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* CanadaEh: The film could easily have taken place anywhere else [[spoiler: if not for the way that Canadian bilingualism becomes a major plot element later on]].
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die.]]]]''
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* MadnessMantra: Subverted. [[spoiler: While people infected with the disease speak in madness mantras, Dr.
Mendez hypothesizes that this is how the victims seek out other victims and is actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
Mendez hypothesizes that this is how the victims seek out other victims and is actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
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* MadnessMantra: Subverted. [[spoiler: While people infected with the disease speak in madness mantras, Dr.
Dr.Mendez hypothesizes that this is how the victims seek out other victims and is victims. Grant believes it's actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: According to Mendez, the infected have this mindset by the third stage of the infection, looking for another infected person so they can chew each other to death and end their suffering before [[spoiler:they vomit out their own liquified viscera.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: According to Mendez, the infected are this by the third stage of the infection, looking for another infected person so they can chew each other to death and end their suffering.
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* MadnessMantra: Subverted. [[spoiler: While people infected with the disease speak in madness mantras, the doctor hypothesizes that this is actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
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* MadnessMantra: Subverted. [[spoiler: While people infected with the disease speak in madness mantras, the doctor Dr.
Mendez hypothesizes that this is how the victims seek out other victims and is actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
Mendez hypothesizes that this is how the victims seek out other victims and is actually the victims' brains trying to fight off the madness by making the diseased words incomprehensible]].
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* WhamLine: When Dr. Mendez realizes how the infection is transmitted.
-->'''Dr. Mendez:''' It's viral, that much is clear. But…not of the blood. Of blood, not in the air. Not on, or even in, our bodies. It is here.
--> '''Grant:''' Where?
--> '''Dr. Mendez:''' [[spoiler:It is in words.]]
-->'''Dr. Mendez:''' It's viral, that much is clear. But…not of the blood. Of blood, not in the air. Not on, or even in, our bodies. It is here.
--> '''Grant:''' Where?
--> '''Dr. Mendez:''' [[spoiler:It is in words.]]
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* NonSequiter: PlayerForHorror. When somebody first gets infected, they recite one of these a few times before entering the first stage of the infection: a MadnessMantra.
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* NonSequiter: PlayerForHorror.NonSequitur: PlayedForHorror. When somebody first gets infected, they recite one of these a few times before entering the first stage of the infection: a MadnessMantra.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Happens to [[spoiler: Laurel-Ann]] in very gory fashion.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Happens to [[spoiler: Laurel-Ann]] in very gory fashion. Dr. Mendez believes it's due to [[spoiler:her failing to kill herself with another sufferer of the infection.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: According to Mendez, the infected are this by the third stage of the infection, looking for another infected person so they can chew each other to death and end their suffering.
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* NonSequiter: PlayerForHorror. When somebody first gets infected, they recite one of these a few times before entering the first stage of the infection: a MadnessMantra.
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* WordSaladHorror: The second stage of the infection is this. The sufferer starts spouting nonsensical sentences, unable to truly communicate.
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* FluffyTheTerrible: This whole mess supposedly began with a [[spoiler:flyer for a missing cat, "Honey."]]
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* FluffyTheTerrible: In a very strange way. This whole mess supposedly began with a [[spoiler:flyer for a missing cat, "Honey."]]" While Honey is presumably a totally normal cat, the cutesy name ''itself'' is implied to have been the cause of the outbreak.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: ''Very much so.'' They're not walking dead, they're not created through physical bites, but through [[spoiler: ''sound'' bytes: words infecting the mind and causing people to go crazy. Also, they parrot the last words they say/hear. The way Ken describes them reveals that they eat their killed victims and eat still-living victims alive until said victims die violently.]]
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: ''Very much so.'' They're not walking dead, they're not created through physical bites, but through [[spoiler: ''sound'' bytes: words infecting the mind and causing people to go crazy. Also, they parrot the last words they say/hear. The way Ken describes them reveals They do eat people, but WordOfGod is that they aren't ''trying'' to eat people, exactly, but are instead utterly convinced that the only way to end their killed victims and eat still-living victims alive until said victims die violently.affliction is to chew their way into the mouth of another person. He also refers to them as "[[NotUsingTheZWord conversationalists]]" rather than zombies.]]
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* TragicMonster: Since the infectees don't start off dead like regular zombies, in the first moments of infection they are [[spoiler:aware that they've begun speaking nonsense]], as we see with [[spoiler:Laurel-Ann, Ken, and the good Doctor]].
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* TragicMonster: Since the infectees don't start off dead like regular zombies, in the first moments of infection they are [[spoiler:aware that they've begun speaking nonsense]], as we see with [[spoiler:Laurel-Ann, Ken, and the good Doctor]]. Many of them seem to be confused and terrified by what's happening to them, indicating that they may be fully cognizant of what they're doing but are suffering some irresistible compulsion.
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* AdmiringTheAbomination: Mendez's talk of the virus frequently tips into an eerie reverence and admiration of its ability to spread.
* AnAesop: During his anti-establishment tirade, Grant concludes that society duly deserved this virus, as it had already [[spoiler:perverted language beyond all recognition]].
* AnAesop: During his anti-establishment tirade, Grant concludes that society duly deserved this virus, as it had already [[spoiler:perverted language beyond all recognition]].
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* AnAesop: During his anti-establishment tirade, Grant concludes that society duly deserved this virus, as it had already [[spoiler:perverted language beyond all recognition]].
* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Subverted. After Grant and Sydney kill the infected girl from Lawrence and the Arabians in self-defense, Grant is reluctant to admit that they ''both'' killed her.]]
* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Subverted. After Grant and Sydney kill the infected girl from Lawrence and the Arabians in self-defense, Grant is reluctant to admit that they ''both'' killed her.]]
* CatScare: A subtle one. Just prior to things really beginning, the station gets a report of a kidnapping that has required police intervention. It is swiftly revealed to be nothing more than a group of drunken ice fishers having a fight and has been resolved almost as quickly as it started to Grant's amusement. [[spoiler: Cue the reports of a riot happening in Dr. Mendez's office...]]
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* FearfulSymmetry: The infected have an unnerving habit of parroting anything you say to them.
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* FearfulSymmetry: The infected have an unnerving habit of parroting anything you say to them.them in the later stages of the disease.
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* ForScience: Dr. Mendez is a hilarious, over-the-top nod to grindhouse "scientists" who are fascinated by the infection, and not terribly concerned about the victim.
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* ForScience: Dr. Mendez is a hilarious, over-the-top nod to grindhouse "scientists" who are fascinated by the infection, and not terribly concerned about the victim.victims.
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* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: When Grant realizes how the disorder is spread and attempts to broadcast the "cure" over the airwaves.]]
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* HopeSpot: HopeSpot:
** After first becoming increasingly "stuck" on a particular word, and then frequently going nonverbal and imitating the sound of nearby objects, the infected reach a stage where they appear to regain some verbal ability and can again hold limited conversations with people, suggesting the start of a recovery. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it is not. The disease has actually progressed, and as Dr. Mendez notes, the infected are essentially engaging in hunting tactics, as they require verbal responses to track down victims.]]
** [[spoiler: When Grant realizes how the disorder is spread and attempts to broadcast the "cure" over the airwaves.]]
** After first becoming increasingly "stuck" on a particular word, and then frequently going nonverbal and imitating the sound of nearby objects, the infected reach a stage where they appear to regain some verbal ability and can again hold limited conversations with people, suggesting the start of a recovery. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it is not. The disease has actually progressed, and as Dr. Mendez notes, the infected are essentially engaging in hunting tactics, as they require verbal responses to track down victims.]]
** [[spoiler: When Grant realizes how the disorder is spread and attempts to broadcast the "cure" over the airwaves.]]
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: It's clear from watching them that Pontypool's amateur singing group "Lawrence and the Arabians" imagines that their performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan-pastiche called "The Nafud Desert" (an important locale in the Arab Revolt the actual TE Lawrence took part of) is respectful of Arab culture. It is not.
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* MistakenForInsane: When Dr. Mendez [[spoiler: briefly succumbs to the infection, but then manages to fight it off by speaking in his native Armenian, Syd and Grant become convinced by his manic musing aloud in Armenian on what he's just discovered that he's been overcome by the virus.]]
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* ARealManIsAKiller: [[spoiler: Subverted. After Grant and Sydney kill the infected girl from Lawrence and the Arabians in self-defense, Grant is reluctant to admit that they ''both'' killed her.]]
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** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as a sound system]] and the sufferer becomes badly injured as a result, or as in [[spoiler: the case of Laurel-Ann, where the "other person" is visible but not audible, at which point (in her case), the sufferer begins ''chewing on their '''own''' face'' as a kind of 'relief'.]]
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** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as speakers or a sound system]] booth]] and the sufferer becomes badly injured as a result, or as in [[spoiler: the case of Laurel-Ann, where the "other person" is visible but not audible, at which point (in her case), the sufferer begins ''chewing on their '''own''' face'' as a kind of 'relief'.]]
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** It's especially ludicrous - and we may be tempted to share Grant's frustration and disbelief that he has to feature them - in that the group has put on costumes and browned up for a ''radio performance'' with no cameras.
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* PaedoHunt: Played with in reference to Ken Loney. Sydney muses that everyone always suspected him, and they never left him alone with their kids.
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* PaedoHunt: Played with in reference to [[spoiler: Ken Loney. Sydney muses that everyone always suspected him, and they never left him alone with their kids.]]
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** If the signs are all over town, then everyone in town has been consciously or subconsciously meditating on the word "Honey", a term of endearment - the very type of word that [[spoiler: the French government later specifically warns against as particularly infectious]].
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/StephenMcHattie as an early-morning radio reporter, having previously played the original "Nite Owl" in ''Film/Watchmen''.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/StephenMcHattie as an early-morning radio reporter, having previously played the original "Nite Owl" in ''Film/Watchmen''.''{{Film/Watchmen}}''.
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** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as a sound system]] and the sufferer becomes badly injured as a result, or as in [[spoiler: the case of Laurel-Ann, where the "other person" is visible but not audible, at which point (in her case), the sufferer begins ''chewing on '''their own''' face'' as a kind of 'relief'.]]
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** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as a sound system]] and the sufferer becomes badly injured as a result, or as in [[spoiler: the case of Laurel-Ann, where the "other person" is visible but not audible, at which point (in her case), the sufferer begins ''chewing on '''their own''' their '''own''' face'' as a kind of 'relief'.]]
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* FacialHorror: Infectees tends to chew on ''anything'' making sounds, including their own lips, at the last stages of the infection, leaving them horribly mutilated as a result.
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* FacialHorror: Infectees tends to chew on ''anything'' making sounds, including their own lips, at WordOfGod [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090316051142/http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/festivaloffearnews.php?id=7454 from the last stages director, Bruce McDonald]], confirms this is the third stage of the infection, leaving them horribly mutilated "Infection", where [[spoiler:"''you become so distraught at your condition that the only way out situation you feel, as an infected person, is to try and chew your way through the mouth of another person''".]]
** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as aresult. sound system]] and the sufferer becomes badly injured as a result, or as in [[spoiler: the case of Laurel-Ann, where the "other person" is visible but not audible, at which point (in her case), the sufferer begins ''chewing on '''their own''' face'' as a kind of 'relief'.]]
** A complication of this is where [[spoiler: the "other person" the sufferer hears is not a person at all but an object such as a
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* LostPetGrievance: the movie begins with "Honey the Cat", beloved pet of Pontypool resident Mrs. Frenchie, missing and sought-after, Arguably [[spoiler: the missing posters all over town with the word "Honey" on them are {{FridgeHorror what kick-starts the language infection}}]].
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* LostPetGrievance: the movie begins with "Honey the Cat", beloved pet of Pontypool resident Mrs. Frenchie, missing and sought-after, Arguably [[spoiler: the missing posters all over town with the word "Honey" on them are {{FridgeHorror [[FridgeHorror what kick-starts the language infection}}]]. infection]].]]
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* {{Brownface}}: The two white kids dressed as bedouin have their faces painted dark brown.
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* {{Brownface}}: The two white kids dressed as bedouin for "Lawrence and the Arabians" have their faces painted dark brown.brown, as does one of the adults accompanying them, who performs a cringe-worthy ululation at the end of their song.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/StephenMcHattie as an early-morning radio reporter, having previously played the original "Nite Owl" in ''[[Film/Watchmen Watchmen]]''.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/StephenMcHattie as an early-morning radio reporter, having previously played the original "Nite Owl" in ''[[Film/Watchmen Watchmen]]''.''Film/Watchmen''.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/StephenMcHattie as an early-morning radio reporter, having previously played the original "Nite Owl" in ''[[Film/Watchmen Watchmen]]''.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: in both the film and radio versions the on-the-scene reporter Ken Loney [[spoiler: becomes infected and loses his mind live on-air]]. In both continuities Grant immediately tries to comfort a crying Sydney for her lost friend. In the film [[spoiler: Sydney clarifies that she's suspected for a long time that Ken was a pedophile and should be kept away from children, and is only crying from the shock of losing someone who she'd known for 17 straight years]]. In the radio version, this information is not revealed, and thus this version of Ken is technically blameless.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: in both the film and radio versions the on-the-scene reporter Ken Loney [[spoiler: becomes infected and loses his mind live on-air]]. In both continuities Grant immediately tries to comfort a crying Sydney for her lost friend. In the film [[spoiler: Sydney clarifies that she's suspected for a long time that Ken was a pedophile and should be kept away from children, and is only crying from the shock of losing someone who she'd known for 17 straight years]]. In the radio version, this information is not revealed, and thus this version of Ken is technically blameless.
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* AliensInCardiff: Shit goes down in the tiny, rural Ontario town of Pontypool.
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* AliensInCardiff: Shit goes down in the tiny, rural Ontario town of Pontypool.Pontypool (a word which just happens to be Welsh in origin).
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: [[https://bogleech.com/cinema/mm29-pontypool A deeper analysis]] of the book, the film and the radio play creates the theory that the language virus - the "entity" within the English language - has [[spoiler: managed to infect the various media through which we learn about it]]. In the book, this involves [[spoiler: the narrative gradually breaking down and becoming derealised, the final chapters barely comprehensible and totally unrelated to the original story]]. In the film, [[spoiler: this takes the form of the surreal coda in which Sydney and Grant have seemingly taken on new identities and can only speak in code]].
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* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: [[https://bogleech.com/cinema/mm29-pontypool A deeper analysis]] of the book, the film and the radio play creates posits the theory that the language virus - the "entity" within the English language - has [[spoiler: managed to infect the various media through which we learn about it]]. In the book, this involves [[spoiler: the narrative gradually breaking down and becoming derealised, the final chapters barely comprehensible and totally unrelated to the original story]]. In the film, [[spoiler: this takes the form of the surreal coda in which Sydney and Grant have seemingly taken on new identities and can only speak in code]].
* LostPetGrievance: the movie begins with "Honey the Cat", beloved pet of Pontypool resident Mrs. Frenchie, missing and sought-after, Arguably [[spoiler: the missing posters all over town with the word "Honey" on them are {{FridgeHorror what kick-starts the language infection}}]].
** A hilarious moment of MoodWhiplash occurs later in the film when, after one of its most disturbing moments [[spoiler: (on-the-scene reporter Ken Loney live recording the sound of a toddler's voice coming from the throat of a dying, mutilated teenager suffering from the infection)]], Sydney gets another call and confirms that Honey the cat has been found! Grant responds, relatably, with silent bafflement.
** A hilarious moment of MoodWhiplash occurs later in the film when, after one of its most disturbing moments [[spoiler: (on-the-scene reporter Ken Loney live recording the sound of a toddler's voice coming from the throat of a dying, mutilated teenager suffering from the infection)]], Sydney gets another call and confirms that Honey the cat has been found! Grant responds, relatably, with silent bafflement.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where did [[spoiler:the rest of Lawrence and the Arabians go? Why was 'Faraj' seemingly left alone at the radio station?]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where did [[spoiler:the rest of Lawrence and the Arabians go? Why was 'Faraj' seemingly left alone at the radio station?]]station? Who found Honey the cat, and did either of them survive?]]
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-->'''Mendez:''' My GOD that was impressive (''He notices Sidney is throwing up'')...oh, oh, oh, and singularly monstrous, defies comprehension, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
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-->'''Mendez:''' My GOD that was impressive impressive! (''He notices Sidney is throwing up'')...oh, up'') Oh, oh, oh, and singularly monstrous, defies comprehension, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
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* BlackComedy: A few bits, but Mendez, immediately after [[spoiler:Laurel-Ann]] dies, is in fine form.
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* BlackComedy: A few bits, but Mendez, immediately after [[spoiler:Laurel-Ann]] dies, is in fine form.form:
-->'''Mendez:''' My GOD that was impressive (''He notices Sidney is throwing up'')...oh, oh, oh, and singularly monstrous, defies comprehension, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
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-->'''Mendez:''' My GOD that was impressive (''He notices Sidney is throwing up'')...oh, oh, oh, and singularly monstrous, defies comprehension, I'm sorry, I'm sorry...
** Moments later, when the other "victims" swarm the station:
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* FluffyTheTerrible: This whole mess began with a [[spoiler:flyer for a missing cat, "Honey."]]
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* FluffyTheTerrible: This whole mess supposedly began with a [[spoiler:flyer for a missing cat, "Honey."]]
* FromBeyondTheFourthWall: [[https://bogleech.com/cinema/mm29-pontypool A deeper analysis]] of the book, the film and the radio play creates the theory that the language virus - the "entity" within the English language - has [[spoiler: managed to infect the various media through which we learn about it]]. In the book, this involves [[spoiler: the narrative gradually breaking down and becoming derealised, the final chapters barely comprehensible and totally unrelated to the original story]]. In the film, [[spoiler: this takes the form of the surreal coda in which Sydney and Grant have seemingly taken on new identities and can only speak in code]].
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** After [[spoiler: the destruction of Pontypool, one survivor calls in another radio station who seems to have overcome the virus. If that survivor or any others have been listening to Grant's last broadcast and have escaped destruction, then he may have planted a seed for others to understand what they needed to do to combat the virus.]]
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* NiceHat: Grant's stetson hat.
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* DownerEnding: It's a zombie film, what would you expect? [[spoiler:Though Grant and Sydney have found a (theoretical) way to cure the infection, the town gets bombed anyway. It doesn't stop the spread, though; the closing credits are a voice-over montage of other radio stations and callers reporting the beginnings of the same strange events in Pontypool. The last lines we hear are the BBC anchor repeating "Pontypool, Pontypool," sounding rather bewildered.]]
** GainaxEnding: In a quirky twist, [[spoiler:Grant and Syd's supposed deaths are followed more black & white footage, except they're dressed as a couple of Tarantino-style hipsters (!)]] The color returns as Grant [[QuipToblack Quips to Black.]]
** GainaxEnding: In a quirky twist, [[spoiler:Grant and Syd's supposed deaths are followed more black & white footage, except they're dressed as a couple of Tarantino-style hipsters (!)]] The color returns as Grant [[QuipToblack Quips to Black.]]
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** GainaxEnding: In a quirky twist, [[spoiler:Grant and Syd's supposed deaths are followed more black & white footage, except they're dressed as a couple of Tarantino-style hipsters (!)]] The color returns as Grant [[QuipToblack Quips to Black.]]
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