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* HeroLookingForGroup: Roland spends the entire book drawing a ka-tet of three people--a RagtagBunchOfMisfits composed of a drug addict, a SplitPersonality, and a serial killer--via magical doors that led to our modern time. The reason is that he needs them to access the Dark Tower.

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* CoversAlwaysLie: The Signet mass market cover makes it look as though the three doors that connect Roland's world to Earth are all right next to each other in the middle of an overgrown field, which certainly would have made things easier for Roland since he wouldn't have to trek across miles of lobstrosity-infested beach.

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The Signet mass market cover makes it look as though the three doors that connect Roland's world to Earth are all right next to each other in the middle of an overgrown field, which certainly would have made things easier for Roland since he wouldn't have to trek across miles of lobstrosity-infested beach.beach.
** One British edition features Jake on the beach with the other three of his future ka-tet, when he doesn't appear in the novel at all.
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* YourAnswerForEverything: While Henry is being held hostage, the mobsters holding him drag him into a game of Trivial Pursuit. He gives Music/JohnnyCash as the answer to every question, explaining that "Johnny Cash is everything." Eventually the gangsters give a question deliberately evoking Johnny Cash, [[SubvertedTrope only for Henry to reply]] "Walter Brennan."

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* YourAnswerForEverything: While AddledAddict Henry is being held hostage, the mobsters holding him drag him into a game of Trivial Pursuit. He gives Music/JohnnyCash as the answer to every question, explaining that "Johnny Cash is everything." Eventually the gangsters give a question deliberately evoking Johnny Cash, [[SubvertedTrope only for Henry to reply]] "Walter Brennan."

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** Eddie himself initially thinks he's either blacking out from the heroin he took or being possessed.

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** Eddie himself initially thinks he's either blacking out from the heroin he took or took, later, he thinks he's being possessed.possessed or having a paranoid freakout.



* FightingFromTheInside: Detta and Mort attempt this while Roland is drawing them, but neither of their efforts amount to anything.



* TheGunslinger: Roland, of course. He refers to Delevan and O'Mearah as gunslingers, "men who had tried to help a stranger in trouble", and is disgusted for this reason when the former shoots a shotgun into a pharmacy.

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* TheGunslinger: Roland, of course. He refers to Delevan and O'Mearah as gunslingers, "men who had tried to help a stranger in trouble", and is disgusted and angry for this reason when the former shoots a shotgun into a pharmacy. pharmacy without regard for the innocents in it.



* HaveAGayOldTime: Odetta objects to being referred as "black," because in her time, the neutral word was "Negro," and "black" was offensive. Eddie points out that in ''his'' time, saying that to a black person was almost as bad as saying the n-word. Later, she asks what "gays" are, and he tries to explain before giving up.

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* HaveAGayOldTime: Odetta objects to being referred as "black," because in her time, the neutral word was "Negro," and "black" was offensive. Eddie points out that in ''his'' time, saying that to a black person was almost as bad as saying the n-word. Later, after Eddie is telling her about his past, he casually mentions gays: she asks what "gays" are, and he tries to explain before giving up.



** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country. He's so confused that he responds as if Roland-as-Mort had asked for cocaine instead.

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** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country. He's so confused that he responds He describes it as if Roland-as-Mort had asked for cocaine instead."the first penicillin robbery in history."



* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. Eddie has some trouble parsing Roland's antiquated manner of speech and strange way of referring to things at first, but he understands enough to get the gist of things.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. On the plane, Eddie has some trouble parsing Roland's antiquated manner of speech and strange way of referring to things at first, things, but he understands enough to get the gist of things.



* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Roland and Eddie do not get along well once they're both on the beach: Eddie keeps Roland alive until they find out the second door leads to New York, at which point he pulls one of Roland's guns on him and demands they both go so Eddie can get a fix. Roland goes through, and Eddie almost cuts his unconscious body's throat before he comes back. Detta ties Eddie up and leaves him for the lobstrosities, and Roland barely saves him from being eaten or strangling to death from the rope.

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* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Roland and Eddie do not get along well once they're both on the beach: Eddie keeps Roland alive until they find out the second door leads to New York, at which point he pulls one of Roland's guns on him and demands they both go so Eddie can get a fix. Roland goes through, and Eddie almost cuts his unconscious body's throat before he comes back. Detta is also not inclined to cooperate: she rocks her wheelchair and generally tries to be as much of an inconvenience as possible. While Roland is drawing Mort, she ties Eddie up and leaves him for the lobstrosities, and Roland barely saves him from being eaten or strangling to death from the rope.
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** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an utterly unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country. He's so confused that he responds as if Roland-as-Mort had asked for cocaine instead.

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** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an utterly unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country. He's so confused that he responds as if Roland-as-Mort had asked for cocaine instead.
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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:Jack Mort is the guy who dropped the brick on Detta's head. And pushed her in front of a train. And pushed Jake in front of the car that killed him. Very pushy, our Jack.]]

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* ClusterFBomb: Mostly by Eddie -- Jarring after the first book's use of PrecisionFStrike.

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* ClusterFBomb: Mostly by Eddie -- Jarring jarring after the first book's use of PrecisionFStrike.



* DemonicPossession: What Eddie thinks is happening to him at first, a tleast before Roland sets him straight.



* EpiphanyTherapy: Of an unconventional sort. After Odetta and Detta both manifest, the former embraces the latter, which causes them to merge: the new woman, Susannah shows no signs of severe schizophrenia.

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** Eddie himself initially thinks he's either blacking out from the heroin he took or being possessed.
* EpiphanyTherapy: Of an unconventional sort. After Odetta and Detta both manifest, the former embraces the latter, which causes them to merge: the new woman, Susannah Susannah, shows no signs of severe schizophrenia.



* FlushTheEvidence: The flight crew thinks Eddie Dean is flushing evidence down the airplane toilet.

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* FlushTheEvidence: The flight crew thinks Eddie Dean is flushing evidence of his drug-smuggling down the airplane toilet.toilet. The navigator notes that just because the evidence is flushed doesn't mean it's not there, and that the DEA can drain the holding tank and draw a sample to recoup some of the evidence.



* GrandTheftMe: The man in black's voice suggests that Roland do this while he's drawing Eddie. Roland refuses, both because he knows it would be a horrible thing to do and because he wants to remain himself on his quest for the Tower. He has no such compunctions about taking control of Jack Mort this way, though, because Mort is a serial killer and generally such a horrible person he [[AssholeVictim deserves it]].



* OneDegreeOfSeparation: [[spoiler:Jack Mort is the guy who dropped the brick on Detta's head. And pushed her in front of a train. And pushed Jake in front of the car that killed him. Very pushy, our Jack.]]


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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly avoided. Eddie has some trouble parsing Roland's antiquated manner of speech and strange way of referring to things at first, but he understands enough to get the gist of things.


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* ShoutOut: Eddie name-checks Film/TheExorcist in the airplane bathroom when briefly wondering if he's been possessed.

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* AlasPoorYorick: Eddie does this with [[spoiler:Henry's]] severed head.

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* AlasPoorYorick: Eddie does this with cradles [[spoiler:Henry's]] severed head.head after the office gunfight.



* EpiphanyTherapy

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* EpiphanyTherapyEntertaininglyWrong: Jane, the airline stewardess, initially thinks Eddie is a terrorist, because his eyes changed color (supposedly from colored contacts), she's not sure if "thankee-sai" is foreign, and he's acting strangely. It's actually Roland drawing Eddie (and the last is Eddie being confused at the sudden blank-outs he's having).
* EpiphanyTherapy: Of an unconventional sort. After Odetta and Detta both manifest, the former embraces the latter, which causes them to merge: the new woman, Susannah shows no signs of severe schizophrenia.



* TheGunslinger: Roland, of course. He refers to Delevan and O'Mearah as gunslingers, "men who had tried to help a stranger in trouble", and is disgusted for this reason when the former shoots a shotgun into a pharmacy.
** It's implied that some people in Mid-World have the potential to be actual Roland-level gunslingers. Staunton feels "a cloak of emotionless coldness" that Roland would have recognized drop over him before he shoots Roland-as-Mort, and Roland calls him and his partner "[b]etter than the others".



* HaveAGayOldTime: Odetta objects to being referred as "black," because in her time, the neutral word was "Negro," and "black" was offensive.

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* HaveAGayOldTime: Odetta objects to being referred as "black," because in her time, the neutral word was "Negro," and "black" was offensive. Eddie points out that in ''his'' time, saying that to a black person was almost as bad as saying the n-word. Later, she asks what "gays" are, and he tries to explain before giving up.



* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted.

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* LawOfInverseRecoil: Subverted. In the office gunfight, the recoil from firing one of Roland's guns pushes Eddie's arm back, and in the description of why shooting an automatic machine gun is unwise it's noted that the force of the weapon firing moves the muzzle and the shooter.



** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an utterly unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country.

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** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an utterly unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country. He's so confused that he responds as if Roland-as-Mort had asked for cocaine instead.



* OutsideContextProblem: Suffice it to say, Enrico Balazar was probably NOT expecting a half-dead yet lethal gunslinger from another world to emerge from his private bathroom and give him trouble.
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:A lighter saves Jack Mort. Unfortunately for him, the fluid then catches fire. And Roland, controlling him, makes him [[RuleOfCool jump on electrified tracks]]. In [[RuleOfFunny front of a train]].]]

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* OutsideContextProblem: Roland is this through the drawing.
** Eddie's smuggling cocaine for Balazar is interrupted by a stewardess noticing it... who was only prompted by a second stewardess, who noticed Roland-in-Eddie's strange behavior. She alerts the authorities and gets him detained by Customs. However, Customs' (and later Balazar's) attempts to obtain said cocaine are stymied by Roland ripping the bags off at the beach.
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Suffice it to say, Enrico Balazar was probably NOT expecting a half-dead yet lethal gunslinger from another world to emerge from his private bathroom and give him trouble.
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler:A lighter saves Jack Mort.Mort when a pursuing cop shoots at him. Unfortunately for him, the fluid then catches fire. And Roland, controlling him, makes him [[RuleOfCool jump on electrified tracks]]. In [[RuleOfFunny front of a train]].It's downplayed, as the lighter itself shatters into shrapnel and cuts Mort.]]



** After getting duped by Roland and suffering nasty concussions, Officers Delevan and O'Mearah wake up and then proceed to speed to the drug store Roland is robbing... only for one of them to start shooting it up with a shotgun regardless of whether civilians are still inside.
** Later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the pair of beat cops who calmly corner Roland in the subway while ensuring that bystanders are out of the line of fire.

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** After getting duped by Roland and suffering nasty concussions, Officers Delevan and O'Mearah wake up and then proceed to speed to the drug store Roland is robbing... only for one of them Delevan to start shooting it up with a shotgun regardless of whether civilians are still inside.
inside. O'Mearah is horrified, and after knocking both unconscious Roland tells the former that he's a "dangerous fool".
** Later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] with the pair of beat cops who calmly corner Roland in the subway while ensuring that bystanders are out of the line of fire. One of them, Andy Staunton, is described as "a hell of a shot" by ''Roland'' for taking what would have (if not for Mort's [[PocketProtector lighter]]) been a kill shot, who tells them both that they're "good. Better than the others."



* SplitPersonality: Odetta has multiple personalities pounced around her head.

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* SplitPersonality: Odetta has multiple personalities pounced around Detta Walker, created when Jack Mort dropped a brick on her head.head from several stories up.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Happens at the end of the novel with Odetta and Detta, creating Susannah; interestingly for the trope, all three still exist contiguously to some degree.
* WeAreStrugglingTogether: Roland and Eddie do not get along well once they're both on the beach: Eddie keeps Roland alive until they find out the second door leads to New York, at which point he pulls one of Roland's guns on him and demands they both go so Eddie can get a fix. Roland goes through, and Eddie almost cuts his unconscious body's throat before he comes back. Detta ties Eddie up and leaves him for the lobstrosities, and Roland barely saves him from being eaten or strangling to death from the rope.

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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Roland does this to gangster Jack Andolini. The gun, however, explodes into Andolini's face. Later, he shoots a gun and a knife out of different people's hands in the same encounter.

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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: BlastingItOutOfTheirHands:
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Roland does this to gangster Jack Andolini. The gun, however, explodes into Andolini's face. Later, he shoots a gun and a knife out of different people's hands in the same encounter.encounter.
** He casually shoots the gun from a security guard's hand--years later the man is telling people how impossible that was, while Roland regards it as routine.
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes' Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler:Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes' Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused tracks, costing her to need to use both legs and putting her in a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Detta and Jack Mort celebrate their mischief managed with a little [[UnusualEuphemism Did-a-cheek]].

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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes’ Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack [[spoiler:Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes’ Holmes' Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]



* BrickJoke: We first see a cop mocking Roland (in Jack Mort's body) about buying lavender handcuffs at a gun store. It's later explained that the handcuffs are primarily purchased by homosexuals practicing [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} S & M]].

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* BrickJoke: We first see a cop mocking Roland (in Jack Mort's body) about buying lavender handcuffs at a gun store. It's later explained that the handcuffs are primarily purchased by homosexuals practicing [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} S & M]].S&M]].



* DecapitationPresentation: During the gunfight, one of Balazar's men throws [[spoiler: Henry]]'s head into the room to distract Eddie.

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* DecapitationPresentation: During the gunfight, one of Balazar's men throws [[spoiler: Henry]]'s [[spoiler:Henry]]'s head into the room to distract Eddie.



* TheEighties: Eddie is pulled from the eighties by Roland.

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* TheEighties: Eddie is pulled from the eighties '80s by Roland.



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Roland drops Jack Mort under the same train that'd severed Odetta's legs. He gets run over the same as his victim, but several fatal inches higher up.]]

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: HalfTheManHeUsedToBe:
** Dario, one of Balazar's henchmen, gets bisected by [[CollateralDamage friendly fire]] when his coworker Tricks sweeps a room with his M16.
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[[spoiler:Roland drops Jack Mort under the same train that'd severed Odetta's legs. He gets run over the same as his victim, but several fatal inches higher up.]]



* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Roland gets this when his finger-stumps get infected. Subverted - Eddie hears his rattling cough and thinks he's on death's door. Roland catches Eddie's look and starts laughing, assuring him he's not done yet. He eventually gets better when he gets some antibiotics.

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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Tricks Postino's approach to a gunfight is to pay more attention to the action movie script in his mind than what's actually happening in front of him, so he just empties his M16 on full auto and fails to hit anyone except his own coworker Dario.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Roland gets this when his finger-stumps get infected. Subverted - -- Eddie hears his rattling cough and thinks he's on death's door. Roland catches Eddie's look and starts laughing, assuring him he's not done yet. He eventually gets better when he gets some antibiotics.
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** The pharmacist Roland-as-Mort holds up at gunpoint is first terrified by the blindingly fast, unerringly accurate gunslinger with death in his eyes...then utterly flabbergasted when that man demands keflex, an utterly unremarkable antibiotic readily available in just about any drug store in the country.
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** Potentially [[JustifiedTrope justified]], as the text mentions "hundreds" of pellets, which would mean the mook was probably using [[https://img.gta5-mods.com/q95/images/shotgun-range-fix-plus-choice-of-buckshot-or-birdshot/5457bc-birdshot-buckshot-slug-shotgun-shell-comparison.png birdshot]]: basically BB pellets out of a shotgun which was sawed off so short it made said shot lose any pattern cohesion.
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes Holmes’ Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]
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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes DiD and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

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* ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes DiD Dissociative Identity Disorder and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]
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* Arc Villain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes DiD and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]

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* Arc Villain: ArcVillain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes DiD and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]
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* Arc Villain: [[spoiler: Jack Mort/The Pusher, initially believed to be the third of his ka-tet to be drawn into All-World, turned out to be a serial killer responsible for the death of Jake Chambers, causing Odetta Holmes DiD and pushing her on the train tracks which caused her to need to use a wheelchair for the rest of her life.]]
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** After getting duped by Roland and suffering nasty concussions, Officers Delevan and O'Mearah wake up and then proceed to speed to the drug store Roland is robbing... only for one of them to start shooting it up a shotgun regardless of whether civilians are still inside.

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** After getting duped by Roland and suffering nasty concussions, Officers Delevan and O'Mearah wake up and then proceed to speed to the drug store Roland is robbing... only for one of them to start shooting it up with a shotgun regardless of whether civilians are still inside.
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anyone who's read the book will know that the doors through which Roland draws his three are literal doors, standing on the beach.


%%* TheLonelyDoor: This novel is basically Roland and his new ka-tet slowly visiting a multitude of trans-dimensional doorways across a very lengthy stretch of beach.%%moved to subtrope, but does the "doorway" contain an actual door, or are they just pan-dimensional wormholes? Check with CoolGate before uncommenting

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%%* * TheLonelyDoor: This novel is basically Roland and his new ka-tet slowly visiting a multitude of trans-dimensional doorways doors across a very lengthy stretch of beach.%%moved to subtrope, but does beach. Doors standing alone on the "doorway" contain an actual door, or are they just pan-dimensional wormholes? Check sand, with CoolGate before uncommentinghinges attached to nothing, that still swing open when their knobs are turned.

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