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* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoile:Upon dying, Wolf's body is send back to the Territories and thus vanishes before Jack's eyes]].

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* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoile:Upon [[spoiler:Upon dying, Wolf's body is send back to the Territories and thus vanishes before Jack's eyes]].

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* AgentScully: Richard Sloat goes through elaborate lengths to explain away the increasingly supernatural events that Jack brings into his life, ultimately concluding that the blatant magic he encounters is hallucinations caused by dementia. This is broken when he sees an absurdly simple Territories clock (a giant hourglass), and realized that he was incapable of imagining something that simple -if he were to imagine a primitive clock, it would be full of giant gears and extremely complex- that he accepts what happened. This extended, for his entire life up to that point, to an extreme disdain for all forms of fiction (he was a voracious reader, but exclusively in non-fiction), and an ambition to become a research chemist.
* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler: The Talisman offers Jack godhood when he first touches it. Terrified, he immediately rejects the opportunity-- he'd only wanted to use the Talisman to save his mother's life.]]

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* AgentScully: Richard Sloat goes through elaborate lengths to explain away the increasingly supernatural events that Jack brings into his life, ultimately concluding that the blatant magic he encounters is hallucinations caused by dementia. This is broken when he sees an absurdly simple Territories clock (a giant hourglass), and realized that he was incapable of imagining something that simple -if (if he were to imagine a primitive clock, it would be full of giant gears and extremely complex- that complex-)that he accepts what happened. This extended, for his entire life up to that point, to an extreme disdain for all forms of fiction (he was a voracious reader, but exclusively in non-fiction), and an ambition to become a research chemist.
* AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler: The Talisman offers Jack godhood when he first touches it. Terrified, he immediately rejects the opportunity-- opportunity -- he'd only wanted to use the Talisman to save his mother's life.]]



* AmbitionIsEvil: Morgan Sloat. Though he wasn't as bad as Morgan of Orris.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Most of them are either evil or cowed into submission.

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%% * AmbitionIsEvil: Morgan Sloat. Though he wasn't as bad as Morgan of Orris.
%% * AristocratsAreEvil: Most of them are either evil or cowed into submission.



* BigBad: Morgan Sloat/Morgan of Orris.
* BlindWithoutThem: Subverted; in order to no longer having to see all the weirdness around him, Richard breaks his glasses and claims this trope applies to him. Jack however knows he's bluffing, and his eyesight isn't that bad.

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%% * BigBad: Morgan Sloat/Morgan of Orris.
* BlindWithoutThem: Subverted; in In order to no longer having to see all the weirdness around him, Richard breaks his glasses and claims this trope applies to him. Jack however knows he's bluffing, and his eyesight isn't that bad.



* CanonWelding: Later made part of the Dark Tower continuity.
** Considering the climax happens in a black skyscraper that contains the axis of all possible worlds, “later” is debatable.
* ColdBloodedTorture / CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Sunlight Gardener is very fond of this, especially when it comes to Jack and Wolf.

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* CanonWelding: Later made part of the Dark Tower continuity.
** Considering the climax happens in a black skyscraper that contains the axis of all possible worlds, “later” is debatable.
%% * ColdBloodedTorture / CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Sunlight Gardener is very fond of this, especially when it comes to Jack and Wolf.



* DeadAlternateCounterpart: If you have an AlternateSelf in "The Territories", you can flip into their mind when you travel between worlds. But if you don't, like Jacky, whose Twinner was murdered as a child, you remain yourself.

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* DeadAlternateCounterpart: DeadAlternateCounterpart:
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If you have an AlternateSelf in "The Territories", you can flip into their mind when you travel between worlds. But if you don't, like Jacky, whose Twinner was murdered as a child, you remain yourself.



* TheDreaded: Morgan of Orris. Even his followers are terrified of him.
* DrivenToSuicide: Judge Fairchild, who send Jack and Wolf (and before them, many other boys) to Sunlight Gardener's Home. When Jack finds the talisman, Fairchild has already been fired as a judge, and is facing jailtime for his part in the abuse (and even deaths of several boys) that happened at the home. So, pushed by the Talisman, he decides to end his life by driving a knife up his nose, into his brain.

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%% * TheDreaded: Morgan of Orris. Even his followers are terrified of him.
* DrivenToSuicide: Judge Fairchild, who send Jack and Wolf (and before them, many other boys) to Sunlight Gardener's Home. When Jack finds the talisman, Fairchild has already been fired as a judge, and is facing jailtime jail time for his part in the abuse (and even deaths of several boys) that happened at the home. So, pushed by the Talisman, he decides to end his life by driving a knife up his nose, into his brain.



* DyingMomentOfAwesome / HeroicSacrifice / PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Wolf dies saving Jack from Sunlight Gardener's lackeys while trapped and weakened in our world.]]

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%% * DyingMomentOfAwesome / HeroicSacrifice / PapaWolf: [[spoiler: Wolf dies saving Jack from Sunlight Gardener's lackeys while trapped and weakened in our world.]]



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The psychotic Osmond gets one in his first appearance-- he whips Jack's back to shreds when Jack doesn't answer his questions, and then moments later does the same thing to an unfortunate carriage driver who has displeased him. Jack notes with horror that Osmond is actually ''laughing'' as he whips the man to death.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The psychotic Osmond gets one in his first appearance-- appearance -- he whips Jack's back to shreds when Jack doesn't answer his questions, and then moments later does the same thing to an unfortunate carriage driver who has displeased him. Jack notes with horror that Osmond is actually ''laughing'' as he whips the man to death.



* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Debatable. After he visited the Territories, practically every male Jack has met was stricken by his [[PrettyBoy beauty.]] However, this is attributed to the inhabitants of Earth just being drawn by the power of the Territories they felt in him. The use of this trope also crosses over into StupidSexyFlanders several times.



* TheFundamentalist: Sunlight Gardener.

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%% * TheFundamentalist: Sunlight Gardener.



* HellHotel: The Agincourt Hotel, a.k.a. the Black Hotel, where the Talisman resides.

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%% * HellHotel: The Agincourt Hotel, a.k.a. the Black Hotel, where the Talisman resides.



* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Oh god, poor Wolf...]]

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%% * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Oh god, poor Wolf...]]



* {{Jerkass}}: A very, very charitable description of Smokey.
** [[TheBully Sonny Singer and Heck Bast]].

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%% * {{Jerkass}}: A very, very charitable description of Smokey.
%% ** [[TheBully Sonny Singer and Heck Bast]].



* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Practically everyone who has ever hurt Jack gets their comeuppance in some way after Jack finds the Talisman. Yes, that extends to minor characters as well.]]

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%% * LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Practically everyone who has ever hurt Jack gets their comeuppance in some way after Jack finds the Talisman. Yes, that extends to minor characters as well.]]



* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: At the end of the book, Morgan of Orris takes over the less evil but still ruthless Morgan Sloat and 'they' decide that if Richard stands in their way, then they will kill him as well.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Upon dying, Wolf's body is send back to the Territories and thus vanishes before Jack's eyes.

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* [[spoiler:OffingTheOffspring: OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: At the end of the book, Morgan of Orris takes over the less evil but still ruthless Morgan Sloat and 'they' decide that if Richard stands in their way, then they will kill him as well.]]
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Upon [[spoile:Upon dying, Wolf's body is send back to the Territories and thus vanishes before Jack's eyes.eyes]].



* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The queen would if she wasn't, you know, dying. The former king was apparently an awesome guy and very popular. He traveled a lot around his kingdom doing kingly stuff.
* SacrificialLion: Ferd Janklow.

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%% * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The queen would if she wasn't, you know, dying. The former king was apparently an awesome guy and very popular. He traveled a lot around his kingdom doing kingly stuff.
%% * SacrificialLion: Ferd Janklow.



* SueDonym:
-->'''Jack''': "Jack Saw — ah — Sawtelle."\\
'''Updike''': "Jack Saw-ah-Sawtelle — must be the longest f***ing name in the phonebook, huh, kid?"

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%% * SueDonym:
%% -->'''Jack''': "Jack Saw — ah — Sawtelle."\\
%% '''Updike''': "Jack Saw-ah-Sawtelle — must be the longest f***ing name in the phonebook, huh, kid?"



* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Richard Sloat followed his father to The Territories one night on vacation. It didn't end well...]]

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%% * TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Richard Sloat followed his father to The Territories one night on vacation. It didn't end well...]]



* VillainousBreakdown: Gardener and Sonny have this during Wolf's rampage.
** Gardener/Osmond have an even bigger one when their sons are killed by Jack. [[FreakOut They don't recover.]]
* VillainousCrush: Heck Bast is implied to have one for Jack. Jack surmises that Heck is attracted to whatever Territories influence is present in him, and suspects that to be one of the reasons why [[StupidSexyFlanders Heck hates him so much]]. He definitely gets a little too excited by [[spoiler: Jack's torture at the hands of Sunlight Gardener.]]
** Sonny Singer may also have one for Jack. He seems a little too excited to accuse Jack and Wolf of being gay lovers.

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%% * VillainousBreakdown: Gardener and Sonny have this during Wolf's rampage.
%% ** Gardener/Osmond have an even bigger one when their sons are killed by Jack. [[FreakOut They don't recover.]]
%% * VillainousCrush: Heck Bast is implied to have one for Jack. Jack surmises that Heck is attracted to whatever Territories influence is present in him, and suspects that to be one of the reasons why [[StupidSexyFlanders Heck hates him so much]]. He definitely gets a little too excited by [[spoiler: Jack's torture at the hands of Sunlight Gardener.]]
%% ** Sonny Singer may also have one for Jack. He seems a little too excited to accuse Jack and Wolf of being gay lovers.



* WhenTreesAttack: Type 1. The reason why Morgan of Orris doesn't bother to search the forest for Jack. (''OUR boy?'' ''YESSSSSS!'')

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%% * WhenTreesAttack: Type 1. The reason why Morgan of Orris doesn't bother to search the forest for Jack. (''OUR boy?'' ''YESSSSSS!'')



* [[spoiler:TheWisePrince: Jack is the twinner of the dead prince who 'helps' as the story goes on. As someone identical to the dead prince, Jack himself qualifies.]]

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* [[spoiler:TheWisePrince: Jack TheWisePrince: [[spoiler:Jack is the twinner of the dead prince who 'helps' as the story goes on. As someone identical to the dead prince, Jack himself qualifies.]]
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* ContinuityCameo: George Hatfield, a minor character in ''Literature/TheShining'', shows up briefly here.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Debatable. After he visited the Territories, practically every male Jack has met was stricken by his [[{{Bishonen}} beauty.]] However, this is attributed to the inhabitants of Earth just being drawn by the power of the Territories they felt in him. The use of this trope also crosses over into StupidSexyFlanders several times.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Debatable. After he visited the Territories, practically every male Jack has met was stricken by his [[{{Bishonen}} [[PrettyBoy beauty.]] However, this is attributed to the inhabitants of Earth just being drawn by the power of the Territories they felt in him. The use of this trope also crosses over into StupidSexyFlanders several times.
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* WhipOfDominance: Osmond, Morgan of Orris's right-hand man, carries a very nasty whip similar to a cat o' nine tails, and demonstrates his sadistic side by whipping a wagon driver to death for the crime of spilling a load of ale.
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* AlternateSelf: Our world has a lot more people than the Territories do, so you can't quite say 'everyone' has one (except maybe for a third world) but quite a lot do. Alternate selves do not necessarily look the same and can in fact be very different. Personalities may not be the same either, such as Morgan of Orris being much more ruthless than Morgan Sloat. However, fundamentally they are ''you.''

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* AlternateSelf: Our world has a lot more people than the Territories do, so you can't quite say 'everyone' has one (except maybe for a third world) but quite a lot do. Alternate selves do not necessarily look the same and can in fact be very different. Personalities may not be the same either, such as Morgan of Orris being much more ruthless than Morgan Sloat. However, fundamentally they are ''you.'''' In general, when one self dies, so does the other. There exceptions to this, such as Jack, whose "twinner" died as a small child when Jack managed to survive a near drowning.
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* AdmiringThePoster: Downplayed. Speedy's office is decorated with old nudie cutouts and pinups, but they were already there when he started his maintenance job. He leaves them up because they remind him of his days as a traveling blues musician.
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* VillainousCrush: Heck Bast is implied to have one for Jack. Jack surmises that Heck is attracted to whatever Territories influence is present in him, and suspects that to be one of the reasons why [[StupidSexyFlanders Heck hates him so much]]. He definitely gets a little too excited by [[spoiler: Jack's torture at the hands of Sunlight Gardener.]]
** Sonny Singer may also have one for Jack. He seems a little too excited to accuse Jack and Wolf of being gay lovers.
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A live action series adaptation of the book is [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ in development]] for Creator/Netflix. It will be showrun by ''Series/StrangerThings'' writer Curtis Gwinn, and executive produced by ''ST'' creators Matt and Ross Duffer through their newly formed Upside Down Productions company. Creator/AmblinTelevision and Creator/{{Paramount}} Television will also produce.

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A live action series adaptation of the book is [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ in development]] for Creator/Netflix.Creator/{{Netflix}}. It will be showrun by ''Series/StrangerThings'' writer Curtis Gwinn, and executive produced by ''ST'' creators Matt and Ross Duffer through their newly formed Upside Down Productions company. Creator/AmblinTelevision and Creator/{{Paramount}} Television will also produce.
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A live action series is [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ in development]] for Creator/Netflix. It will be showrun by ''Series/StrangerThings'' writer Curtis Gwinn, and executive produced by ''ST'' creators Matt and Ross Duffer through their newly formed Upside Down Productions company. Creator/AmblinTelevision and Creator/{{Paramount}} Television will also produce.

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A live action series adaptation of the book is [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ in development]] for Creator/Netflix. It will be showrun by ''Series/StrangerThings'' writer Curtis Gwinn, and executive produced by ''ST'' creators Matt and Ross Duffer through their newly formed Upside Down Productions company. Creator/AmblinTelevision and Creator/{{Paramount}} Television will also produce.
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* SueDonym:
-->'''Jack''': "Jack Saw — ah — Sawtelle."\\
'''Updike''': "Jack Saw-ah-Sawtelle — must be the longest f***ing name in the phonebook, huh, kid?"
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* BadBoss: Smokey casually beats on his employees, physically and mentally, and effectively holds Jack in slavery with threats to call the sheriff if he should be so uppity as to quit the job. He also cheats Jack on his pay, but that's a minor issue by the time a few days pass compared to everything else.
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* FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace: [[spoiler:When he breaches the black hotel to find the Talisman, Jack Sawyer finds himself flipping through multiple alternate versions of it while fighting a knight in black armor. Later, in a confrontation with Sloat on the beach where Sloat is hiding in a snowstorm, Jack realizes his voice keeps fading in and out because Sloat is flipping back and forth from our world to the Territories, and is able to flip and catch him.]]
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* AGodAmI: Subverted. [[spoiler: The Talisman offers Jack godhood when he first touches it. Terrified, he immediately rejects the opportunity-- he'd only wanted to use the Talisman to save his mother's life.]]

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* AGodAmI: Subverted. AGodIAmNot: [[spoiler: The Talisman offers Jack godhood when he first touches it. Terrified, he immediately rejects the opportunity-- he'd only wanted to use the Talisman to save his mother's life.]]
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** Considering the climax happens in a black skyscraper that contains the axis of all possible worlds, “later” is debatable.

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* TheBrute: Heck Bast.

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* %%* TheBrute: Heck Bast.



* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Morgan

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* %%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Morgan



* TheDragon: Osmond/Sunlight Gardener.

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* %%* TheDragon: Osmond/Sunlight Gardener.



* DumbIsGood: Wolfs

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* %%* DumbIsGood: Wolfs



* DyingTown: Oatley, New York.

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* %%* DyingTown: Oatley, New York.



* GreenEyedMonster: Morgan

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* %%* GreenEyedMonster: Morgan



* KidHero
* TheLancer: Wolf and Richard.

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* %%* KidHero
* %%* TheLancer: Wolf and Richard.



* MagicalLand: The Territories.

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* %%* MagicalLand: The Territories.



* MaximumFunChamber: The Box.

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* %%* MaximumFunChamber: The Box.

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