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** One of the initial Trips carriers is a police detective from Ed [=McBain=]'s "87th Precinct" books.
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** One of the initial Trips carriers is a police detective from Ed [=McBain=]'s "87th Precinct" ''[=~87th Precinct~=]'' books.
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** Even among the main characters, the death rate is pretty high.
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* BerzerkButton: Don't ask Trashcan Man about old lady Semple's pension check.
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* BerzerkButton: Trashcan Man
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* BOOMHeadshot: Flagg sends two {{Mook}}s to capture the Judge and bring back his head with the face undamaged. When one gets trigger-happy, he accidentally catches the Judge in the head, leading to the YouHaveFailedMe moment.
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* HitSoHardTheCalendarFeltIt: Randall Flagg tells the date as "this thirtieth day of September, the year nineteen hundred and ninety, now known as The Year One, year of the plague."
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* AnyoneCanDie (except, as always in King, [[spoiler:the mentally disabled, who have special immunity to Flagg.]])
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* AnyoneCanDie (except, AnyoneCanDie: Except, as always in King, [[spoiler:the mentally disabled, who have special immunity to Flagg.]])]]
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* ChekhovsGun: the [[spoiler:nuclear weapons]] out in the desert.
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* ChekhovsGun: the The [[spoiler:nuclear weapons]] out in the desert.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ten or twenty ''main'' characters following separate arcs in disparate locales. [[Characters/TheStand See here]].
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ten Ten or twenty ''main'' characters following separate arcs in disparate locales. [[Characters/TheStand See here]].
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I don't think he's a Hollywood Atheist (actually he calls himself an agnostic). A lot of bad things happened to him, but it's never stated that this is why he doesn't believe in God.
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* StrawAtheist: Nick Andros tells Mother Abagail he doesn't believe in God.
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* TitleDrop: Abagail, during her [[spoiler: {{final speech}}]]. [-"And with God's help, you will '''Stand'''..."-]
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* TitleDrop: Abagail, during her [[spoiler: {{final speech}}]]. [-"And with God's help, you will '''Stand'''..."-] "-]
* TooDumbToLive: During the chapter where King describes all the people killed in the aftermath of the outbreak, a heroin addict injects some of the drug into his system. The highest purity he ever hit was 12%, and that put him into a comatose sleep. He injected himself with 96% pure heroin. No great loss.
* TooDumbToLive: During the chapter where King describes all the people killed in the aftermath of the outbreak, a heroin addict injects some of the drug into his system. The highest purity he ever hit was 12%, and that put him into a comatose sleep. He injected himself with 96% pure heroin. No great loss.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The TV miniseries has a staggering amount or recognizable actors.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The TV miniseries has a staggering amount or of recognizable actors.
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* RedemptionRejection: Harold, who realizes he ''can'' make a new and better life for himself in Boulder, but chooses to settle all of his childish grudges instead.
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** [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve A sacrifice was needed]]. Alternatively, they are TheIshmael.
** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill destiny]] and BringNewsBack.
** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill destiny]] and BringNewsBack.
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** [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve A sacrifice was needed]].needed]] to [[BecauseDestinySaysSo fulfill the prophecy]]. Alternatively, they are TheIshmael.
** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory[[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill destiny]] and BringNewsBack.
** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory
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* PinballProtagonist: For all the emphasis put on Stu, Glen, Larry, and Ralph journeying to Vegas to confront Flagg, they don't accomplish much of anything tangible except to BringNewsBack. Of course, this depends on various interpretations of the ending:
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* PinballProtagonist: For all the emphasis put on Stu, Glen, Larry, and Ralph journeying to Vegas to confront Flagg, they don't accomplish much of anything tangible except to BringNewsBack.tangible. Of course, this depends on various interpretations of the ending:
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** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill the plot]].
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** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill the plot]].destiny]] and BringNewsBack.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Nadine Cross spent her life believing she had to save her virginity for DreamWeaver Flagg, who is revealed to be TheAntichrist; when she falls in love with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Larry]] instead, she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her, after he has fallen in love with someone else; to break her commitment to Flagg. When [[FriendOrIdolDecision Larry refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg. (see Ignored Epiphany below.)
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Nadine Cross spent her life believing she had to save her virginity for DreamWeaver Flagg, who is revealed to be an expy for TheAntichrist; when she falls in love with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Larry]] instead, she initially rebuffs his advances, then desperately asks him to sleep with her, after he has fallen in love with someone else; to break her commitment to Flagg. When [[FriendOrIdolDecision Larry refuses]], Nadine falls in with Flagg. (see Ignored Epiphany below.)
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Trashcan Man]] proves the ultimate instrument of destruction after he [[GollumMadeMeDoIt finally snaps]]; see Spanner In The Works. Also, Harold.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Trashcan Man]] proves Man proves]] the ultimate instrument of destruction after he [[GollumMadeMeDoIt finally snaps]]; see Spanner In The Works. Also, Harold.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Trashcan Man]] proves the ultimate instrument of destruction at the end, after he [[GollumMadeMeDoIt finally snaps]]; see Spanner In The Works. Also, Harold.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Trashcan Man]] proves the ultimate instrument of destruction at the end, after he [[GollumMadeMeDoIt finally snaps]]; see Spanner In The Works. Also, Harold.
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** Stu Redman name-checks ''WatershipDown'' when describing [[NightmareFuel how terrified the hospital made him feel]]: it made him go ''tharn''.
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** Stu Redman name-checks ''WatershipDown'' when describing [[NightmareFuel how terrified he felt]] in the hospital made him feel]]: hospital: it made him go ''tharn''.
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** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[ButThouMust to fulfill the plot]].
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** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[ButThouMust [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill the plot]].
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** Without their [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]], [[spoiler:Trashcan Man]] would have been intercepted (similar to ''LordOfTheRings'' example)
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** Deliberately done by [[spoiler:Nadine]] to anger Flagg. Of course, RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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* WastelandElder: Mother Abagail's primary role. Then she goes into the wilderness.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Trashcan Man: ''[[CatchPhrase "My life for you!"]]'' Also, Lloyd Henreid.
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* IOweYouMyLife: Lloyd Henreid, and also Trashcan Man: ''[[CatchPhrase "My life for you!"]]'' Also, Lloyd Henreid.you!"]]''
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Turns out it's spelled Abagail. Who knew? Can't never keep track a' that sort of thing.
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* ISenseADisturbanceInTheForce: Both Stu (rather unjustifiably) and Abagail do this in the miniseries. Abagail even ''looks'' like Yoda in the miniseries, so it's justified.
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* ISenseADisturbanceInTheForce: Both Stu (rather unjustifiably) and Abagail do this in the miniseries. Abagail Ruby Dee even ''looks'' like Yoda in the miniseries, Yoda, and [[AWizardDidIt she's a prophet]] so it's justified.
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The story concerns the travels and travails of well [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters over a dozen characters]] following intersecting story arcs across the [[GhibliHills American continent]] during and after an [[ThePlague apocalyptic Super-Flu]] (nicknamed ''Captain Trips'') [[KillEmAll kills 99.4 percent of humanity.]] The survivors are drawn into two camps on either side of the Rocky Mountains: One headed by the 108-year old, Moses-like Mother Abigail, is based in Boulder, CO; the other based in [[{{Mordor}} Las Vegas]] is headed by the demonic Flagg.
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The story concerns the travels and travails of well [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters over a dozen characters]] following intersecting story arcs across the [[GhibliHills American continent]] during and after an [[ThePlague apocalyptic Super-Flu]] (nicknamed ''Captain Trips'') [[KillEmAll kills 99.4 percent of humanity.]] The survivors are drawn into two camps on either side of the Rocky Mountains: One headed by the 108-year old, Moses-like Mother Abigail, Abagail, is based in Boulder, CO; the other based in [[{{Mordor}} Las Vegas]] is headed by the demonic Flagg.
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* DisabilitySuperpower: Tom is especially susceptible to suggestion and is able to hypnotize himself to solve problems. He's also [[spoiler:[[PokeInTheThirdEye invisible to Flagg]]]].
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* GoodHurtsEvil: Characters drawn to Flagg are afraid of Mother Abigail Abagail in her dreams.
* ISenseADisturbanceInTheForce: Both Stu (rather unjustifiably) and Abagail do this in the miniseries. Abagail even ''looks'' like Yoda in the miniseries, so it's justified.
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* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: to Larry.]] In their [[WalkIntoMordor final journey]], Abigail prophesies that "one will fall by the wayside". [[spoiler:Stu]] breaks a leg and convinces the others to go on without him BecauseDestinySaysSo. They never see him again. [[spoiler:This is because all the others die, in the end, he is fated to BringNewsBack]]. Instead of [[ShootTheDog shooting the dog]], they leave the dog with him.
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* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: to Larry.]] In their [[WalkIntoMordor final journey]], Abigail Abagail prophesies that "one will fall by the wayside". [[spoiler:Stu]] breaks a leg and convinces the others to go on without him BecauseDestinySaysSo. They never see him again. [[spoiler:This is because all the others die, in the end, he is fated to BringNewsBack]]. Instead of [[ShootTheDog shooting the dog]], they leave the dog with him.
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: [[spoiler:Tom]] does this to Flagg, who does it to Mother Abagail.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Trash blows up the airfield.
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* [[BringHimToMe Bring Her To Me]]: Dayna Jurgens
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** Fran imagined her father's garden was part of [[TheLordOfTheRings Middle-Earth]], and compares the [[GhibliHills empty countryside]] to Middle-Earth at another point. Flagg's ''sigil'' is a black stone with a red eye, among other [[LawyerFriendlyCameo similarities]].
** Stu Redman name-checks ''WatershipDown'' when describing [[NightmareFuel how terrified the hospital made him feel]]: it made him go ''tharn''.
** Stu Redman name-checks ''WatershipDown'' when describing [[NightmareFuel how terrified the hospital made him feel]]: it made him go ''tharn''.
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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: [[spoiler:Stu]] and Fran's reason for leaving Boulder.
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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: [[spoiler:Stu]] [[spoiler:Stu and Fran's Fran's]] reason for leaving Boulder.
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* ButThouMust: Frannie doesn't buy it.
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** The heroes are {{Decoy Protagonist}}s, traveling into enemy territory [[BecauseDestinySaysSo to fulfill the plot]].
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