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* ChubbyMamaSkinnyPapa: Played for drama and eventual horror with Luke's parents, after his mother grows fat following her medical retirement; it's implied their father fetishizes her weight, while she likely keeps him for his slim build [[spoiler:(she's attracted to teenage boys, including her own son Clayton)]].
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* LaughingMad: The still-alive [[spoiler:Al, after she's been turned into a hive for mutated bees and begins messily giving birth to them. She keeps laughing even when her head caves in from the pressure]].
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* DownerEnding: Pretty much the bleakest imaginable. [[spoiler:The Fig Men allow Luke to merge with the ''thing'' they've turned his son into, in exchange for him returning to the surface. Thankfully, we don't see what they turn into, but when the submersible returns to the dock it appears humanity is about to face a nightmare even worse than the 'Gets.]]
--> What shambled forth was unspeakable.
--> What shambled forth was unspeakable.
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* ParentalIncest: [[Spoiler:Clayton's mother controlled him by rewarding him sexually. Eventually it caused him to murder her via slow poisoning]].
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* ParentalIncest: [[Spoiler:Clayton's [[spoiler:Clayton's mother controlled him by rewarding him sexually.sexually for doing her dirty work. Eventually it caused him to murder her via slow poisoning]].
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* ParentalIncest: [[Spoiler:Clayton's mother controlled him by rewarding him sexually. Eventually it caused him to murder her via slow poisoning]].
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* AdultFear: Having your child abducted from a park in broad daylight, and then no trace of him ever being found. This is how Luke lost Zach.
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* MissingChild: A child abducted from a park in broad daylight, and then no trace of him ever being found. This is how Luke lost Zach.
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* AdultHorror: Having your child abducted from a park in broad daylight, and then no trace of him ever being found. This is how Luke lost Zach.
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* AdultHorror: AdultFear: Having your child abducted from a park in broad daylight, and then no trace of him ever being found. This is how Luke lost Zach.
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* AdultHorror: Having your child abducted from a park in broad daylight, and then no trace of him ever being found. This is how Luke lost Zach.
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* ThePlague: "The 'Gets" (short for "forgets"). It causes people to experience short-term memory loss before they begin losing bigger chunks of memory, until their bodies literally forget how to function, resulting in death. When the story begins, thousands of people have already succumbed to it, resulting in the slow breakdown of society.
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* ThePlague: "The 'Gets" (short for "forgets"). It causes people to experience short-term memory loss before they begin losing bigger chunks of memory, until their bodies literally forget how to function, resulting in death. When the story begins, thousands of people have already succumbed to it, resulting in the slow breakdown of society.society.
* TheWatson: Protagonist Luke serves as one, an ordinary veterinarian who has to have many topics explained to him, such as deep-sea architecture and the ambrosia's healing ability.
* TheWatson: Protagonist Luke serves as one, an ordinary veterinarian who has to have many topics explained to him, such as deep-sea architecture and the ambrosia's healing ability.
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* MadScientist: Clayton is one, in a very pure sense; he's so detached from humanity that his mind has no philosophical limits (and also no conscience about experimenting).
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* MadScientist: Clayton is one, in a very pure sense; he's so detached from humanity that his mind has no philosophical limits (and also no conscience about experimenting).experimenting).
* ThePlague: "The 'Gets" (short for "forgets"). It causes people to experience short-term memory loss before they begin losing bigger chunks of memory, until their bodies literally forget how to function, resulting in death. When the story begins, thousands of people have already succumbed to it, resulting in the slow breakdown of society.
* ThePlague: "The 'Gets" (short for "forgets"). It causes people to experience short-term memory loss before they begin losing bigger chunks of memory, until their bodies literally forget how to function, resulting in death. When the story begins, thousands of people have already succumbed to it, resulting in the slow breakdown of society.
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* ActionSurvivor: Luke is way out of his depth (pun intended) as an ordinary veterinarian in an underwater military lab crawling with monstrosities. Despite his lack of training he manages to stay calm and determined.
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* FatBastard: Luke and Clayton's mother, who lets her weight balloon out of control after retiring from her job as a youth prison guard. She's also an arrogant ControlFreak who terrorizes her sons ([[ParentalIncest and worse]]).
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''The Deep'' is a 2015 ScienceFiction {{Horror}} novel by Nick Cutter (author of ''Literature/TheTroop).
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''The Deep'' is a 2015 ScienceFiction {{Horror}} novel by Nick Cutter (author of ''Literature/TheTroop).
''Literature/TheTroop'').
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* AmazonianBeauty: Al is a muscular, tough-as-nails submarine pilot, who's still pretty enough to attract Luke's attention a few times.
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* EldritchAbominations: The creatures that call themselves [[spoiler:The Fig Men]]. Described as two sexless, lumpy, deformed beings with translucent skin, growing out of a wall of undulating, living flesh.
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* EldritchAbominations: EldritchAbomination: The creatures that call themselves [[spoiler:The Fig Men]]. Described as two sexless, lumpy, deformed beings with translucent skin, growing out of a wall of undulating, living flesh.
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* EldritchAbominations: The creatures that call themselves [[spoiler:The Fig Men]]. Described as two sexless, lumpy, deformed beings with translucent skin, growing out of a wall of undulating, living flesh.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: What happened to [[spoiler:Zach. Abducted by the Fig Men and brought down to their world, where he's slowly been changed into a HumanoidAbomination]].
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* A scientist who escaped the ''Trieste'' is found to have attempted suicide by cutting. Since he's infected with the ambrosia, he heals almost instantly, and his body is left a mass of scars. At least he stopped when rapid ascent turned his bones into jelly.
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* ''BodyHorror: A buffet of it:
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* ''BodyHorror: BodyHorror: A buffet of it:
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* MadScientist: Clayton is one, in a very pure sense; he's so detached from humanity that his mind has no philosophical limits (and also no conscience about experimenting).
* MadScientist: Clayton is one, in a very pure sense; he's so detached from humanity that his mind has no philosophical limits (and also no conscience about experimenting).
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** [[Spoiler:Clayton's]] hand after he touches an extradimensional rift with it. His fingers grow long and segmented, the skin hardens into crab-like armor... and then the hand detaches and goes scuttling off on its own.
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** [[Spoiler:Clayton's]] [[spoiler:Clayton's]] hand after he touches an extradimensional rift with it. His fingers grow long and segmented, the skin hardens into crab-like armor... and then the hand detaches and goes scuttling off on its own.
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!! ''Penny Blackfeather'' contains examples of:
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** [[Spoiler:Clayton's]] hand after he touches an extradimensional rift with it. His fingers grow long and segmented, the skin hardens into crab-like armor... and then the hand detaches and goes scuttling off on its own.
** One character is literally disassembled and strung around a room as a human beehive.
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** [[Spoiler:Clayton's]] hand after he touches an extradimensional rift with it. His fingers grow long and segmented, the skin hardens into crab-like armor... and then the hand detaches and goes scuttling off on its own.
** One character is literally disassembled and strung around a room as a human beehive.
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!! ''Penny Blackfeather'' contains examples of:
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In the near future, humanity faces a terrible disease nicknamed "the 'Gets," a condition that causes people to forget little things like anniversaries, then big things like breathing. Rumored MadScientist ClaytonNelson believes he's found a miracle cure in the unlikeliest place: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, eight miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Clayton establishes a cutting-edge research lab in the trench... and then ceases communicating with the surface world.
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In the near future, humanity faces a terrible disease nicknamed "the 'Gets," a condition that causes people to forget little things like anniversaries, then big things like breathing. Rumored MadScientist ClaytonNelson Clayton Nelson believes he's found a miracle cure in the unlikeliest place: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, eight miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Clayton establishes a cutting-edge research lab in the trench... and then ceases communicating with the surface world.
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''The Deep'' is a 2015 ScienceFiction {{Horror}} novel by Nick Cutter (author of ''Literature/TheTroop).
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''The Deep'' is a 2015 ScienceFiction {{Horror}} novel by Nick Cutter (author of ''Literature/TheTroop).''Literature/TheTroop).
In the near future, humanity faces a terrible disease nicknamed "the 'Gets," a condition that causes people to forget little things like anniversaries, then big things like breathing. Rumored MadScientist ClaytonNelson believes he's found a miracle cure in the unlikeliest place: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, eight miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Clayton establishes a cutting-edge research lab in the trench... and then ceases communicating with the surface world.
Enter his brother, veterinarian and all-around NiceGuy Luke Nelson. Luke is recruited to go down to Clayton's lab, the ''Trieste,'' and persuade him to return with his research. Accompanied by tough, kindhearted Navy sub pilot Alice "Al" Skyes, Luke descends into a cold, sunless world under the water... and it isn't long before he discovers that the horrors of the 'Gets are nothing compared to what lies waiting in the deep.
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In the near future, humanity faces a terrible disease nicknamed "the 'Gets," a condition that causes people to forget little things like anniversaries, then big things like breathing. Rumored MadScientist ClaytonNelson believes he's found a miracle cure in the unlikeliest place: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, eight miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Clayton establishes a cutting-edge research lab in the trench... and then ceases communicating with the surface world.
Enter his brother, veterinarian and all-around NiceGuy Luke Nelson. Luke is recruited to go down to Clayton's lab, the ''Trieste,'' and persuade him to return with his research. Accompanied by tough, kindhearted Navy sub pilot Alice "Al" Skyes, Luke descends into a cold, sunless world under the water... and it isn't long before he discovers that the horrors of the 'Gets are nothing compared to what lies waiting in the deep.
Not to be confused with ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'' or the graphic novels it's adapted from.
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''The Deep'' is a 2015 ScienceFiction {{Horror}} novel by Nick Cutter (author of ''Literature/TheTroop).
