Madman while mortally wounding him.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Darlington mocks Darwin for his theory, but he still tries to ensure that no historical society members die when the Madman breaks in.
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* MuggingTheMonster: The Madman breaks into the historical society expecting to have fun killing a group of defenseless old men. Darlington proves '''far''' more formidable than the killer expects, fights back when pushed into a corner and slays the killer.
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* StrongButUnskilled: The Madman is a super strong brute who can keep fighting through injuries that would kill an ordinary man. While he's not stupid, he's reliant on brute strength and clearly not used to his victims fighting back. Ultimately, his lack of tactics allows Darlington to beat him, as, during their final confrontation, the Madman struggles to land a single hit on him. At the same time, Darlington inflicts increasingly worse injuries before finally killing him.
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* CombatPragmatism: The group engages the Madman with whatever weapons they can from firearms, swords and spears, Darlington with his flow of boxing jabs and ultimately a broken spear to finish him off.
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* CombatPragmatism: CombatPragmatist: The group engages the Madman with whatever weapons they can from firearms, swords and spears, Darlington with his flow of boxing jabs and ultimately a broken spear to finish him off.
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* RockBeatsLaser: The performance of a weapon against the Madman seems to be inversely related to how technologically advanced it is. Guns aren't able to truly hurt him beyond the single rifle shot that hits his shoulder, though this can be attributed both to the protagonists terrible aim and the Madman's immense speed and agility, but that doesn't seem to lower his abilities any, swords and bows are mildly effective, spears and bareknuckle boxing throw him for a loop, and the thing that finally kills him is a ''sharp stick.''
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* RockBeatsLaser: The performance of a weapon against the Madman seems to be inversely related to how technologically advanced it is. Guns aren't able to truly hurt him beyond the single rifle shot that hits his shoulder, though shoulder (though this can be attributed both to the protagonists protagonists' terrible aim and the Madman's immense speed and agility, but that doesn't seem to lower his abilities any, aim), swords and bows are mildly effective, spears and bareknuckle boxing throw him for a loop, and the thing that finally kills him is a ''sharp stick.''
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Charles' "Primal Theory" revolves around this, noting that despite how civilized and educated man has become by their time, in the right set of circumstances, it is man's basic instinct to throw that all away and resort to [[TheBerserker brutal savagery]] on par with Spear's acts of extreme violence [[NecessaryEvil needed to survive]] in his harsh land. Though the others are skeptical of the validity of this, when Darlington is [[DieOrFly pushed far enough and in imminent mortal danger]] from the Madman, he becomes a mirror image of Spear as he violently kills him with a stick, which understandably [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shocks him]] once he regains his senses.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Charles' "Primal Theory" revolves around this, noting that despite how civilized and educated man has become by their time, in the right set of circumstances, it is man's basic instinct to throw that all away and resort to [[TheBerserker brutal savagery]] on par with Spear's acts of extreme violence [[NecessaryEvil [[NecessarilyEvil needed to survive]] in his harsh land. Though the others are skeptical of the validity of this, when Darlington is [[DieOrFly pushed far enough and in imminent mortal danger]] from the Madman, he becomes a mirror image of Spear as he violently kills him with a stick, which understandably [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shocks him]] once he regains his senses.
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* BystanderSyndrome: When Darlington has the Madman on the ropes with his boxing skills, Charles is so impressed he forgets to help out, even when the Madman recovers and starts strangling Darlington.
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* CombatBreakdown: In keeping with the episode's theme, the group's efforts to kill the Madman gradually become more and more primitive, starting with firearms, progressing to modern boxing techniques, then to swords and arrows, and finally a bone used as a club and a sharp stick.
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* CombatBreakdown: In keeping with the episode's theme, the group's efforts to kill weapons the group uses against the Madman gradually become more and more primitive, regress in time period, starting with firearms, progressing to modern boxing techniques, then to swords and arrows, and finally a bone used as a club and a sharp stick.
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* {{Bathos}}: Most of the episode is played dead-serious, ending with Lord Darlington giving into savagery and killing the Madman, proving that even a "civilized" man like himself can devolve into a wild animal if his life is on the line as Charles claimed... and Charles points to him and shouts "there you have it" with a satisfied grin, Darlington giving a nonplussed expression. Cut to black. The End.
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* NoDialogueEpisode: Inverted; this is the only episode ''with'' dialogue that audience is supposed to understand.
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* NoDialogueEpisode: Inverted; this is the only episode ''with'' dialogue that the audience is supposed to understand.
