History Series / StormOfTheCentury

* AmbiguousSituation: Is Linoge capable of doing everything he said he can do, or was he bluffing? The movie never makes it clear either way, though Linoge's "perhaps you tricked yourselves" line somewhat implies the latter.

* TheEveryman: Mike Anderson.

* EvilSorcerer: Andre Linoge.

* HannibalLecture: Linoge is capable of delivering these at the drop of the hat.

* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: André Linoge's goal is to take one of the town's children to raise as his successor. Although he is an incredibly long-lived wizard/demon compared to a human lifespan, he admits that he is not immortal by revealing that he's actually a frail old man beneath his {{Glamour}}. He lets the townfolk decide which of their children he'll take or he'll wipe out the whole town. They eventually decide on [[spoiler:the protagonist's son against his father's will.]]

* PedophilePriest: Linoge implies this about Reverend Bobby Riggins.

* PsychicNosebleed: Linoge does this to Billy in the store, just to mess with him.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Linoge's true form is a ''very'' old man. He actually admits that his plot is based on the fact that he is dying of old age, though he also states that compared to the townsfolk's "[[WeAreAsMayflies mayfly]]" like lifespans, he'll still be around long after the vast majority of them are dead (although he concedes that some of the teenagers might outlive him).

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:

** In the epilogue [[spoiler:Mike]] delivers a gut-wrenching one to Hatch. It’s calm and subdued but he makes it clear that the guilt the townspeople feel is meaningless to him and their pain is nothing compared to his [[spoiler:because it was their decision that cost him his child.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Linoge does this occasionally.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: After losing his son, Mike divorces Molly, quits his job as constable, and leaves Little Tall and never comes back.]]

* SinisterMinister: The televangelist.

* WhyDontYaJustShootHim: [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Suggested frequently.]] It's not until Linoge demonstrates his ability to BulletCatch that it stops being a solution.

* BigBad: Andre Linoge, an EvilSorcerer and one of the most thoroughly evil of Stephen King's antagonists.

* BigBad: Andre Linoge, an EvilSorcerer and one of the most thoroughly evil of Stephen King's antagonists, to the point that many in the novel liken him to the Devil himself.

* AnAxeToGrind: It's what Lloyd Wishman uses [[spoiler:to kill himself]].

** Linoge claims to be a powerful immortal entity, but his displayed powers don't support that. Note that this story features Derry, Maine, the infamous setting of ''Literature/{{It}}''. The powers he displays are {{glamour}}ing, [[LightEmUp producing bright blue light]], small-scaled [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]][[note]]He uses this power to lift a single woman in the air and nearly force her to burn her own face, push off a jail door, hold a door shut, manipulate a basketball, and toss a few people aside individually. He doesn't use it to lift heavier objects or on a large number of people or objects at the same time[[/note]], {{flight}}, [[{{Telepathy}} psychic image projection, mind reading]], {{mind control}} over vulnerable people[[note]]He uses his controlling powers on two borderline elderly men at once, a traumatized and anger-fueled girl, a very elderly woman, and six very young children. The one time he controlled a young healthy person was when he tried to make Billy kill Kat, but he resisted it.[[/note]], and dragging people into strange visions of flying in the sky through which he can drop and kill them because YourMindMakesItReal.

** [[spoiler:He uses Roanoke as a comparison to what he intends to do to Little Tall Island, but he never actually says or shows the town ''what'' he did to Roanoke. He only indirectly claims that he was responsible for the Roanoke Colony disappearance.]]

* LighthousePoint: There's a lighthouse on Little Tall Island which featured prominently in trailers and promotional art, despite the fact no character in the miniseries ever interacts with it (except for one creepy segment with Linoge). However, it does get rather spectacularly toppled during the height of the snowstorm ([[SpecialEffectsFailure a clear bit]] of miniature work), an event witnessed by most of the town which also leads to the disappearance and deaths of several characters.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Linoge continually taunts Mayor Beals about how he'll go to hell and have his eyes [[EyeScream eaten over and over again]], [[spoiler:as an ironic punishment for allowing his mother to die in truly horrible conditions]]. Considering everything else Linoge said was true, this may happen.

* DarkSecret: Linoge says it best: "Your town is full of [[YourCheatingHeart adulterers]], [[PaedoHunt pedophiles]], [[{{Criminals}} thieves]], [[SevenDeadlySins gluttons]], [[BloodyMurder murderers]], [[GangOfBullies bullies]], [[{{Jerkass}} scoundrels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking covetous morons]]. And I know every last one of them."

* ScaryTeeth: When he's doing something evil, Linoge will occasionally flash a mouth full of viper's teeth.

* DarkSecret: Linoge says it best: "Your town is full of adulterers, [[PaedoHunt pedophiles]], [[{{Criminals}} thieves]], [[SevenDeadlySins gluttons]], [[BloodyMurder murderers]], [[GangOfBullies bullies]], [[{{Jerkass}} scoundrels]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking covetous morons]]. And I know every last one of them."

* MasterOfIllusion: Most of Linoge's sorcery revolves around distorting the inhabitants of Little Tall's senses to make them see and hear what he wants them to see and hear, such as using glamours to alter his appearance and showing the villagers visions of dreams to threaten them with.

* SmallTownBigHell: With all of the shared secrets and rumors between the people of Little Tall Island, it's amazing they didn't start killing each other BEFORE Andre Linoge comes to town to set them against each other.