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** It's not "merely" limited to deaths, either. In general, the behavior of the townspeople, the amount of often ''quite'' dirty secrets in a lot of the characters' closets, the slowly unraveling webs of intrigue (wholly unrelated to the Mist) and the way the survivors treat each other are...really quite taxing emotionally. The only "good" characters out of the ''entire cast'' are [[spoiler: Alex, who never actually does anything wrong and is merely in many wrong places at just as many wrong times, Jay, who is innocent (but the audience does not learn this until the last few episodes) and, as a distant third, Eve and Kevin, with her having good intentions, but taking extreme measures, and possessing some genuinely unsympathetic character traits, and with him being the closest thing to a "good guy" for a large part of the first season, but revealing some ''serious'' inner darkness at the end.]] Mia and [[spoiler: Jonah]] are on a net positive side, too, but have several very questionable moments. As for literally everybody else, they are either apathetic bystanders or actively malevolent bastards. It's difficult to feel much of anything for the former, and just as difficult not to just root for the Mist when it finally takes them in case of the latter.
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** It gets worse. As horrifying as the act of rape is in itself, and becoming even more so when committed by a person close to the victim...here, it's strongly hinted at that [[spoiler: Adrian apparently raped Alex not for sexual gratification or enjoyment of the other's degradation (the most common motives for rape), but ''utterly cold manipulation'', in order to frame Jay...because he was jealous of the attraction forming between Alex and Jay and was afraid the latter would "take her away". Adrian hurt his best friend and ''the only person who really loves him'', as he said himself, in one of the most horrifying ways and lied about it to frame an innocent third party - in order to have that very best friend to himself. On a platonic level, as there is zero indication that he is sexually attracted to Alex.]] This makes the whole thing even more gutwrenching. After said revelation, any and all fragments of sympathy the audience might have had for [[spoiler: Adrian]] because of his experiences at home and in school are utterly annihilated.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Occurs due to the cancellation of the series. While the individual character arcs and subplots are neatly resolved by the time of the first season finale (through character interaction and gradual explanation for [[spoiler: the Copelands, Mia, Adrian and Chief Heisel]] on the one hand, and through the convenient fact of [[spoiler: Kevin [[KillEmAll killing the entirety of the rest]], i.e. the mall survivors]], on the other hand), [[spoiler: Jonah's]] backstory and precise nature of his connection to Arrowhead remain unsolved. All we get are a few cryptic snippets from the soldier who takes [[spoiler: Jonah]] away. This was most likely to be a central point in the second season - alas...
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An unexplained mist slowly envelops the city of Bridgton, Bridgeville, Maine, creating an almost impenetrable barrier to visibility. The residents of the town soon learn the situation is even more precarious as hidden within the mist are numerous monsters of various sizes that attack and kill anything that moves.
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* {{EMP}}: In this version, the mist also disables all of the power grid and almost every vehicle. Somehow. It's mentioned that older vehicles that don't rely on electronics to run still function.
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* {{EMP}}: In this version, the mist also disables all of the power grid and almost every vehicle. Somehow. It's mentioned that older vehicles that don't rely on electronics to run still function.
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* PragmaticAdaptation: The series does not follow the novella or movie closely, with large changes such as [[spoiler: the mist being explicitly supernatural and malicious more similar to the [[Series/{{Lost}} Smoke Monster]], than just being filled with dangerous alien creatures, the main human antagonist Mrs. Carmody being killed off in the first episode, and focusing on multiple locations instead of just a supermarket, and as a result, having far more characters and multiple conflicts]].
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The series was canceled after the completion of its first and only season.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Being a bisexual NonActionGuy [[TheWoobie Woobie]] who is bullied by his father and half the town and whose only friends are the main character family does not mean [[spoiler:that you can't also be a psychopath who raped Alex purely to frame Jay to drive a wedge between them, killed his own father and tried to kill and leave for dead his surrogate father.]]
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* FogOfDoom: The entire plot of the series is that a military experiment has caused a thick fog to roll over the town, and it contains flesh-eating monsters that kill anyone who is in it for too long in a gruesome fashion.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Being a bisexual NonActionGuy [[TheWoobie Woobie]] who is bullied by his father and half the town and whose only friends are the main character family does not mean [[spoiler:that you can't also be a psychopath who raped Alex purely to frame Jay to drive a wedge between them, killed his own father and tried to kill and leave for dead his surrogate father.]]
* FogOfDoom: The entire plot of the series is that ''something'' (possibly amilitary experiment [[spoiler:military experiment]]) has caused a thick fog to roll over the town, and it contains flesh-eating monsters that kill anyone who is in it for too long in a gruesome fashion.
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* BulletproofHumanShield: Kevin pulls the corpse of an armoured soldier on top of him to protect himself from a grenade. He survives, but the corpse does not shield the large windows...
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* BulletproofHumanShield: Kevin pulls the corpse of an armoured soldier on top of him to protect himself from a grenade. He survives, but the corpse does not shield the large windows...
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* SexIsEvil: Eva lost her job as a teacher for daring to teach sex ed, because some parents are very, ''very'' upset about their kids learning about sex.
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* SexIsEvil: Eva lost her job as a teacher for daring to teach sex ed, ed beyond "sex is wrong", because some parents are very, ''very'' upset about their kids learning about sex.
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* WorstAid: The doctor at the hospitalhospital correctly notes that removing the piece of rebar from [[spoiler:Kevin's brother]] without a well-stocked and sterile operating room will most likely kill him even faster than leaving the rebar in. Kevin decides that since the guy would die anyway, he'd try to get through the mist-filled part of the hospital into the OR and do the removal himself while being directed by the actual doctor via radio. While the removal and closing of the wound work, it is highly doubtful that Kevin managed to avoid contaminating the wound considering his lack of training and supporting staff. [[spoiler: We never find out either way since the patient gets assaulted by the mist on their way back, forcing Kevin to MercyKill him - which is exactly [[ShootTheShaggyDog what his brother asked for in the beginning]] and [[ThouShaltNotKill Kevin couldn't do before.]]]]
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* SafeSaneConsensual: When a bloodied [[spoiler:Adrian]] describes [[spoiler:his SlapSlapKiss]] as "I had sex", Mia tells him that he should remember his SafeWord next time and notes that hers is "Dolphin", fitting the bracelet she wears.
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* SafeSaneConsensual: SafeSaneAndConsensual: When a bloodied [[spoiler:Adrian]] describes [[spoiler:his SlapSlapKiss]] as "I had sex", Mia tells him that he should remember his SafeWord next time and notes that hers is "Dolphin", fitting the bracelet she wears.
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* ArmouredClosetGay: The jock that is most opposed to Adrian's homosexuality [[spoiler:is revealed in episode 5 to be gay himself.]]
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** Except she was trying to leave and he was attacking her.
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler: Jay is killed by the mist after [[HeroicSacrifice he rescues Alex from being devoured]], and is left to die by everyone else, including [[MamaBear Eva]], which is before Kevin shares the news that Jay was innocent the whole time]].
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler: Jay is killed by the mist after [[HeroicSacrifice he rescues Alex from being devoured]], and is left to die by everyone else, including [[MamaBear Eva]], Eve]], which is before Kevin shares the news that Jay was innocent the whole time]].
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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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* BigBadEnsemble: By the end of the season Nathalie [[spoiler:Natalie]] and [[spoiler: Adrian]] have become as imminent a threat to the main characters as the omnipresent Mist itself.
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Adrian. It turns out that he is obsessed with Alex to the point that he raped her, then set up Jay to be blamed, for fear of Jay "taking her away" from him.]]
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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Adrian. It turns out that he is obsessed with Alex to the point that he raped her, then set up Jay to be blamed, for fear of Jay "taking her away" from him. Despite the rape, it seems he mostly wants a platonical relationship with her to make up for his lack of family.]]
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* JerkJock: Almost every jock we see on screen fits this. The school's football team is as generic as it gets. Rude, crude, in a position of power, always ready to party and the whole town supports any of the terrible stuff they do because "yeah, football!" All but one member of the team openly bullies Adrian for his sexuality, and one member of the team is also Alex's alleged rapist.
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* JerkJock: Almost every jock we see on screen fits this. The school's football team is as generic as it gets. Rude, crude, in a position of power, always ready to party and the whole town supports any of the terrible stuff they do because "yeah, football!" All but one member of the team openly bullies Adrian for his sexuality, and one member of the team is also Alex's alleged rapist. [[spoiler:Subverted by Jay, who, apart from leading Alex to drink, is the character with the least amount of flaws in the entire season.]]
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* ReligionOfEvil: Several people accuse Mrs. Raven of this when she tries to preach her mist-positive ideas to others.
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* ReligionOfEvil: Several people accuse Mrs. Raven of this when she tries to preach her mist-positive ideas to others. [[spoiler:By the end, it has led her to burn the church with those who wouldn't follow her still inside, leave behind two of her three followers to death-by-rats and have Jay thrown out into the mists by his father.]]
* SafeSaneConsensual: When a bloodied [[spoiler:Adrian]] describes [[spoiler:his SlapSlapKiss]] as "I had sex", Mia tells him that he should remember his SafeWord next time and notes that hers is "Dolphin", fitting the bracelet she wears.
* SafeSaneConsensual: When a bloodied [[spoiler:Adrian]] describes [[spoiler:his SlapSlapKiss]] as "I had sex", Mia tells him that he should remember his SafeWord next time and notes that hers is "Dolphin", fitting the bracelet she wears.
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* VillainHasAPoint: At the end of the stay in the hospital, [[spoiler:the insane patient wants to kill Adrian since he sees "evil" inside him and allows him to switch places with Kevin after the latter convinces him he is evil as well. By the end of the season, Adrian has raped Alex, pinned this on Jay, killed his father, left Kevin for dead after nearly killing him, tried to kill Jay and tried to torch the mall. Kevin has stayed relatively heroic, but his dark side shone through a couple of times while going full-on PapaWolf, starting with killing the insane patient after overcoming him in combat and ending with ramming the car into the glass mall entrance in the season finale, dooming the mall surivors purely as revenge for their misdeeds.]]
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** Then again considering if they interfered at all they would've let in the mist into the Mall. Not to mention the mother was attempting to rescue her daughter but was held back instead.
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* ForceFeeding: One of the ways the mist can apparently kill someone is by force feeding a large, misty tendril to a victim, which causes them to collapse to the ground, dead.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The majority of on-screen deaths are at the hands of other people, rather than the mist. [[spoiler: By episode 9, other humans (Nathalie, Adrian, and the mall mob) are by far the biggest threat to the main character's safety.]]
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* HumanSacrifice: The season 1 finale reveals that [[spoiler: the military is rounding up people from outside the mist, transporting them to the town by train, and throwing them into the mist. Kevin believes that they are attempting to [[FedToTheBeast ''feed'' the mist.]]]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The large majority of on-screen deaths are at the hands of other people,rather than either by attacking them or intentionally letting the mist. [[spoiler: By episode 9, other humans (Nathalie, Adrian, and the mall mob) are by far the biggest threat to the main character's safety.]]mist get them. There's only a handful of truly accidental deaths.
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* AcquittedTooLate: [[spoiler: Jay is killed by the mist after [[HeroicSacrifice he rescues Alex from being devoured]], and is left to die by everyone else, including [[MamaBear Eva]], which is before Kevin shares the news that Jay was innocent the whole time]].
* DirtyCoward: [[DirtyCop Connor]] [[spoiler: throws his own son out into the Mist on Nathalie's orders, thus causing his HeroicSacrifice to save Alex later on]], purely to save his own skin.
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* OhCrap: The entire group of mall survivors gives one when they see the people they exiled [[spoiler: about to ram their vehicle through the mall's glass front.]]
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** [[spoiler: In the season finale, the now deranged group throw out the Copelands and their friends.]]
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* CarFu: In the season finale, [[spoiler: a vengeful Kevin rams his family's getaway car into the mall's front doors, letting the mist into the building and wiping out the group who just exiled them.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Kevin delivers one to Adrian in the season finale.]]
* PapaWolf: Kevin makes it clear that he wants to hunt down and ''hurt'' the person who raped his daughter. [[spoiler: Which he does when he learns it was Adrian. And when the mall survivors throw his family out into the mist, he takes revenge by breaking down the entrance, letting it into the mall, killing them all.]]
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*VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Connor]] spends most of the finale in one until his [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn.]]
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