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* PowersThatBe: [[spoiler: Law and World]]. Both seem to have plans revolving around [[spoiler: Neo]].
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* PlotTriggeringDeath:
** Noah's death in the previous timeline kickstarts his regression to the day of the apocalypse in this timeline.
** It's eventually revealed that every time [[spoiler: Neo dies, a new and more corrupted timeline begins]].
* PowersThatBe: [[spoiler: Law andWorld]].World, though there are implied to be more]]. Both seem to have plans revolving around [[spoiler: Neo]].
** Noah's death in the previous timeline kickstarts his regression to the day of the apocalypse in this timeline.
** It's eventually revealed that every time [[spoiler: Neo dies, a new and more corrupted timeline begins]].
* PowersThatBe: [[spoiler: Law and
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* PeekABangs: One of Neo’s eyes is always hidden behind his bangs.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: Noah delivers a brutal one to [[spoiler: Ian]] before pushing them into a horde of zombies:
--> '''Noah:''' I've changed my mind. This timeline is better off without you.
--> '''Noah:''' I've changed my mind. This timeline is better off without you.
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* HateSink: There is absolutely nothing likable about Ian.
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* HateSink: HateSink:
** There is absolutely nothing likable aboutIan.Ian. From his constant antagonism of Noah [[spoiler: and his affair with his wife]] to his overall elitist attitude, it's unsurprising that nobody seems to feel sorry for him when[[spoiler: Noah shoves him into a hoard of zombies]].
** There is absolutely nothing likable about
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* KnifeNut: An unusual example. One of the first things Noah packs is a knife, and then he prioritizes picking up a better one at the mall at the start of Armageddon, but he has no intention of using it to fight. It's for cutting ''himself''.
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* SelfHarm: An unusual example. One of the first things Noah packs is a knife, and then he prioritizes picking up a better one at the mall at the start of Armageddon, but he has no intention of using it to fight. It's for cutting ''himself''.
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* AdultFear: Pretty much what fuels Noah.
** In the original timeline, Iva is thrown to the undead during an escape, to both Lena and Noah's horror.
** Neo is the one thrown to the undead during the escape from the mall.
** The moment the undead snake is shown winding around Abel's neck, and what follows. Taken by surprise by the shadow snake, Noah is left pinned to the ground, infected, bleeding out, and rapidly losing consciousness with his defenseless son standing right there. Before he passes out, he desperately begs Abel to run.
** In the original timeline, Iva is thrown to the undead during an escape, to both Lena and Noah's horror.
** Neo is the one thrown to the undead during the escape from the mall.
** The moment the undead snake is shown winding around Abel's neck, and what follows. Taken by surprise by the shadow snake, Noah is left pinned to the ground, infected, bleeding out, and rapidly losing consciousness with his defenseless son standing right there. Before he passes out, he desperately begs Abel to run.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Averted for the most part, as most characters have normal hair colors. Played straight with Lena, who has lavender hair, and the military brothers.
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* ResurrectionDeathLoop: Implied for some characters, particularly [[spoiler: Neo]].
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* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: The Gifted come in all sorts of kinds, with many subcategories of people with similar powers.
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* NoZombieCannibals: The undead don't harm usually each other; they can even team up and cooperate with one another. Olivier notes, however, that until some if fully turned, they're fair game, even if they're already bitten.
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* NoZombieCannibals: The undead don't harm usually each other; they can even team up and cooperate with one another. Olivier notes, however, that until some if fully turned, they're they are fair game, even if they're already bitten.bitten.
* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. The Gifted can obtain and contract with empowered artifacts that grant them further abilities.
* OneSuperOnePowerset: Averted. The Gifted can obtain and contract with empowered artifacts that grant them further abilities.
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* MassSuperEmpoweringEvent: The Eclipse doubles as this, with the initial survivors have the possibility of developing new powers and abilities, typically ElementalMagic.
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* RandomlyGifted: Some of the survivors of the Eclipse slowly develop and awaken MagicAndPowers. They're even called "Gifted".
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* TheCassandra: Mana. Most people seriously doubt her abilities, either because of her age or simply the [[ArbitrarySkepticism supposed impossibility]] of seeing the future.
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* HeroicComedicSociopath: Alix really plays this up, mostly to mess with the group's opponents and captives. As Noah puts it, it's "part of her charm".
** When Luca points out the military won't be happy they've assaulted a military barricade, Alix happily tells him that they'll just have to make sure no one ''can'' tell the military, then.
** When Luca points out the military won't be happy they've assaulted a military barricade, Alix happily tells him that they'll just have to make sure no one ''can'' tell the military, then.
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* TheDogBitesBack: Noah's put up with a lot of Ian's shit over the years, never really retaliating due to his own ideals of a family. Even after Ian used Noah to capture Neo, Noah was still relatively tolerant of his abuse and disrespect in the second timeline...right up until Ian [[StealthPun pushed Noah too far]] one last time.
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* LiteralMetaphor: Combined with StealthPun. Noah has an enlarged heart, as in, his heart is too big for his own good, both literally ''and'' figuratively.
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* BadassFamily: The Collins. There's Noah, a skilled BloodMage, Neo, who scares [[ColonelBadass Leng]], and Abel, who has a giant shadow snake.
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* BadassFamily: The Collins. There's Noah, a skilled BloodMage, [[BloodyMurder blood mage]], Neo, who scares [[ColonelBadass Leng]], and Abel, who has a giant shadow snake.
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* FormerlyFriendlyFamily: Neo once had a really good relationship with his parents, particularly Noah, which just makes the later ParentalNeglect and ParentalBetrayal all the more painful for him. He and Abel are still at odds, but making steps towards patching things up.
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* IdenticalGrandson: Future Neo is practically identical to his grandfather, except for the beauty mark he inherited from his mother.
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* SleepingSingle: Noah and Parish not only sleep in separate beds, but entirely different rooms.
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* MarriedTooYoung: Noah and Parish got married when they were 15/16 years old. It has [[HappyMarriageCharade not gone well for them.]]
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* HappyMarriageCharade: Noah and Parish kept up the facade of a happily married couple for Abel's sake.
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Implied in the prologue, where Noah is in a facility, covered in blood and having clearly gone through hell, desperately trying to free Neo. [[spoiler: He supposedly failed, but there's a glimpse of Noah's body from Neo's point of view, collapsed in front of him with no indication of the [[PeopleJars cannister]] he was in, suggesting that Noah may have at least partially succeeded]].
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* RoaringRampageOfRescue: Implied in the prologue, where Noah is in a facility, covered in blood and having clearly gone through hell, desperately trying to free Neo. [[spoiler: He supposedly failed, but there's a glimpse of Noah's body from Neo's point of view, collapsed in front of him with no indication of the [[PeopleJars cannister]] canister]] he was in, suggesting that Noah may have at least partially succeeded]].
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* HalfSiblingAngst: Half-brothers Ian and Noah have never gotten along, with Ian even referring to Noah's mother as a "whore".
**Like their fathers before them, [[spoiler: Neo and Abel]] despise each other, though only [[spoiler: Neo]] seems to know they aren't full-blooded siblings. For each of them, their jealousy over Noah's attention is the crux of the issue.
**Like their fathers before them, [[spoiler: Neo and Abel]] despise each other, though only [[spoiler: Neo]] seems to know they aren't full-blooded siblings. For each of them, their jealousy over Noah's attention is the crux of the issue.
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** Noah musing that someone would be very lucky to have control over the mutated wolf, completely unaware that [[spoiler: that wolf is ''Hail'', the dog he let Neo keep for explicitly that purpose]].
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Collins, for at least two generations now. They're working on it.
* DysfunctionalFamily: The Collins, for at least two generations now. They're working on it.
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* HatesTheirParent: Neo's feelings towards Noah are very complicated, but he blatantly loathes Parish and [[spoiler: Ian]].
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* BetrayalByOffspring: Why Noah doesn't trust Abel anymore.
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* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Neo found out the hard way that [[spoiler: his uncle is his dad, and his dad is his uncle]].
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** Olivier doesn't hesitate to use children for his experiments.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: A few so far.
* Death of a Child: Most of the kids in the school died, but special mention goes to the poor child that was brutally disemboweled on screen, begging for his parents.
**Esther, before she got bit.
**Karen Vallejo, in chapter 71.
* DevouredByTheHorde: A standard of the genre, with [[spoiler: Ian's]] death being the most notable.
* Death of a Child: Most of the kids in the school died, but special mention goes to the poor child that was brutally disemboweled on screen, begging for his parents.
**Esther, before she got bit.
**Karen Vallejo, in chapter 71.
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* DrowningMySorrows: ''Neo'', of all characters, is shown drinking heavily (for his age) in the future. Noah hesitates over confronting him about it.
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* DramaticIrony: In full effect every time two characters with knowledge of the future are in a scene together.
** Leng mentioning a particularly skilled blood manipulator he was aware of in the later years of Armageddon.
** Leng mentioning a particularly skilled blood manipulator he was aware of in the later years of Armageddon.
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* FiringOneHanded: Ike shoots an undead with a shotgun one-handed.
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* HandicappedBadass: Noah, who has a severe and often debilitating heart condition.
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* IconicItem: Two so far; Noah's choker, and Neo's earring.
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* JustFollowingOrders: Luca's and the other soldiers explanation for opening fire on innocent civilians begging for help. Absolutely no one is satisfied with this answer.
* KnifeNut: An unusual example. One of the first things Noah packs is a knife, and then he prioritizes picking up a better one at the mall at the start of Armageddon, but he has no intention of using it to fight. It's for cutting ''himself''.
* TheLeader: Noah excels in this role, likely due to his background as a CEO and his years of experience during the original Armageddon. Wyn, Alix, and the others have for the most part happily elected him as their boss.
* TheLoad: Parish has so far done absolutely nothing to assist or better the group, even though nearly every minor character has contributed in some form or another.
* KnifeNut: An unusual example. One of the first things Noah packs is a knife, and then he prioritizes picking up a better one at the mall at the start of Armageddon, but he has no intention of using it to fight. It's for cutting ''himself''.
* TheLeader: Noah excels in this role, likely due to his background as a CEO and his years of experience during the original Armageddon. Wyn, Alix, and the others have for the most part happily elected him as their boss.
* TheLoad: Parish has so far done absolutely nothing to assist or better the group, even though nearly every minor character has contributed in some form or another.
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* NotUsingTheZWord: Deliberately invoked by the characters, to keep people from making assumptions about the undead based on what they know about fictional zombies.
* NoZombieCannibals: The undead don't harm usually each other; they can even team up and cooperate with one another. Olivier notes, however, that until some if fully turned, they're fair game, even if they're already bitten.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The undead are much smarter, faster, and more motivated than most traditional zombies, after all, and are capable of developing powers and abilities beyond human capability.
* NoZombieCannibals: The undead don't harm usually each other; they can even team up and cooperate with one another. Olivier notes, however, that until some if fully turned, they're fair game, even if they're already bitten.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The undead are much smarter, faster, and more motivated than most traditional zombies, after all, and are capable of developing powers and abilities beyond human capability.
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* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Parish has faced no consequences for [[spoiler: date raping Noah]].
