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2 | ->I glance down through my orb-like [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and am reminded of the perverse reality; the stretched claws that end the two toes on each of my feet...the five elongated digits on each of my hands...the pale grey skin...antennae over a metre long giving a flick from the holes in my hat...\ |
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4 | That thought's running through my head again...\ |
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6 | ''How'd it all come down to this''? |
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10 | [[TheMothman Moth-man]] is your average insect/[[HalfHumanHybrid human]] hybrid, hiding from the world in general and trying to get revenge on the [[MadScientist mad scientists]] who made him the way he is. |
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12 | Nina is a part-time barmaid who aspires to be a zoologist and is helping some friends do a documentary on a "Moth-man" sighted in the area so she can get her mind off of her ex-boyfriend. |
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14 | Things are about to get very dangerous, very fast for the pair of them, when a lot of creepy cultists, murderous robots, and a man surrounded by crows all get thrown into the mix. |
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16 | A YoungAdult debut novel by Brad Fear, it borrows certain elements from the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothman Mothman sightings in Point Pleasant, WV]]. It's not so much a retelling of the event as an off-shoot "what if". A sequel, ''A Siren Song for the Stricken'', was published in 2010. |
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18 | Not related to ''Literature/TheMothmanProphecies'', save for the fact that Mothman is in both. |
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21 | !!This book provides examples of: |
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23 | * AfraidOfNeedles: Ozzy hates them. Given how he was a captive of [[MadScientist Dr. Wu]] for quite some time, this is understandable. |
24 | %%* AwesomeAussie: Ozzy |
25 | * BodyHorror: The effects of the experiments done on both Moth-man and Ozzy. [[spoiler:Also what happens to anyone infected with The Swarm's genetically engineered wasps.]] |
26 | * {{Cult}}: The Swarm |
27 | %%* DarkActionGirl: Nymph |
28 | %%* DeadpanSnarker: Moth-man. [[spoiler:When he was human, he apparently picked it up from the amount of TV and books he went through.]] |
29 | * EvilutionaryBiologist: Dante Eclipse, who believes that humanity is unable to adapt to new environments, unlike every other species alive, and thus must either be spliced into insect-people or killed. |
30 | * FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: The last fight goes into quite a lot of detail about the injuries everyone receives, including Ozzy having ''his arm snapped off''. |
31 | * {{Hikikomori}}: Brett, because of his Xeroderma Pigmentosum, spent quite a lot of time indoors before dating Nina. After he [[spoiler:gets Melanoma from being out in the sun too much]], he stays inside to such an extent that it alarms his friends. |
32 | * IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: The end of the book has Nina telling Moth-man about how she wrote everything in her diary. Moth-man suggests she hold on to it, in case she ever wants to turn it into a book. He also suggests [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall putting his own chapters in first person]]. |
33 | * MadnessMantra: When Moth-man was held in the lab, he'd scream over and over to himself [[spoiler:''Nina...Nina...Nina...Nina...]] |
34 | %%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Dante Eclipse. |
35 | * ObviouslyEvil: Dante Eclipse. Terrifying white mask? Check. Synthesized voice? Check. Every inch of him covered so there's no identifying him? Check. [[spoiler:Desire to completely destroy humanity, in one way or another?]] Ohhhh, check! Lampshaded by Moth-man, who wonders how [[spoiler:Tony Reisman was actually ''surprised'' to be betrayed by this guy.]] |
36 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Ozzy. Moth-man figured him to be in his mid-thirties, but apparently [[spoiler:he was a war criminal experimented on by Dr. Wu as early as the 1960s, or even before then.]] |
37 | * PapaWolf: Ozzy ''really'' doesn't like children being hurt or abused. |
38 | * PaedoHunt: Child molesters really do not sit well with Ozzy. At all. At one point, Moth-man recalls how [[spoiler:Ozzy had him bring in a man who molested and killed several children, yet got off with a light sentence]]. Later, Moth-man is able to tempt Ozzy into helping him with the possibility of bringing in a child molester for him to kill, along with the lawyer who got the man out of prison. |
39 | * PlayingWithSyringes: More than a few scientists do this. The end results include Ozzy, Moth-man, [[spoiler:the Swarm, and Jack Daw]]. |
40 | * PointOfDivergence: The story opens with the author explaining that the events of this book occurred through vague circumstances involving a Polish scientist and a honeybee, neither of which interacted in our timeline. |
41 | * PowerUpgradingDeformation: Ozzy and Moth-man. |
42 | * ProneToSunburn: Brett has a skin condition that causes him to easily sunburn, which fuels his [[TheShutIn shut-in]] tendencies. Learning that he can contract melanoma from sunburns only makes things worse. |
43 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Moth-man has some very creepy red eyes. |
44 | * TearsOfFear: When Tony Reisman learns that [[spoiler:he was impregnated by hundreds of wasp larvae, who are in the process of chewing their way out of his stomach.]] |
45 | * TheReveal: Moth-man used to be [[spoiler:Brett, Nina's boyfriend]]. |
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