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* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Alex and Jay finally overcome their issues with each other and begin a romantic relationship, only to immediately learn that they are half-siblings.]]
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* TheBusCameBack: A few episodes after being exiled and walking away into the Mist, [[spoiler: Wes]] is revealed to be alive and comes to the aid of Kevin.

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* TheBusCameBack: A few episodes after being exiled and walking away into the Mist, [[spoiler: Wes]] Vic]] is revealed to be alive and comes to the aid of Kevin.

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* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: During the gun fight with the homeowner in episode 9, he fires a shot from his double-barrel over/under shotgun. Off-camera, the sound of a shotgun racking is heard. This would be quite difficult to do, considering it's not a pump action...



* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: By the second episode, we've seen as many deaths on screen at the hands of other people panicking as we have monsters. Additionally, it is ''heavily'' implied that a military experiment has caused all of this. By episode 6, people are [[spoiler: using the mist as a weapon to kill others and settle religious debates.]]

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: By the second episode, we've seen as many The majority of on-screen deaths on screen are at the hands of other people panicking as we have monsters. Additionally, it is ''heavily'' implied that a military experiment has caused all of this. people, rather than the mist. [[spoiler: By episode 6, people 9, other humans (Nathalie, Adrian, and the mall mob) are [[spoiler: using by far the mist as a weapon biggest threat to kill others and settle religious debates.the main character's safety.]]


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* ShootOutTheLock: [[spoiler: Vic and Kevin]] use this method to break into a service door in the mall.
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* BigBadEnsemble: By the end of the season Nathalie and [[spoiler: Adrian]] have become as imminent a threat to the main characters as the omnipresent Mist itself.


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* TheBusCameBack: A few episodes after being exiled and walking away into the Mist, [[spoiler: Wes]] is revealed to be alive and comes to the aid of Kevin.
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* BodyHorror: One particular character [[spoiler: grows moth-like wings out of his back after insect-like creature enters his ear]].

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* BodyHorror: One particular character [[spoiler: grows moth-like wings out of his back after an insect-like creature enters his ear]].
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** The Mall survivors - the largest group, loosely taking place of the supermarket from the novella: Eve Copeland, her daughter Alex, star high school quarterback Jay Heisel, Gus Bradley the mall manager, and several dozen others.

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** The Mall survivors - the largest group, loosely taking the place of the supermarket from the novella: Eve Copeland, her daughter Alex, star high school quarterback Jay Heisel, Gus Bradley the mall manager, and several dozen others.



* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: The creatures in the novella were merely animals acting on instinct; here they are appear to be sentient and actively toying with their victims]].

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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The creatures in the novella were merely animals acting on instinct; here they are appear to be sentient sentient, and actively toying with their victims]].

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** The kid you've known all his life who treats you like you're his family and just wants you to treat him the same? [[spoiler: He is a psychopath who raped your daughter.]]

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** The kid you've known all his life who treats you like you're his family and just wants you to treat him the same? [[spoiler: He Said kid, Adrian, is a psychopath who was the one that had raped your daughter.]]



* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: Adrian]].



* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adrian.]]

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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adrian.]]Adrian is revealed to be a psychopath in Episode 8 who had raped Alex]].



* RapeAsDrama: Alex Copeland is drugged and raped at a party. Then the Mist rolls in and she finds herself trapped in close proximity to the boy she believes raped her. A chunk of the show's plot revolves around her relationship with her alleged rapist, and whether or not he was actually the rapist.

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* RapeAsDrama: Alex Copeland is drugged and raped at a party. Then the Mist rolls in and she finds herself trapped in close proximity to the boy she believes raped her. A chunk of the show's plot revolves around her relationship with her alleged rapist, and whether or not he was actually the rapist. [[spoiler: It turns out that it was her best friend, Adrian, who had done the deed]].
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* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Adrian]] kills his father with a shotgun.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: The hospital's psych ward is inhabited by a murderous insane person who's managed to kill a few people by the time Kevin's group finds him.
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** That firm-but-fair, calm and level-headed shopping mall manager? [[spoiler: He's been hoarding food for himself. When a woman confronts him and threatens to expose him to the other survivors, he murders her and then blames it on an innocent party.]]
** The kid you've known all his life who treats you like you're his family and just wants you to treat him the same? [[spoiler: He is a psychopath who raped your daughter.]]


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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adrian.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler: After murdering his father Adrian tries to make it look like self-defense by injuring himself and breaking down into tears. Kevin buys it until he searches for bandages in the medicine cabinet and comes across a prescription medication bottle: the same prescription medication found in the bodily fluid's of Alex's attacker.]]
* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Adrian. It turns out that he is obsessed with Alex to the point that he drugged and raped her for fear of Jay "taking her away" from him.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Mrs. Carmody]], who is always destined to be this no matter how the story is told. In this TV Series version, [[spoiler: Mrs. Carmody]] is portrayed as a mean-spirited individual who accuses Eve's daughter of lying over the rape accusation, while having Eve losing her job over a sex education lesson. [[spoiler: She meets her end when she refuses to stay in the mall when the mist arrives, and soon finds herself with her jaw ripped off before being snatched and never to be seen again.]]

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Mrs. Carmody]], who is always destined to be this no matter how the story is told. In this the TV Series version, [[spoiler: Mrs. Carmody]] is portrayed as a mean-spirited individual who accuses Eve's daughter Alex of lying over the rape accusation, while having costing Eve losing her job over a sex education lesson. [[spoiler: She meets her end when she refuses to stay in the mall when the mist arrives, and soon finds herself with her jaw ripped off before being snatched and never to be seen again.]]

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* TheMall: Eva and her daughter Alex are trapped in one, along with about two dozen others.



* TheMall: Eva and her daughter Alex are trapped in one, along with about two dozen others.
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* NudeNatureDance: Not a dance, but Mrs. Raven strips naked before walking outside for Father Romanov's trial-by-ordeal, to demonstrate her trust in and oneness with the Nature she believes unleashed and controls the Mist. [[spoiler: It works, and the mist leaves her completely alone while it murders Father Romanov gruesomely.]]

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* NudeNatureDance: Not a dance, but Mrs. Raven strips naked before walking outside for Father Romanov's trial-by-ordeal, to demonstrate her trust in and oneness with the Nature she believes unleashed and controls the Mist. [[spoiler: It works, and the mist leaves her completely alone while it murders Father Romanov gruesomely. Whether this was her faith at work or simply that she kept her eyes shut the whole time is anyone's guess.]]
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Surprisingly averted (so far), unlike in the novella; so far, the unnatural creepy-crawlies associated with the Mist have been normal-sized. [[TheSwarm Not that that's stopped them from killing people, mind you....]]

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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Surprisingly averted (so far), unlike in the novella; so far, as yet, the unnatural creepy-crawlies associated with the Mist have been normal-sized. [[TheSwarm Not that that's stopped them from killing people, mind you....]]

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: By the second episode, we've seen as many deaths on screen at the hands of other people panicking as we have monsters. Additionally, it is ''heavily'' implied that a military experiment has caused all of this.

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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: By the second episode, we've seen as many deaths on screen at the hands of other people panicking as we have monsters. Additionally, it is ''heavily'' implied that a military experiment has caused all of this. By episode 6, people are [[spoiler: using the mist as a weapon to kill others and settle religious debates.]]



* NudeNatureDance: Not a dance, but Mrs. Raven strips naked before walking outside for Father Romanov's trial-by-ordeal, to demonstrate her trust in and oneness with the Nature she believes unleashed and controls the Mist.

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* NudeNatureDance: Not a dance, but Mrs. Raven strips naked before walking outside for Father Romanov's trial-by-ordeal, to demonstrate her trust in and oneness with the Nature she believes unleashed and controls the Mist. [[spoiler: It works, and the mist leaves her completely alone while it murders Father Romanov gruesomely.]]


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* ReligionIsWrong: Father Romanov thinks that his Christian faith will protect him from the mist. [[spoiler: It doesn't.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: Several people accuse Mrs. Raven of this when she tries to preach her mist-positive ideas to others.


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* WhatADrag: [[spoiler:Father Romanov]] is killed this way.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FogOfDoom What's outside there]] could be the ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters least]]'' of their problems...]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FogOfDoom What's outside there]] could be the ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters least]]'' of their problems...[[VampiricDraining of]] [[EnemyWithout their]] [[{{Tulpa}} problems]]...]]
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* NudeNatureDance: Not a dance, but Mrs. Raven strips naked before walking outside for Father Romanov's trial-by-ordeal, to demonstrate her trust in and oneness with the Nature she believes unleashed and controls the Mist.
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* BigCreepyCrawlies: Surprisingly averted (so far), unlike in the novella; so far, the unnatural creepy-crawlies associated with the Mist have been normal-sized. [[TheSwarm Not that that's stopped them from killing people, mind you....]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Father Romanov - at the hands of [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse War]], no less.]]
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* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: They literally manifest [[spoiler: and drag Father Romanov to his doom]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: That helpful doctor at the hospital who was nice and talked Kevin through performing major surgery? [[spoiler:He's actually abducting patients and conducting inevitably fatal experiments with them in order to understand how the Mist works.]]

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* MercyKill: Kevin's mortally-wounded brother begs him to shoot him at the hospital in episode 5. [[spoiler: Kevin tries to save him by removing the rebar with which his bro was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice under a doctor's guidance, but is forced to shoot him anyway when Mist-spawned leeches start eating his patient/sibling alive.]]


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* MadDoctor: One of the hospital's doctors is [[spoiler: kidnapping patients and using them for experiments in the mist.]]
* MercyKill: Kevin's mortally-wounded brother begs him to shoot him at the hospital in episode 5. [[spoiler: Kevin tries to save him by removing the rebar with which his bro was ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice under a doctor's guidance, but is forced to shoot him anyway when Mist-spawned leeches start eating his patient/sibling alive.]]
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Not actually a trailer, but [[spoiler: the blurbs describing the contents of episodes on Spike's website call the amnesiac soldier character "Jonah", anticipating the revelation that he's not Bryan from episode 4.]]

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Not actually a trailer, but [[spoiler: the blurbs describing the contents of episodes on Spike's website call called the amnesiac soldier character "Jonah", "Jonah" all along, anticipating the episode 4's revelation that he's not Bryan from episode 4.''not'' Bryan.]]
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Not actually a trailer, but [[spoiler: the blurbs describing the contents of episodes on Spike's website call the amnesiac soldier character "Jonah", contradicting his own belief (as of episode 3) that his name is Bryan.]]

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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Not actually a trailer, but [[spoiler: the blurbs describing the contents of episodes on Spike's website call the amnesiac soldier character "Jonah", contradicting his own belief (as of anticipating the revelation that he's not Bryan from episode 3) that his name is Bryan.4.]]

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** The Hospital survivors.

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** The Hospital survivors.survivors, a group of patients and doctors who were trapped when the mist hit.


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* GovernmentConspiracy: As with every other adaptation, it's heavily implied that the mist is due to a military experiment gone wrong.


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* MamaBear: Eve. She's pretty hostile towards anyone she thinks could possibly be a threat to Alex. [[spoiler: Including killing someone.]]
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**Kevin's brother Mike is also a real asshole.
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Unlike other versions where the mist is as indifferent as a natural distaster, this one shows signs of being a GeniusLoci. Not any safer, but at least this time the [[spoiler: people who want to worship the mist may have a point]].

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Unlike other versions where the mist is as indifferent as a natural distaster, this one shows signs of being a GeniusLoci. Not any safer, but at least this time the [[spoiler: people who want to worship the mist may have a point]].

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