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10	''One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone.''
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12	He just vanished - along with everyone else over the age of 14 in a 20-mile radius around Perdido Beach, California, which is also now enclosed by an opaque, impenetrable dome. The children left behind find themselves battling hunger, fear, and one another in a novel [[TeenageWasteland strongly reminiscent of William Golding's]] ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''. [[FromBadToWorse Things go from bad to worse]] when some of the children begin exhibiting strange powers, animals show signs of freakish mutations, and people disappear as soon as they turn 15.
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14	Written by Creator/MichaelGrant.
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16	There are six books in the series:
17	* ''Gone'' (2008)
18	* ''Hunger'' (2009)
19	* ''Lies'' (2010)
20	* ''Plague'' (2011)
21	* ''Fear'' (2012)
22	* ''Light'' (2013)
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24	Now has [[Characters/{{Gone}} a character sheet]].
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26	In July 2013, author Michael Grant announced that he had sold the rights of the series to ''Sony TV'', who claimed to be interested in adapting the series into a TV show. As of 2018, the project is in DevelopmentHell.
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28	A SequelSeries titled ''Monster'' started in 2017. It is a trilogy, consisting of:
29	* ''Monster'' (2017)
30	* ''Villain'' (2018)
31	* ''Hero'' (2019)
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33	No relation to the 2012 Creator/AmandaSeyfried [[Film/Gone2012 film]] of the same name.
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35	!!The series provides examples of the following tropes:
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37	* AbdicateTheThrone: The leadership of Perdido Beach is like a game of musical chairs. Caine waltzed in and took over, but left after the end of ''Gone''. Sam then took over for ''Hunger'', and then got tired of the responsibility and gave the leadership to the Town Council in ''Lies'', run by Astrid. That turned out to be a disaster, so Sam returned as of ''Plague''. Sam then left again for the Lake Tramonto settlement at the end, so [[spoiler: Caine came back and became the absolute ruler of Perdido Beach.]] That works for a little while, but only until ''Light'' - Sam and Caine both leave to look for [[spoiler: Gaia]], so [[spoiler: Edilio becomes the final Mayor of Perdido Beach, and actually maintains that position until the barrier comes down.]]
38	* AboveTheInfluence: Averted every time the characters drink.
39	** In ''Plague'', [[spoiler: Taylor took advantage of Sam and made out with him when he was drunk.]]
40	** Orc's entire character arc consists of this, particularly in ''Plague'', when [[spoiler: he accidentally kills a little kid when he was drunk.]]
41	** In ''Fear'', Cigar gets drunk and accidentally kills a fellow fisherman.
42	* AcidRefluxNightmare: Sam, after eating canned asparagus.
43	* ActionGirl: Lana, Dekka, Brianna, Taylor, Penny, Brittany..... it would be easier to list the exceptions (Astrid, Mary, and Diana), though even they have their moments. [[spoiler: As of ''Fear'' Astrid definitely counts as a full on ActionGirl]]
44	* AdultsAreUseless:
45	** Well, they aren't even there...[[spoiler: And when one gets pulled in by accident, he quickly goes insane and inadvertently helps resurrect Drake.]]
46	** [[spoiler: Averted in ''Fear'' when Connie attempts to stop the government from bombing the FAYZ.]]
47	* AerithAndBob: We go all the way from Sam to Drake to Astrid to Caine to Zil to Orsay.
48	** Lampshaded with Nerezza:
49	-->'''Turk''': Weird name.\
50	'''Nerezza''': Yes, it is.
51	%%* AffablyEvil: Caine, mostly.
52	%%* AfterTheEnd
53	* AlliterativeName: '''L'''ana '''L'''azar and '''E'''dilio '''E'''scobar.
54	* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:Brittney and Drake]] being buried alive.
55	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Dekka to Brianna during her "surgery". Brianna doesn't take it too well.]]
56	* AnyoneCanDie: At the beginning of ''Hunger'', the list of people alive in Perdido Beach is at 332, and at least sixty names come up on a regular basis. By the end, [[spoiler: 136 are dead.]]
57	* ArcWords:
58	** For everyone in ''Hunger'': "Hungry in the dark."
59	** For Astrid in ''Plague'': [[spoiler: "A simple act of murder..."]]
60	** For Little Pete in ''Light'': "It is not okay to hit."
61	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Drake, he burns frogs, [[MicrowaveTheDog microwaves a puppy]], and draws pictures of weapons.
62	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Astrid points out that there is no gene for shooting lasers out of your hands. Justified, however, [[spoiler: when it is revealed that the meteor that carried The Darkness seems to have [[RealityWarper broken]] [[RewritingReality reality.]]]]
63	%%* AscendedFanboy: Duck Zhang.
64	* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Little Pete, after his body dies at the end of ''Plague'']].
65	* AmbiguouslyGay: Zil Sperry. Whenever he gets a CharacterFocus chapter, a lot of it is him admiring Lance and his looks.
66	* AnyoneCanDie: Following in the footsteps of ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'', the series has a surprisingly high body count for a YA book series. For the record, those who are confirmed to have made it out of the FAYZ are [[spoiler: [[TheHero Sam]], [[DramaQueen Astrid]], [[DeadpanSnarker Diana]], [[BigGood Edilio]], Dekka, [[TheLoad Quinn]], [[TheMedic Lana]], [[JerkAss Al]][[KarmaHoudini bert]], Taylor and the Artful Roger.]] This is just the major characters - anyone else's fates are debatable.
67	* TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Sam takes the lead during the FAYZ, despite being completely average during normal circumstances. Taking charge when things get tough and attempting (not always succeeding) to go back to being a OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent is an established character trait for [[TheLeader Sam]]. Even before the FAYZ, when he saved a busload of his classmates from going over a cliff. Though, completely [[AvertedTrope averted]] with most of the other characters.
68	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Drake and Brittany. [[SharingABody Together.]]]]
69	* BadassBookworm: Computer Jack, highly capable in computers... [[SuperStrength And kicking your ass]]. [[spoiler: As of ''Fear'' this trope applies to Astrid as well]]
70	* BadassNormal: Edilio. Drake and Orc were also this before gaining powers.
71	* BerserkButton: Little Pete is quite sensitive to loud noises, roughhousing, and threatening Astrid. His yet-to-be-clarified power makes this an extremely dangerous button to press.
72	** Do ''not'' threaten Brianna in Jack's presence. It makes him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's [[SuperStrength angry.]]
73	*** Threatening Brianna seems to be a bad idea all around. Dekka had a similar if not worse reaction.
74	** Drake pushes this intentionally to draw Sam, Dekka and Jack out. Thanks to [[LivingLieDetector Toto]], it doesn't work.
75	--> '''Drake''': I whipped her, Sam. I broke her legs so she couldn't run. [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization I think she liked it]]. (grins) She was screaming, but she liked it.
76	** Speaking of Drake, implying that he was a SonOfAWhore enraged the StrawMisogynist to the point of ''[[spoiler: whipping Diana to the point of fainting]]''.
77	* BigBlackout: In ''Hunger'', the entire FAYZ undergoes a blackout due to the Coates students, manipulated by the Gaiaphage, messing with the local power plant. They are never able to get electricity back.
78	* BigCreepyCrawlies: The bugs from ''Plague''.
79	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Only a little more than half the kids in the FAYZ actually survive, and they're highly traumatized, with 3 committing suicide, an unknown number getting addicted to drugs and alcohol and most if not all breaking down crying in shopping malls or grocery stores. Exactly as you'd expect. [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding The lead characters do end up in a better situation]], however: Sam's emancipated and living on his own with Astrid, who's now rich due to her movie deal; Diana, despite losing Caine is living with them, Lana and Quinn's lives return to normal quickly, Edilio is still living in the U.S., is openly gay and has Roger, and Dekka's parents don't harass her about her sexuality and she pays tribute to Brianna.]]
80	* BizarreBabyBoom: Some of the kids develop powers [[spoiler: due to the meteorite spreading the nuclear fallout.]]
81	* BlatantLies: Caine's expertise.
82	-->'''Emily:''' You can get the lights back on?\
83	'''Caine:''' I can. It would take about a week.
84	%%** Astrid. There's a REASON she's on the cover of ''Lies''.
85	** Surprisingly averted by Howard in ''Lies'' when [[spoiler: Astrid wants him to lie about Brittney and Drake.]]
86	* BodyHorror:
87	** [[spoiler: E.Z (and later Cigar) ]] getting eating alive from the inside out by mutated killer worms in ''Hunger'' and ''Fear'' respectively.
88	** The parasitic insects in ''Plague'' grow [[spoiler: inside their human victims, and eat their insides before [[ChestBurster bursting out of their chests.]]]]
89	** Also from ''Plague'', [[spoiler: Brittney/Drake being cut in three by Brianna.]]
90	*** [[spoiler: Brittney/Drake goes through a lot, starting right when they got to claw their way out of a grave.]]
91	** In ''Fear'' [[spoiler: it is revealed what happened to Francis and Mary, who "poofed" in ''Lies''. They lose their eyes and mouths, their memories are mangled, and they are apparently too disgusting to describe in detail. The person who found Mary called animal control first because he thought she was a dead bear.]]
92	*** Also in ''Fear'', [[spoiler: Cigar is left at Penny's mercy from sunrise to sunset, and she, among other brutalities, makes him claw his own eyes out.]]
93	* BoisterousBruiser: Brianna is a tough fighter who is very enthusiastic about her power and skill, and wanting to be a "superhero" who takes charge in every fight.
94	* BreakTheCutie: Most of the characters undergo this at some point
95	** Special note goes out to [[spoiler: Brittany]]. When introduced she is a sweet, loving, devoutly Christian girl. Then she: [[spoiler: A. Is brutally murdered; B. Finds out her power is scoring a IV on the SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration; C. Suffers [[MindScrew hallucinations]] of [[EldritchAbomination what appears to be]] her dead little brother; and D. Is SharingABody with [[TheSociopath Drake Merwin]].]] It's no wonder the poor girl [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn snaps]]]] when she finally meets [[BigBad the Darkness]].
96	%%** Diana. Dear god, Diana. ''Fear'' has not been kind to her.
97	** Also from ''Fear'': [[spoiler:Dekka is forced to believe that the bugs are inside her again by Penny, reducing her to a sobbing mess in the dirt]]:
98	---> [[spoiler:''Have a good laugh. See what you did to me. Make me brave and then break me. Make me strong and leave me weeping in the dirt.'']]
99	* BringMeMyBrownPants:
100	** Andrew wets himself when he realizes Caine has come back to Coates.
101	** Drake wets himself after Sam burns his arm off.
102	* BrokenAce: Lance is smart, athletic, handsome, and was popular before the poof. He's also a [[FantasticRacism Fantastic Racist]].
103	* BrotherSisterIncest: The romance between Jack and Brianna is absolutely hilarious if you've seen this quote from his wife, K. A. Applegate:
104	-->I don't usually use real people. Michael used the kids for ''Gone'' and then ended up horrified when he realized he'd hooked up our "son" and "daughter" romantically.
105	%%* BullyingADragon: Pretty much all the normal kids towards the freaks.
106	* BystanderSyndrome: The attitude of 90% of the Perdido Beach kids.
107	* CameBackWrong: Brittney's powers allow her to come BackFromTheDead, which turns horrifying when [[spoiler:Drake gets attached to her and regenerates with her, leaving to them being fused into one person with Drake taking over at times. Brittney is horrified by having to share a body with TheSociopath Drake, and desperately wants to die to save everyone from him.]]
108	* CameFromTheSky: In the backstory, a meteor crashed into Perdido Beach's nuclear power plant and killed a worker there, which turned out to contain [[spoiler: a being created by aliens to spread life to other worlds, which is mutated by the radiation to become [[EldritchAbomination the Gaiaphage]], which becomes a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent as well as the BigBad of the series.]]
109	* CanonDisContinuity: Astrid's power disappeared after book one. She forgot about it, her boyfriend did, and you're supposed to, too. [[WordOfGod Michael Grant]] has said in interviews that he wishes he'd never put it in.
110	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The missiles in the train car that Sam, Dekka, Toto, and Jack discover in ''Plague''. They become a minor plot point in ''Fear'', and one of them ends up killing Orc in ''Light''.]]
111	* ChekhovsGunman: Duck Zhang in ''Hunger''. He has the power to change his mass, from able to float to sinking through the ground. The sinking through the ground part turns out to be the [[spoiler: only way to defeat the Gaiaphage, pulling it down to the bottom of the ball where it's trapped for a few books.]]
112	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Averted, subverted, inverted, played every way but straight.
113	* ChildSoldiers: Edilio trains soldiers, including Brittney, to defend the power plant in ''Hunger''. Given that there are no adults around, said soldiers are all children under 15.
114	* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Brianna, or "Breeze". She spends most of her time rushing off to impress people with her powers and will, whenever trouble arises, blindly try to take out the threat herself - which nearly gets her killed several times. [[spoiler:This is deconstructed during her POV chapters in ''Fear''; the "stain" means she will not be able to use her powers, and she's afraid of being a disappointment to Sam if she doesn't kill Drake before that happens.]]
115	** [[spoiler: It eventually does get her killed, in ''Light''. [[DidntThinkThisThrough It probably wasn't a good idea to repeatedly charge Gaia with bad vision on one eye.]]]]
116	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A lot of minor characters end up subject to this e.g. Cookie, John, Lisa and Jill.
117	* ColdBloodedTorture: Drake's speciality
118	** Most obvious example is in ''Hunger'' when he [[spoiler: forces Sam to submit to a vicious whipping, with no intent of stopping before killing him]]
119	** Also, in ''Fear'' [[spoiler: Penny]] does this, first to [[spoiler: Cigar]], and then to [[spoiler: Dekka]]. [[spoiler: Caine]] employs her for this very reason, to act as a punishment for lawbreakers.
120	* CombatSadomasochist: ''Drake''. Attacking him usually results in him cheering that he's "unkillable" and then murdering you.
121	** To make matters creepier, he gets stabbed in the chest and finds it hilarious.
122	--> '''Drake:''' (grins) "This should be fun." Then [[spoiler: with his real hand,]] he drew the knife out of his chest, slowly, as if relishing every inch of steel.
123	%%** [[spoiler: GAIA full stop.]]
124	%%* ControlFreak: Astrid.
125	* CoversAlwaysLie: The author has expressed some confusion over the fact that the American covers appear to have been designed for a romance.
126	* CrapsackWorld: Having no adults around leads to things quickly falling apart, with the characters having to deal with starvation, lack of water, and constant political chaos, along with the difficulties that come with taking care of the young children with no adults around. Add to that the mutated animals like intelligent, ruthless coyotes and worms that eat people alive, the horrible and sociopathic people running around including some who are spreading hate against people with powers to the point of lynch mobs, and the EldritchAbomination that wants to kill them all, and things aren't very fun. [[spoiler: By the end, 40% of the FAYZ's population ends up dead]].
127	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Too many to count, [[spoiler: but EZ being eaten alive by mutated worms certainly comes to mind.]] And anyone who Drake kills, with his favored method of slowly whipping people to death. And the kids eaten by coyotes during the Thanksgiving Battle. And the kids who get thrown through a wall by Caine. [[spoiler: And Panda's suicide]], particularly because of [[IAmAHumanitarian what happened afterwards]]. Much of the deaths in ''Plague'' count as well.
128	%%** Two words: [[spoiler: Howard. Bassem.]]
129	%%** Every single freaking death in ''Light''. [[spoiler: Poor Brianna. And Orc.]]
130	* CruelCoyotes: Lana encounters a pack of coyotes who have enhanced intelligence, with the leader being able to talk. They serve the Gaiaphage (the EldritchAbomination BigBad) and kill many children in the FAYZ.
131	* CycleOfRevenge: We get one throughout ''Fear'', filled with DisproportionateRetribution. It starts out when Cigar gets drunk and accidentally murders a fellow fisherman. As punishment, [[spoiler: Caine sentences him to a day with Penny. She causes him to go insane and gouge his own eyes out.]] To avenge this, Quinn and the other fisherman refuse to fish until [[spoiler: Caine makes Penny leave.]] So, he tries to, but this makes Penny mad. As revenge, she [[spoiler: drugs him, cements his hands, and staples an aluminum crown to his forehead.]] Finally, Caine ends the cycle when he [[spoiler: crushes Penny's head with a rock, killing her.]]
132	* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: Anybody 15 and up disappears when the FAYZ is formed, and if you turn 15 while inside the FAYZ then you disappear as well. [[spoiler: Although the kids learn how to stay there by the end of the first book]].
133	* DarkIsEvil: [[spoiler: Seeing as how the BigBad is literally called "The Darkness", that's definitely a no-brainer]].
134	* DarkerAndEdgier: Each book seems to get progressively darker, except for ''Lies'', which was about on the same level as ''Hunger''. Not that it started out on a light note, though. ''Fear'' is this on a very literal level.
135	** ''Light'' is a really good example.
136	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Diana and Howard have this trope down.
137	* DeathOfAChild: And how. Sam and some others find a dead baby inside an abandoned house. [[spoiler: Also, the final battle scene in the end of ''Gone'' kills a lot of children.]]
138	* DisabilitySuperpower: Astrid's little brother, Little Pete, who is severely autistic.
139	%%* DisasterDemocracy
140	* DisproportionateRetribution: In ''Fear'' Cigar kills a fellow fisherman in a drunken brawl. Since he committed murder, [[spoiler: Caine sentences him to Penny for a day. 30 minutes was enough to cause a ''two-day state of shock'' in the previous victim. Even Caine is horrified at the [[EyeScream end result]].]]
141	** Also from ''Fear'', Caine asks Penny to leave Perdido Beach after the backlash from what she did to Cigar. [[spoiler: So she drugs him, traps his hands in a cement block, and staples an aluminum crown to his forehead.]]
142	* DomedHometown: After the adults disappear, there is a barrier around Perdido Beach.
143	* {{Doorstopper}}: While averaged sized for most adult novels, at 500 to 600 pages a piece, the books are gigantic for young adult novels. They are steadily decreasing in length as the series draws to its conclusion, however.
144	* DrivenToSuicide:
145	** [[spoiler: Mary. It doesn't take, and she reappears outside of the FAYZ, with... with... [[BodyHorror Oh God]]...]]
146	** [[spoiler: Panda, by the beginning of ''Lies.'']] Also, Jasmine.
147	** [[spoiler: Orc tries in ''Plague''.]]
148	** [[spoiler: Hunter, also in ''Plague'' with the bugs.]]
149	** [[spoiler: And countless more unnamed during the FAYZ, as well as three who made it out.]]
150	* {{Duck}}: Brianna is yelling for Duck, and confuses a lot of people.
151	* DumbBlonde: Inverted by Astrid the Genius. Lampshaded when Lana meets the main characters and is surprised that Astrid is intelligent.
152	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
153	** Astrid had a power in the first book to sense somebody's destiny, which hasn't been used since.
154	** Little Petey's handheld game was specifically referred to as a "Game Boy" in ''Gone.'' Every book since just calls it a [[BlandNameProduct his video game]]. Though, it might be because by the time the first book was released, the Game Boy had since been obsolete in favor of the Nintendo DS.
155	** Penny gets annoyed when Bug uses his powers to peep on her while she's dressing. ''Fear'' later establishes that she ReallyGetsAround and would have loved to get that kind of attention.
156	* EarnYourHappyEnding
157	* EasilyForgiven:
158	%% ** Sam Temple.
159	** Deconstructed with Astrid, everything she has done from ''Lies'' and onward follows her.
160	* EldritchAbomination: The Darkness. Giant pile of living rock that represents itself in telepathic hallucinations as a giant floating mouth.
161	%%* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Obviously.
162	* EnemyMine: All over the place.
163	** Caine teams up with [[spoiler: Sam, Brianna and Duck]] in the climax of ''Hunger'' to defeat [[spoiler: Drake and the Gaiaphage]]
164	** Caine forms a temporary truce with [[spoiler: Anti-mutant racists the Human Crew to distract Sam]] in ''Lies''
165	** In ''Plague'' Sam requests [[spoiler: Caine]]'s help in [[spoiler: Saving Perdido Beach from the bugs]] as he can't, and [[spoiler: Caine]] then is forced to [[spoiler: fight alongside Brianna]] in the climax
166	** Cain (again, noticing a pattern?) [[spoiler: and Sam (and Quinn temporarily)]] hunt down [[spoiler: Drake, Diana and Gaia]] together in the climax of ''Fear''
167	** By ''Light'' Cain [[spoiler: isn't even pretending to be a bad guy.]] He jumps at the chance to [[spoiler: team up with Sam to fight Gaia, and spends most of the book on the side of the heroes]]
168	* EnergyWeapon: Sam's ability, when being used offensively.
169	* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Gaia]], so very much. Within the ''four hours'' [[spoiler: from her birth]] to the end of ''Fear'', she manages to [[spoiler: torture Penny after she accidentally drops her and then laugh at the scene, laugh, once more, at seeing terrified children ''walk into a fire'' due to Penny's visions and forcing her mother to relieve her horrible memories of eating Panda]]. And that's not all... She also attempts to [[spoiler: kill both her own father, Caine, by trying to crush him against the FAYZ barrier]] and [[spoiler: Sam, by trying to rip him apart via telekinesis]]. Thankfully, she doesn't succeed in any of the two cases.
170	* EnsembleCast: While Sam could generally be called the protagonist (though there are always large portions of the story not focused on him), ''Lies'' moves all the way into this trope, with Sam getting equal or less attention than Astrid's struggle to lead the council and care for her brother, Sanjit and the island kids trying to fly to the mainland, power struggles among the Coates kids, Mary's growing mental problems, and many other subplots with the rest of the characters.
171	%%* EtTuBrute Sam and Quinn in the first book.
172	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: All the Coates kids have something or someone capable of humanizing them... Except Drake, that kid [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] a ''long'' time ago and is proud of it.
173	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Caine is understandably appalled at [[spoiler: what Penny did to Cigar in the twelve hours she had him. To put it simply, she ''tortured him to insanity.'' When Lana regenerates his eyes he thinks back to some of the hallucinations she caused, and we get to see them.]]
174	%%* EvilOverlordList: Caine fails at 17, 24, 55, 61, 100, 111, 115, 131, 151, 164, 223 and possibly [[spoiler: 18 and 19]]. He actually follows 199.
175	%%** [[spoiler: 19. Only the reason for the rule is averted.]]
176	* [[spoiler: ExpressDelivery]]: [[spoiler: Diana's pregnancy]] develops at an accelerated pace, probably because [[spoiler: the baby in question is a mutant.]]
177	* EyeScream: [[spoiler: What ever is left of Cigar's eyes after Lana tries to regrow them.]]
178	* {{Expy}}: Several characters are reminiscent of Michael Grant's previous series with wife K.A. Applegate:
179	** Sam is very similar to [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Jake]] in terms of taking charge and being looked at as a leader figure. There's also a bit of [[Literature/{{Remnants}} Jobs's]] dreamer, kind-hearted soul there too.
180	** Astrid is an interesting mix of [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Ax,]] [[Literature/EverWorld Jalil,]] and [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} Cassie.]] She loves science and analyzing things like Ax, is a rational thinker much like Jalil but she's every bit of the heart and TeamMom that Cassie was.
181	** Dekka is basically a transplanted [[Literature/{{Remnants}} Tate]], with shades of Rachel. The only difference? This time, Grant got to actually state explicitly that she was lesbian. So most of the fandom agrees that it's justified.
182	** Caine has every bit of [[Literature/{{Remnants}} Yago's]] ambition and ruthlessness and Diana is as manipulative and cunning as [[Literature/{{Remnants}} 2Face]].
183	** Penny has every bit of [[Literature/{{Everworld}} Senna's]] trickery and instinct for destruction, and just like Senna, she [[spoiler: [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumps Off the Slippery Slope]] right before her death.]]
184	** [[spoiler: Gaia is very similar to [[Literature/{{Remnants}} the baby]]]]
185	* FaithHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Britney in ''Plague''. Also Astrid, after seriously questioning her faith, becomes much more of an AntiHero]].
186	* FantasticRacism:
187	** Regular kids against the Moofs (mutant freaks).
188	** Quinn at his lowest points resorts to ''actual'' racism, usually against Edilio. In fact, nearly every villain refers to Edilio as "the Mexican". Lampshaded in the second book by Edilio himself:
189	--->'''Edilio:''' I'm not just your good-looking Mexican sidekick.\
190	'''Sam:''' You're not Mexican, you're Honduran.\
191	'''Edilio:''' Sometimes I forget.
192	** In ''Plague'', Lance goes full-out racist and blames blacks, gays, Mexicans and Jews for all his problems, as well as freaks.
193	* FilleFatale: Diana, to some extent, although [[TeenageWasteland relative to the rest of the FAYZ]], fourteen isn't that young.
194	* FillerArc: The entire Human Crew plot had no real lasting effect on anything.
195	* FireForgedFriends:
196	** ''"Brittney had no romantic feelings for Edilio, but what she had went a lot deeper. She would rather burn for eternity in the hottest fires of hell than let Edilio down. "'' [[spoiler: This goes entirely out the window in ''Plague'' after she goes crazy.]]
197	** Dekka and Sam:
198	-->'''Sam:''' I don't want to sound weird, but you know I love you, right?\
199	'''Dekka:''' Love you too, Sam.
200	** [[spoiler: Diana has become this with Astrid and Sam at the end of ''Light''.]]
201	* FromBadToWorse: The series can very well be the poster child for it. How does an (already-isolated) California town caught between a desert, a school for "difficult" children of rich kids, and a nuclear power plant that's cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable barrier, with no adults and an EldritchAbomination with numerous beasts at its command that are trying to kill the kids of this town get worse? Food shortages, FantasticRacism, (and ACTUAL racism) an indestructible psychopath with a whip hand get added into the mix, and said EldritchAbomination gets more and more dangerous. How does that get worse? Suddenly there's a plague and nigh-indestructible bugs trying to kill everyone! Then the barrier goes black and everything goes dark. And then ''Light'' happens.
202	* FunWithAcronyms: The '''F'''allout '''A'''lley '''Y'''outh '''Z'''one.
203	-->'''Howard''': "Don't worry about it. It's just a [[IncrediblyLamePun FAYZ!]]"
204	** The E.Z Killers (mutated worms), or "zekes".
205	** The SDC, "supernatural death cough."
206	* GallowsHumor:
207	-->'''Quinn:''' It looks like the world's worst picnic.\
208	'''Astrid:''' [[LampshadeHanging I believe that's what's referred to as Gallows Humor.]]
209	* GenderBlenderName : Quinn is a boy.
210	* GladToBeAliveSex: In ''Plague'', Diana has a ShowerOfAngst while thinking about her NearDeathExperience in the last book. She walks back to her bedroom wrapped in a ModestyTowel to find Caine sitting on her bed. He gives her an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove that quickly progresses into them having TheirFirstTime via a SexyDiscretionShot.
211	-->"Diana took a step back, unwound the towel, and [[DressHitsFloor let it drop]]. Caine [[GibberishOfLove made a sound like a strangling animal]]."
212	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: When she meets the Darkness in ''Plague'', [[spoiler: Brittany]] goes mad and comes to believe that it is God.
213	* GoshDangitToHeck: Diana is often referred to as witch, instead of the obvious swear word bitch.
214	** She actually refers to ''herself'' as a bitch in ''Plague'', subverting this trope.
215	* GreyAndGrayMorality: The good guys are not wholly good, and the bad guys are not wholly evil. Except for Drake; he's just plain crazy.
216	* GrievousHarmWithABody: Caine throws [[spoiler: Duck at the Darkness. It doesn't seem like much, but Duck has altered his mass to that of a ''mountain''.]]
217	* HarmfulToTouch: Touching the barrier feels like sticking your entire arm in an electrical outlet. Which becomes a bit of a problem when [[spoiler: Orsay's prophecies require her to touch it semi-constantly.]]
218	* HateSink: While most of the villains have too big of a FreudianExcuse or can be argued to fall into the EvilIsCool category, there are 2 examples written solely for the readers to hate:
219	** Lance stands out as the only member of the Human Crew with no tragic background or redeeming qualities, while having all of the xenophobic and sadistic personality traits of the other members. He is also racist and a total coward, as shown by his begging for mercy after being shot by Edilio.
220	** [[InvisibleJerkass Bug]] is a complete pervert who uses his powers to sneak into girls rooms and watch them undress. While he did come from an abusive household, this doesn't explain his sexual deviancy and is barely touched on in the narrative. He also appears to have [[KarmaHoudini survived the FAYZ]] when so many more likable characters didn't.
221	* HeelFaceTurn: Almost all of Caine's team does this at one point or another. [[spoiler: Computer Jack, Orc, Howard, Diana, and eventually even Caine himself all do it.]]
222	* TheHero: Mercilessly deconstructed with Sam who by the end of ''Hunger'', [[spoiler: gets so fed up with the stress and dealing with everyone else's problems that he quits.]]
223	* HeroicBSOD: Sam and Lana, in ''Lies''.
224	** Dekka, [[spoiler:after Penny's visions made her think she had the bugs in her again.]]
225	** Dekka ''again'' [[spoiler: after Brianna dies.]]
226	** Edilio too [[spoiler: after he thinks Roger dies.]]
227	* HerosFirstRescue: Sam runs into a burning apartment building to rescue a little girl. Subverted as this isn't Sam's first heroic act (pre-powers, though), he only ran in because no one else would and [[spoiler: the girl dies anyway]]. It does, however, mark him as a hero and a leader in the strange new world for FAYZ, [[ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne to his chagrin.]]
228	* HeroicSacrifice:
229	** [[spoiler: Duck dies in order to defeat the Darkness]]
230	** [[spoiler: SenselessSacrifice: Guess who survives anyway.]]
231	** Later, [[spoiler: Caine gives his body to the disembodied spirit of Little Pete so he can finally kill the Gaiaphage. He also completely destroys his own reputation in a letter written beforehand to save Sam from the law, claiming he made him do bad things with his powers.]]
232	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Howard and Orc. Sam and Quinn [[FaceHeelTurn originally]]. And also female example with Orsay and Nerezza in the third book.
233	* HighHeelFaceTurn: Zig-Zagged with Diana. Throughout the series, she's probably the least outwardly loyal Coates kid, often to the point of sabotaging their plans, but is the only one that actually cares about Caine. She stays even after half the team [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turns]] but is openly critical of how things are being done. [[spoiler:Finally, in ''Plague'', she leaves for good.]] But she remains on her own side the whole time, so there's no technical change.
234	%%* HomeschooledKids:
235	%%** Emily and her brother, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Brother]]. Well, before the FAYZ, anyways.
236	%%** And Orsay.
237	* HoneyTrap: This is mainly how Diana manipulates people, most notably [[spoiler: Computer Jack in ''Hunger'']].
238	%%* HowDoIShotWeb: Most mutants
239	* ICannotSelfTerminate:
240	** [[spoiler: Brittney begging Sam to kill her (and Drake) in ''Lies'' and ''Plague''.]]
241	** In ''Plague'' [[spoiler: after Dekka gets hit by a greenie.]]
242	--> '''Dekka:''' Don't let it happen. Swear to me Sam. Swear it to me by God or by your own soul or whatever you believe, swear to me, Sam.
243	--> '''Sam:''' I won't let it happen, Dekka. I swear it.
244	*** [[spoiler: He actually does start to let the bugs eat her, and they probably would've succeeded if [[ShootTheDog Astrid hadn't pushed Little Pete out a window.]]]]
245	** Also in ''Plague'', [[spoiler: when Hunter is being [[BodyHorror eaten by the bugs.]]]]
246	** [[spoiler: Sam to Edilio in ''Light'', to stop Gaia from accessing his power.]]
247	* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: One of Dekka's reasons for not telling Brianna she loves her. [[spoiler: Fortunately for her, when she eventually does tell, they're still friends.]]
248	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: It's really hard ''not'' to interpret Drake's comments to Astrid in ''Plague'' this way. Calling her beautiful, winking at her, promising to "come up and play" . . . those aren't usually preludes to whipping somebody's skin off. [[CombatSadoMasochist Of course, with Drake . . .]]
249	* IkeaErotica: [[spoiler: When Sam and Astrid have sex.]]
250	--> [[spoiler: She sighed as he entered her.]]
251	* IncompatibleOrientation: Dekka's crush on Brianna, who is straight.
252	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: The eponymous sickness in ''Plague.''
253	%%** [[spoiler: Averted again near the end of ''Fear'' to a horrifying degree.]]
254	* InstantBirthJustAddLabor: [[spoiler: Diana, at the bottom of a certain mineshaft, with hardly any assistance and not a [[ExpressDelivery lot of preparation either]].]]
255	* ImaginaryFriend: [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spidey]] is Toto's imaginary friend.
256	* IncestSubtext: [[spoiler:Gaia]] in ''Light'' has shades of this towards [[spoiler:both Caine and Sam, making her interactions with them very squicky]].
257	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Caine in ''Plague''. Drake all the time. Penny in ''Fear''.
258	* KarmaHoudini: Albert doesn't get any retribution for abandoning Perdido Beach in ''Fear''. Thanks to a publicity stunt in ''Light'', [[spoiler: he ends up getting interviewed by CNBC, and UsefulNotes/McDonalds pays for his education.]] Thankfully Astrid and Quinn both call him out on this, and Edilio mentions that in spite of how he acted he still saved a lot of lives. And it's implied that he feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a lot of resentment]] over what he's done.
259	%%* LackOfEmpathy:
260	%% ** Drake.
261	%% ** Also, Caine is becoming more this way by ''Lies.''
262	%%** [[spoiler: Gaia]] too.
263	* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler: Diana becomes pregnant quite quickly once her and Caine get down to it, even though not long before that she was very badly starved, which should have had some kind of effect of her fertility/menstrual cycles (it should have stopped them.)]]
264	* LampshadeHanging: Astrid has a habit of pointing out the techniques people use in their speech, e.g. "Rhetorical question" or "Defensive humor."
265	* LittleMissBadass: Arguably, all the female cast, but especially Brianna, one of the youngest ActionGirl of the series.
266	* LoopholeAbuse: The way the kids from the FAYZ escape prosecution? [[spoiler: Prosecutors decided that the FAYZ was a separate dimension, and therefore not under California State Law.]]
267	* LoveMakesYouDumb: This is parodied in ''Plague''.
268	--> '''Virtue''': I'm going to refuse to do puberty. It makes you stupid.
269	* MeaningfulName: The series has a thing for Biblical names: Caine [[spoiler: trying to kill his brother]], ''Mother'' Mary and ''Brother'' John taking care of the children, etc.
270	** Also, Lana "Lazar"; rising from fatal injuries, like the tale of Lazarus.
271	** "Drake" means [[TheDragon "dragon"]].
272	** [[spoiler: Nerezza is Italian for 'darkness'.]]
273	* MercyKillArrangement: Dekka fearing that she is infected by the parasitic bugs that she was trying to kill, makes Sam promise to kill her if it comes to that. Sam [[spoiler:breaks his promise, keeping her alive to do "surgery" on her - physically tearing the bugs out of her body and then having [[HealingHands Lana]] heal the resulting wound]].
274	* MinimalisticCoverArt: The UK/Aus/NZ editions give a much more foreboding feel to the books. The image doesn't even do it justice: the author's name is only visible because of its gloss on an otherwise matte cover.
275	* MonsterFromBeyondTheVeil: [[spoiler: Drake/Brittney in ''Lies''.]]
276	* MoralityPet: Diana for [[BigBad Caine]] , although their relationship does show some abusive patterns on both sides. [[spoiler: In book four, he [[TookALevelInJerkAss takes a level in jerkass]] and drives her away.]]
277	* MrViceGuy : After the events of ''Hunger'', Lana picks up smoking and drinking.
278	* MugglePower: The Human Crew is a type 2.
279	* {{Muggles}}: The non-powered kids, although some of them, such as Astrid, Edilio, Albert, and Quinn play a large role in the plot.
280	* NameOfCain: ''Caine'' is [[spoiler: Sam's]] twin brother.
281	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Caine Sorren, Drake Merwin [[spoiler:WHIPHAND!]], Orc, Mallet, The Gaiaphage, Zil, [[spoiler: Nerezza]].
282	* NarrativeProfanityFilter: All the fucking time.
283	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Human Crew.
284	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Brianna, who during ''Fear'', attempts to rescue Diana and her baby... only to have the Gaiaphage possess it, by way of Penny's visions.]]
285	* NoBisexuals: Sexual orientation is pretty much always discussed in terms of gay/straight, with no indication that someone could be in between, although there is a lot of controversy involving a certain Zil Sperry.
286	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Drake [[spoiler: whips Sam so badly his [[FlayingAlive skin is in tatters]] and is in so much pain he is praying for death, even after being injected with morphine.]]
287	* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Albert gets shot in the head by Lance, yet manages to survive nearly bleeding out.]]
288	** Played with with [[spoiler: Drake.]] He gets (presumably) killed by Caine in ''Hunger'', but returns in ''Lies'' [[spoiler: sharing a body with Brittney.]] Who is also a case, as she gets both legs broken and shot in the chest, yet can't be killed.
289	* NotSoFinalConfession: [[spoiler: Dekka]] confesses her love for [[spoiler: Brianna]] while thinking that she is about to die, but Sam manages to save her by an impromptu surgery with [[HealingHands Lana's]] help.
290	* NotUsingTheZWord: Everyone to Brittney in ''Lies'', though Howard just comes out and says it.
291	* NuclearMutant: The Gaiaphage was initially [[spoiler: a virus created by aliens to spread life which then crashed into a nuclear plant by meteor,]] which combined with [[spoiler:the meteor killing a human and some of that person's DNA being incorporated into the Gaiaphage,]] led to it mutating and becoming a terrifying Eldritch Abomination which [[spoiler:feeds on nuclear fuel.]]
292	* ObsoleteOccupation: Jack is an expert at computers (though it's not his job, given that he is [[TeenageWasteland a kid like everyone else]], in a DomedHometown shut off from any possible internet access. He almost manages to get the internet working anyway until the event of the second book leads to the local power plant failing, making his job completely useless as everyone's computers just slowly run out of battery.
293	* OhCrap: Cain's reaction when [[spoiler: the bugs begin to strain his telekinesis]] in ''Plague''
294	%%* OnlySaneEmployee: Running Perdido Beach, basically.
295	%%* OnePersonOnePower
296	* OneSteveLimit: Averted. ''Plague'' temporarily focuses on three different girls, all named Jennifer, who live together, and it's once mentioned that John is taking care of a boy in the daycare who is also named John. There's also apparently one other boy in the FAYZ named Peter, though he's never seen in-person.
297	* OneWordTitle: Each book has one.
298	* OnlyFatalToAdults: The premise of the story.
299	* OnlySaneMan: Edilio.
300	* {{Panspermia}}: [[spoiler:The gaiaphage is a result of aliens trying to send life to other planets GoneHorriblyWrong.]]
301	%%* ParentalAbandonment: '''EVERYONE.'''
302	* ThePlague: There are two of them in ''Plague'': the supernatural cough of death, and the bugs.
303	* PlayingWithFire: The little girl at the beginning of the first book.
304	* PersonalityPowers: Some of kids gain powers based on their fears
305	** Sam makes light, and is afraid of the dark.
306	** Caine [[spoiler: and Computer Jack]] developed powers to impress Diana
307	** Lana [[spoiler: and Orc]] gained their powers to survive the coyotes.
308	** Bug gained his powers in order to hide from his AbusiveParents.
309	* PetTheDog: Two examples with Caine when he surprisingly tells Computer Jack not to "sell himself short" on his filming of Andrew's poofing, and when he tells Duck Zhang to leave the Gaiaphage's mineshaft while he has the chance.
310	%%* PowerGlows: [[spoiler: Gaia]], occasionally.
311	%%* PowerIncontinence: Jack.
312	* PowerPalms: Most mutant's powers come from their hands. This means that the powers can be shut down by trapping a person's hands somehow, thus Caine gets rid of potential powered rivals at Coates Academy by encasing their hands in concrete.
313	* PowerPerversionPotential: Bug uses his {{invisibility}} to [[ThePeepingTom spy]] on Penny and Dianna changing or [[LingerieScene in their underwear]] a couple of times.
314	** Penny also uses her [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]] to grant people's sexual fantasies.
315	* PregnantHostage: [[spoiler: Poor, poor 15 year old Diana Ladris in ''Fear''. No one bothers trying to bail her out And she's left to give birth in a scorching hot, pitch black mine with two psychopaths who like to torture her. Fans of the character were reasonably miffed.]]
316	* PreserveYourGays: All LGBT characters cross the finish line in the end, in contrast to [[AnyoneCanDie just about everyone else.]]
317	%%* ButchLesbian: Dekka.
318	* PromotionToParent: Basically everyone, but especially Mary.
319	** PlayedForDrama with Sam, who gets so sick of playing the daddy that he quits.
320	** Astrid has to act as a parent to Little Pete due to the adults being gone, which increasingly stresses her and leads to her having moments of cruelty towards her brother.
321	* PureEnergy: Sam can shoot energy beams from his hands.
322	* RaceAgainstTheClock: You disappear when you turn exactly 15 years old. Not a big deal for the little kids, but Sam turns fifteen in eleven days...[[spoiler: It is discovered by Sam and Caine that there is a way to escape disappearing at the end of ''Gone'', so by the second book, ''Hunger'', most people know how to escape it.]]
323	* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: One of the possible sources for the kids' superpowers. Justified because the series takes place in an AlternateUniverse where the laws of science have been rewritten.
324	** Though this is Astrid's initial theory, it turns out [[spoiler: the powers are caused by the Gaiaphage, who themselves was an alien lifeform mutated into what it currently is by radiation.]]
325	* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Quinn initially blames God for the FAYZ, much to the chagrin of Astrid, who's a [[ChristianityIsCatholic practicing Catholic]].
326	** Also, in ''Hunger'', Sam is feeling down, so Astrid mentions that God wouldn't have purposely done them wrong. He says, "To hell with your god."
327	* RandomPowerRanking: Diana has the ability to sense the strength of people's powers. She gives people a ranking in "bars", like the strength of a cellphone signal. Normally they range from 1 to 4, [[spoiler: except for Little Pete, who seems to be about ''10''.]]
328	* RandomTransportation: It's random to everyone but Little Pete.
329	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sam, Astrid and [[spoiler: Edilio]] as the Mayor of Perdido Beach.
330	* ReleasedToElsewhere: People who turn 15 inside the FAYZ [[spoiler: can choose to]] disappear. Nobody knows whether they go outside the FAYZ, go to another dimension, or if they even surive. It's revealed what happens in ''Fear''. [[spoiler: Before the end of the first book, apparently they appeared unscathed. But after Sam and Caine refuse to go, everyone who disappears loses their mouth and eyes, and they become so deformed that they look like roadkill.]]
331	%%* ReluctantWarrior: Sam
332	* RealityWarper: It appears that Little Pete may be one of these, which means that the most powerful person in Perdido Beach is a severely autistic four-year-old. Except maybe [[spoiler: Gaia.]]
333	* ReformationAcknowledgement: Orc -- an eighth grade bully turned {{Accidental Murder}}er -- undergoes a HeelFaithTurn and teams up with the heroes. Shortly before the final battle against Gaia, Astrid assures Orc that he's one of the good guys now, no matter what he did in the past.
334	* RightOnTheTick: The chapter headings are all named after how much time there is, to the second, until the climactic event of the book. In the first book, this event if Sam's 15th birthday, during which he will disappear.
335	* RunningGag: When Caine meets Duck in ''Hunger'' he takes to calling him [[AccidentalMisnaming Goose.]]
336	* SavageWolves: The mutant coyotes in the desert are ruthless followers of the gaiaphage who kill a lot of people over the course of the series.
337	* SeeTheInvisible: Paint is used on [[spoiler:Gaia]] when she tries to copy Bug's invisibility power so everyone will be able to see her.
338	* SelfPlagiarism: This is not the first time Creator/MichaelGrant has written about [[Literature/{{Remnants}} kids with freaky mutations that are distrusted by regular humans, all of whom deal with the politics of their surviving group.]] You can argue that ''Gone'' is the SpiritualSuccessor of ''Remnants'' and contains many of the ideas that were not used in the earlier series, i.e. Dekka and Tate (from Remnants) being the same character, except Dekka could mention the fact that she is a lesbian.
339	* SeparatedAtBirth: [[spoiler: Caine and Sam, though they are fraternal twins.]]
340	* SharingABody: [[spoiler: Brittany and Drake end up sharing a body due to Drake latching on to Brittney's power to come back from the dead, with the two uncontrollably alternating between each other's forms.]]
341	* ShoutOut: Most of the place names seen on the map are references to works or TV shows related to the themes of the series, such as Stefano Rey National Park (Creator/StephenKing--''Literature/UnderTheDome''), the Santa Katrina Hills (KA Applegate--Grant's wife), Grant Street (Michael Grant--''Gone''), Golding Street (William Golding--''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''), and even the town name of Perdido Beach (''Series/{{Lost}}'').
342	** The illusion [[spoiler: Penny]] uses on Quinn is the monster from Film/{{Cloverfield}}.
343	** In the first book, Mary reads the kids ''The Buffalo Storm'', which is a book that Creator/KAApplegate, Grant's wife, wrote.
344	** In ''Fear'', a couple kids reenact an episode of WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants for the younger ones.
345	** In ''Monster'', a little boy turns into [[Literature/TheVeryHungryCaterpillar a giant green caterpillar with a red head, purple antennae and yellow eyes with green pupils]]. He's even referred to as "the very hungry caterpillar" several times!
346	* SicklyGreenGlow: Averted by the radioactive waste which shows up, which Duck notes is not in fact green. Played straight with the Gaiaphage, who is associated with a green glow showing how horrifying it is.
347	* SmokingIsCool: Lana in ''Lies''. Justified because she can heal herself of any damage caused. [[spoiler: She eventually quits in ''Light''.]]
348	* SmugSnake: Zil Sperry hates all but one of his teammates, resents not being recognized as a formidable antagonist, and [[spoiler: gets himself killed in a poorly planned attempt to gain recognition.]] Very smug, very irritating, and, in the end, pretty worthless.
349	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: A lot of characters. [[spoiler: Chunk, the Coates Academy toadie gets killed (albeit unintentionally) by Caine when he gets thrown into a wall in ''Hunger.'']]
350	* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Pack Leader, in a non-comedic way.
351	* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Penny]] in ''Fear''. She even pulls it off, but her big moment is ruined by more pressing concerns.
352	%%** Drake too. [[spoiler: Twice]]
353	* StarfishAliens: The Gaiaphage turns out to have an alien origin and it's utterly incomprehensible compared to the lifeforms we are used to.
354	* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Mary and her brother John become foster parents for pretty much all children under five. Eventually they earn the nicknames Mother Mary and Brother John.
355	* SuperPowerMeltdown: The going theory is that [[spoiler:Little Pete caused the FAYZ by having a panic attack... in the middle of the catastrophic meltdown of the Perdido Beach Nuclear Power Plant]]. Later [[spoiler: confirmed.]]
356	* TakeThat:
357	-->'''Lana''': Maybe you're [[AllGirlsWantBadboys attracted to dangerous unbalanced people]], but listen up: [[Literature/{{Twilight}} I'm not Edward and you're not Bella.]]\
358	-->'''Sanjit''': I don't understand what that means.
359	* TakeThatAudience: [[spoiler: Albert's outrage at the people trying to film the FAYZ for entertainment becomes pretty ironic when you realize that you've been reading about the FAYZ for that very reason the entire time.]]
360	* TalkingAnimal: The leader of the coyotes is capable of talking.
361	* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Diana]] becomes pregnant with [[spoiler: Caine's baby]].
362	* TeenageWasteland: Everyone over 14 has disappeared, leading to the remaining people having to run society by themselves.
363	* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Any time [[spoiler: Sam and Caine]] work together. The latter seems to be deliberately making it so
364	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In ''Light'', [[spoiler: Albert]] gives a ''brutal'', tearjerking one to the [[spoiler: filmmakers that tried to get rid of the grave in the town plaza, thinking it was fake. Also subverted, as it reads a bit like a "The Reason ''I'' Suck Speech".]]
365	* TheStoic: Edilio, with occasional but effective NotSoStoic moments.
366	* TheWallAroundTheWorld: The impenetrable FAYZ Wall which surrounds the area.
367	* ThirdOptionLoveInterest:
368	** Over the first three books there were hints at a possible love triange between Quinn, Lana and Edilio. In ''Plague'' [[spoiler: Sanjit and Lana become a couple.]]
369	** [[spoiler:And in ''Fear'', Edilio and ''the Artful Roger'' become a couple.]]
370	* ThisIsReality
371	-->'''Diana''': This isn't the movies, Caine. [[LudicrousGibs He looked like roadkill.]]
372	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The series has been described by critics as "''Literature/LordOfTheFlies'' by way of Creator/StephenKing".
373	%%* {{Tsundere}}: Diana, when she's around Caine.
374	* TwoferTokenMinority: Dekka is a black lesbian. And a Moof, which makes her threefer in the novel's universe. She [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it.
375	-->'''Sam''': I don't want there to be lines like that, between regular kids and freaks.\
376	'''Dekka''': [...] I'm black and I'm lesbian, so believe me, there are ''always'' lines.
377	* UnusualChapterNumbers: The chapters come with a countdown of days, hours, minutes, and seconds to the climax of the book.
378	* UnusualEuphemism: The kids come up with a few terms to describe what happens when [[spoiler:people turn 15 and disappear]]. Some of the more frequently-used ones are "poof", "blink", and "make the jump". Basically, they're all just euphemisms for [[spoiler:dying]].
379	%%* VillainousBSOD: Caine during the period between ''Gone'' and ''Hunger.''
380	%%* WelcomeBackTraitor: To Jack in ''Hunger''.
381	* WhoNamesTheirKidDude:
382	** Emily's... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ''brother'']] Brother, from ''Lies''.
383	** A lot of names come under this. Duck, Zil and for starters.
384	* WhamEpisode:
385	** ''With Hunger'' [[spoiler: Drake and the BigBad are killed.]]
386	** ''Lies'' [[spoiler: Drake is revived and Mary has poofed.]]
387	** ''Plague'' [[spoiler: Diana, Albert and Quinn change sides, Little Pete is dead, Astrid leaves Sam and Caine takes over Perdido Beach.]]
388	** ''Fear'' [[spoiler: The Gaiaphage is now inhabiting Diana and Caine's baby and the FAYZ wall is transparent]].
389	* WouldHurtAChild:
390	** Drake! He kills anyone who gets in the way of what he wants [[spoiler: coyotes-in-daycare scene]]. Or just gets in his way. Or just for the [[ForTheEvulz fun of it.]]
391	** This may count for '''everyone''', because when you think about it, they're all [[JustAKid just kids]]!

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