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* EvilGloating: Goddard is very fond of this, most notably [[spoiler:when he sinks Endura, he pretends to save the Grandslayers and instead ditches them just so he can see the look on their faces as they die.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: At the end of the second book [[spoiler: Scythe Curie leads Citra and Rowan into the vault of Scythe relics to survive Endura's sinking, but she has to be outside the vault to close it, leading to her death.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Curate Mendoza initially seems to be a genuinely friendly and helpful Tone Cultist, protecting Greyson and connecting with him over the fact that they are both pretending to be true believers of the Cult's beliefs. Come ''The Toll'' though and he's quickly consumed with a desire to use Greyson's influence over all Tone Cults to make himself more influential and starts taking more and more underhanded steps to gain power.
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* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:Rowan kills Chomsky with a tone cult hammer, even comparing it to the hammer of Thor.]]
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* {{Forshadowing}}: When discussing the children's rhyme about the Land of Nod and how it may be a clue to the Founding Scythes' backup, Rowan compares it to "Ring around the Rosie" being a metaphor for the Black Plague. [[spoiler: turns out the backup is also a kind of plague.]]
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* {{Forshadowing}}: {{Foreshadowing}}: When discussing the children's rhyme about the Land of Nod and how it may be a clue to the Founding Scythes' backup, Rowan compares it to "Ring around the Rosie" being a metaphor for the Black Plague. [[spoiler: turns out the backup is also a kind of plague.]]
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* {{Forshadowing}}: When discussing the children's rhyme about the Land of Nod and how it may be a clue to the Founding Scythes' backup, Rowan compares it to "Ring around the Rosie" being a metaphor for the Black Plague. [[spoiler: turns out the backup is also a kind of plague.]]
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler: Rowan decides to spare Scythe Brahms hoping he would be scared into fiving up his evil ways.]] Instead [[spoiler:Brahms joins Rand's scheme to make Goddard High Blade and gleans Rowan's father to lure him into a trap.]]
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Averted. Despite the lack of non-gleaning deaths, people keep on having children, sometimes having tens of them past age one hundred. Even at the end of ''Scythe'', the Earth has yet to find a way to balance the birth and death rate.
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Averted. Despite the lack of non-gleaning deaths, people keep on having children, sometimes having tens of them past age one hundred. Even at the end of ''Scythe'', the Earth has yet to find a way to balance the birth and death rate. The end of ''The Toll'' solves it with [[spoiler:nanite diseases that will kill a random 5% of the population every 20 years.]]
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** Curate Mendoza becomes this in ''The Toll'' where the narration emphasizes how much of an underhanded, power hungry, jerk he is. Uniquely unlike several other characters who the narration paints in a bad light, he never gets to show off any HiddenDepths or likable traits and instead becomes worse with the reveal that [[spoiler:he's behind the attack on Port Rememberance.]]
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** Curate Mendoza becomes this in ''The Toll'' where the narration emphasizes how much of an underhanded, power hungry, jerk he is. Uniquely unlike several other characters who the narration paints in a bad light, he never gets to show off any HiddenDepths or likable traits and instead becomes worse with the reveal that [[spoiler:he's behind the attack on Port Rememberance.Remembrance.]]
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** [[spoiler: It's never revealed what happened to Loriana and Scythe Morrison or the other ships that weren't Astrid or Rowan's. It's likely that some of the ships survived, especially considering Astrid's had the lowest chance of survival and still reached its destination but there are still many ways that the ships could have been destroyed.]]
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** [[spoiler: It's never revealed what happened to Loriana and Scythe Morrison or the other ships that weren't Astrid or Rowan's. It's likely that some of the ships survived, especially considering Astrid's had the lowest chance of survival and still reached its destination but there are still many ways that the ships could have been destroyed. ''Gleanings'' shows that at least three of them were lost but the fate of the rest isn't shown.]]
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** The final chapter of ''Gleanings'' has [[spoiler: Scythe Curie being revived as one of the colonists meant to live on other planets.]]
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* {{Bookends}}: Gleanings begins with Scythe Curie's first major act as a Scythe and ends [[spoiler: with her beginning a new life as a normal person.]]
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: At the end of the third book Scythe Faraday activates the failsafe the original Scythes created in case the system got out of hand. The failsafe is a disease which kills random people at regular intervals and it also removes the Scythes' ability to kill people. The series was caused by the Scythedom becoming filled with sadists twisting its ideals so removing their power keeps this from ever becoming a problem again.
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* MayItNeverHappenAgain: At the end of the third book Scythe [[spoiler:Scythe Faraday activates the failsafe the original Scythes created in case the system got out of hand. The failsafe is a disease which kills random people at regular intervals and it also removes the Scythes' ability to kill people. The series was caused by the Scythedom becoming filled with sadists twisting its ideals so removing their power keeps this from ever becoming a problem again.]]
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A film adaptation is in the works at Amblin Entertainment; however, the film's script has gone through no less than 3 sets of writers as of April 2023, and seems to be trapped in DevelopmentHell.
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A film adaptation is in the works at Amblin Entertainment; Entertainment, with the series' author stating Steven Spielberg is personally involved in an undisclosed capacity; however, the film's script has gone through no less than 3 sets of writers as of April 2023, and seems to be trapped in DevelopmentHell.
