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* Eagleland: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have almost no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.
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* Eagleland: {{Eagleland}}: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have almost no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.
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* DeathOfTheAuthor: The author actually ''encourages'' this in a note at the end of the book when he says he was trying to be "political without being polemical," and "raise questions without answering them.
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* DeathOfTheAuthor: The author actually ''encourages'' this in a note at the end of the book when he says he was trying to be "political without being polemical," polemical" and "raise questions without answering them.them".
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An aesop is intended by the author. I have the book right here in my hand, and the author explicitly states that he was not intending any specific message. I realize that this note may not be in every printing, but it is in the one sitting next to me right now. Also, the Broken Aesop post ignored a lot of facts, like the fact that the resistance was teh minority, or the fact that the cannibals were living in an irradiated wasteland and that may legitimately have been the only way for them to obtain food, or that most of the lycans are shown to have near perfect control of theri transformaiton, etc.
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* AllMenArePerverts: Puck’s only defining personality trait is that he likes molesting women.
* AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacy policy, both rather out of place and character moments.
* BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
* AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacy policy, both rather out of place and character moments.
* BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
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* ActionMom: Action Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
* AllMenArePerverts: Well, not ''all'' men, but Puck’s only defining personality trait is that he likes molesting women.
* AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacypolicy, both rather out of place and character moments.
* BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]policy.
* AllMenArePerverts: Well, not ''all'' men, but Puck’s only defining personality trait is that he likes molesting women.
* AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacy
* BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: The lycans are unjustly treated as second class citizens and viewed with fear and distrust, even though the majority of them never harm anyone with their abilities. But with the VocalMinority constantly resorting to violence, killing hundreds of innocents in terrorist attacks, keeping women chained up as sex slaves, and when [[spoiler:law and order break down due the reactor explosion]] some of them resort to eating people. It's perfectly understandable why people are so afraid of them.
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* BrokenAesop: The main theme of the book is that the lycans are unjustly treated as second class citizens and viewed with fear and distrust, even though they say they’re still human and wish to be treated as such. But with the lycans constantly resorting to violence, killing hundreds of innocents in terrorist attacks, keeping women chained up as sex slaves, and when [[spoiler:law and order break down due the reactor explosion]] they instantly resort to eating people, it’s suddenly a lot more understandable why the US wants to keep them drugged, monitored and contained.
* DeathOfTheAuthor: The author actually ''encourages'' this in a note at the end of the book when he says he was trying to be "political without being polemical," and "raise questions without answering them.
*** The author explicitly states in a post book note that can easily see someone people comparing it to Afghanistan and another comparing it to Israel.
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** The youths calling themselves the Americans get no comeuppance for targeting civilians or beating Patrick half to death. They even get government sponsorship for it by the end.
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** The youths calling themselves the Americans get no comeuppance for targeting civilians or civilians, beating Patrick half to death. death, and even [[spoiler: ''lynching'' Patrick's mother and her Doctor]]. They even get (unofficial) government sponsorship for it by the end.
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* RationalizingTheOverkill: The lycans are particular fond of this trope, particularly when [[spoiler:turning a large swathe of the country into a nuclear wasteland.]] *SpeculativeFiction: Werewolves have been part of human history for centuries. It hasn’t made all that much of a difference.
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* RationalizingTheOverkill: The lycans are particular fond of this trope, particularly when [[spoiler:turning a large swathe of the country into a nuclear wasteland.]] *SpeculativeFiction: ]]
* SpeculativeFiction: Werewolves have been part of human history for centuries.It hasn’t made all that much of a difference.things are different, but not ''that'' different.
* SpeculativeFiction: Werewolves have been part of human history for centuries.
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* Eagleland: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.
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* Eagleland: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have almost no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.lycans.
** The ''one'' reference to another country's Lycan policies is a brief mention that Claire's family used to take trips to Canada to transform because it's not illegal there.
** The ''one'' reference to another country's Lycan policies is a brief mention that Claire's family used to take trips to Canada to transform because it's not illegal there.
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Red Moon, a 2013 book by Benjamin Percy, is a political thriller about werewolves. Lycanthropy- the lobos virus- has spread throughout the human population (much to the chagrin of the human population) and werewolves have become part of society. The lycans are treated as second class citizens and face segregation, vigilante attacks and racial abuse. Facing persecution, many werewolves have formed their own country- the Lycan Republic- on the border of Finland, currently occupied by the US military. In protest of their treatment a lycan resistance has arisen demanding equal rights and a withdrawal of US troops, using terrorist attacks to make themselves heard. What follows is an ever-increasing cycle of attacks, revenge and conspiracy as the racial tensions come to a head, and the coming of the red moon will change things forever.
Not to be confused with Red Moon, a comic about a dog having psychic visions of the end of the world.
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!![RedMoon] contains examples of:
*AllMenArePerverts: Puck’s only defining personality trait is that he likes molesting women.
*AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacy policy, both rather out of place and character moments.
*BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
*BigBad: Balor, the mysterious leader of the lycan resistance.
*BreakTheHaughty: Even Jeremy cracks under extreme torture.
*BrokenAesop: The main theme of the book is that the lycans are unjustly treated as second class citizens and viewed with fear and distrust, even though they say they’re still human and wish to be treated as such. But with the lycans constantly resorting to violence, killing hundreds of innocents in terrorist attacks, keeping women chained up as sex slaves, and when [[spoiler:law and order break down due the reactor explosion]] they instantly resort to eating people, it’s suddenly a lot more understandable why the US wants to keep them drugged, monitored and contained.
*ColdBloodedTorture: What happens when the Tall Man visits the imprisoned Jeremy.
*CycleOfRevenge: The government impose restrictions on lycans, which leads to terrorist attacks, which leads to more restrictions, which leads to more terrorist attacks etc etc…
*DarkSecret: Chase becoming infected with the lobos virus.
*DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The lycans are a persecuted minority that face segregation and racial violence, and are later banned from flying and having certain jobs.
**The lobos virus is a disease that spreads through bodily fluids. There is no cure and absolutely anyone could have it- you can’t tell an infected person from a clean one.
**The Lycan Republic is a small nation in the middle of nowhere currently occupied by US troops. The government say they’re there to protect the locals, though everyone suspects it’s more to do with protecting the natural resources that are vital to the US economy that the nation produces. Although the US claim they have the hearts and minds of the locals, a number consider the US to be interfering invaders and launch terrorist attacks protesting the occupation. Hmm…
*DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Matthew gets unceremoniously bumped off.]]
*Eagleland: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.
*EvilBrit: Puck, the biggest bastard of them all, is English and the only non-American main character of the lot.
*FantasticRacism: Humans vs werewolves.
*ForbiddenZone: The Ghostlands. Not that it stops a load of Mexican settlers moving in; according to them the forbidden zone is actually BETTER than where they used to live.
*GreyAndGrayMorality: Both the humans and the lycans do increasingly terrible things to each other.
*IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Ghostlands.
*KarmaHoudini: The man in the clown mask who nearly rapes Clare gets away scot-free. His entire role in the story was just to get Clare and Patrick to meet.
** The youths calling themselves the Americans get no comeuppance for targeting civilians or beating Patrick half to death. They even get government sponsorship for it by the end.
*OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Chase is a mix of President Action, Iron and Playboy. Seen as President Evil by the lycans.
*MeaningfulName: The book is full of them:
**Magog is a giant, red-haired man you don’t mess about with. His name comes from a legendary giant in the British Isles.
**Balor, the leader of the resistance, is named for the king of the Fomoraic in Irish folklore.
**Puck, the small man with sexual predator tendencies, is named after the woodland sprite who wants company.
**In an in-universe example Malerie outright says her name means bad luck.
*MoralEventHorizon: Even though they carry out terrorist attacks the Resistance are still sympathetic in their fight for civil rights…until [[spoiler:they drive a van full of explosives into a packed family Christmas event, killing and maiming the huge crowd]]
*NotUsingTheZWord: Werewolves are always referred to as lycans, not werewolves.
*OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropy is the result of the lobos virus which enables those infected to transform at will. Transformed lycans still retain their human intelligence and free will, but are more likely to give in to their animal aggression and instincts.
*OutOfCharacterMoment: The Tall Man, the professional, sinister government agent, turns to theatrically shush an ape in the zoo, [[spoiler:resulting in Clare shooting him in his moment of distraction.]]
*PollutedWasteland: The Ghostlands.
*RationalizingTheOverkill: The lycans are particular fond of this trope, particularly when [[spoiler:turning a large swathe of the country into a nuclear wasteland.]] *SpeculativeFiction: Werewolves have been part of human history for centuries. It hasn’t made all that much of a difference.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Neal only gets involved in searching for the lobos vaccine because he thinks it will help his daughter.
*TheDogBitesBack: The entire premise of the novel.
*TheDragon: Augustus to Chase.
*TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Cannibalism, terrorism, murder, rape and lynching to name just a few revolutionary tactics.
*TheVirus: The lobos virus that causes lyncathropy.
*TheWoobie: Clare goes through the gauntlet with this. Her parents are murdered, she nearly gets raped (multiple times), has to change her identity, gets kidnapped, gets beaten up (multiple times), receives sinister letters, is hunted by government agents, [[spoiler:has to bury her friend/potential love interest after he gets a bridge dropped on him]], [[spoiler:gets stuck wandering in a nuclear wasteland]] and [[spoiler:doesn’t get to kill Balor like she planned.]]
*TitleDrop: [[spoiler:The colour of the moon after the nuclear meltdown.]]
*WhenYouComingHomeDad: Patrick is particularly bothered about his military father being constantly shipped off.
*VanHelsingHateCrime: The group calling themselves the Americans are big fans of this trope.
*ZombieAdvocate: The campaigners for lycan rights.
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Not to be confused with Red Moon, a comic about a dog having psychic visions of the end of the world.
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!![RedMoon] contains examples of:
*AllMenArePerverts: Puck’s only defining personality trait is that he likes molesting women.
*AuthorTract: Chase plugs a certain book in the middle of a conversation and Miriam takes a swipe at a Google privacy policy, both rather out of place and character moments.
*BadassMom: Badass Aunt in Miriam’s case. [[spoiler:But played painfully straight in that she had a deceased daughter.]]
*BigBad: Balor, the mysterious leader of the lycan resistance.
*BreakTheHaughty: Even Jeremy cracks under extreme torture.
*BrokenAesop: The main theme of the book is that the lycans are unjustly treated as second class citizens and viewed with fear and distrust, even though they say they’re still human and wish to be treated as such. But with the lycans constantly resorting to violence, killing hundreds of innocents in terrorist attacks, keeping women chained up as sex slaves, and when [[spoiler:law and order break down due the reactor explosion]] they instantly resort to eating people, it’s suddenly a lot more understandable why the US wants to keep them drugged, monitored and contained.
*ColdBloodedTorture: What happens when the Tall Man visits the imprisoned Jeremy.
*CycleOfRevenge: The government impose restrictions on lycans, which leads to terrorist attacks, which leads to more restrictions, which leads to more terrorist attacks etc etc…
*DarkSecret: Chase becoming infected with the lobos virus.
*DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The lycans are a persecuted minority that face segregation and racial violence, and are later banned from flying and having certain jobs.
**The lobos virus is a disease that spreads through bodily fluids. There is no cure and absolutely anyone could have it- you can’t tell an infected person from a clean one.
**The Lycan Republic is a small nation in the middle of nowhere currently occupied by US troops. The government say they’re there to protect the locals, though everyone suspects it’s more to do with protecting the natural resources that are vital to the US economy that the nation produces. Although the US claim they have the hearts and minds of the locals, a number consider the US to be interfering invaders and launch terrorist attacks protesting the occupation. Hmm…
*DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Matthew gets unceremoniously bumped off.]]
*Eagleland: The novel is entirely set in an American POV, and the only time the story moves to a foreign country it’s centred on the American military base established there. Due to this we never find out how other countries are handling lycans, so have no context if the US is being heavy-handed or not in its treatment of the lycans.
*EvilBrit: Puck, the biggest bastard of them all, is English and the only non-American main character of the lot.
*FantasticRacism: Humans vs werewolves.
*ForbiddenZone: The Ghostlands. Not that it stops a load of Mexican settlers moving in; according to them the forbidden zone is actually BETTER than where they used to live.
*GreyAndGrayMorality: Both the humans and the lycans do increasingly terrible things to each other.
*IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The Ghostlands.
*KarmaHoudini: The man in the clown mask who nearly rapes Clare gets away scot-free. His entire role in the story was just to get Clare and Patrick to meet.
** The youths calling themselves the Americans get no comeuppance for targeting civilians or beating Patrick half to death. They even get government sponsorship for it by the end.
*OurPresidentsAreDifferent: Chase is a mix of President Action, Iron and Playboy. Seen as President Evil by the lycans.
*MeaningfulName: The book is full of them:
**Magog is a giant, red-haired man you don’t mess about with. His name comes from a legendary giant in the British Isles.
**Balor, the leader of the resistance, is named for the king of the Fomoraic in Irish folklore.
**Puck, the small man with sexual predator tendencies, is named after the woodland sprite who wants company.
**In an in-universe example Malerie outright says her name means bad luck.
*MoralEventHorizon: Even though they carry out terrorist attacks the Resistance are still sympathetic in their fight for civil rights…until [[spoiler:they drive a van full of explosives into a packed family Christmas event, killing and maiming the huge crowd]]
*NotUsingTheZWord: Werewolves are always referred to as lycans, not werewolves.
*OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Lycanthropy is the result of the lobos virus which enables those infected to transform at will. Transformed lycans still retain their human intelligence and free will, but are more likely to give in to their animal aggression and instincts.
*OutOfCharacterMoment: The Tall Man, the professional, sinister government agent, turns to theatrically shush an ape in the zoo, [[spoiler:resulting in Clare shooting him in his moment of distraction.]]
*PollutedWasteland: The Ghostlands.
*RationalizingTheOverkill: The lycans are particular fond of this trope, particularly when [[spoiler:turning a large swathe of the country into a nuclear wasteland.]] *SpeculativeFiction: Werewolves have been part of human history for centuries. It hasn’t made all that much of a difference.
* ReluctantMadScientist: Neal only gets involved in searching for the lobos vaccine because he thinks it will help his daughter.
*TheDogBitesBack: The entire premise of the novel.
*TheDragon: Augustus to Chase.
*TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: Cannibalism, terrorism, murder, rape and lynching to name just a few revolutionary tactics.
*TheVirus: The lobos virus that causes lyncathropy.
*TheWoobie: Clare goes through the gauntlet with this. Her parents are murdered, she nearly gets raped (multiple times), has to change her identity, gets kidnapped, gets beaten up (multiple times), receives sinister letters, is hunted by government agents, [[spoiler:has to bury her friend/potential love interest after he gets a bridge dropped on him]], [[spoiler:gets stuck wandering in a nuclear wasteland]] and [[spoiler:doesn’t get to kill Balor like she planned.]]
*TitleDrop: [[spoiler:The colour of the moon after the nuclear meltdown.]]
*WhenYouComingHomeDad: Patrick is particularly bothered about his military father being constantly shipped off.
*VanHelsingHateCrime: The group calling themselves the Americans are big fans of this trope.
*ZombieAdvocate: The campaigners for lycan rights.
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