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1	* CreepyAwesome: Chess, Bone and Chair, and many more.
2	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Those moments of BlackComedy involve extreme violence or sex, and usually go so far, it often reaches {{Narm}} territory.
3	* DesignatedHero: Daniel Saul from ''Hell.Com'' is considered this due to his {{Jerkass}} attitude and womanazing habits for the first third of the book. [[spoiler: The fact that he raped a girl years ago made some people completely stop caring about him]], to the point that some were ''happy'' that he got killed at the end of the book.]]
4	%%* DracoInLeatherPants: Bone, Chair, Chess, Maxime Lavoie, to name a few.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: If a character is a beacon of hope and general human decency in one of the darker Senécal books, they tend to become fan favorites for adding some much-needed levity.
6	* HarsherInHindsight: The ending of Le Vide is this, now that shootings have become more commonplace since 2012.
7	* HilariousInHindsight: One of Senécal's less famous books, ''Le passager'', was released in 1995, one year before the book Literature/FightClub. [[spoiler:Both have the same twist, although the version in ''Le Passager'' is nowhere nearly as intricate as the one in Chuck Palahnyuk's story and the film that was made afterwards.]]
8	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: A common criticism of ''Hell.Com'', as it is very close in style (and tone) to other grim, realistic stories written by him previously, such as ''Le vide'' and ''Les sept jours du talion''.
9	** It should be noted that Patrick Senécal's other writing style is "supernatural horror with hints of black comedy", which at least offers some levity compared to the thrillers, that feel a lot heavier by comparison.
10	* {{Narm}}: Are we supposed to find Simon Saul's tongue clacking ''[[NightmareRetardant scary]]''?
11	* TheScrappy: Simon Saul from ''Hell.Com'' didn't get much sympathy for being a {{Jerkass}} SpoiledBrat suffering from {{Wangst}} who ''tortured and mugged someone'' on the streets (to the point that the street gang he was with [[EvenEvilHasStandards found him crazy and rejected him]] for doing that). [[spoiler: Even if Charron had a hand in it, he also killed someone for Hell.Com and had no remorse for doing that.]] He also drags himself in dangerous situations for idiotic reasons ([[spoiler:he went to participate in a ''caged death match in a pitiful state'' just because "he wanted to feel alive by taking someone else's"]]). It doesn't help that his "CharacterDevelopment" comes at the ''very end'' of the book and feels rushed, [[spoiler: as he feels sorrow for losing his dad due to his stupidity]], [[OutOfCharacterMoment making it a 180° of what he was during the rest of the book]].

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