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* DeathBySex: Happens twice.
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
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* OutWithABang: Happens twice.
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
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* HollywoodNerd: Hobbs is awkward and absolutely obsessed with ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' and nerdy things in general. With a name like [[EmbarrassingFirstName Hobbit Shire Sinclair]] he figured there was no point in fighting it.
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* DeathBySex: Happens twice.
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
** Firstly to an anonymous couple in the prologue who get swept out to sea while getting it on in the water, and get attacked by [[spoiler: the deep-queen]] before they can make it back.
** Secondly to [[spoiler: Ellen and Nikos, whose make-up sex at the edge of the deep-water abyss ends with them getting eaten - again by the deep-queen.]]
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* NatureIsNotNice: Hooo boy yes. It's an endless, brutal struggle for survival, with zero consideration given to the losers. Not that the humans are ''that'' much better...
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* NatureIsNotNice: Hooo boy yes. It's an endless, brutal struggle for survival, with zero consideration given to the losers. Not that the humans are ''that'' much better...
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* NatureIsNotNice: Hooo boy yes. It's an endless, brutal struggle for survival, with zero consideration given to the losers. Not NeverASelfMadeWoman: Defied. Margot is annoyed that two of the humans are ''that'' much better...three guesses Vance has for her "origin story" as a deep-sea MadScientist involves a man.
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* FlawlessToken: Shandee is the only black woman in the cast, and just about the only character who has no glaring flaws. The closest she has is a weird fixation with mermaids, but that's more like an eccentricity.
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* AbortedArc: Invoked. The narration states that Scott turning out to be George's estranged son seems like a clear setup for a reconciliation arc, but [[spoiler: Scott's sudden death closes the door on that quite firmly.]]
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* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]] Apparently he really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things. [[spoiler: He also gives his life for Tanner, as well as preventing him from performing a SenselessSacrifice for him. Because a bro does not let his bro down, bro!]]
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* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]] Apparently he really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things. [[spoiler: He also gives his life for Tanner, as well as preventing him from performing a SenselessSacrifice for him. [[BrosBeforeHoes Because a bro does not let his bro down, bro!]]bro!]]]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: T.J. dies in a fiery explosion, caused by him setting his boat on fire to [[TakingYouWithMe take down a giant squid that was attacking it.]]
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Fathom Five … a state-of-the-art oceanic research facility, suspended far below the surface. There, in the dark and the deep, a team of top-notch scientists study the ecosystems and denizens of an aquatic environment as alien as another planet.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' tell Shandee that there's no such thing as black mermaids.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' tell Shandee that there's no such thing as black mermaids.mermaids!
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* DysfunctionJunction: All the eight test subjects have either done that weighs on their conscience, suffered some injustice that they're brooding on, or both.
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* DysfunctionJunction: All the eight test subjects have either done something that weighs on their conscience, suffered some injustice that they're brooding on, or both.
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* DysfunctionJunction: All the eight test subjects have either done that weighs on their conscience, suffered some injustice that they're brooding on, or both.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: It's noted at one point that Margot's research team has a lot more race and gender diversity than you'd expect from a bunch of science nerds.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Defied. There's definitely ''not'' a secret lab in Fathom-5 where previous experimental subjects are kept alive in tanks while moaning "kiiiiill meeeeeee." [[spoiler: The previous experimental subjects who are kept in the secret lab are all dead and preserved in tanks of formaldahyde. Duh.]]
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* SkewedPriorities: While the scientists of Fathom-5 aren't ''quite'' evil, they care an awful lot more about their exciting research than about human lives. At one point Raf fumes about how terrible it would be if a giant anglerfish has really [[spoiler: eaten Ellen and Nikos]], because it meant that she'd missed out on a huge discovery by switching their cameras off earlier. And then mentioned belatedly that, oh yeah, it might also be kind of bad that two people would be dead if so.
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* SkewedPriorities: While the scientists of Fathom-5 aren't ''quite'' evil, they care an awful lot more about their exciting research than about human lives. At one point Raf fumes about how terrible it would be if a giant anglerfish has really [[spoiler: eaten Ellen and Nikos]], because it meant would mean that she'd missed out on a huge discovery by switching their cameras off earlier. And then mentioned mentions belatedly that, oh yeah, it might also be kind of bad a bummer that two people would be dead if so.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Margot and Vance. At one point when he's absent, she finds herself mentally filling in sarcastic comments to the things she says since he isn't there to do it for her.
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* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]] He really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things.
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* EatsBabies: The deep-queen enjoys eating any of her own young who are too slow to escape her after birth. At another point, we also see a great white shark attacking her own newborns.
* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]]He Apparently he really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things.things. [[spoiler: He also gives his life for Tanner, as well as preventing him from performing a SenselessSacrifice for him. Because a bro does not let his bro down, bro!]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Trapped in a broken sub at the bottom of a trench and with zero hope of rescue, [[spoiler: Raf and Hobbs decide to not do any of the desperate and brutal things that people are supposed to do in a vain attempt to survive. Instead, she asks him to tell her a story, and he starts reciting ''Literature/TheHobbit'' from memory.]]
* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Trapped in a broken sub at the bottom of a trench and with zero hope of rescue, [[spoiler: Raf and Hobbs decide to not do any of the desperate and brutal things that people are supposed to do in a vain attempt to survive. Instead, she asks him to tell her a story, and he starts reciting ''Literature/TheHobbit'' from memory.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight: It's several times noted that the experiment actually went unexpectedly well, with all eight test subjects developing abilities far beyond the most optimistic predictions. [[spoiler: Shame about all the death and mayhem that resulted.]]
* HeManWomanHater: ''Hate'' might be a strong word, but Hunter certainly has bottomless ''contempt'' for women and doesn't think they deserve any consideration or respect. Tanner is only slightly better.
* HollywoodNerd: Hobbs is awkward and absolutely obsessed with ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' and nerdy things in general. With a name like [[EmbarrassingFirstName Hobbit Shire Sinclair]] he figured there was no point in fighting it.
* HotGuyUglyWife: Ellen is pretty in an everyday sort of way, but Nikos is a thousand times hotter than her. He loves her for her mind, though, and because she's the first woman who ever loved him for ''his'' mind and not just for his body.
* HeManWomanHater: ''Hate'' might be a strong word, but Hunter certainly has bottomless ''contempt'' for women and doesn't think they deserve any consideration or respect. Tanner is only slightly better.
* HollywoodNerd: Hobbs is awkward and absolutely obsessed with ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' and nerdy things in general. With a name like [[EmbarrassingFirstName Hobbit Shire Sinclair]] he figured there was no point in fighting it.
* HotGuyUglyWife: Ellen is pretty in an everyday sort of way, but Nikos is a thousand times hotter than her. He loves her for her mind, though, and because she's the first woman who ever loved him for ''his'' mind and not just for his body.
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* MadScientist: Dr. Yale is more chill than the usual example and not quite so prone to laughing maniacally, but she's still conducting morally dubious experiments that she'd rather the authorities didn't find out about.
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Various sea-creatures get their own point-of-view chapters, often including their confused impressions of humans.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Lenka doesn't wear anything in the water that she doesn't have to, since she hates having anything between her and the ocean.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Ellen kissed her husband's best friend. She knew she couldn't keep it a secret from him, and finding out would have destroyed him. [[spoiler: So ''clearly'' she had no choice but to kill her husband! [[MercyKill It was an act of mercy!]]]]
-->'''Lenka:''' Female logic. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Makes sense to me.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: George and Shandee quickly bond despite seeming to have several decades between them at the very least.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The giant squid and the deep-queen are both enormous creatures of the depths that are beyond anything the humans are ready for. There's also a giant turtle who rivals them in size, but he seems to prefer to live and let live.
* MadScientist:Dr. Yale Margot is more chill than the usual example and not quite so prone to laughing maniacally, but she's still conducting morally dubious experiments that she'd rather the authorities didn't find out about.about.
* MyGreatestFailure:
** For George, the time when a family of swimmers died on his watch because he was drunk and apathetic.
** For Reggie, drunkenly posting the video of his girlfriend being assaulted by dolphins. By the time he sobered up and realised it wasn't funny it had already gone viral.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Lenka gets two chances to put her unrivalled swimming speed to the test, but in both cases she's just a little too slow.
** The first time she's racing towards the station as the hatch is closing, but she can't make it there before it snaps shut in her face.
** The second time she [[spoiler: finds the deep-queen barreling towards her and, kicking off from one of the monster's ''teeth,'' prepares to make her escape... but the deep-queen's jaws slams shut over her before she can get away.]]
* NatureIsNotNice: Hooo boy yes. It's an endless, brutal struggle for survival, with zero consideration given to the losers. Not that the humans are ''that'' much better...
* SkewedPriorities: While the scientists of Fathom-5 aren't ''quite'' evil, they care an awful lot more about their exciting research than about human lives. At one point Raf fumes about how terrible it would be if a giant anglerfish has really [[spoiler: eaten Ellen and Nikos]], because it meant that she'd missed out on a huge discovery by switching their cameras off earlier. And then mentioned belatedly that, oh yeah, it might also be kind of bad that two people would be dead if so.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Lenka doesn't wear anything in the water that she doesn't have to, since she hates having anything between her and the ocean.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Ellen kissed her husband's best friend. She knew she couldn't keep it a secret from him, and finding out would have destroyed him. [[spoiler: So ''clearly'' she had no choice but to kill her husband! [[MercyKill It was an act of mercy!]]]]
-->'''Lenka:''' Female logic. [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Makes sense to me.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: George and Shandee quickly bond despite seeming to have several decades between them at the very least.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The giant squid and the deep-queen are both enormous creatures of the depths that are beyond anything the humans are ready for. There's also a giant turtle who rivals them in size, but he seems to prefer to live and let live.
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* MyGreatestFailure:
** For George, the time when a family of swimmers died on his watch because he was drunk and apathetic.
** For Reggie, drunkenly posting the video of his girlfriend being assaulted by dolphins. By the time he sobered up and realised it wasn't funny it had already gone viral.
* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: Lenka gets two chances to put her unrivalled swimming speed to the test, but in both cases she's just a little too slow.
** The first time she's racing towards the station as the hatch is closing, but she can't make it there before it snaps shut in her face.
** The second time she [[spoiler: finds the deep-queen barreling towards her and, kicking off from one of the monster's ''teeth,'' prepares to make her escape... but the deep-queen's jaws slams shut over her before she can get away.]]
* NatureIsNotNice: Hooo boy yes. It's an endless, brutal struggle for survival, with zero consideration given to the losers. Not that the humans are ''that'' much better...
* SkewedPriorities: While the scientists of Fathom-5 aren't ''quite'' evil, they care an awful lot more about their exciting research than about human lives. At one point Raf fumes about how terrible it would be if a giant anglerfish has really [[spoiler: eaten Ellen and Nikos]], because it meant that she'd missed out on a huge discovery by switching their cameras off earlier. And then mentioned belatedly that, oh yeah, it might also be kind of bad that two people would be dead if so.
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* UnderwaterBase: Fathom-5 is an underwater research station that also plays host to Margot's more ambitious experiments in creating aquatic posthumans.
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Fathom Five … a state-of-the-art oceanic research facility, suspended far below the surface. There, in the dark and the deep, a team of top-notch scientists study the ecosystems and denizens of an aquatic environment as alien as another planet.
There, they also conduct illicit experiments upon hapless human subjects, with the goal of giving our species a chance to adapt to a changing world. Or, at the very least, to create mutant freaky fish-people, because, why not?
Oh, the arrogance and hubris of genius! Oh, the freaky things that already dwell in the strange, hostile depths! In the cold, crushing, silent pressure of a blackness lit only by eerie bioluminescence. Things that don’t take kindly to intruders Things that are ancient, and enormous, and hungry.
Things like …TRENCH MOUTH.
''Trench Mouth'' is a novel by Christine Morgan.
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!!This novel contains examples of the following Tropes:
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' tell Shandee that there's no such thing as black mermaids.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Scott turns out to be George's son, and to have a lot of unresolved issues with him. Which he expresses with a punch to the face.
* DeviousDolphins: Reggie's girlfriend was attacked by a pod while swimming. It gets even worse when the volunteers begin to be able to communicate with marine animals and they play the video of the event - it turns out that the dolphins were actually gloating about raping her all along.
* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]] He really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things.
* FishPeople: The eight volunteers gradually transform into these.
* GenreSavvy: All the characters know precisely what sort of story they're in. It just doesn't help them.
* HowWeGotHere: Though it's not immediately obvious, two of the seven prologues actually take place at the end of the story.
* MadScientist: Dr. Yale is more chill than the usual example and not quite so prone to laughing maniacally, but she's still conducting morally dubious experiments that she'd rather the authorities didn't find out about.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Hunter and Tanner, collectively known as "the 'Bros."
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Hunter]] manages to use his amplified vocal chords to do this to [[spoiler: Dr. Murray]] when she tries to capture him.
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There, they also conduct illicit experiments upon hapless human subjects, with the goal of giving our species a chance to adapt to a changing world. Or, at the very least, to create mutant freaky fish-people, because, why not?
Oh, the arrogance and hubris of genius! Oh, the freaky things that already dwell in the strange, hostile depths! In the cold, crushing, silent pressure of a blackness lit only by eerie bioluminescence. Things that don’t take kindly to intruders Things that are ancient, and enormous, and hungry.
Things like …TRENCH MOUTH.
''Trench Mouth'' is a novel by Christine Morgan.
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!!This novel contains examples of the following Tropes:
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' tell Shandee that there's no such thing as black mermaids.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Scott turns out to be George's son, and to have a lot of unresolved issues with him. Which he expresses with a punch to the face.
* DeviousDolphins: Reggie's girlfriend was attacked by a pod while swimming. It gets even worse when the volunteers begin to be able to communicate with marine animals and they play the video of the event - it turns out that the dolphins were actually gloating about raping her all along.
* EvilVirtues: Hunter is callous and tasteless to the point of sociopathy, but he's also very stoical in the face of [[spoiler: the loss of his arm, refusing to sulk about it and not holding a grudge against Reggie for crippling him.]] He really ''does'' believe in lightening up and not making a big deal of things.
* FishPeople: The eight volunteers gradually transform into these.
* GenreSavvy: All the characters know precisely what sort of story they're in. It just doesn't help them.
* HowWeGotHere: Though it's not immediately obvious, two of the seven prologues actually take place at the end of the story.
* MadScientist: Dr. Yale is more chill than the usual example and not quite so prone to laughing maniacally, but she's still conducting morally dubious experiments that she'd rather the authorities didn't find out about.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Hunter and Tanner, collectively known as "the 'Bros."
* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler: Hunter]] manages to use his amplified vocal chords to do this to [[spoiler: Dr. Murray]] when she tries to capture him.
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