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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Despite using his abilities to prove his innocence to Paul and Paul offering him a way to escape. John wants to go through with the execution because he feels the endless amount of hatred and evil emitting from the world in agonizing detail. Not only that but he is friendless and is tired of living alone and afraid.]]
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* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: Despite using his abilities to prove his innocence to Paul and Paul offering him a way to escape. escape, John wants to go through with the execution because he feels the endless amount of hatred and evil emitting from the world in agonizing detail. Not only that but he is friendless and is tired of living alone and afraid.]]
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* MeaningfulName: '''J'''ohn '''C'''offey. - Stephen King even joked about how blatant it was in On Writing. Also, "Like the drink only not spelled the same."
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* MeaningfulName: '''J'''ohn '''C'''offey. - Stephen King even joked about how blatant it was in On Writing.''On Writing''. Also, "Like the drink only not spelled the same."
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Making [[SmugSnake Percy]] piss himself out of fright just after abusing Del.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: He feels immense guilt not for raping and killing the two young girls but for his failure to save them or use his powers to revive them.
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: Who exactly is John Coffey? Why does he have healing powers? Even he doesn't know.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: [[spoiler: Who exactly is John Coffey? Where does he come from? Why does he have healing powers? Even he doesn't know.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He's very happy when Paul brings him some freshly made cornbread in gratitude for healing him and eagerly munches it down and later asks Paul if Jan could make some more for his last meal.
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** Del is one to Wild Bill. While both men committed serious crimes that warranted the death penalty, Del honestly repented for his actions and behaved like a model prisoner and was very liked by the guards except Percy, while Wild Bill didn't regret his crimes at all and gets a jolly out of antagonizing the guards. It is notable that John happily shared his cornbread with Del [[spoiler: and was deeply traumatized by his botched execution]], but didn't share his cornbread with Wild Bill [[spoiler: and later had him brutally murdered by Percy]].
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** Del is one to Wild Bill. While both men committed serious crimes that warranted the death penalty, Del honestly repented for his actions and behaved like a model prisoner and was very liked by the guards except Percy, while Wild Bill didn't regret his crimes at all and gets a jolly out of antagonizing the guards.guards who despised him in return. It is notable that John happily shared his cornbread with Del [[spoiler: and was deeply traumatized by his botched execution]], but didn't share his cornbread with Wild Bill [[spoiler: and later had him brutally murdered by Percy]].
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* TheAtoner: He is very remorseful for his crime.
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* TheAtoner: He is very remorseful for his crime.crime and doesn't fight back against his sentence.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: His views are undeniably racist but aren't seen as anything overly unusual by other characters given the setting, even Paul who admonishes Wild Bill for calling John a racial slur. He's even somewhat more progressive for his time, believing all men deserve a defense and believing that John was sincerely remorseful rather than just being a monster.
* FreudianExcuse: It's shown that his dismal view of John and refusal to consider that he might be innocent comes from he and his family taking in a stray dog that later attacked and deformed his son, seeing John's crimes as being similar in nature.
* FreudianExcuse: It's shown that his dismal view of John and refusal to consider that he might be innocent comes from he and his family taking in a stray dog that later attacked and deformed his son, seeing John's crimes as being similar in nature.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: His views are undeniably racist but aren't seen as anything overly unusual by other characters given the setting, even Paul who admonishes Wild Bill for calling John a racial slur. He's even somewhat more progressive for his time, believing all men deserve a defense and believing that John was sincerely remorseful remorseful, seeing him as a man who did something reprehensible but was truly sorry rather than just being a monster.
* FreudianExcuse: It's shown that his dismal view of John and refusal to consider that he might be innocent comes from he and his family taking in a stray dog that later attacked and deformed his son, seeing John's crimes as being similar innature.nature, as someone who had never done anything like it before suddenly snapping.
* FreudianExcuse: It's shown that his dismal view of John and refusal to consider that he might be innocent comes from he and his family taking in a stray dog that later attacked and deformed his son, seeing John's crimes as being similar in
