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9	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fourteen_4904.gif]]
10	[[caption-width-right:300:[[RussianReversal In dystopian future, chicken slaughters you!]]]]
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12	''Fourteen'' is a scif-fi horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. The manga takes place in a dystopic future, where a lump of chicken flesh from a chicken meat-growing factory transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet.
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14	Think of it as being a bit like what you'd get if Creator/DavidLynch decided to do a manga.
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16	Not to be confused with ''[[Literature/FourteenPeterClines 14]]'' by Peter Clines.
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18	!!''Fourteen'' provides examples of:
19	%% * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Yokko and Kiyora hide in one.
20	%% * ApocalypseHow: A class 6 threatens the Earth.
21	* AntiVillain: Chicken George, who desires to destroy humanity and the world as vengeance for the destruction of the environment and save the animals by building a rocket-ship.
22	%% * ArtificialMeat: What Chicken George started as.
23	%% * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin? Not just biology either...
24	%% * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Chicken George and America Young.]]
25	* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: The government plans to use Chicken George’s sympathy for animals to force him to develop the immortality serum.]]
26	%% * BeastMan: Chicken George.
27	%% * BodyHorror: [[spoiler: What Grand Master Rose becomes.]]
28	* ContrivedCoincidence: Kiyora needs to [[spoiler: become the son of the President of the United States]]? Well, as it turns out, [[spoiler: President Young’s son, America is dead, and Kiyora is the perfect candidate to have his cells rearranged into the form of America and be fused with his remains]].
29	%% * CoolAirship: Grand Master Rose has one.
30	%% * CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of Grand Master Rose.]]
31	%% * DeathOfAChild: Tends to happen.
32	* DecompressedComic: Oh ''yes''. Things that usually would have taken one panel to show are frequently stretched out over four or more, sometimes an entire page.
33	* DiseaseBleach: Chicken George suffers the chicken version of this, with his cockscomb turning white after he discovers a horrible secret about humanity. It goes back to its normal coloration within days, though.
34	* {{Doorstopper}}: The series is over 4,000 pages long.
35	%% * {{Dystopia}}
36	%% * EasyAmnesia: Inflicted on various characters, including Yokko and Chicken George.
37	%% * EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Nobara is every bit as nasty as Grand Master Rose]].
38	%% * EvilChancellor: Vice President Gorman of the USA.
39	* EvilIsVisceral: [[spoiler: Grand Master Rose becomes an abomination of flesh while Chicken George is working on the immortality serum.]]
40	%% * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: All over the place.
41	%% * GaiasVengeance
42	%% * GainaxEnding: Seriously, what the hell!?
43	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Yokko considers abortion, but quickly changes her mind.
44	%% * GreenAesop
45	%% * HealingFactor: The “commodities”.
46	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Chicken George's morality is all over the place through the course of the manga.]]
47	%% * HollywoodEvolution: Apparently, humans evolved from dinosaurs. T-rex, to be precise.
48	%% * HollywoodGenetics
49	%% * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: How Chicken George regards mankind.
50	%% * ImMelting: Several people in the Earth In Peril arc.
51	%% * ImmortalityImmorality
52	%% * ImmortalitySeeker: Grand Master Rose
53	%% * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Chicken George and Barbara.]]
54	%% * ItMakesSenseInContext: The plot doesn't seem ''quite'' as weird to someone who has read the manga.
55	%% * JustBeforeTheEnd
56	%% * LargeHam: President Young and Grand Master Rose.
57	%% * LEGOGenetics: The zoo Chicken George visits features tiger/tarantula and dog/human hybrids, to name a couple.
58	%% * LittleProfessorDialog: Those are some damn smart three year-olds.
59	%% * LooksWorthKillingFor: Grand Master Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.
60	%% * MadScientist: Chicken George.
61	%% * MadScientistLaboratory: Chicken George has one; it's a textbook example of this trope.
62	%% * MindScrew: Seriously, the whole entire manga is just ''weird''.
63	%% * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Chicken George.
64	* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: People's everyday clothing looks just like it did when the comic was made.
65	%% * OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler: The aliens do this to everyone they come across]].
66	* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Young is the President Personable type, as he is a kind man who always thinks of his people.
67	%% * PeopleJars: The "commodities" are made in these.
68	%% * PlantPerson: America Young.
69	%% * PoweredByAForsakenChild: Literally one of the ways Grand Master Rose tries to maintain his youth and beauty.
70	%% * SignsOfTheEndTimes: A new one is introduced every few chapters.
71	* SurrealHorror: Like you wouldn't believe. The combination of the seemingly random, nonsensical plot with the highly realistic artwork and truckloads of BodyHorror gives it the feeling less of a science fiction story and more of a half-remembered nightmare.
72	%% * TalkingAnimal: Chicken Lucy.
73	* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Chicken Lucy often tells people what she's feeling. You'd expect this to be a justified example, what with chickens not having many facial expressions and all, but often she doesn't say it with the spirit you'd expect.
74	* ThatWasNotADream: Yokko initially thinks the [[spoiler: child choosing]] is a dream, until she realizes [[spoiler: Kiyora is really gone]].
75	* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: It’s not Lucy, it’s ''Chicken'' Lucy.
76	%% * ToothyBird: Chicken George.
77	* VillainProtagonist: Chicken George would be this, being a MadScientist chicken who plans to exterminate humanity, but his morality changes throughout the series constantly, sometimes being a NominalHero or PragmaticHero.
78	%% * TheVirus: Mickey has it.
79	%% * VomitIndiscretionShot: Several times. Chicken George is usually the cause.
80	%% * WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Nobody cares about what happens to the "commodities".
81	%% * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Most, if not all, of the chosen children.
82	* {{Zeerust}}: Despite taking place in the 2100s, some of the technology is the same as in the 1980s.

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