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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Castle Rock is full of people none too happy about some lesbians moving in.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Scott.
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** Also another, involving a recurring theme in King's works: sometimes bad things just happen to good people.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The townspeople accept Deirdre and Missy, and their restaurant becomes a success... but Scott is doomed.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The townspeople accept Deirdre and Missy, and their restaurant becomes a success... but Scott is doomed.]]
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* RiddleForTheAges: Just why exactly is Scott getting continuously lighter?
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Just why exactly is Scott getting continuously lighter?
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.lighter?
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Just why exactly is Scott getting continuously lighter?lighter?
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.
* SpiritualSequel: ''Elevation'' reads a bit like an answer to and inversion of King's own 1984 novel ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''. Both are stories about the central character experiencing mysterious (and presumably supernatural) weight loss, but ''Elevation'' takes a far less cynical approach to the human elements of the story.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Scott's mysterious affliction could either be something genuinely supernatural, or a previously undiscovered scientific phenomenon.
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* EndOfAnEra: Scott believes that in the age of online shopping, traditional supermarkets and department stores are getting increasingly obsolete.
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* NiceGuy: Scott's obviously a thoroughly decent person.
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* NiceGuy: Scott's obviously a thoroughly decent person.person.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Just why exactly is Scott getting continuously lighter?
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A novella by author Creator/Stephen King and published in 2018, Elevation is about a middle-aged web page designer and resident of Castle Rock named Scott Carey, who faces an unusual affliction: he is steadily and irreversibly losing weight while his external appearance remains unchanged. While trying to come to terms with the mysterious disease, he also tries to aid a lesbian couple who suffer from the townspeople's prejudice.
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A novella by author Creator/Stephen King Creator/StephenKing and published in 2018, Elevation is about a middle-aged web page designer and resident of Castle Rock named Scott Carey, who faces an unusual affliction: he is steadily and irreversibly losing weight while his external appearance remains unchanged. While trying to come to terms with the mysterious disease, he also tries to aid a lesbian couple who suffer from the townspeople's prejudice.
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A novella by Stephen King and published in 2018, Elevation is about a middle-aged web page designer and resident of Castle Rock named Scott Carey, who faces an unusual affliction: he is steadily and irreversibly losing weight while his external appearance remains unchanged. While trying to come to terms with the mysterious disease, he also tries to aid a lesbian couple who suffer from the townspeople's prejudice.
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A novella by Stephen author Creator/Stephen King and published in 2018, Elevation is about a middle-aged web page designer and resident of Castle Rock named Scott Carey, who faces an unusual affliction: he is steadily and irreversibly losing weight while his external appearance remains unchanged. While trying to come to terms with the mysterious disease, he also tries to aid a lesbian couple who suffer from the townspeople's prejudice.
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A novella by Stephen King and published in 2018, Elevation is about a middle-aged web page designer and resident of Castle Rock named Scott Carey, who faces an unusual affliction: he is steadily and irreversibly losing weight while his external appearance remains unchanged. While trying to come to terms with the mysterious disease, he also tries to aid a lesbian couple who suffer from the townspeople's prejudice.
Elevation provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Can't we all just get along?
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Deirdre.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Scott in the end.]]
* HappilyMarried: Dr Bob Ellis and Myra. Also Deirdre and Missy.
* JerkAss: Many of the Castle Rock residents, but especially the man who personally insults Deirdre and Missy.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Scott.
* LipstickLesbian: Deirdre and Missy.
* NiceGuy: Scott's obviously a thoroughly decent person.
Elevation provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Can't we all just get along?
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Deirdre.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Scott in the end.]]
* HappilyMarried: Dr Bob Ellis and Myra. Also Deirdre and Missy.
* JerkAss: Many of the Castle Rock residents, but especially the man who personally insults Deirdre and Missy.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Scott.
* LipstickLesbian: Deirdre and Missy.
* NiceGuy: Scott's obviously a thoroughly decent person.
