History Literature / InstructionForAHelp

* TheEndOrIsIt: The end of "Instruction for a THing" reveals that the Nuss still has hidden spores in "crack in a rock" and "deep water meat forgot", with the implication that it's simply bidding its time until it can come back again.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou [[spoiler:Actually, everything is just trying to infect you; but you are trying to kill everything]]

* AmbiguousEnding: "The View From Below" ends with [[spoiler: the US military heading for UK to "liberate" it using Agent Red. However, before the London military leader, Brigadier Coldwell, can inform the Americans of something, the communication cuts off.Judging by Coldwell's confusion when the Americans said they were bringing a "weedwhacker", it is possible that they actually figured out how to live in peace with the Nuss.]]

* AmbiguousEnding: "The View From Below" ends with [[spoiler: the US military heading for UK to "liberate" it using Agent Red. However, before the London military leader, Brigadier Coldwell, can inform the Americans of something, the communication cuts off.Judging by Coldwell's confusion when the Americans said they were bringing a "weedwhacker", it is possible that they actually figured out how to live in peace with the Nuss.]]H

* AmbiguousEnding: "The View From Below" ends with [[spoiler: the US military heading for UK to "liberate" it using Agent Red. However, before the London military leader, Brigadier Coldwell, can inform the Americans of something, the communication cuts off.Judging by Coldwell's confusion when the Americans said they were bringing a "weedwhacker", it is possible that they actually figured out how to live in peace with the Nuss.]]
* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Nuss have created an utopian society that lives in perfect harmony with nature, but at the cost of countless innocent lives and the eradication of individuality. The humans were fighting to reclaim their world, [[spoiler:but they did so by bathing everything in toxic fumes and nuclear fire and their leaders were horribly cruel and selfish, with the ultimate goal of using the apocalypse to TakeOverTheWorld.]]

* GreyAndGreyMorality: The Nuss have a utopian society that could never be achieved by humans alone, at the cost of its members' free will. The Mans From Below had to [[ShootTheDog shoot plenty of dogs]] just to survive, and the body count only gets higher as the situation turns into a war against nature.

* AmbiguousEnding: "The View From Below" ends with [[spoiler: the US military heading for London to "liberate" it using Agent Red. However, before the London military leader, Brigadier Coldwell, can inform the Americans of something, the communication cuts off.Judging by Coldwell's confusion when the Americans said they were bringing a "weedwhacker", it is possible that they actually figured out how to live in peace with the Nuss.]]

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Nuss have created an utopian society that lives in perfect harmony with nature, but at the cost of countless innocent lives and the eradication of individuality. The humans were fighting to reclaim their world, but they did so by bathing everything in toxic fumes ans nuclear fire and their leaders were horribly cruel and selfish, with the ultimate goal of using the apocalypse to TakeOverTheWorld.

* BlackAndGrayMorality: The Nuss have created a perfect utopian society that lives in perfect harmony with nature, but at the cost of countless innocent lives and the eradication of individuality. The humans were fighting to reclaim their world, but they did so by bathing everything in toxic fumes ans nuclear fire and their leaders were horribly cruel and selfish, with the ultimate goal of using the apocalypse to TakeOverTheWorld.

* OppressiveStatesofAmerica: Following the Nuss apocalypse, the remnants of the US government became a brutal autocracy and committed unspeakable atrocities against the other surviving bunkers. Things only got worse when they founs a way to fight the Nuss.

* OppressiveStatesofAmerica: Following the Nuss apocalypse, the remnants of the US government became a brutal autocracy and committed unspeakable atrocities against the other surviving bunkers. Thinfs only got worse when they founs a way ti fight the Nuss.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Man from below has a look like you. He is bad. The signs of the mans from below is stripes of red and stripes of white and squares of blue."]]

* AmbiguousEnding: "The View From Below" ends with the US military heading for London to "liberate" it using Agent Red. However, before the London military leader, Brigadier Coldwell, can inform the Americans of something, the communication cuts off. Judging by Coldwell's confusion when the Americans said they were bringing a "weedwhacker", it is possible that they actually figured out how to live in peace with the Nuss.

* [[spoiler:DividedStatesOfAmerica]]

* [[spoiler:GaiasVengeance]]: Goes both ways. The Mans From Below see everything going on topside as this, but grow pretty brutal in their attempts to regain ground.

* [[spoiler:HumansAreCthulhu]]: [[spoiler:Double-dipped - the "Mans From Below", actually the few remaining uninfected, unmutated Americans, and [[WasOnceAMan the Red Worms]].]]

* [[spoiler:TheVirus: The Nuss is a sapient, WellIntentionedExtremist fungus with the ability to assimilate hosts into a perfectly harmonious CloudCuckooLander HiveMind.]]
* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: The Red Worm. It's outright stated in "The View From Below", but how this happens is less clear. It's implied, based on a number of segments, that they were originally infected humans who were instructed by the Voice to eat the "fruit" from the first guide.]]

* [[spoiler:WasOnceAMan: The Red Worm. It's implied in several parts of "The View From Below" that they were originally infected humans who were instructed by the Voice to eat the "fruit" from the first guide.]]

** MindScrewdriver: "The View From Below", to the point where Parsons advises against reading it if you want the series to maintain any mystery (although it's still pretty freaky).

''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/instructiit'on-for-a-help/ Instruction for a Help]]'' is a WebOriginal series in eight parts, created by Zack Parsons and hosted on Website/SomethingAwful. The original series consists of deliberately poorly written [[FauxToGuide how-to guides]] illustrated with similarly poor-quality images; the first one is for "a fruit". These start out merely being [[SurrealHumor strange and unsettling but still pretty funny]], and grow into full-blown SurrealHorror by the end as the narrator's [[HiveMind bizarre civilization]] is drawn into an increasingly brutal war with the "mans from below".

''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/instruction-for-a-help/ Instruction for a Help]]'' is a WebOriginal series in eight parts, created by Zack Parsons and hosted on Website/SomethingAwful. The original series consists of deliberately poorly written [[FauxToGuide how-to guides]] illustrated with similarly poor-quality images; the first one is for "a fruit". These start out merely being [[SurrealHumor strange and unsettling but still pretty funny]], and grow into full-blown SurrealHorror by the end as the narrator's [[HiveMind bizarre civilization]] is drawn into an increasingly brutal war with the "mans from below".

* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Nuss seems to have created/evolved new organisms for it's purposes (including the Red Worm).

''[[http://www.somethingawful.com/series/instruction-for-a-help/ Instruction for a Help]]'' is a WebOriginal series in eight parts, created by Zack Parsons and hosted on SomethingAwful. The original series consists of deliberately poorly written [[FauxToGuide how-to guides]] illustrated with similarly poor-quality images; the first one is for "a fruit". These start out merely being [[SurrealHumor strange and unsettling but still pretty funny]], and grow into full-blown SurrealHorror by the end as the narrator's [[HiveMind bizarre civilization]] is drawn into an increasingly brutal war with the "mans from below".