330 Hours: Revolution is a 2021 dystopian web story by Looperreallyreallyrocks that is a direct sequel to 330 Hours. It can be read here
and here.
After surviving The Program and learning that nothing will change from his victor, Jack puts together a team of rebels after 3 years of training.
This story contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: Dr. Gold, for a despotic tyrant, is generally polite and respectful, being fully understanding about Jack's disdain towards him.
- All for Nothing: In the end, Jack winning the games did nothing as the Yofrenian government is so powerful they can delay their deposition as long as possible or fake evidence that Jack cheated in the game, which gives Jack the idea to start a rebellion. This is somewhat subverted by the end of the story when his win in the Programs is what allows the Poplaton government to gain world leadership.
- Anti-Hero: Jack becomes far more ruthless in this story, and the final step in his plan is forcing Dr. Gold to surrender by dropping grenades all over the capitol city of Yofren (getting innocents killed in the process).
- Anyone Can Die: Just like the first story many major characters end up dying, for example, Edith, Pluto, Randy and Raven
- Big Bad: Dr. Yousef Gold, by being the leader of the corrupted and tyrannical Yofrenian government, qualifies as this as he provides the most conflict in the story and is the one Jack and his rebels spend most of the story trying to defeat.
- Blackmail: According to Stan the Yofrenian government kidnapped his family and are threatening to kill them if he does not cooperate.
- Chekhov's Gun: Quite a bit of this.
- Stan mentioning in the beginning of the story that the government of Yofren has to issue an official surrender without their lives being threatened in the process in order to be demoted.
- In the same scene, the grenades belonging to Yofren are mentioned as well.
- Randy searching up Yofrenian attack jets and Kowalos.
- Randy himself qualifies as well in that scene.
- Jack leaving behind a piece of paper after stealing the grenades, which is later revealed to be a taunting note for Gold.
- Jack's visit with one of the Yofrenian soldiers at the Italian restaurant.
- The Yofrenian soldiers rubbing their eyes before the battle as a result of being affected by the hallucinatory drugs.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Raven gets the most gruesome death in the duology BY FAR. For details, she gets stung by a group of genetically engineered creatures. The venom literally cooks her to death from the inside, causing her to ooze blood and other fluids everyone before she literally explodes into a bloody mess.
- Dark and Troubled Past: This story reveals Jack was not as innocent as first appeared as he did some rather unscrupulous things. Like working with loan sharks and drug dealers, breaking and entering, committing fraud to name a few.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Downplayed. While Jack goes through a lot of crap before ultimately having the damage Yofren did to the world undone and marrying another woman, many of his allies are still dead, he has to live with the guilt of what he did, and he is otherwise deprived of the chance to live a luxurious life in return for his heroic acts (since he chose to live a simple, quiet life likely to atone for the lengths he went to end Gold's rule).
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dr. Gold is an evil villain, but he does have five grandchildren back at home that he runs the Yofrenian government to provide for, as well as the thing that gets him to surrender when Jack threatens their lives.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Dr. Gold is utterly horrified by the bombing of the capitol of Yofren and desperately tries to stop Jack. This is also implied earlier in the story when Gold apparently disapproved of Edith's capture and murder.
- Evil Power Vacuum: Discussed by Stan who mentions that taking down the Yofrenian government by killing every member will just mean new members will take its place.
- Faking the Dead: Jack and all of the rebels fake their deaths in a battle with the Yofrenian soldiers.
- Gruesome Grandparent: Averted big time. Yousef Gold might be the Big Bad and Yofren's latest dictator of Yofren, but the entire reason he's in that position in the first place is to provide for his grandchildren. He's willing to throw away that very same position if it means saving their lives.
- Manipulative Bastard: Jack rigs an entire war by manipulating every single soldiers on the opposite side.
- The Mole: Edith who Jack sent to spy on the Yofrenian government, until she a discovered and killed.
- Rousing Speech: Jack gives one to get the rebels to stand up to the Yofrenian government."We have spent the last thousands of years being oppressed by the Yofrenian government," he said. "They took away our food, homes, families, everything. They treated us like objects. They treated us like slaves. They forced us to fight to the death. And now they want us to submit to them. But we won't back down so easily. We will continue fighting to the end. We must end the tyrannical rule of the government of Yofren. Of Gold. We're done being oppressed. All of this will end soon, because we are not weak! We are stronger and more powerful than Yousef Gold and his little government will ever be. Are you with me?"
- Sacrificial Lion: Raven, who arguably has the most screentime and the biggest role out of all the characters who were killed off in the stories.
- Stealth Insult: Jack throws several of these at Gold, from "complimenting" his hair (even though Gold is stated to be bald) to writing a poem in Spanish filled with obscenities and insults.
- Time Skip: Early on into the story there is a 3-year time skip where Jack has trained to start a revolution being more intelligent and experienced.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Don is revealed to have been a selfless, sensitive, and talented child before being captured and brainwashed into a remorseless killing machine.
- Villainous Breakdown: Dr. Gold drops all composure and is reduced to a pathetic, begging mess after being outplayed by Jack.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The lengths Jack goes to end Yofren's tyrannical rule put him into this territory.
- Xanatos Gambit: Jack pulls a big one during the story, as he reveals in his speech to Dr. Gold. He planned everything out from the beginning allowing himself to be captured so he could declare war on Dr. Gold. Met up with every single soldier disguised and manipulated and tricked into telling him what he planned. He then faked their deaths by placing the battle in a location where there were no security cameras and developed a hallucinatory drug that he gave to the soldiers a week in advance while giving his team antidotes, so the soldiers would think they were killing the rebels. And to top it off stole all of the government’s special grenades.
