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* JerkassWoobie: While he's most certainly not a likable person, Ballard does have his moments where seems more pitiful than disgusting, being a homeless man with a troubled childhood and all.
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* JerkassWoobie: CryForTheDevil: While he's most certainly not a likable person, Ballard does have his moments where seems more pitiful than disgusting, being a homeless man with a troubled childhood and all.all.
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* {{Squick}}: There's a ... rather descriptive scene of Ballard's feces. Also, he's a necrophiliac. 'Nuff said.
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* {{Squick}}: There's a ... rather descriptive scene of Ballard's feces. Also, he's he has a necrophiliac. 'Nuff said.brief (but still gross) relationship with a woman's corpse.
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* {{Squick}}: ILoveTheDead. 'Nuff said.
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* NightmareFuel: It's a Creator/CormacMcCarthy novel, and its protagonist is a necrophile who degenerated into serial murder. This is inevitable. [[spoiler:But the ending in particular, where the rotting bodies of his victims are exhumed from a mass grave where he buried them is particularly disturbing.]]
* {{Squick}}:ILoveTheDead.There's a ... rather descriptive scene of Ballard's feces. Also, he's a necrophiliac. 'Nuff said.
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* JerkassWoobie: While he's most certainly not a likable person, Ballard does have his moments where seems more pitiful than disgusting, being a homeless man with a troubled childhood and all.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: There's a scene where Ballard is watching a couple have sex in their car, and is mortified when he thinks the man is black. When he sees his face, it turns out he's not.
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* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Lester Ballard]] is a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]] SerialKiller who roams Frog Mountain in search of victims. The first crime he commits is attacking a woman and ripping off her dress, for which he's sentenced to a few nights in jail for rape. Sometime after his release, he finds the corpse of a young woman and has sex with it, then takes it back to his house to further indulge in his newfound lust. He seeks shelter in the winter with a young woman and her child, and shoots her to death for rejecting his sexual advances, before burning down the house [[WouldHurtAChild with the child inside]]. Later on, he murders a couple in their car, and then a man who's out cleaning his septic tank. It's also stated that he had killed several other men and women within this time frame. Hospitalized when [[AnArmAndALeg he loses his arm]] when he failed to kill one of his victims, he tells the nurse that he wishes his victim had died. When a mob of hunters take a one-armed Ballard from the hospital and force him to lead them to the bodies of his victims, he escapes them and returns to the hospital [[DirtyCoward to avoid being killed]]. Between the aforementioned murders, he's stated to have claimed a few other victims.
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* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Lester Ballard]] is a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]] SerialKiller who roams Frog Mountain in search of victims. The first crime he commits is attacking a woman and ripping off her dress, for which he's sentenced to a few nights in jail for rape. Sometime after his release, he finds the corpse of a young woman and has sex with it, then takes it back to his house to further indulge in his newfound lust. He seeks shelter in the winter with a young woman and her child, and shoots her to death for rejecting his sexual advances, before burning down the house [[WouldHurtAChild with the child inside]]. Later on, he murders a couple in their car, and then a man who's out cleaning his septic tank. tank; It's also stated that he had killed several other men and women within this time frame. Hospitalized when [[AnArmAndALeg he loses his arm]] when he failed to kill one of his victims, he tells the nurse that he wishes his victim had died. When a mob of hunters take a one-armed Ballard from the hospital and force him to lead them to the bodies of his victims, he escapes them and returns to the hospital [[DirtyCoward to avoid being killed]]. Between the aforementioned murders, he's stated to have claimed a few other victims.
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* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Lester Ballard]] is a [[ILoveTheDead necrophiliac]] SerialKiller who roams Frog Mountain in search of victims. The first crime he commits is attacking a woman and ripping off her dress, for which he's sentenced to a few nights in jail for rape. Sometime after his release, he finds the corpse of a young woman and has sex with it, then takes it back to his house to further indulge in his newfound lust. He seeks shelter in the winter with a young woman and her child, and shoots her to death for rejecting his sexual advances, before burning down the house [[WouldHurtAChild with the child inside]]. Later on, he murders a couple in their car, and then a man who's out cleaning his septic tank. It's also stated that he had killed several other men and women within this time frame. Hospitalized when [[AnArmAndALeg he loses his arm]] when he failed to kill one of his victims, he tells the nurse that he wishes his victim had died. When a mob of hunters take a one-armed Ballard from the hospital and force him to lead them to the bodies of his victims, he escapes them and returns to the hospital [[DirtyCoward to avoid being killed]]. Between the aforementioned murders, he's stated to have claimed a few other victims.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being generally unpleasant. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he [[spoiler:murders a young woman and her child.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being generally unpleasant. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he [[spoiler:murders a young woman and her child.child just because she refused his sexual advances.]]
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* MoralEventHorizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being a generally unpleasant human being early on in the book. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he [[spoiler:murders a young woman and her child.]]
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the who necrophiliac context.
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the who necrophiliac context.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being a generally unpleasant human being early on in the book.unpleasant. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he [[spoiler:murders a young woman and her child.]]
* {{Squick}}: ILoveTheDead. 'Nuff said.
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with thewho necrophiliac context.
* {{Squick}}: ILoveTheDead. 'Nuff said.
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the
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* MoralEventHorizon: Ballard was never a good person, committing acts of sexual assault, necrophilia, and just being a generally unpleasant human being early on in the book. However, his depravity reaches its peak when he [[spoiler:murders a young woman and her child.]]
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the who necrophiliac context.
* TearJerker: Ballard's house burning down, along with the corpse of the young woman he found. Surprisingly, this is somehow sad, even with the who necrophiliac context.
