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  • Angst? What Angst?: Nic is rather blase about getting roofied and nearly sexually assaulted by two female cultists. His lack of reaction becomes even more weird when we later learn that he was abducted as a child and held in a dark room by someone heavily hinted to be a child molester.
  • Anti-Climax: Nathaniel Carter is built up as someone of significance and possibly an antagonist, given how Cameron Ellis adamantly refuses to give Nic any information on him and emphatically claims he's not "someone [Nic] wants to meet", as well as Nic's extended investigation into Carter's background, his mental breakdown, and connection to the Parzevela industrial complex. In the last two episodes of Season 2, the Complex is burned down but Nathaniel is alive and claims to be the mysterious Navigator... and gets himself killed in the season finale because it turns out he wasn't.
  • Chris Carter Effect: Most of the subreddit feels TANIS has devolved into this, with more and more subplots and mysteries introduced but never resolved or tied together.
  • Denser and Wackier: Of a sort, in comparison to The Black Tapes - The Black Tapes deliberately skirtS the line of Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane by having one of its main characters act as The Skeptic at all times. TANIS has repeated incidents that if true (as Nic can be slightly prone to being an Unreliable Narrator due to Tanis-related Sanity Slippage) defy all scientific explanation.
  • More Popular Spin-Off: Of Black Tapes. While both have their fans and crossover between the fandoms exist, TANIS helped flesh out The 'Verse and even got greenlit for a TV series.
  • Superman Stays Out of Gotham: A bonus episode makes it clear that Dr Strand won't ever appear in TANIS, in spite of fellow Black Tapes character Alex having a supporting role.

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