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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of the black boxer includes a comparison between his appearance and that of a gorilla and alludes to "unspeakable Congo secrets". It stretched the limits even for its day and today is "content warning"-worthy.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of the black boxer includes a comparison between his appearance and that of a gorilla and alludes to "unspeakable Congo secrets". It stretched the limits even for its day and today is "content warning"-worthy.
warning"-worthy. Meanwhile, his opponent is described as an Irishman "with a most un-Hibernian hooked nose".
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of the black boxer includes a comparison between his appearance and that of a gorilla and alludes to "unspeakable Congo secrets". It stretched the limits even for its day and today is "content warning"-worthy.warning"-worthy.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Major Clapham-Lee dies by decapitation, gets resurrected by West's foul chemistry, and then the whole building collapses on top of him due to a stray artillery shell. Next time we see him, he's crossed the Atlantic in search for revenge, now a cunning MinionMaster leading a host of West's other zombies. Whatever must've happened in meantime would make one hell of a story, wouldn't it?
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* AdaptationDisplacement: ''Herbert West–Reanimator'' was published in 1922 and Lovecraft was known to dislike the story. It was rarely reprinted and remained largely obscure for decades. The 1985 film has almost completely supplanted the short story in popular culture.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of a the black man (comparing him in boxer includes a comparison between his appearance to and that of a gorilla and alluding alludes to "unspeakable Congo secrets") hasn't exactly aged all that well. Standard secrets". It stretched the limits even for his work (which can be ''far'' more racist than this in fact).its day and today is "content warning"-worthy.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of a black man (comparing him in appearance to a gorilla and alluding to "Congo like "unspeakable Congo secrets") hasn't exactly aged all that well. Standard for his work (which can be ''far'' more racist than this in fact).
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* MoralEventHorizon: West crosses it when he resort to active murder just to get ''one'' perfectly fresh and intact specimen for his experiments, only to fail. After that point, his sanity keep deteriorating and he loses what few moral standard he once had, both as a person and in the goals of his experiments.
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* MoralEventHorizon: West crosses it when he resort to active murder just to get ''one'' perfectly fresh and intact specimen for his experiments, only to fail. After that point, his sanity keep deteriorating and he loses what few moral standard standards he once had, both as a person and in the goals of his experiments.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Major Clapham-Lee dies by decapitation, gets resurrected by West's foul chemistry, and then the whole building collapses on top of him due to a stray artillery shell. Next time we see him, he's crossed the Atlantic in search for revenge, now a cunning MinionMaster leading a host of West's other zombies. Whatever must've happened in meantime would make one hell of a story, wouldn't it?
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of a black man (comparing him in appearance to a gorilla and alluding to "Congo like secrets") hasn't exactly aged all that well. Standard for his work (which can be ''far'' more racist, racist than this in fact).
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of a black man (Comparing (comparing him in appearance to a gorilla and alluding to "Congo like secrets") hasn't exactly aged all that well.well. Standard for his work (which can be ''far'' more racist, in fact).
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Not really, the good doctor had already died from the plague and escaped before West could put him down like the others, so the asylum stay was all Haysley's fault in the end.
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** He arguably crossed it much earlier when he stole the body of the beloved Dr. Halsey, reanimating him as a cannibalistic madman who would spend the next 16 years locked up in an asylum.
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** He arguably crossed it much earlier when he stole the body of the beloved Dr. Halsey, reanimating him as a cannibalistic madman who would spend the next 16 years locked up in an asylum.
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* MoralEventHorizon: West crosses it when he resort to active murder just to get ''one'' perfectly fresh and intact specimen for his experiments, only to fail. After that point, he just steadily start SlidingDownTheSlipperyScope and lose what few moral standard he once had, both as a person and in the goals of his experiments.
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* MoralEventHorizon: West crosses it when he resort to active murder just to get ''one'' perfectly fresh and intact specimen for his experiments, only to fail. After that point, he just steadily start SlidingDownTheSlipperyScope his sanity keep deteriorating and lose he loses what few moral standard he once had, both as a person and in the goals of his experiments.
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* ValuesDissonance: Lovecraft's description of a black man (Comparing him in appearance to a gorilla and alluding to "Congo like secrets") hasn't exactly aged all that well.
