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-->Zarius had known rage, a roaring, kicking and bellowing thing brought upon by the annoyance of the small apes, but now...this was a sorrowful thing, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and the sorrow somehow made it all the more potent.]]
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-->Zarius had known rage, a roaring, kicking and bellowing thing brought upon by the annoyance of the small apes, but now...this was a sorrowful thing, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and the sorrow somehow made it all the more potent.]]]]
* During their fight, Zarius knocks James' EGS tank over while it's still firing rounds. Bullets are sent flying and hit many people...including Allison, her arm shredded off. She ends up dying in front of her sister, only comforted by how she managed to keep her safe one last time. [[PleaseWakeUp Poor Jenna can only call her name]] as she passes away.
* As one might guess, the ending is equal parts triumphant and tragic. James killed Zarius, but died a slow death as he and the EGS sunk into the water. He dies happy, but still. Ron is heavily implied to have become assimilated by the Kaiju Blight, though the being that takes his place is far nicer. Jenna meanwhile is the SoleSurvivor of the entire cast, and is so forlorn from losing her sister that she gives herself to whatever plant-like being (the one that replaced Ronald maybe) lives in a cave. The very last picture is of her being turned into a very different being as the pain fades away. We may never figure out if she too was assimilated or transformed into something more.
* During their fight, Zarius knocks James' EGS tank over while it's still firing rounds. Bullets are sent flying and hit many people...including Allison, her arm shredded off. She ends up dying in front of her sister, only comforted by how she managed to keep her safe one last time. [[PleaseWakeUp Poor Jenna can only call her name]] as she passes away.
* As one might guess, the ending is equal parts triumphant and tragic. James killed Zarius, but died a slow death as he and the EGS sunk into the water. He dies happy, but still. Ron is heavily implied to have become assimilated by the Kaiju Blight, though the being that takes his place is far nicer. Jenna meanwhile is the SoleSurvivor of the entire cast, and is so forlorn from losing her sister that she gives herself to whatever plant-like being (the one that replaced Ronald maybe) lives in a cave. The very last picture is of her being turned into a very different being as the pain fades away. We may never figure out if she too was assimilated or transformed into something more.
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* Zarius' reaction to seeing its offspring. For a brief moment, there's something in his head that doesn't quite make sense to it, and is implied to be simple paternal instinct. [[Tragic Monster Its mutation is so great that it cannot even feel the most basic of emotions without some major push.]] And then, as its baby celebrates seeing its parent for the first time, [[YankTheDogsChain someone blasts its head off with a rocket launcher.]]
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* Zarius' reaction to seeing its offspring. For a brief moment, there's something in his head that doesn't quite make sense to it, and is implied to be simple paternal instinct. [[Tragic Monster it stops being angry. It actually feels...calm. [[TragicMonster Its mutation is was so great that it cannot even feel the most basic lost sight of emotions without some major push.these emotions.]] And then, as its baby celebrates seeing its parent for the first time, [[YankTheDogsChain someone blasts its head off with a rocket launcher.]] No wonder the big kaiju went berserk after that.
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-->Zarius had known rage, a roaring, kicking and bellowing thing brought upon by the annoyance of the small apes, but now...this was a sorrowful thing, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and the sorrow somehow made it all the more potent.]]
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* Just the horrible state everything is in. Humanity has been all but eradicated from the planet, and everything around them has been either reduced to, well, ruin, or mutated into a vicious monster. It's very much a CrapsackWorld, and the story doesn't ever waste an opportunity to remind the reader how the time of mankind is over.
* James as a whole. He is explicitly described as a mere shell of a man. A DeathSeeker who's only motivation in life anymore is what amounts to a suicidal fool's errand in the form of killing Zarius.
** The reason he wants to kill Zarius is as sad as you might imagine. He and his fiance Hannah were the first in line to get a special vaccine that would offset the Kaiju Blight. And it actually worked for James! Then Zarius came into town, destroyed everything (the vaccine included), and accidentally sent a piece of rubble heading straight into where [[TheLostLenore Hannah]] was. Oops.
** Even worse, there's a slight hint before the backstory is revealed that he and Hannah were going through some kind of spat just beforehand. Does he have PartingWordsRegret on top of everything else? Who knows.
* Allison and Jenna's situation is arguably worse than James. He seems content with dying at some point, but poor Allison cannot afford to do so. Not while her little sister needs someone to protect her. Basically, she got a PromotionToParent after her and Jenna's mom and dad died horribly to the Kaiju Blight after the latter erroneously shot a monster with a shotgun at point-blank range. Jenna was too young to remember it, but Allison knows that moment well enough for it to be a TraumaButton wherever guns and kaiju are concerned.
* Allison is so deprived of any interaction that she latches onto the first man she comes across. Trouble is, that man is James. And while he still volunteers to take them to Haven, he plaintively tells her that he's both way older than her, and he's still holding on to the memory of his Hannah.
* The fall of Haven is pure NightmareFuel from start to finish, but it's also quite tragic. The one place anyone felt safe for miles, and it's destroyed in less than a night by the fury of the monsters that surrounded it. Especially sad is Allison's reaction once she and Jenna slip away in the confusion. She feels that she's essentially failed her sister now that their efforts to find a better home have been AllForNothing.
* Zarius' reaction to seeing its offspring. For a brief moment, there's something in his head that doesn't quite make sense to it, and is implied to be simple paternal instinct. [[Tragic Monster Its mutation is so great that it cannot even feel the most basic of emotions without some major push.]] And then, as its baby celebrates seeing its parent for the first time, [[YankTheDogsChain someone blasts its head off with a rocket launcher.]]
* Just the horrible state everything is in. Humanity has been all but eradicated from the planet, and everything around them has been either reduced to, well, ruin, or mutated into a vicious monster. It's very much a CrapsackWorld, and the story doesn't ever waste an opportunity to remind the reader how the time of mankind is over.
* James as a whole. He is explicitly described as a mere shell of a man. A DeathSeeker who's only motivation in life anymore is what amounts to a suicidal fool's errand in the form of killing Zarius.
** The reason he wants to kill Zarius is as sad as you might imagine. He and his fiance Hannah were the first in line to get a special vaccine that would offset the Kaiju Blight. And it actually worked for James! Then Zarius came into town, destroyed everything (the vaccine included), and accidentally sent a piece of rubble heading straight into where [[TheLostLenore Hannah]] was. Oops.
** Even worse, there's a slight hint before the backstory is revealed that he and Hannah were going through some kind of spat just beforehand. Does he have PartingWordsRegret on top of everything else? Who knows.
* Allison and Jenna's situation is arguably worse than James. He seems content with dying at some point, but poor Allison cannot afford to do so. Not while her little sister needs someone to protect her. Basically, she got a PromotionToParent after her and Jenna's mom and dad died horribly to the Kaiju Blight after the latter erroneously shot a monster with a shotgun at point-blank range. Jenna was too young to remember it, but Allison knows that moment well enough for it to be a TraumaButton wherever guns and kaiju are concerned.
* Allison is so deprived of any interaction that she latches onto the first man she comes across. Trouble is, that man is James. And while he still volunteers to take them to Haven, he plaintively tells her that he's both way older than her, and he's still holding on to the memory of his Hannah.
* The fall of Haven is pure NightmareFuel from start to finish, but it's also quite tragic. The one place anyone felt safe for miles, and it's destroyed in less than a night by the fury of the monsters that surrounded it. Especially sad is Allison's reaction once she and Jenna slip away in the confusion. She feels that she's essentially failed her sister now that their efforts to find a better home have been AllForNothing.
* Zarius' reaction to seeing its offspring. For a brief moment, there's something in his head that doesn't quite make sense to it, and is implied to be simple paternal instinct. [[Tragic Monster Its mutation is so great that it cannot even feel the most basic of emotions without some major push.]] And then, as its baby celebrates seeing its parent for the first time, [[YankTheDogsChain someone blasts its head off with a rocket launcher.]]
