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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Some of their more abominable acts are absents from the film. This includes their enslavement of people (both the [[SexSlave sexual]] and regular kind) that they keep in [[SlaveCollar dog collars]] and eating babies. Their depiction in the film also removes much the imagery present in the book that portrays them as a horde of ghoulish monsters, switching their post-apocalyptic disheveled Mad Max look for casual clothing.
--> ''An army in tennis shoes, tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. Lanyards at the wrist. Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. They clanked past, marching with a swaying gait like wind-up toys. Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks. [...]. The phalanx following carried spears or lances tasseled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of trucksprings in some crude forge up-country.''
--> ''An army in tennis shoes, tramping. Carrying three-foot lengths of pipe with leather wrappings. Lanyards at the wrist. Some of the pipes were threaded through with lengths of chain fitted at their ends with every manner of bludgeon. They clanked past, marching with a swaying gait like wind-up toys. Bearded, their breath smoking through their masks. [...]. The phalanx following carried spears or lances tasseled with ribbons, the long blades hammered out of trucksprings in some crude forge up-country.''
* BigBad: ZigZagged. On the one hand their existence is the main reason why The Man and the Boy have to be extra careful in their travel and are certainly the main threat for every survivor in this world, and one of the most important reasons why The Man consider killing his son. On the other, they aren't the instigator of the plot (that falls on the winter season) and the actual main problem faced by the characters is starvation.
* DepravedBisexual: In the book, the description of the people they keep as slaves includes both women (that they are implied to rape for both pleasure and for [[BreedingSlave breeding]] babies) and "catamites" (an ancient greek term designating young male sex partner).
* DepravedBisexual: In the book, the description of the people they keep as slaves includes both women (that they are implied to rape for both pleasure and for [[BreedingSlave breeding]] babies) and "catamites" (an ancient greek term designating young male sex partner).
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* EatsBabies: In one scene, the Man and the Boy find an eviscerated baby on a spit, roasting over a fire.
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* EatsBabies: In one scene, scene (exclusive to the book), the Man and the Boy find an eviscerated baby on a spit, roasting over a fire.
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* MomentOfWeakness: His sticking up a thief, in which he also orders him to strip down to nothing. Made even worse that the thief only stole to get by, and the knife in his hand shows that he had an opportunity to kill the Boy or worse, but he chose not to. Needless to say, the Boy scolds the Man for this.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Presumably most of them were just normal people from all walks of life pre-apocalypse but desperation and hunger has turned them into these inhumane cannibals that will do beyond horrific things just to live another day.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In the book version, they roast a baby on a spit, and in the movie, they're shown chasing after a mother and her young son. The latter heavily implies that they caught them.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In the book version, they three people roast a baby on a spit, and in the movie, they're shown chasing after a mother and her young son. The latter heavily implies that they caught them.
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* AmbiguousSituation: How a seemingly defenseless old man is able to survive in this dog-eat-dog post-apocalyptic world is never explained, even when the man questions him on his survival Ely is very evasive with his answers.
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* AmbiguousSituation: He claims to be one of the good guys, and certainly seems to be more trustworthy and friendly than the bandits and cannibals out on the road, but it remains up in the air if he actually is.
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* AmbiguousSituation: He claims to be one of the good guys, and certainly seems to be more trustworthy and friendly than the bandits and cannibals out on the road, but it remains up in the air if he actually is. On the one hand his insistence that the boy keep his gun, even when he offers it to him, suggests he can be trusted but on the other the fact that he and his family followed the Man and the Boy for miles yet never approached them until the man was dead and the boy was alone is undeniably suspicious.
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* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: Even though he was so desperate that he tried to steal from the Man and the boy, he had the opportunity to have kill or do something even "worse" to the boy who was asleep, yet he left him alone.
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* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: WouldntHurtAChild: Even though he was so desperate that he tried to steal from the Man and the boy, he had the opportunity to have kill or do something even "worse" '''worse''' to the boy who was asleep, yet he left him alone.
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* Wouldn'tHurtAChild: Even though he was so desperate that he tried to steal from the Man and the boy, he had the opportunity to have kill or do something even "worse" to the boy who was asleep, yet he left him alone.
