History Series / TheTerrorInfamy

* WeddingEnhancedFertility: Luz reveals that she is once again pregnant at the end of episode 8 soon after she and Chester marry.

* IllGirl: A gender flipped version. [[spoiler: Jirou]] says that he's always sick, so the other kids say he's cursed.

* BittersweetEnding: Leans a bit more on the sweet side. Although [[spoiler: Henry dies]] and ''many'' people were killed when they were possessed by Yuko, her spirit is finally at peace and Chester and Luz's child is saved. Five years later, Chester and Luz are happily married, adapted two more children, and set up a photograph studio in Los Angeges. For Yuko and Chester, it counts as a EarnYourHappyEnding.

* AdultFear: Yuko had to leave her child in an orphanage when she [[StrugglingSingleMother could no longer feed him living on the streets]].

* {{Eagleland}}: The country's system and the Caucasians towards the Japanese Americans are all Type II. Basically, they were NotSoDifferent from the [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Nazis towards the Jews]], with the exception of the FinalSolution.

* GreaterScopeVillain: Chiyo ([[spoiler:for trying to take Yuko hostage as an adoptive daughter for her own selfishness after she killed herself which in turn influences the latter to do the same]]) and Hideo Furuya ([[spoiler:due to his mistreatment of Yuko that started this mess, Asako who arranged the marriage in the first place is more of an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and TheMillstone in this case]]).

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[spoiler: Amy Yoshida is traumatized by having to kill Major Bowen in self-defense and is haunted by the possibility that the WRC might come after her. The Terminal Island residents know about this and pledge to keep her secret and move on from this incident.]]

* LostInTranslation: Not so much lost as confused; Arthur translates Tama as "jade", Chester translates it as "pearl".

* PunchClockVillain: Ota, the Japanese POW, at [[JerkassFacade first glance seems]] to be the typical fanatical and savage DefiantCaptive who bites off an interrogator's ear and makes threats towards Chester's family. Then he mellows down and reveals his humanizing and redeeming qualities as an ex-baseball player who once played against an American all-star team that he fondly looks back at as he confides to Chester. Chester later unties him so that he can commit {{Seppuku}} out of MyCountryRightOrWrong, and Ota gives him Admiral Takahashi's birth-date and birthplace to give Chester's superior a lead [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe as thanks for treating him more humanely then the other interrogators]].

* SpySpeak: Chester figures out a [[ReadingTheEnemysMail letter from a Japansese soldier]] using the metaphor variety that has a location hidden in a poem.

* TitleDrop: Many of the episode titles are lines used within the episodes. For example, in "All the Demons Are Still in Hell," when Henry rejects Yamato-san's offer of ''sutra'' to ward off the ''obake'', Yamato-san asks him he really believes that all the demons are still in hell.

* WeHaveReserves: Walt Yoshida tells Toshiro that the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team is being sent into situations deemed "too dangerous" for white soldiers. [[note]] It's debatable whether the 442nd was intentionally used as cannon fodder. Their overall commander certainly didn't seem to mind spending their lives, but there is no historical evidence that they were a designated "cannon fodder" unit. That said, they made a reputation for themselves as hard-charging, relentless fighters, and thus were often sent into areas of heavy combat, especially in the Vosges Mountains and the Gothic Line in Italy.[[/note]]

* FriendlyEnemy: Chester ends up having a conversation with Ota about how the latter played baseball in Japan, supposedly striking out Lou Gherig during the [[https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/1934-japan-tour-footage-uncovered 1934 Japan Tour]].
* FriendOrFoe: The way Japanese internment was rationalized, and directly invoked by American [=GIs=] when Chester is stationed in Guam as a translator.
* GhostReunionEnding: Averted, though it is what Yuko intended.
* GoBackToTheSource: Chester uses a curandero to [[spoiler: allow Yuko to return to herself before she left Japan]].

* GrannyClassic: Chester and Luz go to hide at her Abuela's house in New Mexico.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Chiyo ([[spoiler:For trying to take Yuko hostage as an adoptive daughter for her own selfishness after she killed herself which in turn influences the latter to do the same]]) and Hideo Furuya ([[spoiler:For his mistreatment of Yuko that started this mess, Asako who arranged the marriage in the first place is more of an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and TheMillstone in this case]]).
* HappyFlashback: We see a flashback to Asako dressing Yuko for the photo used to arrange her marriage.

* HeroicBSOD: Luz experiences one after [[spoiler: the death of her sons]].
* HistoricalInJoke: The family hides in [[https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/trinity-test-1945 "government property, in the middle of New Mexico"]] and Chester meets a drunken Brit. talking about "little boy."
* HongKongDub: At the start of episode 3, most of the main characters are watching a western movie with Japanese audio and sound effects performed live.

* IllGirl: A gender flipped version. Jirou says that he's always sick so the other kids say he's cursed.

* INeverGotAnyLetters: Played with. Luz refuses to read or reply to Chester's letters, and her dad sends them back to him unopened

* ItsAllMyFault: Akaso asks Yuko is she knows that "this was all my fault". Specifically, she's referring to how [[spoiler: she swapped arranged marriages with her sister]].

* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[spoiler: Amy Yoshida is left disheartened knowing she had to kill Major Bowen in self-defense and is haunted by it. The Terminal Island residents know about this and pledge to move on from this incident.]]

* LostInTranslation: Not so much lost as confused; Arthur translates Tama as Jade, Chester translates it as Pearl.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Yuko appears to be partially motivated by getting her sons back.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Chester's biological mother is Yuko.]]

* MonochromePast: Chester meets [[spoiler: his twin brother]] Jirou in a photograph of the later when he was 7 years old.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The Japanese POW is duty-bound despite being humanized as an ex-baseball player who Chester could emphasized with.
* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Yuko]] reveals that she's pregnant after marrying [[spoiler:Furuya]] in 1919. Justified in that she thought hiding it and going to America was her best chance.

* TheOmniscient: Yamato somehow knows everything that happened with Amy and Major Bowen.
* OneDropRule: A soldier flat out says that anyone who has even "one drop of Japanese blood", they'll either be put in the internment camps or worse. He does this while he and his compatriots are forcing hospital workers to surrender children in their care to them. This is, sadly, quite true to history.

* ThePerfectCrime: Possibly, no one appears to have discovered that Amy killed Major Bowen. The finale shows that five years later Yamato-san and quite likely most of the others at the camp figured it out, but nobody with the War Relocation Authority ever did.
* ThePlague: An illness goes around the camp and both of the doctors get too sick to care for patients.

* PunchClockVillain: The Japanese POW at [[JerkassFacade first glance seemed]] to be the typical fanatical and savage DefiantCaptive who bit off an interrogator's ear and makes threats towards Chester's family, but then he mellows down and reveals his humanizing and redeeming qualities as an ex-baseball player playing against an American all-star team that he fondly looks back at as he confides to Chester. Chester would later untie him to commit {{Seppuku}} out of MyCountryRightOrWrong and gives him Admiral Takahashi's birth-date and birthplace to give Chester's superior a lead [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe out of treating him more humanely then the other interrogators]].
* QuicksandSucks: [[spoiler: Chiyo's daughter]] is trapped in the sand in the rock gardens and reached out to grab anyone who sets foot on it [[DraggedOffToHell to drag them down with her]].
* RapeAsDrama: Attempted by Bowen on Amy.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chester's Shore Patrol FriendOnTheForce Marlon.

* {{Revenge}}: Amy Yoshida was consumed with revenge against Major Bowen and got it, but admits to Yamato-san that it only left her empty. He tells her that it was him or her, and that she did the only thing she could.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Chester arms himself with a revolver when they were trying to run away from Yuko.

** We will never know for sure if Major Bowen really did believe in the ''yurei''. For one he was possessed by Yuko but somehow managed not to be killed by the vengeful spirit. Often times, he gives out hints he does believe in the ghost, but we don't find out for sure since he was [[spoiler: killed in self-defense by Amy before we could find out.]]

** Arthur's fate after the Jeep crashes is never explored again.
** The Latina teenager named Esperanza is left traumatized after possessed Luz kills her parents. Judging by her state, she will need a lot of counseling.
* RippleEffectIndicator: To some extent. Jirou disappears from the photo after Yuko gets her hands on him.

* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: A possessed Wilson Yoshida steals a rifle from a U.S. Army MP and aims it at several [=MPs=] before being gunned down when unable to do so.]]
* SurvivalMantra: Henry Nakayama repeating "I am not a spy. I'm a simple fisherman. I love this country." while held in a POW facility. [[spoiler: The last part gradually becomes less and less emphatic and ultimately disappears as despair sets in once Henry realizes his and his family's Type I {{Eagleland}} treatment has expired and now must endures its Type II treatment.]]

* TakeMeInstead: Chester plans to give himself up to Yuko so she'll leave his and Luz's son alone. More specifically, his big plan is to kill himself then have Rocillo use the ''cuaranderismo'' magic to have Yuko take a child version of his spirit.

* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Chester sees a character in a western movie telling him "you have to go" in the voice of Yoshida-san.
* ThisIsntHeaven: When she wakes up after [[spoiler:jumping off a bridge, Yuko]] wonders if she's back in Japan but is actually in the afterlife constructed for her bloodline after she commits suicide

** Our antagonist Yuko Tanabe. First she got secretly pregnant in 1919 from a soldier who fought in World War I, causing her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish her in anger. A year later living on the streets, she realizes she could not take care of her twin sons and places them for adoption. Due to depression, she commits suicide and ends up as a ''bakemono'', a hungry vengeful spirit that will never rest. Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
** Chester and Luz Nakayama experiences this when his first twin sons die from a still birth while he was serving in the Marines to being stalked by the spirit Yuko all throughout.

* UncannyAtmosphere: Oh several times.

** Speaking of the same woman, we get to find out who she is. Her name is Chiyo, a distant ancestor of Yuko Tanabe. She built a paradise-looking home in the afterlife.

* VengefulGhost: Yuko
* VillainOfAnotherStory: The [[TheGhost unseen]] Admiral Takahashi, the leader of one of the Japanese forces Chester's marine battalion were fighting against in Guadalcanal.
* VillainousRescue: Sgt. Crittenden uses a flamethrower to kill the Marines beating Chester up for being a Japanese-American, thus indirectly saving Chester's life. Whether this was because he was possessed by Yuko or due to the brainwashing enforced by his Japanese captors is unknown.

** Chiyo, who apparently is Yuko's past ancestor. Her backstory is only slightly revealed before she is dragged off to Hell.

* WeHaveReserves: Walt Yoshida reveals that the all Japanese 442 infantry unit is being sent into situations deemed "too dangerous" for white soldiers.

** The ending shot of the first episode "A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest" shows the following date on the background clock: Sunday, December 7th followed by an air raid siren, sailors picking up rifles, and fighter planes flying overhead.
** The beginning scene of "Into The Afterlife" begins with the date August 1945 where Nobuhiro Yamamto meets with childhood friend from the afterlife including the latter's entire family line. Their origin: Hiroshima.

** Last we see of Jirou Tanabe, he is left sitting in Yuko's "perfect world," while Yuko now exists forever in a moment in time in which she was pregnant with both Chester/Taizo and Jirou. [[spoiler: However, WordOfGod confirms that [[https://www.thewrap.com/the-terror-infamy-showrunner-breaks-down-yukos-ending-and-explains-what-happened-to-chesters-brother/ Jirou's soul became free after Yuko found peace]], symbolized by the peaceful wind that passes by Chester at the final episode.]]
** Chester escapes from military custody and should be a wanted man for that, but nothing more is ever said about it.