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UnfortunateImplications: Flagg comes from Outside. This makes him a CompleteMonster. what the blue HELL? This isn't the only time King has pulled shit like this either. IT has the exact same problem.
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Unfortunate Implications: Flagg is an outsider. This makes him a complete monster. What the blue HELL? This isn\'t the first time King has pulled shit like this either. IT has the same problem.
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* FridgeBrilliance: According to Abagail, the entire Free Zone was a XanatosGambit by God to get a few of the committee members further west.
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*** {{Jossed}} by StephenKing himself in ''TheDarkTower'': Flagg is not the Devil, just one of his servants.
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* CompleteMonster: The Kid.
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** Flagg is pretty much the devil. ([[WildMassGuessing Or]][[HPLovecraft [[Creator/HPLovecraft Nyarlhathotep]].)
*** {{Jossed}} byStephenKing Creator/StephenKing himself in ''TheDarkTower'': Flagg is not the Devil, just one of his servants.
*** And even so, [[MindScrew assuming that this is the same Flagg]], he is still easily a{{CompleteMonster}}CompleteMonster
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* IronWoobie: Lloyd Henreid. He's a criminal, but he's not a psychopath and Flagg has given him the first taste of real respect anyone has ever given him.
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* {{Wangst}}: Harold (referenced in-work). At one point, he realizes that holding on to his old high school grudges is stupid and pathetic... until events conspire to [[spoiler:drive him to TheDarkSide]].
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*** And even so, [[MindScrew assuming that this is the same Flagg]], he is still easily a {{CompleteMonster}}
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*Ho Yay: Cmdr. Starkey and his lieutenant, especially in the miniseries.
**The scene where Larry is leaving Stu in the desert with his broken leg in the miniseries. Watch that scene, and don't deny that they come off as intimate lovers, with Stu comforting a crying Larry and holding him to his chest
**The scene where Larry is leaving Stu in the desert with his broken leg in the miniseries. Watch that scene, and don't deny that they come off as intimate lovers, with Stu comforting a crying Larry and holding him to his chest
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*** {{Jossed}} by StephenKing himself in ''TheDarkTower'': Flagg is not the Devil, just one of his servants.
* DracoInLeatherPants: specifically, Jamey Sheridan as Randall Flagg in the miniseries. There's a ''reason'' people wanted him back as Flagg in the [[DevelopmentHell never-to-be-made adaptation of The Dark Tower]].
* DracoInLeatherPants: specifically, Jamey Sheridan as Randall Flagg in the miniseries. There's a ''reason'' people wanted him back as Flagg in the [[DevelopmentHell never-to-be-made adaptation of The Dark Tower]].
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**The film ending,for me.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: A lot of people said this about Molly Ringwald playing Frannie. A lot of other got varying degrees: Laura San Giocomo (Nadine) Corin Nemic (Harold) and Jamie Sheridan (Flagg)
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** Larry having a HeroicBSOD when [[spoiler: he and the rest of the {{Nakama}} TrueCompanions have to leave Stu behind en route to Las Vegas, dooming him to likely death from exposure and a broken leg. Stu has to talk him back to his senses, and Larry becomes the [[PassingTheTorch new leader]] of the mission.]]
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* HollywoodHomely: The miniseries and its casting of Corin "ParkerLewis" Nemec as Harold.
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** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjBwAYIxUso Don't Dream It's Over]]" by CrowdedHouse over shots of the aftermath of the plague.
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** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAvTn3uz5w intro over dead bodies]] in the laboratory set to ''[[BlueOysterCult Don't Fear The Reaper]]''.
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* LawfulGood: Nick Andros, Mother Abagail
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** This troper's dad used to watch the miniseries on DVD whenever he was sick and didn't feel like doing much of anything else. (That might change now that he's got Netflix.) ''How'' ) I was very, very puzzled as to how he did it is still a mystery.could bring himself to do it.
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* ParanoiaFuel: The best way to read this book is when you are sick in bed.
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** The "Woman Zoo," which also counts as {{NightmareFuelUnleaded}}.
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* {{Wangst}}: Harold (referenced in-work). At one point,]] he realizes that holding on to his old high school grudges is stupid and pathetic... until events conspire to [[spoiler:drive him to TheDarkSide]].
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* FridgeLogic: Stu dooms America to destruction when he shuts off Hap's pumps at the very beginning!
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* CompleteMonster: The Kid.
**Flagg is pretty much the devil. ([[WildMassGuessing Or]] [[HPLovecraft Nyarlhathotep]].)
**Flagg is pretty much the devil. ([[WildMassGuessing Or]] [[HPLovecraft Nyarlhathotep]].)
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* {{Squick}}: When Abagail is going through her memories, the reader is suddenly treated to [[spoiler:her reminiscing about her sex life, including the ''smell'' of semen. This is a hundred-plus year-old woman.]]
** Speaking of which, we learn ''way too much'' information about [[{{Geek}} Harold's]] sex life (or lack thereof) ''throughout'' the book.
** In the full-length version of the book , one character is sodomised with a pistol barrel.
** The "Woman Zoo," which also counts as {{NightmareFuelUnleaded}}.
** Alternatively, [[http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/stand-joint.jpg the dead body Larry finds in the lavatory]] with a swollen neck the size of a tire, which squicks out Larry in-work.
* TearJerker: Frannie sewing up a body bag for her dead father and burying him in his garden. All while singing "Amazing Grace".
** Every time when [[spoiler: Tom is travelling back to Boulder]] and looks forward to [[spoiler:"seeing Nick again."]] Oh, the irony.
* {{Wangst}}: Harold (referenced in-work). At one point,]] he realizes that holding on to his old high school grudges is stupid and pathetic... until events conspire to [[spoiler:drive him to TheDarkSide]].
** Even more blatant in the miniseries, when Harold is [[HollywoodHomely played by Corin Nemec]]. The whole arc about how Harold started out universally hated for being fat and ugly with a personality to match, and later begins losing weight and taking better care of himself as he becomes more accepted and valued by his peers, suffers a bit when he's actually a quite handsome guy who just has a slightly nerdy hairdo and outfit before a subtle attack of TheGlassesGottaGo.
** Speaking of which, we learn ''way too much'' information about [[{{Geek}} Harold's]] sex life (or lack thereof) ''throughout'' the book.
** In the full-length version of the book , one character is sodomised with a pistol barrel.
** The "Woman Zoo," which also counts as {{NightmareFuelUnleaded}}.
** Alternatively, [[http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/stand-joint.jpg the dead body Larry finds in the lavatory]] with a swollen neck the size of a tire, which squicks out Larry in-work.
* TearJerker: Frannie sewing up a body bag for her dead father and burying him in his garden. All while singing "Amazing Grace".
** Every time when [[spoiler: Tom is travelling back to Boulder]] and looks forward to [[spoiler:"seeing Nick again."]] Oh, the irony.
* {{Wangst}}: Harold (referenced in-work). At one point,]] he realizes that holding on to his old high school grudges is stupid and pathetic... until events conspire to [[spoiler:drive him to TheDarkSide]].
** Even more blatant in the miniseries, when Harold is [[HollywoodHomely played by Corin Nemec]]. The whole arc about how Harold started out universally hated for being fat and ugly with a personality to match, and later begins losing weight and taking better care of himself as he becomes more accepted and valued by his peers, suffers a bit when he's actually a quite handsome guy who just has a slightly nerdy hairdo and outfit before a subtle attack of TheGlassesGottaGo.
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* FridgeLogic: Stu dooms America to destruction when he shuts off Hap's pumps at the very beginning!
** Of course, Campion had already made it across a huge swath of America by then. Arguably, he'd already infected enough people to doom the world.
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