Line #42 Literature/ThreeHundredThirtyHours


1	'''''330 Hours''''' is a 2021 {{dystopia}}n web story by Tropers/{{Looperreallyreallyrocks}}. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3354202/1/330-Hours here]] and [[https://www.wattpad.com/1021415664-330-hours-story here]].
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3	In the story a teenager named Jack Lane is selected to participate in a DeadlyGame known as The Program.
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5	The story has a sequel Literature/ThreeHundredThirtyHoursRevolution.
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8	!!This story contains examples of:
9	* AfterTheEnd: The story is set several millenniums in the future after most of society has collapsed leaving few countries left.
10	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Don dies an extremely horrifying and gruesome death, and even Jack is horrified by it. It helps that it wasn't even his fault that he was a villain in the first place, and he was essentially being controlled by the government.]]
11	* AnyoneCanDie: Quite a few notable characters die mostly notably [[spoiler:Caesar and Lee.]]
12	* AxCrazy:
13	** Don's team members are far less stable than he is and constantly giggle and crack jokes as he is killing his way to victory.
14	** Even Don himself qualifies to some degree given just how violent and quick to kill he is.
15	* BigBad: Don Hunter technically serves as the main antagonist of the story as he is most direct and prominent threat while the Yofrenian government never even appears onscreen.
16	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While Jack is able to survive the games it comes at the cost of all of his teammates, and on top of that a mysterious man whispers to him that The Program is only the beginning.]]
17	* CanonWelding: The first paragraph includes references to two of the author’s previous stories Literature/ACaseInBucksville and Literature/TheAdventuresOfASword.
18	* ChildSoldiers: The competitors of Yofren were kidnapped and tortured to be soldiers in the game as children.
19	* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:The story ends with a mysterious man coming to the Jack and whispering that The Program is only the beginning, followed by a ToBeContinued.]]
20	* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Compared to all the main villains of the author's previous stories, who are all one-dimensional {{Hate Sink}}s. Don Hunter is a much more sympathetic villain, as well as despite his crimes ultimately ForcedIntoEvil by his government, due to being kidnapped as a child and tortured until he became a mindless killing machine.
21	* DeadlyGame: The Program, what TheProtagonist is forced to participate in.
22	* {{Dystopia}}: The setting of the story where most of society has collapsed and left a dictatorial government that forces people to participate in a DeadlyGame.
23	* EarthAllAlong: {{Inverted\|Trope}} we know from the beginning the place used to be UsefulNotes/{{Earth}} though it was now called Remia.
24	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Don appears to be genuinely upset by the deaths of some of his team members. Said team members themselves also show angst at the deaths of their peers.
25	* FinalBoss: Don virtually counts as this as he is the final (and most difficult) enemy the protagonists have to fight while the other Yofrenian contenders were significantly easier to take down.
26	* ForcedIntoEvil: The competitors of Yofren qualify due to being kidnapped as children and tortured until they became mindless killing machines.
27	* TheFuture: The story is set in the year 8442.
28	* GreaterScopeVillain: The Yofren government as a whole, as the ones who created the program in the first place and the ones behind Don, though they don’t play an active role in the conflict.
29	* GuileHero: While not as competent as he is in ''Revolution'', Jack does use quite a bit of brainwork, strategy, and improvisation to defeat Don and his team, ending up being the first non-Yofrenian contender to win.
30	* TheHeavy: Don Hunter, who is the primary antagonistic threat throughout the story though is ultimately just a pawn of his government.
31	* LaughablyEvil: Joe, Tom, Sal, and Wallace are all extremely over-the-top and goofy, singing and cracking jokes at every whim in contrast to the quiet and stoic Don.
32	* OneManArmy: Don manages to wipe out every single contenders bar Jack, and the finale has him holding his own against three people, with only one of them (Jack, obviously) surviving the fight.
33	* PleaseWakeUp: [[spoiler:Jack is unable to accept Lee's death and tries to believe he is just injured.]]
34	* RasputinianDeath: Don gets speared in the chest, then stabbed in the face, then beaten with a wooden cabinet, then thrown off a balcony, then shot... then finally mauled to death by mechanical sharks. {{Justified\|Trope}} in that the government genetically engineered him to withstand things that no human should be able to survive.
35	* RecycledPremise: A few young kids being selected to compete in a DeadlyGame and our protagonist ends up in it and has to fight for his life, the story is in many ways very similar to Literature/TheHungerGames.
36	* SilentAntagonist: Don Hunter is a man of few words, and he has a total of sixteen lines in the entire story, all of them being under ten words long. Most of them occur during his confrontation scenes with Jack.
37	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Jack is the only one out of his team to survive The Program.]]
38	* TheStoic: Don shows very little emotion throughout most of the story, and his face never budges beyond a blank, lifeless expression. [[NotSoStoic Not so much in the climax]].
39	* TemptingFate: Jack constantly assures Lee and Caesar that they'll survive the Program. [[spoiler:News flash: they do not.]]
40	* TooDumbToLive: Even though this was later painted as an act of courage, Jamie attacking Don with a shovel was... pretty foolish, to say the least.
41	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Multiple characters are killed off before they can have any significant development, namely Milton and Jamie.
42	* WouldHurtAChild:
43	** Most (if not all) of Don's victims are children.
44	** The Yofrenian government was stated to have kidnapped multiple kids and brainwashed them into mindless killing machines.

Context Literature / ThreeHundredThirtyHours