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!!The 1962 film
* ReferencedBy: The title song for the film ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' includes the line ""And I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills."
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* DatedHistory: Some editions of the novel (and the [[Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids1981 1981 TV adaptation]]) suggest that controversial Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko may be the inventor of the triffids. While an appropriate MadScientist, in reality Lysenko was a crank whose "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism theory]]" rejected natural selection and even ''genetics'' in favour of a mixture of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckism]] and ideologically-motivated BlatantLies, and would have been rightly consigned to the dustbin of crackpottery in the Twenties if Stalin hadn't been taken in by it.
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* DatedHistory: Some editions of the novel (and the [[Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids1981 1981 TV adaptation]]) suggest that controversial Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko may be the inventor of the triffids. While an appropriate MadScientist, in reality Lysenko was a crank whose "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism theory]]" rejected natural selection and even ''genetics'' in favour of a mixture of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckism]] and ideologically-motivated BlatantLies, and would have been rightly consigned to the dustbin of crackpottery in the Twenties if Stalin hadn't been taken in by it.
* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' and ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' are essentially this plotline recycled ''with zombies''.
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* FollowTheLeader: ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' and ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' are essentially this plotline recycled ''with zombies''.
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