History Podcast / TheAdventureZoneAmnesty

* MonsterMash: although the focus is primarily on cryptids (Bigfoot, Mothman, etc), thus far vampires, mummies (although the only named one is Creator/TommyWiseau), PettingZooPeople, elementals, and a race of beings who may or may not be Krampuses all make an appearance.

* PettingZooPeople: Animals from Earth that pass through the gate into Sylvain eventually become these.

* BodyHorror: It may not be human bodies, but the stuff the first Abomination does with the bodies of the local wildlife is pretty horrifying.

* BotanicalAbomination: [[spoiler:The Tree, which resembles a massive cottonwood tree with branches that twist in the shape of a nervous system.]]

* BrokenMasquerade: although it starts to crack when Aubrey uses magic to make Keith slip and fall, the masq gets blown clean off when Sheriff Connors chases (an Abomination disguised as) Bigfoot through town, with a terrified Duck holding onto the back of his squad car while riding a skateboard and carrying a sword. The next episode has the Pine Guard, the police, and the Hornets trying to figure out how to deal with the fallout. The masq is then totally broken in episode 28 when [[spoiler: Sylphs trying to restore Sylvain rip the top off Mount Kepler and suspend it in the air, before the spell fails and it crashes back to the ground.]]

''The Adventure Zone: Amnesty'' is a MonsterOfTheWeek themed arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' Podcast featuring the Creator/McElroyBrothers (Justin, Travis, and Griffin) playing the TabletopGame/PoweredByTheApocalypse RPG system with their father Clint. As in ''Balance'', Griffin [[GameMaster runs the game]] while the other three role-play.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Kepler is a town slowly dying after its single key industry left, which has been going on in many rural areas of the US in the late 20th and early 21st centuries and was a key issue of the 2016 presidential election.

* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Ned's middle name, as a running gag. In order, he's currently up to "Ned Fuckin' Danger Discretion Aloysius Superstar Butterfly Nimbly Ninja Pacifist Black-Diamond Chicane".

* BrokenMasquerade: although it starts to crack when Aubrey uses magic to make Keith slip and fall, the masq gets blown clean off when Sheriff Connors chases (an Abomination disguised as) Bigfoot through town, with a terrified Duck holding onto the back of his squad car while riding a skateboard and carrying a sword. The next episode has the Pine Guard, the police, and the Hornets trying to figure out how to deal with the fallout.

* {{Masquerade}}: The sylphs at Amnesty Lodge all wear accessories that magically disguise them as humans.

-->'''Barclay''': You're home, [[spoiler:Thacker]]."

* NoNameGiven: Names for specific arcs or Abominations are never actually given, leading fans to name arcs according to the villain of that arc, themselves named after their themes on Griffin's SoundCloud account: Arc 1 has the Beast, Arc 2 has the Water, and Arc 3 has the Calamity Tree.

* NoNameGiven: names for specific arcs or Abominations are never actually given, leading fans to name arcs according to the villain of that arc, themselves named after their themes on Griffin's Spotify account: Arc 1 has the Beast, Arc 2 has the Water, Arc 3 has the Calamity Tree, and Arc 4 has the Figure.

** The item Ned has enchanted by Heathcliff is a Toy/{{Nerf}} blaster, although Griffin forces Clint to change it to a [[SerialNumbersFiledOff Narf Blaster]] so that they can sell merchandise of it without getting sued.

* NoNameGiven: names for specific arcs or Abominations are never actually given, leading fans to name arcs according to the common fan name for the villain of that arc: Arc 1 has the Beast, Arc 2 has the Water, Arc 3 has the Calamity Tree, and Arc 4 has the Figure.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler:The Abominations are eventually revealed as another alien race attempting to engineer a war between Earth and Sylvain. A similarly faked conflict already ravaged Minerva's planet long ago and is the reason she connected with Leo and Duck]].

* LetsYouAndHimFight: [[spoiler:The Abominations are eventually revealed as another alien race attempting to engineer a war between Earth and Sylvain. A similarly faked conflict has already ravaged Minerva's planet]].

* PlotTriggeringDeath: The death of Rick Dannon, chief arborist of the Monongahela Forest Service, is what kicks off the third arc.

** OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Beings from Sylvain, called Sylphs, generally fall into either this category, such as Barclay ([[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]]) or Vincent (Goatman), or folktale monsters, such as Dani ([[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]) or Moira ([[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost]]). Episode 10 reveals that Sylvain is not another dimension but another planet, making all these creatures aliens as well.

* BrickJoke: in the second episode, Aubrey mentions that she's going to use the bathroom before she goes into the Amnesty Lodge with Mama, because [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall nobody ever uses the bathroom in media]]. ''Twenty episodes later'', over a year in real-time, Aubrey mentions she's going to the bathroom again, which prompts the other hunters to remember that ''they'' haven't gone in over a year, either.

** In episode 7, the team convince a group of senior citizens to move their exercise regimen from the community pool to the hot springs at Amnesty Lodge, because said pool is occupied by a water monster. After fending off the monster, the party return to the Lodge, but the senior citizens are never seen.

** While Tres Horny Boys were prone to "accidentally" murdering NPCs, the Pine Guard is much more concerned with protecting innocents and even throw themselves directly into harm's way to help others.
** There is a much bigger emphasis on actions having consequences, such as how a failed manipulation roll led to Agent Stern staying at Amnesty Lodge and becoming a reccuring character or [[spoiler:the dreaded "Pizza Hut" incident]]. NPCs are also much more prone to distrust the main cast and tend to confront them when they do something suspicious.

* TheMothman: A major figure in the third arc, which is set in West Virginia. He is conflated with the similar figure of Indrid Cold and calls the protagonists up on multiple occasions to warn them of upcoming disasters. However, he himself isn't their cause -- he's simply able to see potential futures, and trusted the Pine Guard to take care of some particularly bad ones.