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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book)

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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book)	comment	When the Wind Blows is a 1982 comic book and 1986 animated film written by Raymond Briggs, where the couple is voiced by John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft. There was also a BBC Radio adaptation of the original comic. It concerns the Bloggses, a mildly dim but cheerful elderly English couple, and their preparations for an imminent nuclear war. This war commences mid-story, and the focus switches on their efforts at keeping a stiff upper lip while waiting for help, all the while succumbing to radiation sickness.A classic weapon of the anti-nuclear weapon movement, When The Wind Blows uses its bright colours, eccentric characters and art style similar to Briggs's classic children's story The Snowman to hammer home the horrors of nuclear war, and make dark satire about government leaflets advising how best to survive a nuclear attack. Naturally, its child-like style in both art and the characters' personalities make it one of the more famous examples to come from the Animation Age Ghetto.Inspired a song of the same name by Eric Bogle.Compare to The Day After and Threads, and the Japanese Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies.Not to be confused with the novel by James Patterson. Definitely not to be confused with The Wind Rises.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_133cdcaa	type	Ominous Hair Loss
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_133cdcaa	comment	Ominous Hair Loss: By day five, Hilda's hair is coming out in clumps as radiation takes its toll.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_1dab76ed	comment	Cosy Catastrophe: Deconstructed. Jim and Hilda both lived through the Blitz when they were young, so they adopt the same attitude towards nuclear war. That attitude turns out not to help them at all, since it has blinded them to the true horrors of war and the aftermath of nuclear war is much worse than the Blitz. It also doesn't help that the instructions the British government provides for dealing with the fallout are completely useless.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The Bloggses go into World War III assuming it will be very much like World War II: some rationing, some bombing raids, but ultimately some Stiff Upper Lip and measured preparation should see them through. They are, unfortunately, very wrong, and suffer greatly as a result.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_222446a4	type	Headache of Doom
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_222446a4	comment	Headache of Doom: The first hint Jim and Hilda have been exposed to radiation are the headaches and shivering spells they suffer in the wake of the initial blast.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: After the blast, Hilda wonders what the smell is (implied to be burning corpses). Jim suggests the neighbours are cooking roast pork for Sunday dinner.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: After the bomb drops, the Bloggses (and the viewers) find no other signs of human life. The only wildlife that can be seen are a few rats, a dog (which is heard), and a dying bird. And that's only in the film version - in the comic, the Bloggses are the last living things on Earth as far as the narrative is concerned, no other living thing is ever shown.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: In the film, we get to hear Jim's side of his telephone conversation with his son Ron about building an inner-core-or-refuge. From what we hear, Ron (rightly) believes the advice given in the official pamphlets is "cobblers", though Jim still thinks he knows best and berates Ron for not taking the situation seriously. The comic simply has Jim going to make the phonecall, then telling Hilda what was said. In the comic, the nuclear explosion is represented by two blank white pages followed by several distorted panels which gradually straighten out to reveal Jim and Hilda crouching in their inner-core-or-refuge. In the film, we actually get to see the effects of the nuclear blast, with cars crashing, a train derailing, sheep being blown across a field, and buildings collapsing. This sequence is accompanied by the last words Hilda utters before the Bomb goes off: In the film, Jim and Hilda hear a dog howling in the distance when they go outside after the attack (first heard in the radio adaptation). We also get to see the ruins of the nearby village, though it's unclear how many of its inhabitants are still alive, as the only signs of life are the aforementioned dog, a few rats and a bird, the latter of which is in its death throes. However, as in the comic, it's all but certain that the "roast dinners" Jim and Hilda can smell are actually the corpses of people and animals caught outside during the attack and burned to death. The comic simply has Jim and Hilda standing in their garden; aside from a brief glimpse of the melted road, we don't see what's on the other side of the hedge.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Jim, despite professing to be very well-read and keeping abreast of the current situation, is shown to understand the concepts of pre-emptive nuclear strikes and megadeaths, and that tensions are escalating, but very little beyond that. Most of the time when he's holding forth with grand-sounding speeches, it's clear that he's only working off third-hand information he partially remembers and drawing conclusions from that as if he's an expert, or unquestioningly repeating what he's been told by official pamphlets. At one point, he claims that only the smallest possible bombs would be used because large explosions would be very wasteful, given the energy crisis.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: Despite Jim and Hilda's best efforts to survive the bomb, they ultimately become little more than statistics. And that is if there's even anyone left to keep track of such things.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_27b94f39	type	Serendipitous Survival
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_27b94f39	comment	Serendipitous Survival: Downplayed. Jim and Hilda survive the initial blast simply because they live in such a remote, rural countryside area (Hilda mentions they don't have any neighbours) that their house was far enough from the epicentre that it could withstand the shockwave, not because Jim followed the useless governmental advice on constructing a shelter. This doesn't save them from the radioactive fallout that comes afterwards, however.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2bbba5f3	type	Say Your Prayers
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2bbba5f3	comment	Say Your Prayers: In a played for tragedy sense at the end where Hilda suggests that she and Jim get into the paper bags and pray.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2cac316e	type	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_2cac316e	comment	Absurdly Ineffective Barricade: The "shelter" that Jim builds by inclining a door against the wall was absolutely useless in preventing exposure to radiation - justified in that he was just following the (mostly worthless) instruction book on how to survive nuclear war issued by the government.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3b4abb27	type	Double Meaning
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3b4abb27	comment	Double Meaning: Once the Bloggs' health has declined far past the point of denial, Hilda suggests they pray. Jim, unable to think clearly, asks, "who to?" One gets the impression the question has meaning beyond his sickness-induced absent-mindedness.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Once the bomb drops, it's obvious that the shelter and all of the other measures Jim and Hilda took are completely useless and that they'll be dead of radiation poisoning within a matter of days.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Like most works of fiction dealing with nuclear war, the comic contains references to a deteriorating international situation leading up to the war, but doesn't specify what caused the international situation to turn bad.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Hilda seems more concerned with her cake being ruined than the fact that Britain is about to be nuked. This is more clearly driven home in the film, as her shouting that the cake will be burned echos over scenes of the bomb obliterating everything.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: The Bloggses. Mostly Jim, though. It's surprising how they are mostly optimistic about the whole thing, save for a few worries here and there.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: We're spared a hopeful and happy ending. In its place we get a realistic scenario where even the few who survive the initial blast die days later from radiation sickness, while the epilogue of MAD (mutually assured destruction) suggests that what the Bloggses experienced will be the fate of most of humanity.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Overlapping with Know-Nothing Know-It-All above. Jim does this a lot in regards to modern warfare and politics — for example, assuming that all the major decisions by the Powers That Be are handled by "commuters" (computers) — or just stumbling over large words in an attempt to seem clever, like "hysteriacal", "adamanant", "instil" (install), and "neutrified".
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Hilda points out they could have used their root cellar instead of a makeshift shelter built out of wooden doors. Though it's debatable whether they really would have lasted much longer had they sheltered in the cellar given the radioactive fallout in the air and rainwater.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Justified and Deconstructed. Jim and Hilda (mostly Jim) have skewed knowledge regarding nuclear bombs and don't fully understand the actual damage they can do outside the destruction they cause when they blow up (i.e., the radioactive fallout). Jim does recall reading about how people in Japan died after Hiroshima and Nagasaki got bombed, but he can't remember why. So when the couple slowly starts dying from radiation sickness, they chalk up their symptoms to shock or other things, like when Hilda's gums start bleeding, and Jim thinks it's from "ill-fitting dentures". It just gets worse from there.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The film shows much more of the devastation caused by the bomb directly, both in the blast and aftermath, unlike the comic, which doesn't leave the scope of the house and so leaves the wider devastation to the reader's imagination.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: The Bloggses are perfectly nice and harmless people, but Mutually Assured Destruction and radiation poisoning don't care about that. Eventually becomes a case of Kill the Cutie.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: The characters first appeared in an earlier work of Briggs's, Gentleman Jim. Apparently they were so well-received he brought them back—only to kill them off in a nuclear apocalypse!
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Hilda and Jim eventually die from radiation sickness some days after the bombing. Just after this, the skies clear, and it seems that the nuclear fallout is gone, only for an off-screen telegraph to tap out M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) in Morse code at the end of the credits. Either this wasn't a one-off nuclear attack, and a war is about to ensue, or the war is over and NATO and Warsaw Pact have wiped each other out. Alternatively, if peace does prevail, anyone who survived the nuclear bombing and the hell that followed may now stand a chance.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "My hair's coming out!"
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Over time, the couple's health deteriorates due to radiation sickness. Jim and Hilda begin experiencing headaches and lethargy, followed by red rings around their eyes. Their once vibrant features fade as their complexion turns pale and gaunt, marked by red spots on their legs and bleeding gums. Hilda starts to vomit and, by the end of the movie (or book), also notices her hair beginning to fall out.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Downplayed, but it is there. Hilda is initially portrayed as somewhat unreasonable, given that her initial reaction to the idea of war, in general, is utterly flippant, and her main issue with having an "inner core or refuge" is she's afraid of the doors scratching up the paint, but she does later raise several questions that leave Jim completely stumped as to the safety or efficacy of following the pamphlet to the letter, not that it ever stops her from following her husband's lead. We also get multiple flashbacks or fantasies from Jim, often in the middle of conversation, and he gets carried away by his thoughts while Hilda tidies something in the background.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_57cd63e6	type	Art-Style Dissonance
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_57cd63e6	comment	Art-Style Dissonance: The art style is really cute and a little simplistic. The comic and film are anything but "cute".
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_6454966e	type	World War III
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_6454966e	comment	World War III: Takes place in the middle of the story. By the end of the story, the war has either officially begun, or it's already over.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_653f47d1	type	Fleeing for the Fallout Shelter
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_653f47d1	comment	Fleeing for the Fallout Shelter: When the USSR launches a nuclear attack on the United Kingdom and the four-minute warning is announced on the radio, Hilda fails to grasp the seriousness of the situation, decides to get the washing in, and dithers about the cake in the oven. Jim is reduced to shouting at her for the first time in the entire comic — to the point of calling her a "stupid bitch" in the animated adaptation — and physically dragging her into the Inner Core or Refuge just before the missile detonates.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Their surname, Bloggs, derives from "Joe Bloggs," the British equivalent to "John Q. Public."
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Partially due to not taking the whole thing seriously at first, and partially due to not fully understanding the concept of radiation, and simply misunderstanding the pamphlets leads the Bloggses to make some big mistakes. It only makes the situation that much more tragic, although the fact that their house was caught in the blast made their death by fallout extremely likely anyway.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The panels showing the last few minutes before the bomb drops are tinted a deep red.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: Both Jim and Hilda grew up during the Blitz and like many people from their generation, have fond memories of the sense of community and patriotism that resulted from uniting against a common threat, despite the danger and hardship. It helps that both of them were children during the war, and so never had any direct experience of the battlefield. Neither of them seem to realize the looming threat of World War III is more of an extinction-level event than a regular war.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Not that the situation was remotely survivable to begin with, Jim and Hilda make things a lot worse for themselves because of the fact they, especially Jim, are far too "sure" of very broad assumptions and take the threat of a nuclear holocaust much too lightly, wrongly believing it's just like the Blitz. Jim proclaims a lot of supposed "facts" he's learned from reading the papers and governmental pamphlets, but the news articles are, at best, half-remembered third of fourth-hand accounts, while the pamphlets are placebo rubbish. At one point Hilda writes a letter to Stalin to live and let live, but Jim tells her it wouldn't work... because the post office will probably be too busy to get it to Russia.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_8570b055	type	Fallout Shelter Fail
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_8570b055	comment	Fallout Shelter Fail: The British government provide instruction on how citizens can build their own fallout shelters out of doors and cushions. Not realizing that this advice is shoddy placebo-based rubbish, Jim Bloggs takes the leaflets seriously and builds his "inner core or refuge" right in the middle of the house — declining to use the root cellar. Combined with the limited supplies and the simple fact that the Bloggses don't really understand the threat of radiation, the shelter is hopelessly inadequate. Even before Jim and Hilda make the mistake of leaving the shelter two weeks early, they've already been exposed to a lethal dose of fallout, and the book ends with the two dying of radiation sickness.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: There actually were government leaflets on how to survive a nuclear attack. Everything they do (when following it, at least) is exactly what the leaflet said one should do. More importantly, the symptoms the Bloggses suffer from are the actual symptoms of radiation sickness that align with real accounts.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Deconstructed. Nothing really seems to bother Jim and Hilda all that much, not even their ruined house, the post-apocalyptic state the bomb has left the countryside in or the nausea they suffer as the radiation is killing them. No, they keep calm and carry on despite the futility of the situation.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_8e3b5b4d	type	Minimalist Cast
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_8e3b5b4d	comment	Minimalist Cast: Barring a few mentions of others (and the busdriver dropping Jim off on the first page), Jim and Hilda are the only characters in the story.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_91b55fe	type	Pop-Star Composer
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_91b55fe	comment	Pop-Star Composer: Roger Waters did the score, David Bowie wrote the title song, and Genesis, Squeeze and Paul Hardcastle appear in the score too.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_927d046a	type	Accidental Pun
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_927d046a	comment	Accidental Pun: Done several times, and not for comedy, since Everybody's Dead, Dave.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Though they never realize it, Hilda and Jim's son Ron, who's mentioned early in the story but doesn't live near them, is almost certainly dead after the bomb hits. Unlike his father, Ron is implied to know full well how useless the governments "advice" is, and isn't even going to bother.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The film is a combination of traditional animation and some live-action props.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9cc7c9fe	type	A Nuclear Error
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9cc7c9fe	comment	A Nuclear Error: Done on purpose, as the Bloggses don't quite understand the full effects of the bomb.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: If it wasn't incredibly clear to the audience already, Jim mentions that when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, people continued to die long afterwards from... something he doesn't remember. The pair brush it off, but it spells it out to the viewer in the clearest way possible, besides just saying it, that the pair are dying from radiation poisoning.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: Hilda points out, in rapid succession, a significant number of conflicting advice on how to survive a nuclear blast. Jim is also momentarily confused by this, but just brushes it off with his own incorrect assumptions or decides it's best not to think about it until absolutely necessary. This is one of many early clues showing how absolutely worthless the government's guidelines are, how Jim blindly trusts authority no matter what, and how ill-prepared the pair are when the bomb actually drops.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a20386a2	type	Serious Work, Comedic Scene
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a20386a2	comment	Serious Work, Comedic Scene: This is a dark comic book (and movie) about a couple slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning, but there are a few moments of Black Comedy sprinkled into it, such as Hilda complaining that her cake will be ruined during the bombing, and when Jim mistakes the smell of what is implied to be charred corpses for the neighbors cooking roast pork.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The cheery approach the Bloggses take to the whole thing is made more heart wrenching as the story keeps cutting to the Soviets and NATO making their preparations (in the form of a missile silo, a nuclear bomber and a ballistic missile submarine), letting the reader/watcher know that yes, there is indeed a nuke coming. Even after the nuke comes, the Bloggses cling to their Cosy Catastrophe memories of surviving World War II and try to remain optimistic about the whole thing.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a4d8473b	type	Stealth Sequel
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a4d8473b	comment	Stealth Sequel: Fans of Briggs's work will recognise Jim and Hilda from his earlier book Gentleman Jim.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a6278d84	type	Wacky Parent, Serious Child
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a6278d84	comment	Wacky Parent, Serious Child: Downplayed. Jim and Hilda are very air-headed simpletons who casually brush off the threat of nuclear annihilation under many false assumptions, while their (unseen) son Ron understands the gravity of the situation much more clearly and makes fun of his father for following the governmental pamphlets, knowing full well they are completely useless.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Jim has a number of them throughout the film about World War II nostalgia. A notable one involves Bernard Law Montgomery, aka "Monty", as still being in command of the British military; an image of Monty shows up next to Jim until Hilda points out that he is most likely dead. The ghost of Monty reacts, leaves Jim's side and fades away.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: It's very downplayed, but Jim only calls Hilda a "stupid bitch" when trying to get her into the shelter in the animated adaptation. In the comic, he only calls her a "Stupid Fool".
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Played for Drama. Most readers will understand that they were doomed from the moment the bomb fell, but Hilda and Jim never realize that the end of the world has come even when both of them are at death's door from radiation poisoning, both of them still clinging to the idea that the "The Powers That Be" will get to them in the end (when in reality, everyone else is already dead).
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: As the comic was written both as an anti-war story and a critique of the UK's pathetically inadequate "Protect and Survive" preparation procedures for civilians, the Bloggses attempts at preparedness never had any chance of success, made worse by the fact that neither of them really understood the threat of nuclear war. The fact that they survived the initial blast at all had more to do with their home being so far away from ground zero than their flimsy "shelter".
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "It's the correct thing!" "Crumbs!" "The powers that be will get to us in the end."
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: The Blu-ray release for the film does a good job of improving the video quality, but the audio has a slightly metallic sound for some unknown reason.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: What's worse than being killed by the bomb? Surviving the bomb. Jim and Hilda easily could've been burned to a crisp by the atomic blast, ensuring a (hopefully) quick death. Instead, they survive... only to endure a much more slower and painful death via radiation poisoning.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The entire comic/film is one towards the British governments' Protect and Survive leaflets and short films. These were originally only to be handed out/broadcast if it seemed war between the NATO and Warsaw Pact was imminent (as any direct conflict would most likely escalate into nuclear war), but public demand saw the leaflets and films distributed during peacetime. When the Wind Blows was made in part to show how useless the survival instructions were, that anyone who followed them would die of radiation sickness.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Though they are more naive than dumb, the Bloggses, especially Hilda, just have no grip whatsoever on the true implications of "the bomb" being dropped, likening it to the nightly bombings carried out by the Luftwaffe on the British mainland during World War II. Among other things, they fail to consider their root cellar as a viable shelter, relying instead on the shoddy and useless "Inner Core or Refuge." Yes, they do fail to survive.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Discussed as Jim and Hilda review the leaflets going over other items they should have in their refuge. Hilda even questions the use of having a pen and notepad for messages.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: When Jim sings "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag And Smile, Smile, Smile" to keep Hilda's spirits up, he starts bleeding from the mouth hard enough to stain his shirt (which is a sign of the radiation sickness consuming both him and Hilda).
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The aforementioned use of "bitch" just before the nuclear strike pretty much serves as a warning sign that the film is quickly going to get significantly less cosy and charming.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Jim and Hilda are an old married couple and are so sweet and innocent, all of which is just used to drive home the true horror of what becomes of them harder.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c18d469b	type	Mutually Assured Destruction
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c18d469b	comment	Mutually Assured Destruction: The result of the nuclear war. In the film, there's also morse code being typed out as — .- -.., M.A.D. If you know morse, you know what happened.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In the final moments of the comic, the couple begin to pray, but can only recall bits and pieces of hymns and passages from The Bible. In his desperation to say something poignant-sounding, James inadvertently quotes Tennyson's poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, the famous story of a cavalry unit who followed incorrect orders to their certain deaths.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During their telephone conversation James' son quotes a line from Tom Lehrer's song "We All Will Go Together When We Go", from the album An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. Having the animated characters move across dollhouse-type sets seems to deliberately mimic the animation style of the Protect and Survive TV shorts.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_ccbaffb6	type	We Interrupt This Program
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_ccbaffb6	comment	We Interrupt This Program: Said on the radio before announcing the nuclear missile strike.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Unlike the film version, the comic never shows the effect of the bomb outside the Bloggses little world, and the detonation itself is shown as two pages of pure whiteness. Their house was damaged by the shockwave, but not terribly so, and their garden singed by the blast, but again, not unrecognizable. However, we do get one glimpse of the world beyond their hedge - the asphalt road, which has melted and warped from the heat. And of course, Hilda mentioning the smell of burning flesh on the wind...
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Being kindly English folk, the strongest language used in the comic is "Blimey!" and Hilda does scold Jim on the language. In the film, on the other hand, James calls Hilda a "stupid bitch" to hurry her into the inner core or refuge once the nukes start coming down. This has the effect of slowing her down as she stops to demand an apology.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Downplayed; the Bloggses mistakenly think they're only supposed to spend two days in their makeshift shelter rather than two weeks. However, given that the blast blew out their house's windows and scattered radioactive dust and debris all throughout the interior, and the shelter wasn't sealed off from the rest of the house, their mistake really just sped up the inevitable a little.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d9de318a	type	Appetite Equals Health
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_d9de318a	comment	Appetite Equals Health: Shortly after the blast, Hilda claims to be turned off food, a sign that her radiation sickness is kicking in.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: When Hilda's hair starts to fall out.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_dea5ae31	type	Doomed Protagonist
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_dea5ae31	comment	Doomed Protagonist: In an anti-war comic/film like this, what would you expect? With the looming threat of nuclear war and the Bloggses' blissful ignorance of how serious the situation is, it's clear that things won't end well for them.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: "Inner Core or Refuge". Jim's deference to authority is so strong, and unthinking, that he doesn't drop the "or" and call it either an "Inner Core" or a "Refuge".
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_e598d4ac	type	Innocent Inaccurate
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_e598d4ac	comment	Innocent Inaccurate: Jim and Hilda believe living through a nuclear war will be no different from living through the Blitz and, once the Bomb has dropped, think all they have to do is hold on until help arrives. It never seems to occur to them that no help is ever going to come. Also, at one point, they mistake the smell of burnt corpses for people cooking their Sunday dinners. In the film, they think a howling dog is merely hungry; it's more likely that the dog is in pain from radiation sickness and/or injuries sustained in the blast. And, when (in both the film and the comic strip) they develop radiation sickness, they fail to recognise the symptoms for what they are, instead putting them down to things such as ill-fitting dentures (bleeding gums) and a rash caused by "too much tinned food" (radiation sores).
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Jim is a decent chap who wouldn't dream of being rude to his wife; but when they hear the four-minute warning that the missiles have been launched, Hilda fails to grasp the seriousness of the situation, decides to get the washing in and dithers about the cakes in the oven. This panicks Jim so much that he shouts "Come back, you stupid bitch, and get in the shelter!" Although this could be justified due to it being an emergency where Jim is rightfully panicking and trying to keep him and his wife safe.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Hilda says that she's going to be sick a couple of times, but is only seen doing so from behind.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Jim and Hilda, mainly Jim, are unquestioningly loyal to the British government and fully believe if they follow their instructions in the leaflets, he and Hilda will make it out okay. Jim's loyalty gets turned on its head because he's so blindly faithful to his government that he fails to realize their advice is useless, placebo-based garbage. He takes the leaflets seriously and builds his "inner core or refuge" made of wooden doors in the middle of the house, even though they have a perfectly functional root cellar to use instead. Even as they're dying from radiation sickness, they still think the powers that be will know what to do with them in the end. Unaware that those same powers might all be dead.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Deliberately invoked. Jim's quintessentially British respect for authority means he tries to follow the government's advice regardless of how self-contradictory it is, exposing all its flaws. Hilda spots a few of the flaws as well (How are you supposed to close the doors to prevent a fire spreading if you've used them to build your Inner Core Or Refuge? How are you supposed to get a whole family into a makeshift shelter that can barely hold two pensioners?), but they both just brush them off.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: The music to the rhyme on which the title is based shows up, sometimes to horrifying effect.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f6b70c98	type	Strongly Worded Letter
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f6b70c98	comment	Strongly Worded Letter: Hilda devises one to whoever is currently leading the USSR. Jim decides against it because the post is sometimes unreliable and bombing might affect delivery.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f7512035	type	Cope by Pretending
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_f7512035	comment	Cope by Pretending: Deconstructed. Due to their idealized perceptions shaped by their experiences during World War 2, Jim and Hilda don't understand the true horrors of a nuke exploding (i.e., the radiation poisoning) and think it's just a massive bomb going off. So when the couple gets sick from radiation sickness, they genuinely don't know they're dying. As the movie goes on and their symptoms get worse, Jim resorts to concocting explanations for each ailment, such as attributing Hilda's gum bleeding to ill-fitting dentures and dismissing the radiation-induced sores on their legs as typical signs of aging, all in an attempt to reassure his wife. By the story's end, Jim still tries to reassure his wife that everything is okay even as their bodies rot from the radiation, and it's clear he's making stuff up from the top of his head as a subconscious way to deal with their situation.
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When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
When the Wind Blows (Comic Book) / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Deconstructed. The Bloggs, especially Jim, make repeated misinterpretations about the severity of the fallout (eg. believing the burning smell is the neighbours cooking dinner, or the lack of water and electric being due to the government taking wise safety precautions). The Bloggs' whimsical obliviousness leans it into Black Comedy, though as things go on, the ramifications hit in and it falls more cleanly into Dramatically Missing the Point.
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