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!!Tropes associated with Rod Serling include:
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!!Tropes associated with Rod Serling Serling's works include:
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: While he was never particularly religious and converted to Unitarianism when he married, Serling kept and respected various Jewish traditions and felt a special connection to his works that involved Jews or the Holocaust.
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* DownerEnding[=/=]BittersweetEnding: His protagonists survive less often than they die in many of his stories.
* [[invoked]]FairForItsDay[=/=]ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.
* [[invoked]]FairForItsDay[=/=]ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.
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* DownerEnding[=/=]BittersweetEnding: DownerEnding: His protagonists survive less often than they die in many of his stories.
* [[invoked]]FairForItsDay[=/=]ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.stories.
* [[invoked]]FairForItsDay[=/=]ValuesResonance: Many of his views come across as this today.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: His service during World War Two led to him having nightmares, which in turn led to his creating ''The Twilight Zone''.
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* TwistEnding: A master of this trope as seen with almost every episode of the ''The Twilight Zone'' have one, be it a conventional one, [[CruelTwistEnding a harsh one]] or [[KarmicTwistEnding one designed to deliver a moral.]]
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* AcceptableTargets: {{Invoked}}. While most of his villains are justified, sympathetic or even somewhat likable, Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians, given what he'd seen in Europe.
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-->-- '''Rod Sterling''', Serling''', 1963 radio interview
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* The original draft of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''
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* The original draft of ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968''''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' (1968)
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"Some liars go to prison. Others write for\\
television shows."'']]
->''"People talk about science fiction being very "far out," very wild. I don't think it's any of these things. Everything you see in the way of space travel, space concepts, scientific advancement, medical discoveries -- it was already predicted by some good science fiction not 25 years ago."''
-->--'''Rod Sterling''', 1963 radio interview
television shows."'']]
->''"People talk about science fiction being very "far out," very wild. I don't think it's any of these things. Everything you see in the way of space travel, space concepts, scientific advancement, medical discoveries -- it was already predicted by some good science fiction not 25 years ago."''
-->--'''Rod Sterling''', 1963 radio interview
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Serling eventually grew tired of battling CBS about ''The Twilight Zone'' episodes running over budget, and didn't fight the original show's final cancellation. He then signed over the rights to the show to balance the books, not realizing this would let CBS license the show into syndication without him seeing a dime.
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* AcceptableTargets: {{Invoked}}. While most of his villains are justified, sympathetic or even somewhat likable Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians.
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* AcceptableTargets: {{Invoked}}. While most of his villains are justified, sympathetic or even somewhat likable likable, Serling had no tolerance for Nazis, racists, and totalitarians.totalitarians, given what he'd seen in Europe.
* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Serling eventually grew tired of battling CBS about ''The Twilight Zone'' episodes running over budget, and didn't fight the original show's final cancellation. He then signed over the rights to the show to balance the books, not realizing this would let CBS license the show into syndication without him seeing a dime.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: His service during World War Two led to him having nightmares.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: His service during World War Two led to him having nightmares.nightmares, which in turn led to his creating ''The Twilight Zone''.
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[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Submitted for your approval]]: an ordinary man, just like any other gifted young American student before the outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. This man enlists to serve his country, but as a paratrooper, he [[WarIsHell sees things]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters no man was meant to see]].
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[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Submitted for your approval]]: an ordinary man, just like any other gifted young American student before prior to the outbreak of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the war]]. This man enlists to serve his country, but as a paratrooper, he [[WarIsHell sees things]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters no man was meant to see]].
