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* AdaptationDisplacement: Both the film and the game series are more well known than the novel; though this is turning around a bit since the original novel began replacing the mangled release that the Soviet Union allowed in the first publication.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone (Other (read De-censored) translations call it "hell slime"). [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone (Other (read De-censored) [read De-censored] translations call it "hell slime"). [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone (Other translations call it "hell slime"). [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone (Other (read De-censored) translations call it "hell slime"). [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Two characters [[{{Discussed}} discuss]] Xenology midway through the book. One an engineer, another a business man. It largely centers around classifying intelligence, and the closest humans can come up with is "displays human reasoning".
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Two characters [[{{Discussed}} discuss]] Xenology midway through the book. One an engineer, another a business man. It largely centers around classifying intelligence, and the closest humans can come up with a definition for it is "displays human reasoning".
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** Resulting in a sarcastic fan-made ending:
-->[[spoiler:— Happines for everyone, for free, and so that nobody would walk out disappointed!]]
-->[[spoiler:So the Ball bit everyone's legs off. And nobody walked out.]]
-->[[spoiler:— Happines for everyone, for free, and so that nobody would walk out disappointed!]]
-->[[spoiler:So the Ball bit everyone's legs off. And nobody walked out.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Two characters [[{{Discussed}} disguss]] Xenology midway through the book. One an engineer, another a business man.
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--> Come back with Swag, a miracle. Come back alive, success. Come back with a patrol bullet in your ass, good luck. Everything else, that's fate.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: They're mostly intact, except for the brain. Rather than being inimical to humans, they"exude good health".
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Two characters [[{{Discussed}} disguss]] Xenology midway through the book. One an engineer, another a business man.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone. [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone.Zone (Other translations call it "hell slime"). [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: A short, middle-aged engineer Richard Noonan, who actually is a secret agent.]]
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* DaChief: Mr. Lemchen to Richard Noonan.
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: A short, middle-aged engineer Richard Noonan, who actually is a secret agent.]]
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* EldritchLocation: the Zone itself. [[ThisIsSparta So. Very. Much.]]
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* EldritchLocation: the Zone itself. [[ThisIsSparta [[PunctuatedForEmphasis So. Very. Much.]]
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* RuinsOfTheModernAge
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* RuinsOfTheModernAgeRuinsOfTheModernAge: As the "Zone" has been abandoned by all (well — almost all) human population, industrial facilities and whole city quarters have been left deserted and slowly crumbling (or inexplicably preserved by the strange properties of the Zone) for decades.
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Sinkhole of a subjective trope. Opinions don\'t go in main pages
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: "Alien" here means "mostly incompatible with Terran life". Where to start? There's a heavy fog that turns your bones into jelly. A spider-web that gives you a heart attack hours after you've touched it. Spots where [[GravitySucks gravity is hundredfolds stronger than normal]] (in other words, step in and go splat on the floor)... A "meat grinder" that... um... [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel well, guess]]... The Zone is littered with the bodies of scavengers that serve as marks for where you shouldn't go.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: "Alien" here means "mostly incompatible with Terran life". Where to start? There's a heavy fog that turns your bones into jelly. A spider-web that gives you a heart attack hours after you've touched it. Spots where [[GravitySucks gravity is hundredfolds stronger than normal]] (in other words, step in and go splat on the floor)... A "meat grinder" that... um... [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel well, guess]]...guess... The Zone is littered with the bodies of scavengers that serve as marks for where you shouldn't go.
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A novel by the {{Strugatsky brothers}}. If you haven't read it, you've probably seen the film it inspired (''Film/{{Stalker}}'') or played the game {{inspired by}} both of them (''{{STALKER}}'').
''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'', like the above titles, focus on the Alienated Zones, where debris and items ejected by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. These Zones are filled with bizarre anomalies and physics-defying objects, ranging from having the sun appear to stay still all the time, to two pieces of metal that forever repel and attract each other. Needless to say, scientists pay hefty prices to study the objects, but the United Nations controls access to the Zone.
''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'', like the above titles, focus on the Alienated Zones, where debris and items ejected by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. These Zones are filled with bizarre anomalies and physics-defying objects, ranging from having the sun appear to stay still all the time, to two pieces of metal that forever repel and attract each other. Needless to say, scientists pay hefty prices to study the objects, but the United Nations controls access to the Zone.
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A novel by the {{Strugatsky Creator/{{Strugatsky brothers}}. If you haven't read it, you've probably seen the film it inspired (''Film/{{Stalker}}'') or played the game {{inspired by}} both of them (''{{STALKER}}'').
''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'',(''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'').
''Roadside Picnic'', like the above titles, focus on the Alienated Zones, where debris and items ejected by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. These Zones are filled with bizarre anomalies and physics-defying objects, ranging from having the sun appear to stay still all the time, to two pieces of metal that forever repel and attract each other. Needless to say, scientists pay hefty prices to study the objects, but the United Nations controls access to the Zone.
''Literature/RoadsidePicnic'',
''Roadside Picnic'', like the above titles, focus on the Alienated Zones, where debris and items ejected by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. These Zones are filled with bizarre anomalies and physics-defying objects, ranging from having the sun appear to stay still all the time, to two pieces of metal that forever repel and attract each other. Needless to say, scientists pay hefty prices to study the objects, but the United Nations controls access to the Zone.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: "Alien" here means "mostly incompatible with Terran life". Where to start? There's a heavy fog that turns your bones into jelly. A spider-web that gives you a heart attack hours after you've touched it. Spots where [[GravitySucks gravity is hundredfolds stronger than normal]] (in other words, step in and go splat on the floor)... A "meat grinder" that... um... [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel well, guess]]... The Zone is littered with the bodies of scavengers that serve as marks for where you shouldn't go.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Some things in the Zone will kill people. Some things won't. One stalker loses the bones in his legs and becomes unable to walk, but survives because Red spends a day dragging him out of the Zone. When his son goes into the Zone, he brings along a pistol with one bullet in it, just in case.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: Anyone who was near a Zone at the time of the Visitation became this. It takes twenty years for the authorities to notice because it's not immediately obvious. One case study is a barber who left the city, but his clients had a 90% mortality rate over the course of a year due to various freak accidents. At the beginning of the book they are paying people to leave the Zone so that they can build a military perimeter around it, but that policy is soon reversed.
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* CameBackWrong: People buried in the zone reanimate, but they can't think for themselves, only imitating people near them. Even more strangely, if you sever a zombie's hand the hand will still act on its own.
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* CameBackWrong: People buried in the zone reanimate, but they can't think for themselves, only imitating people near them. Even more strangely, if you sever a zombie's hand the hand severed body parts will still act on its their own.
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* BerserkButton: Don't try to harm Redrick's family. When his grandfather turned into a zombie, he threw two orderlies and three doctors out of his home.
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* CameBackWrong: People buried in the zone reanimate, but they can't think for themselves, only imitating people near them.
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* CameBackWrong: People buried in the zone reanimate, but they can't think for themselves, only imitating people near them. Even more strangely, if you sever a zombie's hand the hand will still act on its own.
* CameBackWrong: People buried in the zone reanimate, but they can't think for themselves, only imitating people near them. Even more strangely, if you sever a zombie's hand the hand will still act on its own.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "witches jelly"]] out from Zone. [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted. In the first chapter Redrick states that no one stalker (including SmugSnake Burbridge 'The Vulture') will never bring [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[GreyGoo "witches jelly"]] out from Zone. [[spoiler: In the second chapter Redrick and Burbridge are doing exactly that.]]
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{{inspired by}} both of them, (''{{STALKER}}'').
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* ETGaveUsWiFi: Here, this trope is transferred into the future: Humanity makes considerable progress by studying and finding uses for the artefacts found in the Zone -- even if scientists admit that they understand little about how and why these artifacts work, they have found out what they do and invented ways to put them to use.
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* AntiHero / AntiVillain: Redrick Shuchardt. [[YourMileageMayVary Your Mileage WILL Vary]].
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* BadassNormal: Redrick, definitely. It's a survival requirement in his profession.
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* ChangingOfTheGuard: Zig-zagged. Redrick's the POV character for the first two chapters, only to be replaced by a middle-aged engineer named Richard Noonan in the third chapter, who, in-turn, is replaced with Redrick in the final chapter.
