History Series / TheMist

* DaylightHorror: The mist's monsters attack and kill whether it is day or night.

Unlike other versions where the mist is as indifferent as a natural distaster, this one shows signs of being a GeniusLoci.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:After Gus and the mall survivors kick the Copelands out, Kevin retaliates by slamming his car through the doors, letting the mist inside to kill everyone. The only survivors are Connor, who helps free the car and is thus offered a spot, and Gus, who locks himself inside his office]].

* StartOfDarkness: Kevin's inner darkness slowly begins to come out after he [[spoiler:{{Mercy Kill}}s his own brother after doing his damndest to save him. Following that, he continues mentally spiraling downwards, which comes to a head when the mall survivors kick out his family and he [[KillEmAll massacres the lot of them]] in revenge]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Occurs due to the cancellation of the series. While the individual character arcs and subplots are neatly resolved by the time of the first season finale (through character interaction and gradual explanation for [[spoiler: the Copelands, Mia, Adrian, and Chief Heisel]] on the one hand, and through the convenient fact of [[spoiler: Kevin [[KillEmAll killing the entirety of the rest]], i.e. the mall survivors]], on the other hand), [[spoiler: Jonah's]] backstory and precise nature of his connection to Arrowhead remain unsolved. All we get are a few cryptic snippets from the soldier who takes [[spoiler: Jonah]] away. This was most likely to be a central point in the second season - alas...

* AdultFear: Kevin encourages his daughter Alex to go to a party at a football player's house on the conditions that she takes a friend with her and doesn't drink. Despite these warnings, Alex gets raped that night, then has to spend the rest of the show hunkered down with [[spoiler:who she believes to be]] her rapist.

* BigBadEnsemble: By the end of the season [[spoiler:Natalie]] and [[spoiler: Adrian]] have become as imminent a threat to the main characters as the omnipresent Mist itself.

* BittersweetEnding: Due to the series' cancellation after its only season, it ends on this note. [[spoiler:Kevin, Eve, Alex, Bryan, Mia, and a few other "good" characters are at least alive by the end, albeit now in vehicles in the mist. Adrian is alive and hiding in the same car as the others. Kevin takes his revenge on all the survivors in the mall and, with the exception of Connor, kills everyone within when he drives the car through the doors and lets the mist get in the hospital. Jay is also killed when he saves Alex from the mist.]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Adrian]]''': [[spoiler: But I ''did!'']]

** [[spoiler: Trevor and Ursula are left behind by Nathalie in Connor, bleeding out, in pain, and slowly being eaten by rats.]]

* DecompositeCharacter: The novella's Mrs. Carmody is split between a namesake (a HateSink and [[spoiler: AssholeVictim]]) and [[spoiler: Mrs. Raven (a middle aged woman compelled by the Mist to create a ReligionOfEvil)]].

* ForceFeeding: One of the ways the mist can apparently kill someone is by force feeding a large, misty tendril to a victim, which causes them to collapse to the ground, dead.
* GenderFlip: The main character's young son is now replaced by a 17 year old daughter in this adaptation. Additionally, the white woman who refuses to bunker down and risks the mist to find her children is flipped into a [[RaceLift black]] man, too.

* GunsDoNotWorkThatWay: During the gun fight with the homeowner in episode 9, he fires a shot from his double-barrel over/under shotgun. Off-camera, the sound of a shotgun racking is heard. This would be quite difficult to do, considering it's not a pump action...

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Adrian. It turns out that he is obsessed with Alex to the point that he raped her, then set up Jay to be blamed, for fear of Jay "taking her away" from him. Despite the rape, it seems he mostly wants a platonical relationship with her to make up for his lack of family.]]

** At the end of the stay in the hospital, [[spoiler:the insane patient wants to kill Adrian since he sees "evil" inside him and allows him to switch places with Kevin after the latter convinces him he is evil as well. By the end of the season, Adrian has raped Alex, pinned this on Jay, killed his father, left Kevin for dead after nearly killing him, tried to kill Jay and tried to torch the mall. Kevin has stayed relatively heroic, but his dark side shone through a couple of times while going full-on PapaWolf, starting with killing the insane patient after overcoming him in combat and ending with ramming the car into the glass mall entrance in the season finale, dooming the mall surivors purely as revenge for their misdeeds.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Occurs due to the cancellation of the series. While the individual character arcs and subplots are neatly resolved by the time of the first season finale (through character interaction and gradual explanation for [[spoiler: the Copelands, Mia, Adrian and Chief Heisel]] on the one hand, and through the convenient fact of [[spoiler: Kevin [[KillEmAll killing the entirety of the rest]], i.e. the mall survivors]], on the other hand), [[spoiler: Jonah's]] backstory and precise nature of his connection to Arrowhead remain unsolved. All we get are a few cryptic snippets from the soldier who takes [[spoiler: Jonah]] away. This was most likely to be a central point in the second season - alas...

** Throwing [[spoiler:Jonathan's]] body at the glass door to break it does allow it to get inside, but there are other bodies it can use right outside that same door that it hasn't used yet - either its doing it on accident, or it deliberately waited for a live person to step outside.

* AdultFear: Keven encourages his daughter Alex to go to a party at a football player's house on the conditions that she takes a friend with her and doesn't drink. Despite these warnings, Alex gets raped that night, then has to spend the rest of the show hunkered down with [[spoiler:who she believes to be]] her rapist.

** Killing [[spoiler:Lila]] yet sparing Alex begins Shelley's (and thus, the entire mall's) descent into madness and revenge, but no one actually knows why she was spared. It doesn't help that Alex is actually cornered first and later proves capable of killing entire groups of people at once, so there's no reason for it to completely switch targets other than that it wanted to.

** Killing [[spoiler:Lila]] yet sparing Alex begins Shelley's (and thus, the entire mall's) descent into madness and revenge, but no one actually knows why she was spared. It doesn't help that Alex is actually cornered first, so there's no reason for it to switch targets other than that it wanted to.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Surprisingly averted (so far), unlike in the novella; as yet, the unnatural creepy-crawlies associated with the Mist have been normal-sized. [[TheSwarm Not that that's stopped them from killing people, mind you....]]

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler: Mrs. Carmody, the [[BigBad Big Bad]] of previous tellings,]] does not survive the first episode.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: A rather twisted one, but when it’s Nathalie’s turn to be claimed by the mist, it sends an apparition of her dead husband to do so, and when she’s being drained into a husk by nursing the warped infant he gives her, her fake husband comforts her in her dying moments.]] Considering that the mist seems to take a large degree of sadistic satisfaction in terrifying it’s victims before they die, the fact that it essentially holds her hand as she succumbs to it is telling.

* VillainHasAPoint: At the end of the stay in the hospital, [[spoiler:the insane patient wants to kill Adrian since he sees "evil" inside him and allows him to switch places with Kevin after the latter convinces him he is evil as well. By the end of the season, Adrian has raped Alex, pinned this on Jay, killed his father, left Kevin for dead after nearly killing him, tried to kill Jay and tried to torch the mall. Kevin has stayed relatively heroic, but his dark side shone through a couple of times while going full-on PapaWolf, starting with killing the insane patient after overcoming him in combat and ending with ramming the car into the glass mall entrance in the season finale, dooming the mall surivors purely as revenge for their misdeeds.]]
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Connor]] spends most of the finale in one, following his "sacrifice" [[spoiler:of his son]] and leaving so many others to die. This is until his HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn.

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* AdaptationExpansion
** The original novella and 2007 movie confine the story to the perspective of one group trapped inside a super market, whereas in the series the main characters are spread across multiple locations in the town. Basically there are four groups:

''The Mist'' is an American science fiction-horror thriller television series developed by Christian Torpe for Spike. It is based on the horror novella of the same name by author Creator/StephenKing.

* AdaptationExpansion: The original novella and 2007 movie confine the story to the perspective of one group trapped inside a super market, whereas in the series the main characters are spread across multiple locations in the town. Basically there are four groups:

** The Church survivors - Father Romanov, Nathalie Raven, police chief Connor Heisel (Jay's father), and a few others

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Nathalie Raven

* BitchInSheepsClothing: That helpful doctor at the hospital who was nice and talked Kevin through performing major surgery? [[spoiler:He's actually abducting patients and conducting inevitably fatal experiments with them in order to understand how the Mist works.]]

* BoomHeadshot: Many. [[spoiler:Benedict, his killer, and cockroach infested police officer]] are all killed this way.

* CoolOldLady: Nathalie, for some. [[spoiler:Though she is much more unhinged in this adaptation.]]

* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: Adrian]].

* EnergyBeing: The monsters in this version.

* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adrian is revealed to be a psychopath in Episode 8 who had raped Alex]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: If anything, Nathalie seems ''pleased'' when the mist finally takes her.]]

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: They literally manifest [[spoiler: and drag Father Romanov to his doom]]

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The large majority of on-screen deaths are at the hands of other people, either by attacking them or intentionally letting the mist get them. There's only a handful of truly accidental deaths.
** It's not "merely" limited to deaths, either. In general, the behavior of the townspeople, the amount of often ''quite'' dirty secrets in a lot of the characters' closets, the slowly unraveling webs of intrigue (wholly unrelated to the Mist) and the way the survivors treat each other are...really quite taxing emotionally. The only "good" characters out of the ''entire cast'' are [[spoiler: Alex, who never actually does anything wrong and is merely in many wrong places at just as many wrong times, Jay, who is innocent (but the audience does not learn this until the last few episodes) and, as a distant third, Eve and Kevin, with her having good intentions, but taking extreme measures, and possessing some genuinely unsympathetic character traits, and with him being the closest thing to a "good guy" for a large part of the first season, but revealing some ''serious'' inner darkness at the end.]] Mia and [[spoiler: Jonah]] are on a net positive side, too, but have several very questionable moments. As for literally everybody else, they are either apathetic bystanders or actively malevolent bastards. It's difficult to feel much of anything for the former, and just as difficult not to just root for the Mist when it finally takes them in case of the latter.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The ultimate fate of [[spoiler: Father Romanov - at the hands of [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse War]], no less.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: This version of Mrs. Carmody appears less of an insane religious advocate, and more of a spiteful woman who has no qualms with getting a woman fired for teaching sex education, and accusing her daughter of making up the story about being raped during a party.
** Kevin's brother Mike is also a real asshole.
** Adrian's Father is also another asshole too. [[spoiler: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Everyone in the mall gets what's coming to them in the season finale.]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Bryan Hunt. The series opens on him, clearly a military soldier involved with the Mist, waking up in the wilderness with no memories.
* LovingBully: One of the homophobic jocks bullying Adrian is doing so out of fear of his own homosexual attraction toward him. [[spoiler:Adrian figures it out and seduces him in episode 5.]]
* TheMall: Eve and her daughter Alex are trapped in one, along with about two dozen others.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler: Kevin delivers one to Adrian in the season finale.]]

* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Adrian]] kills his father with a shotgun.

* RapeAsDrama: Alex Copeland is drugged and raped at a party. Then the Mist rolls in and she finds herself trapped in close proximity to the boy she believes raped her. A chunk of the show's plot revolves around her relationship with her alleged rapist, and whether or not he was actually the rapist. [[spoiler: It turns out that it was her best friend, Adrian, who had done the deed]].
** It gets worse. As horrifying as the act of rape is in itself, and becoming even more so when committed by a person close to the victim...here, it's strongly hinted at that [[spoiler: Adrian apparently raped Alex not for sexual gratification or enjoyment of the other's degradation (the most common motives for rape), but ''utterly cold manipulation'', in order to frame Jay...because he was jealous of the attraction forming between Alex and Jay and was afraid the latter would "take her away". Adrian hurt his best friend and ''the only person who really loves him'', as he said himself, in one of the most horrifying ways and lied about it to frame an innocent third party - in order to have that very best friend to himself. On a platonic level, as there is zero indication that he is sexually attracted to Alex.]] This makes the whole thing even more gutwrenching. After said revelation, any and all fragments of sympathy the audience might have had for [[spoiler: Adrian]] because of his experiences at home and in school are utterly annihilated.

* SlapSlapKiss: A particularly violent and frightening one occurs between [[spoiler:Adrian and a [[ArmouredClosetGay homophobic jock]].]]

* ThoseTwoGuys: The two video game store employees who thrive on being [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]] to the mall owner, but seem not to be malicious otherwise.
** However, their irresponsible antics eventually [[spoiler: leave one of them plus a little girl dead, with the sole survivor of the duo exiled into the Mist as punishment for his crime.]]

* VampiricDraining: The mist also contains a soul-sucking cloud of black smoke that drains some form of life from people in this adaptation, not just horrible physical monsters.

* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:Connor]] spends most of the finale in one until his [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn.]]
* VotedOffTheIsland: [[spoiler:Vic]] is voted out of the mall by the rest of the survivors due to breaking the "don't harm other people" rule. He points out that they are essentially condemning him to a gruesome death, but only a tiny minority of people care.

* WhatADrag: [[spoiler:Father Romanov]] is killed this way.

* BystanderSyndrome: When the [[spoiler:young girl is getting her soul/life/whatever sucked out by the mist]], over a dozen adults stand and watch it happen through a glass storefront. Nobody attempts to break the glass or open the unlocked door that is ''right there, visible in the scene''.
** Then again considering if they interfered at all they would've let in the mist into the Mall. Not to mention the mother was attempting to rescue her daughter but was held back instead.

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