Line #40 Literature/AMacabreMythOfAMothMan


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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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