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* ElectronicTelepathy: This is what Neurolink claims to be [[spoiler:until it's revealed that it's actually a HiveMind device]].
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* FacialHorror: Always combined with BlackBeadEyes.
** At the end of "Game Show Spectacular", [[spoiler: the clown's eyes turning black and his mouth stretching.]]
** At the end of "Madame Claire", [[spoiler: her eyes go from PieEyed to black bead eyes, and her mouth now reassembles a marionette's mouth.]]
** In "Unusual PSA", a person who died from the virus has black "veins" going over his hands and face (the only skin visible), with his eyes and the surrounding area being completely black.
** At the end of "Game Show Spectacular", [[spoiler: the clown's eyes turning black and his mouth stretching.]]
** At the end of "Madame Claire", [[spoiler: her eyes go from PieEyed to black bead eyes, and her mouth now reassembles a marionette's mouth.]]
** In "Unusual PSA", a person who died from the virus has black "veins" going over his hands and face (the only skin visible), with his eyes and the surrounding area being completely black.
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* YouCantFightFate: At the end of "Game Show Spectacular", [[spoiler:there is UnreadablyFastText saying that you are going to "a better place", and "Try to run, Try to hide" "It won't make a difference"]]
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* SubvertedKidsShow:
** "Game Show Spectacular" appears to be a children's quiz tape until [[spoiler:it unleashes a scary BrownNote that kills children]].
** "Unusual EAS" interrupts an airing of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''.
** "Game Show Spectacular" appears to be a children's quiz tape until [[spoiler:it unleashes a scary BrownNote that kills children]].
** "Unusual EAS" interrupts an airing of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''.
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* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All of "Madame Claire" except the "Little Sisters Legacy Collection" logo in the beginning. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it's a sound cartoon from [[TheThirties 1932]].
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** The Minerva Alliance's barn owl mascot has these.
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* TheThirties: "Madame Claire" is a sound cartoon from 1932
* TheSixties: "Quakin' and Shakin'" was made 1969 InUniverse.
* TheEighties:
** "Madame Claire" was released on VHS in this timeframe, exact year unknown.
** Tommy Parson's audio logs were made from March 12 to March 22, 1989.
* TheNineties: The most popular time period for these videos.
** "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink" was made August 6, 1996.
** "Unusual EAS" was recorded June 25, 1999.
** It's not known when "Tau Omicron Xi" was made, but the description suspects it was the mid-90s.
** "Unusual PSA" was recorded June 3, 1998.
** "Community's Choice" was recorded December 13, 1997.
* [[TurnOfTheMillennium The 2000's]]: "Game Show Spectacular" was made in the year 2000.
* TheSixties: "Quakin' and Shakin'" was made 1969 InUniverse.
* TheEighties:
** "Madame Claire" was released on VHS in this timeframe, exact year unknown.
** Tommy Parson's audio logs were made from March 12 to March 22, 1989.
* TheNineties: The most popular time period for these videos.
** "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink" was made August 6, 1996.
** "Unusual EAS" was recorded June 25, 1999.
** It's not known when "Tau Omicron Xi" was made, but the description suspects it was the mid-90s.
** "Unusual PSA" was recorded June 3, 1998.
** "Community's Choice" was recorded December 13, 1997.
* [[TurnOfTheMillennium The 2000's]]: "Game Show Spectacular" was made in the year 2000.
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* While "Community's Choice" shows a vertical blanking interval, at the same time, the video distorts vertically. This is highly unlikely for an analog television signal, as it draws images in horizontal lines. However, it is possible that the [[https://youtu.be/nxUDHcZl1uo CCD sensors]], which use "bucket brigade" methods of serializing the image, are messing up, this causing the vertical hold problems.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering:
** The [[OminousVisualGlitch ominous visual glitches]] in "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink" show the video does not have a vertical blanking interval. These are used to make sure that the TV knows when to pause and draw the next frame.
* While "Community's Choice" shows a vertical blanking interval, at the same time, the video distorts vertically. This is highly unlikely for an analog television signal, as it draws images in horizontal lines. However, it is possible that the [[https://youtu.be/nxUDHcZl1uo CCD sensors]], which use "bucket brigade" methods of serializing the image, are messing up, this causing the vertical hold problems.
** The [[OminousVisualGlitch ominous visual glitches]] in "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink" show the video does not have a vertical blanking interval. These are used to make sure that the TV knows when to pause and draw the next frame.
* While "Community's Choice" shows a vertical blanking interval, at the same time, the video distorts vertically. This is highly unlikely for an analog television signal, as it draws images in horizontal lines. However, it is possible that the [[https://youtu.be/nxUDHcZl1uo CCD sensors]], which use "bucket brigade" methods of serializing the image, are messing up, this causing the vertical hold problems.
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* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: In "Community's Choice", it is shown to be daylight (but overcast) in the Tennessee Valley approaching 8pm on December 13, 1997. It should be nighttime.
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* RealTime: "Community's Choice" shows the time to be 7:54pm at the beginning and 7:59pm at the end. Presumably, all the other videos follow this rule.
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* DaylightHorror: "Quakin' and Shakin'" has all backgrounds and videos as daytime shots.
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: In "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink", [[spoiler:The Digital Messiah interrupts a product demo tape.]]
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* BlackBeadEyes:
** At the end of "Game Show Spectacular", [[spoiler:the clown's eyes become these as it's mouth opens wider]].
** In "Madame Claire", [[spoiler:her eyes switch from [[PieEyed pie eyes]] to this.]]
** At the end of "Game Show Spectacular", [[spoiler:the clown's eyes become these as it's mouth opens wider]].
** In "Madame Claire", [[spoiler:her eyes switch from [[PieEyed pie eyes]] to this.]]
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* PieEyed: Madame Claire has these [[spoiler:until her appearance changes at the end]].
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* ApocalypseHow: The last two predictions of "Madame Claire" [[spoiler:show a Class 4 scenario with much of marine life dying, promptly followed by a Class 6 scenario with "all life on Earth perishes"]]
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* AnimalMotifs: The Alliance itself has birds. Its logo is a barn owl, its base of operations is referred to as "Eyrie Command" ("eyrie" being the nest of a bird of prey) and its agents and authorities have codenames like "Sparrow", "Peregrine", "Harrier", "Great Horn", etc.
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* AmbiguousGender: The personnel of the Alliance are always referred to by either their gender-neutral bird-themed codenames or by they/them pronouns, likely to keep their identities under wraps.
* AnimalMotifs: The Alliance itself has birds. Its logo is a barn owl, its base of operations is referred to as "Eyrie Command" ("eyrie" being the nest of a bird of prey) and itsagents and authorities personnel have codenames like "Sparrow", "Peregrine", "Harrier", "Great Horn", etc.
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* DevelopmentHell: An InUniverse example happened with the [=PegaSys=] Neurolink technology. It was supposed to be released in 1996, but wasn't. According to the video's description, "[=PegaSys=]" would become slang for "hyping a product and not releasing it".
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Some of the videos have pretty mundane endings for their subject matter.
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Happens pretty frequently, most often in the form of UnreadablyFastText.
** "Game Show Spectacular" has a series of messages in rapid succession at the end.
** "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink Promotional Video" has glitches that slowly reveal [[spoiler: the real reason that Neurolink is being made.]]
** "Tau Omicron Xi" has an unreadably fast poem at the end.
** The end of "Madame Claire" [[spoiler: predicts several disasters]].
** "Unusual PSA" shows the virus' "kill" stage for only a few frames.
** "Quakin' and Shakin'" has "[[spoiler: Subterranean Creatures]]" as a cause of earthquakes. Later, it appears for only a few frames, annihilating a small shack.
** "Game Show Spectacular" has a series of messages in rapid succession at the end.
** "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink Promotional Video" has glitches that slowly reveal [[spoiler: the real reason that Neurolink is being made.]]
** "Tau Omicron Xi" has an unreadably fast poem at the end.
** The end of "Madame Claire" [[spoiler: predicts several disasters]].
** "Unusual PSA" shows the virus' "kill" stage for only a few frames.
** "Quakin' and Shakin'" has "[[spoiler: Subterranean Creatures]]" as a cause of earthquakes. Later, it appears for only a few frames, annihilating a small shack.
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* NothingIsScarier: Many of these videos will rarely (if ever) show the horror they are referring to. If they are shown, there is still some information about them withheld.
** The "thunderstorm" from "Unusual EAS Alert" doesn't seem to be a thunderstorm.
** The virus in "Unusual Ad Council PSA" has no transmission vectors or symptoms shown. And when it attacks, death comes pretty quickly.
** In "Quakin' and Shakin'", [[spoiler:the burrower worms]] [[FreezeFrameBonus only get a few frames of screen time]].
** In "Community's Choice", [[spoiler:Alazareth]] appears as a [[spoiler:mass of yellowish-green light]].
** The "thunderstorm" from "Unusual EAS Alert" doesn't seem to be a thunderstorm.
** The virus in "Unusual Ad Council PSA" has no transmission vectors or symptoms shown. And when it attacks, death comes pretty quickly.
** In "Quakin' and Shakin'", [[spoiler:the burrower worms]] [[FreezeFrameBonus only get a few frames of screen time]].
** In "Community's Choice", [[spoiler:Alazareth]] appears as a [[spoiler:mass of yellowish-green light]].
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* KillEmAll: The ending of [[spoiler:"Madame Claire, The Psychic Savant"]] says that [[spoiler:all life on Earth will perish at once]].
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The Minerva Alliance is a WebOriginal horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] by Quarks and Rec. The videos, which are presented in the form of found footage and emergency alerts from various places in the United States, with other places hinted to be explored later.
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The Minerva Alliance is a WebOriginal horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]] by Quarks and Rec. The videos, which videos are presented in the form of found footage and emergency alerts from various places in the United States, with other places hinted to be explored later.
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** At the end of "Mr. Know-It-All's Game Show Spectacular!", [[spoiler: the questions get shown faster, their subject matter becomes more disturbing, before the clown's mouth opens wide and the text now says YouCantFightFate.]]
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** At the end of "Mr. Know-It-All's Game Show Spectacular!", [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the questions get shown faster, and their subject matter becomes more disturbing, before the clown's mouth opens wide and the text now says YouCantFightFate.]]
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* OneDimensionalThinking: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in "Unusual EAS Alert". The storm is headed east, and it asks people who are driving to evacuate north or south.
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* EmergencyBroadcast: TheNamesake of "Unusual EAS Alert"
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* SandWorm: In "Quakin' and Shakin'", [[spoiler:the Burrower Worms are massive worms that have super hearing ability, and cause earthquakes when they come.]]
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The Minerva Alliance is a WebOriginal horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]]by series]] by Quarks and Rec. The videos, which are presented in the form of found footage and emergency alerts from various places in the United States, with other places hinted to be explored later.
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** "Quakin' and Shakin'" says that earthquakes can be caused by seismic activity, landslides, mining blasts, nuclear tests, and [[spoiler: subterranean creatures]].
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** The Neurolink video shows VHS glitches such as vertical hold problems. [[spoiler:When it does, it slowly reveals that NeuroLink is made to create a HiveMind.]]
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** The Neurolink video shows VHS glitches such as vertical hold problems. [[spoiler:When it does, it slowly reveals that NeuroLink is made to create a HiveMind.]]
** In "Community's Choice", [[spoiler:the camera and video start glitching when Alazareth appears.]]
* UnreadablyFastText:
** At the end of "Mr. Know-It-All's Game Show Spectacular!", [[spoiler: the questions get shown faster, their subject matter becomes more disturbing, before the clown's mouth opens wide and the text now says YouCantFightFate.]]
** In the Tau Omicron Xi video, a poem is shown on screen, too fast to read.
** At the end of "Madame Claire, The Psychic Savant", [[spoiler: predictions of the future become too fast to read, before a prediction of the world ending is shown with enough time to read it.]]
** The Neurolink video shows VHS glitches such as vertical hold problems. [[spoiler:When it does, it slowly reveals that NeuroLink is made to create a HiveMind.]]
** In "Community's Choice", [[spoiler:the camera and video start glitching when Alazareth appears.]]
* UnreadablyFastText:
** At the end of "Mr. Know-It-All's Game Show Spectacular!", [[spoiler: the questions get shown faster, their subject matter becomes more disturbing, before the clown's mouth opens wide and the text now says YouCantFightFate.]]
** In the Tau Omicron Xi video, a poem is shown on screen, too fast to read.
** At the end of "Madame Claire, The Psychic Savant", [[spoiler: predictions of the future become too fast to read, before a prediction of the world ending is shown with enough time to read it.]]
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->''Our world contains objects, phenomena, and entities that are unexplainable by science and logic, and the world's governments are hiding this information from you, claiming them to be "unusual" cases of "ordinary" phenomena.''
->-Minerva Alliance Mission Statement
The Minerva Alliance is a WebOriginal horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]]by Quarks and Rec. The videos, which are presented in the form of found footage and emergency alerts from various places in the United States, with other places hinted to be explored later.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AdultFear:
** "Unusual EAS": [[spoiler: The media manipulating people and hiding information.]]
** "Unusual Ad Council PSA": [[spoiler: Death may strike at any time from any cause.]]
* DemocracyIsBad: In "New Comstock Community's Choice 1997", [[spoiler: people vote on who to sacrifice to Alazareth.]]
* EldritchLocation: In Tommy Parson's audio logs, [[spoiler: he ends up in one of these. It appears to be like Earth but with no evidence of human settlement, and some strange creatures as well.]]
* HiveMind: "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink Promotional Video" appears to be creating one of these out of users of the Neurolink.
* NoodleIncident: The weather event in "Unusual EAS Alert". It is said to be a thunderstorm, but it recommends that you hide in a storm drain, which would be suicide in a thunderstorm. It is possibly an anomalous weather event that the EAS doesn't want you to see.
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-->'''Stay safe and stay strong'''
->-Minerva Alliance Mission Statement
The Minerva Alliance is a WebOriginal horror [[GenreAnthology anthology series]]by Quarks and Rec. The videos, which are presented in the form of found footage and emergency alerts from various places in the United States, with other places hinted to be explored later.
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!! This show provides examples of:
* AdultFear:
** "Unusual EAS": [[spoiler: The media manipulating people and hiding information.]]
** "Unusual Ad Council PSA": [[spoiler: Death may strike at any time from any cause.]]
* DemocracyIsBad: In "New Comstock Community's Choice 1997", [[spoiler: people vote on who to sacrifice to Alazareth.]]
* EldritchLocation: In Tommy Parson's audio logs, [[spoiler: he ends up in one of these. It appears to be like Earth but with no evidence of human settlement, and some strange creatures as well.]]
* HiveMind: "[=PegaSys=] Neurolink Promotional Video" appears to be creating one of these out of users of the Neurolink.
* NoodleIncident: The weather event in "Unusual EAS Alert". It is said to be a thunderstorm, but it recommends that you hide in a storm drain, which would be suicide in a thunderstorm. It is possibly an anomalous weather event that the EAS doesn't want you to see.
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-->'''Stay safe and stay strong'''
