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Firestarter

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Firestarter	label	Firestarter
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Firestarter	comment	Firestarter is a 1980 novel by Stephen King. It's about a 7-year-old girl named Charlene Roberta McGee (she goes by Charlie), who can start fires just by thinking about it, or if she's feeling particularly upset; she also has a hint of precognition and a fair amount of telekinesis. Her father, Andy, has a mental domination ability he calls the 'push', allowing him to enact powerful influence over people; and her mother, Vicky, has a very limited form of telekinesis, which only extends, on a good day, to closing doors and turning off the television from across the room.They have those abilities because Andy and Vicky participated in an experiment sponsored by a government organization called the Department of Scientific Intelligence (nicknamed "The Shop," after A.E. van Vogt's "The Weapon Shops of Isher") during their college days; they were told that there was a 50% chance they would be injected with a small dose of harmless hallucinogenic drug and a 50% chance of being injected with water. It was actually an incredibly dangerous Psycho Serum, which gave them - and all the other participants in the test - paranormal abilities. Out of these other people, all but 3 are either dead or in a mental asylum of some sort. (The third one lost his abilities and is living a normal life.)The agents of the Shop kept the McGees under surveillance, eventually killing Vicky and kidnapping Charlie. However, Andy freed her, using his 'mind domination' ability. At the beginning of the book, Charlie and her father are on the run from the Shop, whose members want to use Charlie's power to "influence" world leaders.Also made into a movie of the same name in 1984, directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Drew Barrymore as Charlie, David Keith as Andy, George C. Scott as Rainbird, Martin Sheen as Hollister, and Heather Locklear as Vicky. This was the first of several Stephen King adaptations produced by the Dino De Laurentiis Company. A (contested) sequel series, Firestarter 2: Rekindled, aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002. A second adaptation of the novel, by Blumhouse Productions and starring Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charlie and Zac Efron as Andy, was released May 13, 2022 in theaters and on Peacock.
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Firestarter / int_1207d30	type	Villain's Dying Grace
Firestarter / int_1207d30	comment	Actually averted at the end with the Shop agents. Once they figure out Charlie's impenetrable from the front (and lose several agents horribly in the process), they try going at her from the back, sniping her, using heavier and heavier firepower, and finally just line up to be fried, to give as many civilians time to escape as possible.
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Firestarter / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Firestarter / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: Rainbird. See Blackmail above.
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Firestarter / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Firestarter / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Andy eventually has a stroke because he overuses his power. He dies soon after this, but it's unclear if it was the result of the stroke or getting shot by Rainbird immediately after.
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Firestarter / int_14e25fef	type	Magical Counterfeiting
Firestarter / int_14e25fef	comment	Magical Counterfeiting: Andy uses his powers to make a $1 bill look like $500 when taking a taxi.
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Firestarter / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Firestarter / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Charlie is a cute, blond-haired, little girl... who is capable of vaporizing people with her mind.
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Firestarter / int_17761744	type	Heal Thyself
Firestarter / int_17761744	comment	Heal Thyself: By way of a dream, Andy "pushes" himself clean of his thorazine addiction.
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Firestarter / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Firestarter / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Shop wanted to see the full extent of Charlie's powers and trained her to harness and control them. This blew up in their faces. Literally.
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Firestarter / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Firestarter / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Charlie, though it may just be because her mother was killed.
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Firestarter / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Firestarter / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: John Rainbird serves as this and The Dragon to Captain Hollister as he is the most direct threat towards Charlie and becomes her archenemy after killing her father
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Firestarter / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Firestarter / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Charlie, of course. She's able to set anything on fire just by thinking about it. Her powers do not seem to have any limits.
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Firestarter / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Firestarter / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Andy is this the Charlie for most of the movie, not that she needs much protection. It ends up getting inverted at the end, when Rainbird murders Andy right in front of Charlie, and she is mighty pissed off about it.
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Firestarter / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Firestarter / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: The Shop agents pulled some of Vicky's fingernails out before killing her to get her to tell where Charlie was. Andy feels her pain in his fingers at his workplace, among other sensations, which gets him to leave early and head home, only to find her murdered.
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Firestarter / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Firestarter / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Charlie's escape from the Shop in the film compared to the book. She massacres quite a few more Shop agents and personnel, and even blows up a helicopter in mid-flight.
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Firestarter / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Firestarter / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: When Andy temporarily gains telepathic powers during the Lot Six experiment, he reads the mind of one of the Shop agents present, and learns that he killed four people and raped one of the bodies.
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Firestarter / int_222446a4	type	Headache of Doom
Firestarter / int_222446a4	comment	Headache of Doom: Andy McGee's power of psychic persuasion takes a significant toll on his brain the more he uses it, resulting in agonizing headaches by the start of the book. With his daughter's safety on the line throughout the story, he's inclined to use it more and more, until he actually begins suffering mini-strokes that leave parts of his face numb. In the finale, it ends up causing a stroke, though given that Andy had been shot by Rainbird by this stage, it's not certain if this was the final cause of his death.
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Firestarter / int_22ed36d7	type	Patience Plot
Firestarter / int_22ed36d7	comment	Patience Plot: In one scene, the antagonist Rainbird is staying in a hotel. Rainbird's assignment is to kill someone in the hotel who knows too much. He's described as simply sitting in his hotel room, waiting for it to get dark. Then he'll wait for it to get late. Then he'll wait for it to get early. Only when the hotel is absolutely quiet and no one is moving will he go to his target's room and kill them.
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Firestarter / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Firestarter / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Rainbird; see Too Dumb to Live below. (Well, "sane" perhaps isn't the right word to describe him, but he sees the situation more clearly than others). Orville Jamieson - manages to survive relatively unscathed, as he's one of the few Shop agents to understand that Fear Is the Appropriate Response when it comes to Charlie's powers. Surviving as long as he did, only because he ran away after getting a front row seat in the Manders' farm incident, he has no intention of joining his fellow agents when the alarm sounds at the Shop.
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Firestarter / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Firestarter / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The novel starts with Andy and Charlie escaping from the agents of the Shop. Their backstory is told in parts in Andy's flashbacks.
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Firestarter / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Firestarter / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: After the woodchips scene if you look hard enough, you can see Charlie walking out of the room while the Shop agents discuss what to do about her and Andy. Rainbird is the first to notice when she leaves.
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Firestarter / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Firestarter / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: John Rainbird is this to the Shop. Even Cap Hollister is afraid of him.
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Firestarter / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Firestarter / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Rainbird. He kills people because he's obsessed with death. From the money he receives for it, he mostly buys shoes that he never wears. He uses the rest to finance his information gathering on the Shop itself, first for protection, later to blackmail Hollister into letting him get close to Charlie.
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Firestarter / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Firestarter / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Rainbird, of the villainous kind. Though he is a murderous, death-obsessed psychopath, he is also a gifted actor who is able to convincingly portray himself as a friendly janitor who is also shell-shocked from his ordeals in the Vietnam War, and hence gains the sympathy and trust of a very suspicious Charlie. By the time the novel begins he also already knows much more about the Lot Six program than Cap Hollister realized, having been able to secretly tap into Hollister's computer and personal files for the past three years. He was also able to finance all his information gathering through some skillful financial investments.
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Firestarter / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Firestarter / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Cap Hollister on a number of occasions. He is disgusted when Dr. Wanless tells him about how his brother burned his child's hand with a match to stop him from playing with matches and about an experiment that tried to convince participants to wet their pants. He is also horrified when he mistakenly thinks Rainbird wants to rape Charlie and loathes Rainbird's enthusiasm about killing her.
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Firestarter / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
Firestarter / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Wanless' explanation of Charlie's relationship with her father, and how the McGees controlled her ability by creating a complex. Andy also explains Wanless' habit of shredding cigarettes in this way.
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Firestarter / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Firestarter / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: The Department of Scientific Intelligence, aka "the Shop".
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Firestarter / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Firestarter / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr. Wanless. Lampshaded when Andy's friend compares him to Dr. Cyclops.
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Firestarter / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Firestarter / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Charlie, obviously. And her powers are constantly increasing. Dr. Wanless says that when she grows up, she may be able to cause nuclear explosions, or even destroy the whole planet. Later on, Charlie herself thinks that she may one day be able to affect the sun itself.
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Firestarter / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
Firestarter / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Charlene's nickname "Charlie". Also her alias "Bobbi" (Roberta is her middle name) used by the kind-hearted farmer Irv Manders.
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Firestarter / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Firestarter / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Andy's "Push" ability.
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Firestarter / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Firestarter / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Andy's powers cause pain and minor brain hemorrhages when he uses them; Charlie's powers do not, but she has a hard time controlling them. Not to mention that the government wants to use her as a weapon.
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Firestarter / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Firestarter / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Right before he dies, Andy tells Charlie to take the gloves off and kill anyone who gets in her way, because he knows they'll kill her if they get the chance. Charlie, grieving the death of her father and completely out of fucks to give, proceeds to burn everything and everyone. Grown men are pissing themselves while trying to get away.
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Firestarter / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Firestarter / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Norma Manders is suspicious of Andy and Charlie when her husband Irv arrives with them, at one point even calling the latter a monster when she sees Charlie's powers on display. She does soften to the little girl quite a bit though fears getting involved since the Shop shot her husband (non-fatally). When Charlie returns alone after the death of her father physically ill and emotionally drained, Norma doesn't hesitate in nursing her back to health with medicine and chicken broth.
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Firestarter / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Firestarter / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Rainbird befriends Charlie, and she becomes very attached to him; Rainbird asks Cap, "Who is her father when her father isn't there?" After the death of Andy and the big showdown that leads to the destruction of the Shop, Charlie ends up returning to the Manders farm where they nurse her back to health and spend several months taking care of her. Both Irv and Norma truly do love Charlie as though she were their own daughter but they also acknowledge that they not only can't replace her parents, the isolation would be painful for all three of them. Charlie reluctantly ends up leaving them to go to New York City so that she can tell her story to Rolling Stone.
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Firestarter / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Firestarter / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The Shop claimed that they were using the double blind method in the Lot Six experiment, in which only half of the volunteers would get the drug (which they also claimed was a harmless hallucinogenic) and the other half would just get distilled water. All the volunteers got Lot Six and reacted in different, drug trip-like ways. Rainbird's story of his time in the POW hole is completely fabricated.
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Firestarter / int_42880c07	type	Transvestite
Firestarter / int_42880c07	comment	Transvestite: Dr. Pynchot returns to being one of these in the book, as a side effect of being "pushed" by Andy.
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Firestarter / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Firestarter / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Lampshaded by Rainbird in reference to Patrick Hockstetter, one of the shop doctors in charge of Andy and Charlie. When summoned back to the Shop one night for an emergency involving Charlie, Hockstetter is mainly peeved that he was interrupted while watching a James Bond film.
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Firestarter / int_470442c8	type	I'll Be in My Bunk
Firestarter / int_470442c8	comment	I'll Be in My Bunk: Dr. Pynchot in the middle of the ricochet set off by Andy's Mind Rape, puts on his wife's lingerie and masturbates over the garbage disposal.
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Firestarter / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
Firestarter / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: A rare negative example. Rainbird's death-oriented mysticism makes him terrifying and dangerous rather than understanding and helpful.
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Firestarter / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Firestarter / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Played with with the Lot Six victim who rips out his own eyes; it's flashed briefly, then you get a long, loving look at the poor sot screaming, covered in blood and holding his own eyes in his hands.
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Firestarter / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Firestarter / int_4d070ee3	comment	Played with in the "sequel" as a now-adult Charlie unwittingly generates fires when she's sexually aroused.
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Firestarter / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Firestarter / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Shop assassin Rainbird gains Charlie's trust by posing as a friendly janitor. Cap Hollister often comes across as a kind, elderly gentleman who genuinely loves his wife; it's also noted at one point that more than one of his grandchildren are very close to Charlie's age.
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Firestarter / int_538273bd	type	Adaptational Superpower Change
Firestarter / int_538273bd	comment	Adaptational Superpower Change: In the book, Charlie simply causes heat and fire where she directs her attention to. In the movie, at least in the climax, she seems to generate fiery "cannonballs" that fly toward her target.
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Firestarter / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Firestarter / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Rainbird to Captain Hollister.
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Firestarter / int_554063c6	type	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!
Firestarter / int_554063c6	comment	If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Andy rescues Charlie from two Shop agents who kidnapped her, by sending one to a come and blinding the other. When the blinded agent gets in front of his car, Andy considers running him over, but decides against it, because "then what would separate him from them?"
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Firestarter / int_56264acd	type	The So-Called Coward
Firestarter / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: The Shop continually underestimates Andy, regarding him as an outclassed English professor. English professor, yes. Outclassed, not so much.
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Firestarter / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Firestarter / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Charlie finds it very hard to control her power at first. Even at the end, she still has trouble getting it to stop working, it seems to "want" to keep going, burning up everything despite the control she has learned. Basically, she is like a race car driver for whom the steering wheel works just fine, and she can accelerate with ease. But it takes a tremendous effort to reduce the throttle even a little.
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Firestarter / int_5b9dcd73	type	Empty Promise
Firestarter / int_5b9dcd73	comment	Empty Promise: After Charlie finds out that her mother is dead, Andy tells her that everything will be all right, while knowing perfectly well that nothing will ever be all right.
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Firestarter / int_5c8ad7af	type	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Firestarter / int_5c8ad7af	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: At the very end, Charlie starts to realize this, and goes back to the Manders to blow the story open.
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Firestarter / int_6269a4b3	type	Psycho Psychologist
Firestarter / int_6269a4b3	comment	Psycho Psychologist: Dr. Pynchot who grins too much and gets Andy hooked on Thorazine. He also suggests torturing Andy with electric shocks in front of Charlie to convince her to start lighting fires. Dr. Hockstetter averts this somewhat in that he's under constant pressure to get results (more so than Pynchot, his subordinate) which causes him to be more manic when he does see Charlie's power in action. The guy's an asshole but definitely not psychotic...and very fearful of Rainbird to boot.
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Firestarter / int_6537cc1a	type	All Girls Like Ponies
Firestarter / int_6537cc1a	comment	All Girls Like Ponies: Rainbird correctly predicts that, like pretty much all little girls, Charlie will no doubt love horses, and thus allowing her to visit the stables and even ride the horses is a perfect way to bribe her into cooperating.
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Firestarter / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Firestarter / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: "The Shop," a nom de guerre hung on the Department of Scientific Intelligence, is a grisly joke. It's derived from A.E. van Vogt's The Weapon Shops of Isher, except that, in that book and its sequels, the Weapon Shops are intended to give power to the people against their government; The D.S.I. is only interested in expanding government power at the expense of its people.
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Firestarter / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Firestarter / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: There are fairly detailed explanations of how Lot Six manages to create psychic powers in those who take it. King himself later pointed to Firestarter as one of the only books where he provided such explanations, and admitted that they didn't really work.
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Firestarter / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Firestarter / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Charlene/Charlie. Also, in Stephen King's Dark Tower books Char is a root word meaning death in the High Speech of In-World.
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Firestarter / int_6d0e5868	type	Test Subject for Hire
Firestarter / int_6d0e5868	comment	Test Subject for Hire: Andy and Vicki. Andy very explicitly signs up for the Lot Six experiment because he needs the money.
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Firestarter / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Firestarter / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Several participants of the Lot Six experiment. Also Dr. Pynchot (in the book) who commits suicide by shoving his arm into the garbage disposal while it's running after Andy triggered an 'echo' in his mind.
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Firestarter / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Firestarter / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: While the Shop's methods are wrong (and wrong-headed, to boot), they are perfectly correct to view Charlie and Andy as hideously dangerous threats. And if any other country knew of their powers, they would be in constant danger of abduction.
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Firestarter / int_73418f96	type	Psychic-Assisted Suicide
Firestarter / int_73418f96	comment	Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Cap thinks that the Shop could use Andy's power for that: "Imagine him getting close enough to that pinko Ted Kennedy to suggest in a low voice of utter conviction that suicide was the best answer." Andy is momentarily tempted to use a strong push to interrogate Pynchot of everything he knows, then get him to go home and commit suicide so the Shop doesn't know. He's repelled by the thought, and decides not to risk pushing Pynchot further. However Pynchot kills himself anyway, due to his own neurosis interacting with the effects of the push. Downplayed in the climax, where Andy "pushes" Rainbird to jump off the loft in the stable, to break a Mexican Standoff after he was momentarily distracted by Cap's screaming. While he only got a broken leg out of the deal, this was followed quickly by Charlie vaporizing him (and Cap, blowing open an entire wall of the stable, and killing most of the people on the other side).
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Firestarter / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Firestarter / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: When Charlie levels the headquarters of The Shop in the book's climax there's a brief description of "one of the commissary cooks...holding onto roughly two thousand volts" from a lethally-electrified security fence.
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Firestarter / int_781f2467	type	Shooting Superman
Firestarter / int_781f2467	comment	Shooting Superman: In the film's climax, the Shop agents can't seem to get it through their heads that Charlie is visibly vaporizing every round that gets near her.
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Firestarter / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Firestarter / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Rainbird plays that role for Charlie: he pretends that he has a paralyzing fear of the dark, because the Vietcong imprisoned him in a dark cave. (He really is a Vietnam War vet, and he saw plenty of disturbing things, but they don't seem to affect him much and he was never captured). The "firing line" that attempts to stop Charlie is made of Vietnam vets, who lose it when the fireworks start.
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Firestarter / int_7c401ed8	type	Fear Is the Appropriate Response
Firestarter / int_7c401ed8	comment	Orville Jamieson - manages to survive relatively unscathed, as he's one of the few Shop agents to understand that Fear Is the Appropriate Response when it comes to Charlie's powers. Surviving as long as he did, only because he ran away after getting a front row seat in the Manders' farm incident, he has no intention of joining his fellow agents when the alarm sounds at the Shop.
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Firestarter / int_7d0ffcc0	type	Single Substance Manipulation
Firestarter / int_7d0ffcc0	comment	Single Substance Manipulation: Due to a government experiment her parents took part in, Charlie McGee is born pyrokinetic, causing spontaneous combustion and manipulating fire. As her father tries to teach her to control her power, a government organization called the Shop is interested in making her a living weapon.
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Firestarter / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
Firestarter / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: In the climax of the book Rainbird is described as carrying a revolver (a .357 Magnum) fitted with a silencer "of Rainbird's own construction". The text does note that it's not "a very silent silencer", but in fact a silencer on a .357 Magnum revolver is basically nonsense simply because of the way revolvers are constructed.
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Firestarter / int_7dffcc84	type	Insanity Immunity
Firestarter / int_7dffcc84	comment	The immunity of very dumb or insane people to supernatural powers is a recurring theme in Stephen King's works, most notably in The Stand, where Tom Cullen, a lightly retarded man, is immune to Randall Flagg's "eye".
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Firestarter / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Firestarter / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Mostly averted with the Shop. They do everything possible to keep Charlie happy, including using Rainbird as The Mole, and give her a chance to exercise her power in safe confines. However, the one thing they cannot do is let her see her father, and after a while, that's all she wants to do...
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Firestarter / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Firestarter / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: After the conflagration at the Manders' farm, a government agent shows up at the hospital where Irv is recovering. He offers them a $35,000 check (equivalent to over $100,000 in 2017) and tells them not to talk about what happened—leafing through files with their names on them. The files contain potentially damaging information on relatives of theirs both immediate and distant, and the agent implicitly threatens to make a lot of trouble for those people if Irv and Norma don't keep their mouths shut.
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Firestarter / int_816c63d4	type	Dramatic Wind
Firestarter / int_816c63d4	comment	Dramatic Wind: The Film of the Book features this when Charlie uses her powers, causing her hair to blow around.
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Firestarter / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Firestarter / int_83f0971b	comment	Downplayed in the climax, where Andy "pushes" Rainbird to jump off the loft in the stable, to break a Mexican Standoff after he was momentarily distracted by Cap's screaming. While he only got a broken leg out of the deal, this was followed quickly by Charlie vaporizing him (and Cap, blowing open an entire wall of the stable, and killing most of the people on the other side).
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Firestarter / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
Firestarter / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: Dr. Pynchot has secretly enjoyed dressing up in women's underwear since his college days. His crossdressing eventually becomes the death of him, after a "push" from Andy goes horribly wrong and causes him to stick his arm in a garbage disposal while crossdressing.
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Firestarter / int_85f0963f	type	Psycho Serum
Firestarter / int_85f0963f	comment	Psycho Serum: Lot Six, the experimental substance given to 12 college students, including Charlie's parents, in hopes of boosting their ESP abilities. Most of the participants didn't live very long afterward.
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Firestarter / int_87154420	type	Arcadian Interlude
Firestarter / int_87154420	comment	Arcadian Interlude: Andy and Charlie have a short break from being chased by the Shop when they stop for a big country lunch at Irv and Norma Manders' farm. Charlie returns there alone after the death of her father and the destruction of the Shop. Although the weather is rough, the winter Andy and Charlie spend hiding out at his grandfather's cottage in Vermont is on the whole peaceful and restorative.
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Firestarter / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Firestarter / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Well, yes. Compelling Voice: Andy's "Push" ability. Mind over Matter: Charlie's mother, Vicky, has some limited powers of telekinesis. Charlie also has this power; she uses it to get change from payphones. There's still some crossover from her pyrokinesis, as the phones give off some smoke after she makes them release their change. Playing with Fire: Charlie, of course. She's able to set anything on fire just by thinking about it. Her powers do not seem to have any limits. Telepathy: Andy and Vicky could converse without talking when they were under the effect of Lot Six (though not later). Charlie also has limited telepathic powers. It could also be mild precognition, as she knows the Shop agents are coming to the Manders' farm. Mindlink Mates: Andy and Vicky's telepathy seems to still be working slightly after the experiment, and is even subtly hinted that this link is the reason they don't go insane like most of the rest of the experimentees. Their connection is also the only reason Vicky is able to eventually make love to Andy, as she was abused when she was young, and very scared of sex.
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Firestarter / int_906ed7b4	type	Apocalypse Maiden
Firestarter / int_906ed7b4	comment	At least some of the Shop's scientists think that the pituitary gland is the key to the powers, and during puberty they fear Charlie will literally be able to destroy the world at will.
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Firestarter / int_90766cc6	type	Voice of the Resistance
Firestarter / int_90766cc6	comment	Voice of the Resistance: Andy believes that the media will expose the Shop's corruption and save him and Charlie if only he can contact a reputable newspaper. His letters to The New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Washington Post are intercepted by Shop agents, but Charlie makes it to the offices of Rolling Stone at the end of the novel.
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Firestarter / int_915242d3	type	Pstandard Psychic Pstance
Firestarter / int_915242d3	comment	Pstandard Psychic Pstance: In the movie, Andy has a variant where he brushes his hair back from his forehead and presses his palms to his head.
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Firestarter / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Firestarter / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: After his duplicity has been revealed, Rainbird manages to take Charlie out of the fight by pointing out that she'll kill the horses in the barn if she starts burning everything. While this does succeed at first, Charlie eventually realizes, during a second standoff that comes later, that she can simply melt the hinges off the stall doors so the horses can run out on their own.
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Firestarter / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Firestarter / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Captain Hollister receives an awful side-effect of Andy's powers, heightening his love for golf and fear of snakes, to the point that they're pretty much the only things he can think of. When Andy and Charlie finally meet, he believes he finds a snake in the barn and screams loudly in terror. This leads to the complete and utter destruction of the compound, and the deaths of himself, Andy, Rainbird, and countless Shop employees. The one mook during Charlie's rampage, he thought he had a clear shot but the bullet exploded before it could hit Charlie. When Charlie faces him, he already knows he's screwed and helplessly begs for his life. Of course Charlie's in no mood to take prisoners. Fwoosh.
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Firestarter / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Firestarter / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Captain Hollister, the man in charge of The Shop and the person behind the manhunt to find Charlie and her father.
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Firestarter / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Firestarter / int_99db72ee	comment	Immune to Bullets: At the end, Charlie reaches this; her powers become fast and strong enough to explode bullets before reaching her.
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Firestarter / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
Firestarter / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: Rainbird's home has entire rooms full of shoes that he collects during his travels.
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Firestarter / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Firestarter / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Charlie starts the story giving people hotfoots when she loses her temper. By the end, she's creating high-explosive plasma projectiles and rapid-firing them into everything in the vicinity.
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Firestarter / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Firestarter / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Yeah, there's a lot of that going on when Charlie cuts loose on the Shop compound.
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Firestarter / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Firestarter / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing : A very early mention of Rolling Stone foreshadows Charlie approaching them to tell her story in the epilogue.
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Firestarter / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Firestarter / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Well, One Girl Army: Charlie, as the arrogant idiots of The Shop find out the hard way. She essentially becomes a walking tank - armored against conventional firearms with heat-walls and rapid-firing incendiary projectiles at everything and everyone in the vicinity.
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Firestarter / int_9ee7ff42	type	No Conservation of Energy
Firestarter / int_9ee7ff42	comment	No Conservation of Energy: Lampshaded. In an interdepartmental memo, a Shop scientist writes that they have no idea where the heat Charlie is producing is coming from. "Figure that one out and you've got the Nobel Prize in your hip pocket!"
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Firestarter / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
Firestarter / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: About half the book.
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Firestarter / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Firestarter / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: One of the participants in the Lot Six experiment goes insane and claws out his own eyes with his bare hands.
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Firestarter / int_a2cb509b	type	Tested on Humans
Firestarter / int_a2cb509b	comment	Tested on Humans: The Lot Six experiment.
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Firestarter / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Firestarter / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Vicky is a redhead in the book, and played by the blonde Heather Locklear in the film. Oddly, the scene in the book where Andy thinks of Vicky's hair as "like copper set on fire" (which she hears due to the effects of Lot Six) was adapted to the film unchanged.
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Firestarter / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Firestarter / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Orville Jameison has two with OJ and The Juice, the latter of which is his preferred one but got him reprimanded when he signed with that. Captain James Hollister is also referred to as Cap more often than not.
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Firestarter / int_a82ff02f	type	Meet Cute
Firestarter / int_a82ff02f	comment	Meet Cute: Vicky borrows a pen from Andy when they have to fill out a questionnaire for the Lot Six experiment.
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Firestarter / int_a96d230	type	Superior Successor
Firestarter / int_a96d230	comment	Superior Successor: The biggest reason The Shop's modus operandi changes from "reacquire the McGees" to "nab Charlie" - despite her age, Charlie has all of the benefits of her parents with none of the side effects that plague them. She has her own pyrokinetic abilities with a bit of her parents' power on top of that, with her only real problem being a bit of Power Incontinence... and it's implied that she'll eventually grow out of that.
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Firestarter / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Firestarter / int_aabdf2c6	comment	Tyke Bomb: Literally what Charlie is. The Shop wants to make her their Tyke Bomb, which is why she and her father are on the run in the beginning of the story. They succeed in training her how to use her powers, and then they discover that she doesn't belong to them after all.
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Firestarter / int_ab3ecc1d	type	Undercover When Alone
Firestarter / int_ab3ecc1d	comment	Undercover When Alone: Rainbird takes his assumed role as a janitor very seriously. He stays in character even if Charlie is not around, exchanges his luxurious car for a more humble one, and always uses the employee changeroom to get into his work uniform. His motivation for doing so is that he wants to fool not just Charlie, but also all Shop employees working directly with her, because he fears that otherwise rumors that he is not who he claims to be will eventually reach Charlie.
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Firestarter / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Firestarter / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: When Andy first describes his powers, he makes it clear that his "push" does not work on everybody. How effective it will be depends on a person's ethnicity (Caucasians are easier to manipulate, while Asians are very hard), age (the older a person is, the harder it becomes to manipulate their mind), and intelligence (intelligent people are the easiest to manipulate, while very dumb or even insane people are immune to the push). The immunity of very dumb or insane people to supernatural powers is a recurring theme in Stephen King's works, most notably in The Stand, where Tom Cullen, a lightly retarded man, is immune to Randall Flagg's "eye".
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Firestarter / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Firestarter / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: In a combination with Hoist by His Own Petard, by taking Charlie hostage and running tests on her, thus making her use her ability in a safe, controlled environment on successively bigger and bigger targets, The Shop is solely responsible for teaching Charlie how to gain control over her pyrokinesis, which is exactly how she manages to utterly destroy it. In the novel's backstory, The Shop had Andy, Charlie and Vicky under effective but unnoticeable surveillance for years without incident. Everything was going great, until Charlie slept over at a friend's house for two days. At which point the agents wildly overreact, assume she's gone on the run, break into the McGee home, interrogate, torture and kill Vicky and then track down and kidnap Charlie. That spurs Andy into action and sets events into motion. Andy's utterly baffled as to why The Shop reacted the way it did, eventually settling on, "they're just kind of stupid."
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Firestarter / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Firestarter / int_ad1db87c	comment	The one mook during Charlie's rampage, he thought he had a clear shot but the bullet exploded before it could hit Charlie. When Charlie faces him, he already knows he's screwed and helplessly begs for his life. Of course Charlie's in no mood to take prisoners. Fwoosh.
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Firestarter / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
Firestarter / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: When Rainbird tells Charlie his war story to gain her trust, the reader is told twice on the same page that he's making it up.
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Firestarter / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Firestarter / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: It's noted a few times that the majority of the Shop's agents really suck at their jobs, having ended up there because no reputable place would hire them. The team monitoring Andy and Vicky showed their hand and attacked the house because they missed that Charlie was having a sleepover and figured her not coming home that night was because the family was on to them.
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Firestarter / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Firestarter / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death / Cool and Unusual Punishment: When Andy and Charlie escape from the Shop the first time he puts one of the agents responsible for Vicky's death in a coma, and permanently blinds the other one by mindraping him into knowing he's blind.
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Firestarter / int_b4fb00f6	comment	Mistaken for Pedophile: Cap in the book wrongly assumes Rainbird wants to rape Charlie when he says he plans to know her "intimately." Rainbird's intentions towards Charlie are murkier in the movie, however.
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Firestarter / int_b51128fa	type	Gilded Cage
Firestarter / int_b51128fa	comment	Gilded Cage: When Charlie and her father Andy get kidnapped by the Shop they are given attractive living quarters. Andy notes, however, that his apartment door has no inside handle.
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Firestarter / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Firestarter / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Like with many horror stories, lots of examples from the heroes and villains alike. You have a girl who you know can start fires — BIG honkin' fires — just with her mind. Wouldn't it be a lot better to, oh, be nice to her? Rainbird once muses how stupid the Shop's agents are, comparing them to thieves who he had heard of. They blew a safe, destroying all the money in it because they used too much explosive. Actually averted at the end with the Shop agents. Once they figure out Charlie's impenetrable from the front (and lose several agents horribly in the process), they try going at her from the back, sniping her, using heavier and heavier firepower, and finally just line up to be fried, to give as many civilians time to escape as possible. There's a heroic example too: after Andy watches his daughter get shot (with a tranq dart) by Rainbird, does he grab her and run for cover? Nope, just kneels right out there in the open holding her (unconscious) body until another agent shoots him too. However, this is an understandable reaction as he was in shock.
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Firestarter / int_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
Firestarter / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: Averted; Lot Six causes a heart attack for one of the participants of the experiment. They use a defibrillator on him, but he dies anyway.
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Firestarter / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
Firestarter / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: The Shop killed the godfather of one of the test subjects this way. Rather than getting to the bottom of what happened to his godson, the only place he wound up getting to was "the bottom of the Baltimore Trench, where he presumably still was, with two cement blocks tied around whatever remained of his legs."
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Firestarter / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Firestarter / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Andy and Vicky, before she is murdered.
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Firestarter / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
Firestarter / int_c05de85d	comment	Mindlink Mates: Andy and Vicky's telepathy seems to still be working slightly after the experiment, and is even subtly hinted that this link is the reason they don't go insane like most of the rest of the experimentees. Their connection is also the only reason Vicky is able to eventually make love to Andy, as she was abused when she was young, and very scared of sex.
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Firestarter / int_c24c1556	type	Dramatic Chase Opening
Firestarter / int_c24c1556	comment	Dramatic Chase Opening: The book starts with Andy and Charlie chased by the Shop agents in New York. The movie replicates this, only transferring the scene from New York to Washington, D.C.
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Firestarter / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: Andy and Vicky could converse without talking when they were under the effect of Lot Six (though not later). Charlie also has limited telepathic powers. It could also be mild precognition, as she knows the Shop agents are coming to the Manders' farm.
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Firestarter / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Firestarter / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A subtle one: Charlie's full name is Charlene Roberta McGee. Her father calls her Bobbi, a short version of her middle name, as an alias, making her full name "Bobbi McGee". Joplin died in 1970, shortly before Charlie was born. It's hard to imagine that Andy (or King, a shameless rock-and-roller) would not have had this in mind.
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Firestarter / int_c7b81bd3	type	Knockout Ambush
Firestarter / int_c7b81bd3	comment	Knockout Ambush: The Shop agents capture Andy and Charlie this way. Charlie is shot by Rainbird with a tranquilizer dart from long range, and Andy, distraught over this, is easily taken out from short range.
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Firestarter / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Firestarter / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: While "mundane" is certainly a stretch here, one of the scientists analyzing Charlie's second test notes that despite producing an estimated 30,000 degrees of spot heat and disintegrating a cinderblock wall, Charlie exerted almost no physical effort doing so. This raise the question of whether her pyrokinesis is coming from her or through her, and if it's coming through her, where is it coming from? This is also touched on with Andy's mental domination powers, when he makes a cab driver think that a $1 bill is in fact a $500 bill to convince him to drive all the way to Albany from New York City. When the Shop gets a hold of the bill, several agents report briefly hallucinating that the dollar bill is a $500 bill. Cap and Steinowitz also hallucinate the $500 bill but are knowledgeable enough to realize that the bill resembles what Andy's imagination believed a $500 bill would look like, as it has the wrong president on it. All of this is despite the fact that none of these agents had any contact with Andy at the time.
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Firestarter / int_cd6458a8	type	No Control Group
Firestarter / int_cd6458a8	comment	No Control Group: The participants of the Lot Six experiment are told that half of them will only be injected with distilled water in a double-blind test. Actually, everyone gets Lot Six.
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Firestarter / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Firestarter / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The novel, published in 1980, is set between 1981-1983.
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Firestarter / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Firestarter / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Charlie burns down every building belonging to the Shop, and kills Rainbird, Cap, and pretty much every other agent in her line of sight after her father dies.
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Firestarter / int_d0b81ec4	type	Pineal Weirdness
Firestarter / int_d0b81ec4	comment	Pineal Weirdness: An acceptable variation. The extrasensory powers induced by Lot Six are connected to changes this drug creates in the pituitary gland. Dr. Wanless says that if the soul exists, it is probably located in this gland.
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Firestarter / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Firestarter / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Charlie uses the same pyrokinetic powers the Shop has been training to turn her into a weapon in order to escape and burn the Shop down in the climax.
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Firestarter / int_d40d7fc1	type	Hypno Fool
Firestarter / int_d40d7fc1	comment	Hypno Fool: Andy puts a Shop agent into a coma by telling him to "go to sleep" and giving a strong 'push'. He wakes up after six months, but from that moment on, every time somebody mentions the word "sleep" in his presence, he will fall into a deep slumber again that usually lasts for four hours to a day.
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Firestarter / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Firestarter / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Rainbird in the novel is Native American. In the movie, he's played by George C. Scott. In the "sequel", he's played by Malcolm McDowell (who seemingly made zero effort to hide his distinctly non-Native American accent.)
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Firestarter / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Firestarter / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: Subverted in Rainbird's case. Despite being power-hungry, he tells Captain Hollister that, after killing Charlie and stealing her power, he hopes to die as soon as possible and take her power with him into the afterlife.
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Firestarter / int_da38c13f	type	Lamarck Was Right
Firestarter / int_da38c13f	comment	Lamarck Was Right: Andy and Vicky gain mental domination powers and telekinesis, respectively, from a drug given to them in an experiment. Their daughter is born with telekinesis and pyrokinesis as a result. This is Hand Waved when the father speculates that the drug must have affected their DNA. King mentioned afterwards that he never liked that explanation, preferring stories where supernatural things just happen, and are never explained.
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Firestarter / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
Firestarter / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed / Deadly Nosebleed: In the film, Andy gets one of these whenever he uses his power; in the book, he has terrible headaches, scleral hemorrhages that turns the whites of his eyes red, and eventually small strokes which leave part of his face numb.
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Firestarter / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Firestarter / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Horses are a recurring motif. Andy describes the thudding headaches he gets as a "riderless horse," and this comes up again in later scenes and dream sequences after Charlie starts riding the horses on the Shop's grounds.
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Firestarter / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Firestarter / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: The two psychologists, Dr. Hockstetter (who was the main one in charge of getting results from Charlie) and Dr. Pynchot (his subordinate who was in charge of monitoring Andy's Push and getting him hooked on Thorazine before being Driven to Suicide), are combined into one person in the movie.
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Firestarter / int_e906fcc0	type	1-Dimensional Thinking
Firestarter / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: Subverted. Three men try and run away from a line of fire at the climax. It seems to be played straight until two of them try changing direction. All for nought when the fire just splits in three and follows them anyway.
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Firestarter / int_ebaf3065	type	Powers Do the Fighting
Firestarter / int_ebaf3065	comment	Powers Do the Fighting: Used to very eerie effect in the film version, especially in the climax. Charlie just stands with her hands at her sides and looks at the people, buildings and vehicles she is blowing up, while also remaining unflinching as she vaporizes bullets fired at her.
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Firestarter / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Firestarter / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: When Cap starts making baffling executive decisions that cause obstacles to the shop research, Rainbird realized Andy has been playing possum regarding his powers and manipulating Cap without anyone's knowledge.
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Firestarter / int_ecf510f4	type	Puberty Superpower
Firestarter / int_ecf510f4	comment	Puberty Superpower: Not precisely, but it's hinted that the psychic powers are linked to the pituitary gland, which goes nuts at puberty. Charlie is already extremely powerful, and she's prepubescent. At the end she reflects that someday she might be able to affect the sun itself. At least some of the Shop's scientists think that the pituitary gland is the key to the powers, and during puberty they fear Charlie will literally be able to destroy the world at will. Played with in the "sequel" as a now-adult Charlie unwittingly generates fires when she's sexually aroused.
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Firestarter / int_ee2a3bfc	type	Prefers Going Barefoot
Firestarter / int_ee2a3bfc	comment	Prefers Going Barefoot: Rainbird goes barefoot when he's alone. He's fascinated with shoes and has a whole collection of them; he just doesn't like wearing them. In the book, the reason given is linked to how his father, a full-blooded Native American, was buried barefoot due to his burial moccasins being stolen.
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Firestarter / int_ef7e9324	type	Fiery Stoic
Firestarter / int_ef7e9324	comment	Fiery Stoic: Charlie generates spontaneous combustion just by concentrating on the target, and once the sinister government agents kill her father, all she wants is out of the Shop. The Film of the Book shows actress Drew Barrymore as Charlie giving the eye to every Shop agent she meets, giving each the chance to stand down. Alas, Shop agents are all Too Dumb to Live and dare to oppose her, which nets them instant cremation right where they stand. Although the complex and all its personnel are left a roaring bonfire, it was not a Roaring Rampage of Revenge by a hothead; it was a methodical eradication of all those who opposed her, with Charlie's grim purpose being especially chilling.
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Firestarter / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Firestarter / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Andy uses his powers to hold diet classes and confidence classes. Charlie once uses hers to light a fireplace. Vicky's powers are quite weak and she uses them to do things like close doors.
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Firestarter / int_f062453	type	Burning with Anger
Firestarter / int_f062453	comment	Burning with Anger: Charlie has some anger issues, and that makes her a little hot under the collar sometimes...combine that with the murder of her mother and being on the run, and she's a lit fuse the Shop willingly takes into itself.
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Firestarter / int_f1e837cc	type	Mind over Matter
Firestarter / int_f1e837cc	comment	Mind over Matter: Charlie's mother, Vicky, has some limited powers of telekinesis. Charlie also has this power; she uses it to get change from payphones. There's still some crossover from her pyrokinesis, as the phones give off some smoke after she makes them release their change.
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Firestarter / int_f93f10e	type	Can't Stop The Signal
Firestarter / int_f93f10e	comment	Can't Stop The Signal: Throughout the book, Andy is desperate to make his way to a national media outlet with no government ties so that he can tell the story of the Shop and what they did to his family. In the final scene, Charlie is seen entering the offices of Rolling Stone magazine. This makes far more sense than the movie's ending, which has her heading to the New York Times instead, as sending letters to the Times in the book results in them being intercepted by Shop agents.
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Firestarter / int_ff16efbf	type	Heroes Want Redheads
Firestarter / int_ff16efbf	comment	Heroes Want Redheads: Vicky's "coppery" hair is part of Andy's attraction to her.
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Firestarter / int_ffb34813	type	Obi-Wan Moment
Firestarter / int_ffb34813	comment	Obi-Wan Moment: A villainous example. Despite being power-hungry, Rainbird tells Captain Hollister that, after killing Charlie and stealing her power, he hopes to die as soon as possible and take her power with him into the afterlife.
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Firestarter / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
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