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** Unfortunately this is how many, many of the conflicts in his stories are resolved. When his heroes are facing impossible odds, he'll have an angel show up, or reveal that an autistic child has superpowers and teleported the villain away or can summon and control bats.
** The original ''Frankenstein'' trilogy ended with one of these. [[spoiler:Suddenly there was a super-powerful "reject" creation that grabbed Victor and solved everything!]]
** Unfortunately this is how many, many of the conflicts in his stories are resolved. When his heroes are facing impossible odds, he'll have an angel show up, or reveal that an autistic child has superpowers and teleported the villain away or can summon and control bats.
** The original ''Frankenstein'' trilogy ended with one of these. [[spoiler:Suddenly there was a super-powerful "reject" creation that grabbed Victor and solved everything!]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Particularly when it comes to Christian themes or Libertarian philosophy.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: {{Anvilicious}}:
** Particularly when it comes to Christian themes or Libertarian philosophy.
** Particularly when it comes to Christian themes or Libertarian philosophy.
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** Unfortunately this is how many, many of the conflicts in his stories are resolved. When his heroes are facing impossible odds, he'll have an angel show up, or reveal that an autistic child has superpowers and teleported the villain away or can summon and control bats.
** Unfortunately this is how many, many of the conflicts in his stories are resolved. When his heroes are facing impossible odds, he'll have an angel show up, or reveal that an autistic child has superpowers and teleported the villain away or can summon and control bats.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time). What qualifies for this trope is that an in-story scientist's fears of being silenced by the CCP, and thus making it necessary for him to smuggle the evidence of Wuhan-400 out of the country and into the US, would end up being mirrored during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was discovered that the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, silencing (or in more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time). What qualifies for this trope is that the scientist's fears of being silenced by the CCP, and thus making it necessary for him to smuggle the evidence of Wuhan-400 out of the country and into the US, would end up being mirrored during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was discovered that the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, silencing (or in more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time). What qualifies for this trope is that the an in-story scientist's fears of being silenced by the CCP, and thus making it necessary for him to smuggle the evidence of Wuhan-400 out of the country and into the US, would end up being mirrored during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was discovered that the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, silencing (or in more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP. Said fears ended up being mirrored during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was revealed that the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, silencing (or in more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact time). What qualifies for this trope is that in-story, the scientist with scientist's fears of being silenced by the CCP, and thus making it necessary for him to smuggle the evidence had to smuggle it of Wuhan-400 out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP. Said fears ended US, would end up being mirrored during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was revealed discovered that the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, silencing (or in more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP, ended up being mirrored by the real CCP during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was revealed that they were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, as well as silencing (or in some cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP, CCP. Said fears ended up being mirrored by the real CCP during the COVID-19 crisis, when it was revealed that they the CCP were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, as well as silencing (or in some more extreme cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle.whistle, and continues to be obstructive in efforts by other nations to stamp out the virus for good.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP, ended up being mirrored be the real CCP during come COVID-19, when it was revealed that they were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, as well as silencing (or in some cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP, ended up being mirrored be by the real CCP during come COVID-19, the COVID-19 crisis, when it was revealed that they were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, as well as silencing (or in some cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time).time), though the fact that in-story, the scientist with the evidence had to smuggle it out of the country and into the US for fear of being silenced by the CCP, ended up being mirrored be the real CCP during come COVID-19, when it was revealed that they were actively destroying evidence and samples of the virus, as well as silencing (or in some cases, "disappearing") anyone trying to blow the whistle.
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time).
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' from 1981 features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time).
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* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Eyes of Darkness'' features an expository blurb detailing the emergence of "a severe pneumonia-like illness" in 2020 that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes, becoming a global pandemic and resisting all known treatments; in 1989, the book was edited to rename the disease "Wuhan-400". Come 2019 in the real world, and COVID-19, a severe pneumonia-like illness that attacks the lungs and bronchial tubes and resists all known treatments, would emerge in Wuhan, China and become a global pandemic in 2020. What's more, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories would falsely claim that COVID-19 was created as a bioweapon, which was actually the case with Wuhan-400 (one should note though that COVID-19 is '''''not''''' a bioweapon, and is rather a strain of SARS that naturally emerged over time).
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* NightmareFuel: The RetroVirus in ''Fear Nothing'' and ''Seize the Night'', and what it does to the infected. Also the things that occur in the egg room in Fort Wyvern. Plenty of his villains and their actions are worthy of mention. Chances are if its a non-satirical Koontz story, parts of it venture into very scary territory.
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* NightmareFuel: The RetroVirus Retro Virus in ''Fear Nothing'' and ''Seize the Night'', and what it does to the infected. Also the things that occur in the egg room in Fort Wyvern. Plenty of his villains and their actions are worthy of mention. Chances are if its a non-satirical Koontz story, parts of it venture into very scary territory.
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* ParanoiaFuel: The entire ''plot'' of ''Literature/FalseMemory'', especially for anyone who has ever visited a therapist. [[spoiler:The BigBad is a psychiatrist who {{mind rape}}s his patients and forces them to do all kinds of things for his own entertainment. He implanted many of their phobias in the first place, and once he's done screwing with them (sometimes [[RapeAsDrama literally]]), he often [[DrivenToSuicide drives them]] to creative suicides and/or homicides. He was doing this for ''twenty years'' before somebody finally figured it out.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel: The entire ''plot'' of ''Literature/FalseMemory'', especially for anyone who has ever visited a therapist. [[spoiler:The BigBad is a psychiatrist who {{mind rape}}s his patients and forces them to do all kinds of things for his own entertainment. He implanted many of their phobias in the first place, and once he's done screwing with them (sometimes [[RapeAsDrama literally]]), he often [[DrivenToSuicide [[PsychicAssistedSuicide drives them]] to creative suicides and/or homicides. He was doing this for ''twenty years'' before somebody finally figured it out.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: ''Darkfall'', which was released in 1984, features a protagonist named [[Film/Titanic1997 Jack Dawson]].
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* JumpingTheShark: According to many reviews on Amazon, Koontz has done this quite a few times, namely with ''Darkest Evening of the Year'', ''One Door Away From Heaven'', ''Your Heart Belongs to Me'', the last two ''Frankenstein'' books, and ''Breathless''. [[spoiler: Seriously, ''Breathless'' involves all of humanity's problem's being solved by the inexplicable appearance of adorable talking simians? [[FridgeLogic What if we can't feed them all?]]]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Koontz is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that the readers absolutely despise the villain and everything the villain stands for.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Koontz is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that the readers absolutely despise the villain and everything the villain stands for. Sometimes he goes too far, and takes his villains into BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad territory.
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* CanonSue - Most of the child characters.
** May be a more general ChildrenAreInnocent + ThePowerOfLove. Sometimes the children are powerful (''Winter Moon''), and sometimes they just get kidnapped by the serial killer (''Hideaway'')
** May be a more general ChildrenAreInnocent + ThePowerOfLove. Sometimes the children are powerful (''Winter Moon''), and sometimes they just get kidnapped by the serial killer (''Hideaway'')
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* MoralEventHorizon - Koontz is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that the readers absolutely despise the villain and everything the villain stands for.
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* JumpingTheShark - JumpingTheShark: According to many reviews on Amazon, Koontz has done this quite a few times, namely with ''Darkest Evening of the Year'', ''One Door Away From Heaven'', ''Your Heart Belongs to Me'', the last two ''Frankenstein'' books, and ''Breathless''. [[spoiler: Seriously, ''Breathless'' involves all of humanity's problem's being solved by the inexplicable appearance of adorable talking simians? [[FridgeLogic What if we can't feed them all?]] ]]
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* ParanoiaFuel - The entire ''plot'' of ''Literature/FalseMemory'', especially for anyone who has ever visited a therapist. [[spoiler:The BigBad is a psychiatrist who [[MindRape mind rapes]] his patients and forces them to do all kinds of things for his own entertainment. He implanted many of their phobias in the first place, and once he's done screwing with them (sometimes [[RapeAsDrama literally]]), he often [[DrivenToSuicide drives them]] to creative suicides and/or homicides. He was doing this for ''twenty years'' before somebody finally figured it out.]]
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* ParanoiaFuel - ParanoiaFuel: The entire ''plot'' of ''Literature/FalseMemory'', especially for anyone who has ever visited a therapist. [[spoiler:The BigBad is a psychiatrist who [[MindRape mind rapes]] {{mind rape}}s his patients and forces them to do all kinds of things for his own entertainment. He implanted many of their phobias in the first place, and once he's done screwing with them (sometimes [[RapeAsDrama literally]]), he often [[DrivenToSuicide drives them]] to creative suicides and/or homicides. He was doing this for ''twenty years'' before somebody finally figured it out.]]
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* TearJerker : Numerous moments can qualify, especially those involving apparent character deaths, flashbacks, or musings on the world at large.
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* TearJerker : TearJerker: Numerous moments can qualify, especially those involving apparent character deaths, flashbacks, or musings on the world at large.
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