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** Jack Marchette, the fire chief who leads the efforts to stop a major flood and later is one of the only people to volunteer to help the sheriff during a ShowdownAtHighNoon, feels like a FlatCharacter despite his noticeable involvement in interesting things and the quirkiness of his neighbors.
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** Jack Marchette, the fire chief who once worked alongside Tom until Tom quit firefighting due to a traumatic event, leads the efforts to stop a major flood flood, and later is one of the only people to volunteer to help the sheriff during a ShowdownAtHighNoon, feels like a FlatCharacter despite his noticeable involvement in interesting things and the quirkiness of his neighbors.
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* EnsembleDarkHorse: MrFixit Mr. Lightfoot, Owen Cathcoate/The Candystick Kid (an alleged retired gunslinger who is quite formidable regardless of whether his stories are true), unexpectedly gifted pitcher Nemo, hell-raising escaped pet monkey Lucifer, and GreaserDelinquents ghost Little Stevie are all secondary characters with enormous presences in the fanbase.
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* TearJerker: You won't get through this book without shedding at least a few tears...
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* TearJerker: You won't get through this book without shedding at least a few tears...tears over events like a dog and a young boy dying, a sympathetic newcomer failing to change his unhappy homelife, or a prostitute mourning her lost best chance at a better life...
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Nemo, the young pitching prodigy with a MyBelovedSmother, only appears in about three scenes, when many fans wish he'd become a core member of Cory's group of friends.
** Jack Marchette, the fire chief who leads the efforts to stop a major flood and later is one of the only people to volunteer to help the sheriff during a ShowdownAtHighNoon, feels like a FlatCharacter despite his noticeable involvement in interesting things and the quirkiness of his neighbors.
* ValuesResonance: The Confederacy is casually glorified in the 1960s scenes in a way that 1991 Cory suspects had some tie-ins to casual racism, a point of view which became more prevalent in the 2010s and 20s.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Nemo, the young pitching prodigy with a MyBelovedSmother, only appears in about three scenes, when many fans wish he'd become a core member of Cory's group of friends.
** Jack Marchette, the fire chief who leads the efforts to stop a major flood and later is one of the only people to volunteer to help the sheriff during a ShowdownAtHighNoon, feels like a FlatCharacter despite his noticeable involvement in interesting things and the quirkiness of his neighbors.
* ValuesResonance: The Confederacy is casually glorified in the 1960s scenes in a way that 1991 Cory suspects had some tie-ins to casual racism, a point of view which became more prevalent in the 2010s and 20s.
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* TheWoobie: Tom Mackenson becomes one over the course of the story, being horribly scarred by the murder and experiencing horrifying nightmares about the victim sinking and ''calling him''. To add insult to injury, Tom [[spoiler: loses his job as a milkman]] due to the construction of a supermarket and is [[spoiler:forced to become a dishwasher]].
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* TheWoobie: Tom Mackenson becomes one over the course of the story, being horribly scarred by the murder and experiencing horrifying nightmares about the victim sinking and ''calling him''. To add insult to injury, Tom learns one of his oldest friends [[spoiler:is a dangerous racist]] and [[spoiler: loses his job as a milkman]] due to the construction of a supermarket and is [[spoiler:forced to become a dishwasher]].
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* FridgeHorror: The quirks of a couple of certain characters become much, much HarsherInHindsight when the identity of the killer is revealed. Specifically, [[spoiler: Dr. Lezander's habit of giving people temporary nicknames. He did the same thing for Jews on the way to the gas chambers. And remember his wife's cute little ceramic birds? Made with human bones.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Thanks Mr. Baylock, we sure do appreciate the..." [[spoiler:"SPIDERS!!!!!"]]
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Cory [[spoiler:jamming a broomstick down Old Mose's throat]], for one.
** The calm and slow Mr. Lightfoot [[spoiler:disabling a goddamn bomb]] while Mr. Moulry complains and insults him all the way, and then [[spoiler:scaring the daylights out of him by imitating an explosion]]. That second part doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Pretty much the entirety of "High Noon in Zephyr".
** For most of the book Cory and his friends are picked on by a couple of bullies. Then they go too far and [[CurbStompBattle get both their asses handed to them for it by one of Cory's friends.]]
** The calm and slow Mr. Lightfoot [[spoiler:disabling a goddamn bomb]] while Mr. Moulry complains and insults him all the way, and then [[spoiler:scaring the daylights out of him by imitating an explosion]]. That second part doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Pretty much the entirety of "High Noon in Zephyr".
** For most of the book Cory and his friends are picked on by a couple of bullies. Then they go too far and [[CurbStompBattle get both their asses handed to them for it by one of Cory's friends.]]
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Who is finally able to put an end to the [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} hellish]] spider monkey Lucifer? Why, a man named Gabriel, of course.
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* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever again.
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* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' ''Literature/BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever again.
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* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever again.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Cory [[spoiler:jamming a broomstick down Old Mose's throat]], for one.
** The calm and slow Mr. Lightfoot [[spoiler:disabling a goddamn bomb]] while Mr. Moulry complains and insults him all the way, and then [[spoiler:scaring the daylights out of him by imitating an explosion]]. That second part doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Pretty much the entirety of "High Noon in Zephyr".
** For most of the book Cory and his friends are picked on by a couple of bullies. Then they go too far and [[CurbStompBattle get both their asses handed to them for it by one of Cory's friends.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Thanks Mr. Baylock, we sure do appreciate the..." [[spoiler:"SPIDERS!!!!!"]]
* FridgeHorror: The quirks of a couple of certain characters become much, much HarsherInHindsight when the identity of the killer is revealed. Specifically, [[spoiler: Dr. Lezander's habit of giving people temporary nicknames. He did the same thing for Jews on the way to the gas chambers. And remember his wife's cute little ceramic birds? Made with human bones.]]
* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way everagain.again.
* TearJerker: You won't get through this book without shedding at least a few tears...
* TheWoobie: Tom Mackenson becomes one over the course of the story, being horribly scarred by the murder and experiencing horrifying nightmares about the victim sinking and ''calling him''. To add insult to injury, Tom [[spoiler: loses his job as a milkman]] due to the construction of a supermarket and is [[spoiler:forced to become a dishwasher]].
** Cory's friend Ben could count, too, what with being a prevailing dork even by his friends' standards and [[spoiler: having to deal with his alcoholic dad]].
** The calm and slow Mr. Lightfoot [[spoiler:disabling a goddamn bomb]] while Mr. Moulry complains and insults him all the way, and then [[spoiler:scaring the daylights out of him by imitating an explosion]]. That second part doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Pretty much the entirety of "High Noon in Zephyr".
** For most of the book Cory and his friends are picked on by a couple of bullies. Then they go too far and [[CurbStompBattle get both their asses handed to them for it by one of Cory's friends.]]
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Thanks Mr. Baylock, we sure do appreciate the..." [[spoiler:"SPIDERS!!!!!"]]
* FridgeHorror: The quirks of a couple of certain characters become much, much HarsherInHindsight when the identity of the killer is revealed. Specifically, [[spoiler: Dr. Lezander's habit of giving people temporary nicknames. He did the same thing for Jews on the way to the gas chambers. And remember his wife's cute little ceramic birds? Made with human bones.]]
* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever
* TearJerker: You won't get through this book without shedding at least a few tears...
* TheWoobie: Tom Mackenson becomes one over the course of the story, being horribly scarred by the murder and experiencing horrifying nightmares about the victim sinking and ''calling him''. To add insult to injury, Tom [[spoiler: loses his job as a milkman]] due to the construction of a supermarket and is [[spoiler:forced to become a dishwasher]].
** Cory's friend Ben could count, too, what with being a prevailing dork even by his friends' standards and [[spoiler: having to deal with his alcoholic dad]].
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* NightmareFuel: ''BoysLife'' is a SliceOfLife novel about a year [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the life of a boy]]. It switches between sweet and heartwrenching, but overall it's a peaceful story (well, apart from the horrific murder that sets off the plot but nevermind that for now) and for the most part free of NightmareFuel- except for "Case #3432". You will never regard UnexplainedRecovery and DisneyDeath the same way ever again.
