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Odd Thomas
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Odd Thomas (it's his name, not an adjective) lives in Pico Mundo. Odd Thomas is a fry cook at a short order grill. Odd Thomas is polite, friendly, and well-liked by his neighbors.Odd Thomas can see the spirits of the restless dead.In the series written by Dean Koontz, seven Odd Thomas novels exist (with Saint Odd being the final), as well as a four-episode web series, three graphic novels, and an interquel novella.Titles, in Order of Release: Odd Thomas (2003) Forever Odd (2005) Brother Odd (2006) Odd Passenger (Web Series, 2008) Odd Hours (2008) Odd Interlude (eBook Novella, 2012) Odd Apocalypse (2012) Deeply Odd (2013) Saint Odd (2015)In 2013, Stephen Sommers (of Van Helsing and The Mummy Trilogy fame) wrote and directed a film adaptation of the first novel. Originally available through satellite tv provider DirecTV it is now available on Blu-Ray and DVD.The Odd Thomas movie was released in the US on February 28, 2014 and is now available on iTunes and Netflix (US). | |
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Crazy in the Head, Crazy in the Bed | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel | |
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Jacob Marley Apparel: Played straight, with major exceptions made for Elvis and Sinatra | |
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Memento MacGuffin | |
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Memento Macguffin: The fortuneteller prediction ticket that says "You are destined to be together forever." | |
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Odd Thomas / int_1439161f | type |
Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Odd at the end after having to kill five terrorists and seeing them kill others. | |
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Big Damn Fire Exit | |
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Big Damn Fire Exit: A way out of the Panamint only presents itself at the last minute. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_17501df2 | type |
Cool Old Guy | |
Odd Thomas / int_17501df2 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Granny Sugars in Odd's backstory. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_1869b4b1 | type |
Unreliable Narrator | |
Odd Thomas / int_1869b4b1 | comment |
Unreliable Narrator: Odd again, at the behest of Little Ozzy, to keep the tone of the books light. | |
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Religion of Evil | |
Odd Thomas / int_187bddc1 | comment |
Religion of Evil: Basically every book is Odd having to deal with one of these. The first book is Satanists, the second a psycho woman that has traveled all over the world studying occult stuff, the third is a guy that thinks he can create life, the fifth are a group of people who think they're gods, and the sixth are another (even worse) group of Satanists. The first graphic novel has a man who believes he sold his soul to the Devil for immortality, but the second averts this. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
Odd Thomas / int_18aff462 | comment |
Artistic License – Biology: Odd claims that there are more neurons in the brain than there are stars in the universe. | |
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The Siege | |
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The Siege | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: One of Datura's servants is a man named Andre who is repeatedly described as a giant. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_204a1207 | type |
Hyperspace Is a Scary Place | |
Odd Thomas / int_204a1207 | comment |
Hyperspace Is a Scary Place: When Odd enters a portal that spawns bodachs, he finds a dark void with a red light in it before being dumped back out several minutes in the past. When he tells Stormy, she says it's the portal to Hell (since the bodachs are dark spirits that usually serve as harbingers of suffering). Odd stews on this, and comes up with a more horrifying theory: The portal actually leads to a distant Bad Future where humans are so downright evil that they go back in time just to view death and destruction. They can't actually manifest fully in our time, so they become the canine-esque bodachs when they travel here. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
Odd Thomas / int_208c4494 | comment |
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Occasionally Odd wonders if his gifts are related to the insanity that seems to run in his family. | |
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Good Is Not Dumb | |
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Good Is Not Dumb: Anamaria. | |
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Hero's Muse | |
Odd Thomas / int_2232f10e | comment |
Hero's Muse: Stormy. One of the things that keeps Odd going when things get really is that he doesn't want to disappoint her by backing off when he can do something to stop something terrible from happening. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
Odd Thomas / int_25524784 | comment |
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Is done to Odd by Cloyce. Thank goodness for a time machine that can return your body to how it was at a specific point in time. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
Odd Thomas / int_25b5600 | comment |
Captain Ersatz: The trading cards that young Odd and Danny exchanged are very reminiscent of the set Mars Attacks! was based on. | |
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Dark World | |
Odd Thomas / int_294df577 | comment |
Dark World: The other side of Elsewhere. | |
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Nightmare Fetishist | |
Odd Thomas / int_2969dda7 | comment |
Nightmare Fetishist: Datura is a dark, dark, DARK example. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
Odd Thomas / int_297ab1b9 | comment |
Parental Abandonment: Odd's parents are so messed up that Odd was essentially raised by his grandmother, and started living independently at 16. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_2a7e7af1 | type |
Limited Wardrobe | |
Odd Thomas / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
Limited Wardrobe: Odd has a small wardrobe of simple clothes like jeans, chinos, sneakers and T-shirts. This is partly because he has no interest in fashion and partly because he often finds himself travelling at a moment's notice, a situation where bringing a large amount of luggage wouldn't be practical. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_2eac5753 | type |
Narrative Profanity Filter | |
Odd Thomas / int_2eac5753 | comment |
Narrative Profanity Filter: After the first couple books, Odd describes profanity more often than transcribes it, usually by replacing it with a more literal and formalized version of the word: | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
Odd Thomas / int_2f94135c | comment |
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Brother Knuckles admits to hurting a large number of people while he was in the Mob, but he never killed anyone. It's very important to him that Odd and his other acquaintances know this. | |
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Flowery Insults | |
Odd Thomas / int_304f9e0b | comment |
Flowery Insults: Danny Jessup describes Datura as being "crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease." After meeting her, Odd thinks that this description was a severe Understatement. | |
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Full-Name Basis | |
Odd Thomas / int_30d1e0df | comment |
Full-Name Basis: Rosalia Sanches calls Odd by his full name all the time. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
Odd Thomas / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: Played for laughs. When Datura relates a story of how she once had her henchmen break the legs of a guy who wouldn't turn off his cellphone in a movie theater, Odd thinks that even the worst people can have socially responsible impulses. | |
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Starfish Aliens | |
Odd Thomas / int_31c5e7fb | comment |
Starfish Aliens: The Big Bad. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
Odd Thomas / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist/ Reality Warper: The motivating force behind the problem. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
Odd Thomas / int_36c64123 | comment |
Gentle Giant: Kenny turns out to be this. At least, gentler than anyone else we meet at Roseland. | |
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TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers | |
Odd Thomas / int_378039e | comment |
The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: Odd's list of possessed car movies: "The Car, Maximum Overdrive, The Love Bug." | |
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Odd Thomas / int_38f5ed1a | type |
Dragged Off to Hell | |
Odd Thomas / int_38f5ed1a | comment |
Dragged Off to Hell: One of the goons is killed and Odd sees his ghost being taken by some sort of Eldritch Abomination. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_3b3d8430 | type |
The Constant | |
Odd Thomas / int_3b3d8430 | comment |
The Constant: Roseland and its inhabitants. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Odd Thomas / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Odd peppers his narrative with references to previous adventures that he never explains in detail. The first mentioned is him being dumped into the Malo Suerto Lake chained to a pair of dead bodies. He lives. There's also mention of an angry cross-eyed ferret that was able to get him out of another scrape. And the men in porkpie hats who tried to crush him to death with heavy machinery. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
Odd Thomas / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Odd, by his own estimation. | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: The situation is largely resolved when a foreshadowed, but unrelated, mountain lion suddenly kills the villain. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
Odd Thomas / int_420c50b7 | comment |
A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted. The computer adamantly has no desire to take over the world, and is rather miffed that his creators even thought it necessary to fit him with a Restraining Bolt | |
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Odd Thomas / int_421e0f6a | type |
Mysterious Waif | |
Odd Thomas / int_421e0f6a | comment |
Mysterious Waif / Mystical Waif: Anamaria. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
Odd Thomas / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: Odd tries to explain to the Presence that 'different' doesn't mean 'better' using a convoluted analogy involving a bear, a squirrel, a prairie dog, and a porpoise. He then lampshades it: | |
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Odd Thomas / int_450c5a85 | type |
Alternate Continuity | |
Odd Thomas / int_450c5a85 | comment |
Alternate Continuity: While not confirmed yet, it's implied that the graphic novels take place in a different timeline than the main novels - mainly because Stormy is still alive and the events therein wouldn't make sense if they were all before the second novel. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_45a01289 | type |
Angel Unaware | |
Odd Thomas / int_45a01289 | comment |
Angel Unaware: The mysterious and slightly unearthly people that help the children who were captured by the satanists forget the trauma they suffered and whose presence helped Odd to heal emotionally somewhat from his recent experiences are implied to be something of the kind. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_4612ec70 | type |
No Transhumanism Allowed | |
Odd Thomas / int_4612ec70 | comment |
No Transhumanism Allowed: The Big Bad tried to... improve himself with alien cells. It worked, after a fashion. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_48dbd87b | type |
Peaceful in Death | |
Odd Thomas / int_48dbd87b | comment |
Peaceful in Death: Granny Sugars died in her sleep at age 72. According to Odd, "They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist opened to the last page, and a smile on her face." | |
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Odd Thomas / int_49fb5ccb | type |
Combat Pragmatist | |
Odd Thomas / int_49fb5ccb | comment |
Combat Pragmatist: Odd. Cats, brooms, mops, and, well, anything that is handy, and yes, he will use every dirty trick in the book if it means bringing a fight to a close. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_4a852458 | type |
Big Good | |
Odd Thomas / int_4a852458 | comment |
Big Good: Mrs. Edie Fischer assumes this role in the final couple books. | |
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Snowed-In | |
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Snowed-In: The reason that the monks can't just evacuate the children. | |
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe | |
Odd Thomas / int_4dbd3706 | comment |
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: It requires an enormous room-sized machine powered by a nuclear reactor, but it still works. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
Odd Thomas / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: Odd usually uses some normal, everyday item as a weapon at least once per book. | |
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Wax Museum Morgue | |
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Wax Museum Morgue | |
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Odd Thomas / int_4eaa9b84 | type |
Author Tract | |
Odd Thomas / int_4eaa9b84 | comment |
Author Tract: Odd occasionally laps into little sermons about what's wrong with modern civilization, i.e. liberalism, irreligion, scientism, mass media, utilitarian bioethics, etc. | |
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Odd Thomas / int_50ae8e55 | type |
Little Miss Snarker | |
Odd Thomas / int_50ae8e55 | comment |
Little Miss Snarker: Jolie, who actually narrates a part of the book. | |
Odd Thomas / int_50ae8e55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_50ae8e55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_50ae8e55 | |
Odd Thomas / int_525df529 | type |
Not Using the "Z" Word | |
Odd Thomas / int_525df529 | comment |
Not Using the "Z" Word: "Cheval" is a legitimate term, but Odd never supplies the much more common one. | |
Odd Thomas / int_525df529 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_525df529 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_525df529 | |
Odd Thomas / int_529a3369 | type |
Fights Like a Normal | |
Odd Thomas / int_529a3369 | comment |
Fights Like a Normal: Odd's powers are useless in a fight. | |
Odd Thomas / int_529a3369 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_529a3369 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_529a3369 | |
Odd Thomas / int_53407671 | type |
Action Survivor | |
Odd Thomas / int_53407671 | comment |
Action Survivor | |
Odd Thomas / int_53407671 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_53407671 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_53407671 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5539b84f | type |
Corrupt Church | |
Odd Thomas / int_5539b84f | comment |
Corrupt Church | |
Odd Thomas / int_5539b84f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5539b84f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_5539b84f | |
Odd Thomas / int_561dab6b | type |
Mistaken for Gay | |
Odd Thomas / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: Edie briefly thinks Odd is. Some amount of humorous arguing ensues before the misunderstanding is straightened out. | |
Odd Thomas / int_561dab6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_561dab6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_561dab6b | |
Odd Thomas / int_583ec33e | type |
Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
Odd Thomas / int_583ec33e | comment |
Snark-to-Snark Combat: Odd's conversations with Rodion Romanovich are almost entirely comprised of this. | |
Odd Thomas / int_583ec33e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_583ec33e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_583ec33e | |
Odd Thomas / int_58e43f17 | type |
Cats Are Mean | |
Odd Thomas / int_58e43f17 | comment |
Cats Are Mean: Little Ozzie's cat, Terrible Chester, who endeavors to pee on the shoes of everyone he doesn't like. This category includes pretty much everyone in Pico Mundo except Ozzie. | |
Odd Thomas / int_58e43f17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_58e43f17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_58e43f17 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5bc1ce14 | type |
Author Vocabulary Calendar | |
Odd Thomas / int_5bc1ce14 | comment |
Author Vocabulary Calendar: Despite a very working-class background, Odd has the vocabulary and cadences of a college professor and constantly drops fifty-dollar words. Possibly justified by Little Ozzie's influence and, possibly, editing. | |
Odd Thomas / int_5bc1ce14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5bc1ce14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_5bc1ce14 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d103ea8 | type |
AwesomeMcCoolName | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d103ea8 | comment |
Awesome Mc Cool Name: Kenneth Randolph Fitzgerald Mountbatton: the huge, terrifying, heavily-armed security guard with screaming hyena tattoos and a shirt that says "Death Heals." He picked the names himself. | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d103ea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d103ea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_5d103ea8 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d5cc3fd | type |
Through the Eyes of Madness | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d5cc3fd | comment |
Through the Eyes of Madness: This is pretty much used in the fact that it's made to seem that Stormy lives through the mass murder at the mall, when instead it's just Odd's ability fooling the reader into thinking she's alive. Odd even says, "For a while I had gone mad." | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d5cc3fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5d5cc3fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_5d5cc3fd | |
Odd Thomas / int_5eb92325 | type |
Declaration of Protection | |
Odd Thomas / int_5eb92325 | comment |
Declaration of Protection: Odd makes this to Anamaria. | |
Odd Thomas / int_5eb92325 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_5eb92325 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_5eb92325 | |
Odd Thomas / int_60f40963 | type |
No Such Thing as Space Jesus | |
Odd Thomas / int_60f40963 | comment |
No Such Thing as Space Jesus: An aversion is discussed. Odd theorizes that the aliens might have had something to do with the humanity's fall from grace. The serpent motif ties nicely into this. | |
Odd Thomas / int_60f40963 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_60f40963 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_60f40963 | |
Odd Thomas / int_60fa92ac | type |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Odd Thomas / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Datura is a genus of poisonous plants, which can have quite unpleasant physical and mental effects on humans. | |
Odd Thomas / int_60fa92ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_60fa92ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_60fa92ac | |
Odd Thomas / int_6459cc02 | type |
I See Dead People | |
Odd Thomas / int_6459cc02 | comment |
I See Dead People: Odd can see the spirits of the dead. They can't speak to him, but he does his best to help them find rest anyway. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6459cc02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6459cc02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6459cc02 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6492f4ca | type |
Spirit Advisor | |
Odd Thomas / int_6492f4ca | comment |
Spirit Advisor: Alfred Hitchcock. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6492f4ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6492f4ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6492f4ca | |
Odd Thomas / int_68cf9795 | type |
Ironic Nickname | |
Odd Thomas / int_68cf9795 | comment |
Ironic Nickname: Little Ozzie, who weighs 450 pounds. | |
Odd Thomas / int_68cf9795 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_68cf9795 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_68cf9795 | |
Odd Thomas / int_69681e01 | type |
Big Brother Instinct | |
Odd Thomas / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Brother Instinct: Odd feels this way towards Tim. | |
Odd Thomas / int_69681e01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_69681e01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_69681e01 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6a15a2c2 | type |
The Computer Is Your Friend | |
Odd Thomas / int_6a15a2c2 | comment |
The Computer Is Your Friend | |
Odd Thomas / int_6a15a2c2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6a15a2c2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6a15a2c2 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ca72c26 | type |
All Take and No Give | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ca72c26 | comment |
All Take and No Give: Odd's mom is a friendly, beautiful woman, who absolutely cannot psychologically handle literally any kind of situation that demands anything from her. She instantly responds with threats of self-harm and shocking verbal abuse. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ca72c26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ca72c26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6ca72c26 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6de71c57 | type |
Disc-One Final Boss | |
Odd Thomas / int_6de71c57 | comment |
Disc-One Final Boss: Fungus Man is killed by his partners before even encountering Odd. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6de71c57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6de71c57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6de71c57 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6df8075f | type |
Clueless Chick-Magnet | |
Odd Thomas / int_6df8075f | comment |
Clueless Chick-Magnet: Odd is so much in love with Stormy that he doesn't even notice when other girls try to hit on him, which they do with more frequency than his self-deprecating descriptions of himself would seem to warrant. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6df8075f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6df8075f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6df8075f | |
Odd Thomas / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
Odd Thomas / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: After three books, Elvis finally departs for the next world. A few minutes later, Frank Sinatra shows up. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6edc54d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6edc54d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6edc54d5 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ee09826 | type |
Religious Bruiser | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ee09826 | comment |
Religious Bruiser: Brother Knuckles, who used to be an enforcer in The Mob. | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ee09826 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6ee09826 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6ee09826 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6f9d7da3 | type |
GrimReaper | |
Odd Thomas / int_6f9d7da3 | comment |
Grim Reaper: The creature Odd calls "Death." | |
Odd Thomas / int_6f9d7da3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_6f9d7da3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_6f9d7da3 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7301ae04 | type |
Serial Killer | |
Odd Thomas / int_7301ae04 | comment |
Serial Killer: Cloyce. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7301ae04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7301ae04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7301ae04 | |
Odd Thomas / int_730c2e3 | type |
Void Between the Worlds | |
Odd Thomas / int_730c2e3 | comment |
Void Between the Worlds: Odd calls it "Elsewhere," a place between our world and a dark dimension, where the only defense against those things that prowl in, and strain against, this boundary is quick thinking. | |
Odd Thomas / int_730c2e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_730c2e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_730c2e3 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7360806f | type |
In-Series Nickname | |
Odd Thomas / int_7360806f | comment |
In-Series Nickname: "Fungus Man". | |
Odd Thomas / int_7360806f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7360806f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7360806f | |
Odd Thomas / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
Odd Thomas / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Loop me in, odd one." "You are destined to be together forever." | |
Odd Thomas / int_7464705c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7464705c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7464705c | |
Odd Thomas / int_74a6d3c | type |
Our Time Machine Is Different | |
Odd Thomas / int_74a6d3c | comment |
Our Time Machine Is Different | |
Odd Thomas / int_74a6d3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_74a6d3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_74a6d3c | |
Odd Thomas / int_777c0033 | type |
Technical Pacifist | |
Odd Thomas / int_777c0033 | comment |
Technical Pacifist: Odd is afraid of guns (thanks to his psycho mom), but he manages to shoot two would-be mass murderers. | |
Odd Thomas / int_777c0033 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_777c0033 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_777c0033 | |
Odd Thomas / int_799d05eb | type |
Not Listening to Me, Are You? | |
Odd Thomas / int_799d05eb | comment |
Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Odd tries to ask Chef Shilshom some questions about Roseland, but the chef is busy preparing food and answers most of the questions with an absent-minded "Mmmmm." Odd starts saying weird things to get his attention, but it doesn't work. | |
Odd Thomas / int_799d05eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_799d05eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_799d05eb | |
Odd Thomas / int_7a143509 | type |
Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
Odd Thomas / int_7a143509 | comment |
Shell-Shocked Veteran: Again, Odd Thomas. He starts out this way, having been through numerous life-or-death situations before the series ever begins. Then Stormy dies. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7a143509 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7a143509 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7a143509 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7af365d7 | type |
Reality Warping Is Not a Toy | |
Odd Thomas / int_7af365d7 | comment |
Reality Warping Is Not a Toy: The antagonist learns this the hard way, though the happy dream he creates is pretty chilling, too. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7af365d7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7af365d7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7af365d7 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c1bf001 | type |
Character Name Alias | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c1bf001 | comment |
Character Name Alias: Odd goes by the pseudonym Harry Potter for most of the book, so The Presence can't get any information on him. He also briefly goes by Lex Luthor. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c1bf001 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c1bf001 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7c1bf001 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c4f6612 | type |
Comic-Book Adaptation | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c4f6612 | comment |
Comic-Book Adaptation: as an OEL Manga. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c4f6612 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7c4f6612 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7c4f6612 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7fe06f5 | type |
Action Girlfriend | |
Odd Thomas / int_7fe06f5 | comment |
Action Girlfriend: Stormy, who, unlike Odd, has no problem about using a gun. | |
Odd Thomas / int_7fe06f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_7fe06f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_7fe06f5 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8183248 | type |
Never Mess with Granny | |
Odd Thomas / int_8183248 | comment |
Never Mess with Granny: Edie Fischer. Odd says that he'd rather have her at his back than pretty much anyone he could think of. | |
Odd Thomas / int_8183248 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8183248 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_8183248 | |
Odd Thomas / int_829b958e | type |
Embarrassing First Name | |
Odd Thomas / int_829b958e | comment |
Embarrassing First Name: Stormy's real first name is Bronwen. Use it at your peril. | |
Odd Thomas / int_829b958e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_829b958e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_829b958e | |
Odd Thomas / int_851dda8f | type |
Humanoid Abomination | |
Odd Thomas / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: The Senoculus, which takes on Odd's form with some quite gruesome and creepy differences. | |
Odd Thomas / int_851dda8f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_851dda8f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_851dda8f | |
Odd Thomas / int_85debad9 | type |
Plucky Girl | |
Odd Thomas / int_85debad9 | comment |
Plucky Girl: Jolie. | |
Odd Thomas / int_85debad9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_85debad9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_85debad9 | |
Odd Thomas / int_874176be | type |
Psychic Powers | |
Odd Thomas / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: In addition to being able to see the dead, Odd uses what he calls "psychic magnetism" to find people, and he seems to have an almost supernatural ability at card playing, which he attributes to "sensing" when his hand is better or worse than others'. Other people have (inaccurately) attributed to him things like precognition and dream interpretation (but see above). | |
Odd Thomas / int_874176be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_874176be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_874176be | |
Odd Thomas / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Odd Thomas / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The thing that the Rhinestone Cowboy is carrying around in his truck. | |
Odd Thomas / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_8774fb47 | |
Odd Thomas / int_87e661e8 | type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
Odd Thomas / int_87e661e8 | comment |
Absurdly Spacious Flood Drainage Tunnels: Under Pico Mundo, and suspected to be part of a conspiratorial government project. | |
Odd Thomas / int_87e661e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_87e661e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_87e661e8 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: At the end, when it's revealed that Stormy died in the shooting at the mall. | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e20979 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e20979 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_8e20979 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e5fdcd5 | type |
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e5fdcd5 | comment |
Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: (Probably) non-letal case. Once Odd recounts a list of improvized weapons, which he effectively used for self-defence: | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e5fdcd5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_8e5fdcd5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_8e5fdcd5 | |
Odd Thomas / int_906365a2 | type |
Demonic Possession | |
Odd Thomas / int_906365a2 | comment |
Demonic Possession: House of Odd and maybe Odd Hours. These are not the ghosts Odd usually sees. | |
Odd Thomas / int_906365a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_906365a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_906365a2 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989 | type |
Sinister Minister | |
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989 | comment |
Sinister Minister | |
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_9245d989 | |
Odd Thomas / int_94332264 | type |
Busman's Holiday | |
Odd Thomas / int_94332264 | comment |
Busman's Holiday: Odd Thomas wants a thoughtful retreat to return to his faith and recover from the previous year and a half without any supernatural shenanigans. He gets a twisted version of his wish, as the menace he walks right into is unnatural, not supernatural. | |
Odd Thomas / int_94332264 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_94332264 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_94332264 | |
Odd Thomas / int_949819b6 | type |
Children Forced to Kill | |
Odd Thomas / int_949819b6 | comment |
Children Forced to Kill: Jolie was forced to participate in killing her cousin, and may have been the one forced to strike the final blow. | |
Odd Thomas / int_949819b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_949819b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_949819b6 | |
Odd Thomas / int_99390db0 | type |
Saintly Church | |
Odd Thomas / int_99390db0 | comment |
Saintly Church: The abbey really is all it's cracked up to be. | |
Odd Thomas / int_99390db0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_99390db0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_99390db0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d0730f8 | type |
Badass and Child Duo | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d0730f8 | comment |
Badass and Child Duo: Odd and Tim. | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d0730f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d0730f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_9d0730f8 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: One of the warning signs that Stormy dies at the mall is that Odd goes through the store that she works in and there's a small group of people clustered together crying. | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_9d12bbc1 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a300ab6f | type |
Living Memory | |
Odd Thomas / int_a300ab6f | comment |
Living Memory: The image of Nikola Tesla that keeps popping up around Roseland, in his own way trying to get someone to stop what's going on there and helping Odd in the small ways he can. Even Odd's not completely sure what exactly he/it is. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a300ab6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a300ab6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a300ab6f | |
Odd Thomas / int_a3673c4c | type |
It Gets Easier | |
Odd Thomas / int_a3673c4c | comment |
It Gets Easier: Odd notes that killing bad guys is getting easier, and it scares him. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a3673c4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a3673c4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a3673c4c | |
Odd Thomas / int_a588cd12 | type |
Cool House | |
Odd Thomas / int_a588cd12 | comment |
Cool House: Designed by Nikola Tesla no less, as a time machine and immortality generator. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a588cd12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a588cd12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a588cd12 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a5d92fce | type |
Celibate Hero | |
Odd Thomas / int_a5d92fce | comment |
Celibate Hero: Because Stormy wanted to wait until they were married and since her death he refuses because he's still staying true to her. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a5d92fce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a5d92fce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a5d92fce | |
Odd Thomas / int_a633a438 | type |
Really700YearsOld | |
Odd Thomas / int_a633a438 | comment |
Really 700 Years Old: Tim is really closer to his nineties than the ten-year-old he looks, and the rest of the inhabitants (who look in their thirties to middle-age) are even older. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a633a438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a633a438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a633a438 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a6a6de9a | type |
Humble Hero | |
Odd Thomas / int_a6a6de9a | comment |
Humble Hero: Odd, full stop. | |
Odd Thomas / int_a6a6de9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_a6a6de9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_a6a6de9a | |
Odd Thomas / int_aaf19fae | type |
Doesn't Like Guns | |
Odd Thomas / int_aaf19fae | comment |
Doesn't Like Guns: Odd, of the traumatic childhood tragedy variety. However, he will pick up a gun if the situation is dire enough; he doesn't want someone to die because he couldn't overcome his fear/aversion. | |
Odd Thomas / int_aaf19fae | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_aaf19fae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_aaf19fae | |
Odd Thomas / int_ab68c5cc | type |
Chronic Hero Syndrome | |
Odd Thomas / int_ab68c5cc | comment |
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Not by choice, but see "The Determinator" below. | |
Odd Thomas / int_ab68c5cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_ab68c5cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_ab68c5cc | |
Odd Thomas / int_ad62678e | type |
Living Shadow | |
Odd Thomas / int_ad62678e | comment |
Living Shadow: The bodachs, which appear as intangible shadows near sites of impending violence. | |
Odd Thomas / int_ad62678e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_ad62678e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_ad62678e | |
Odd Thomas / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
Odd Thomas / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Alfred Hitchcock; not surprising, except when you remember that "the dead don't talk." | |
Odd Thomas / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_ae3d6438 | |
Odd Thomas / int_af157b58 | type |
First-Person Smartass | |
Odd Thomas / int_af157b58 | comment |
First-Person Smartass: Subverted in that Odd is so hilariously humble about his smartassery. Many readers hear him speaking with Toby McGuire's voice. | |
Odd Thomas / int_af157b58 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Odd Thomas / int_af157b58 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_af157b58 | |
Odd Thomas / int_afc6df04 | type |
What You Are in the Dark | |
Odd Thomas / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: Odd has a chance to use Roseland to go back in time to save Stormy, but decides that would be selfish of him since she is in a better place and he doesn't want what happened to Tim to happen to Stormy just to make himself happy. | |
Odd Thomas / int_afc6df04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_afc6df04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_afc6df04 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b063ec7d | type |
Skeleton Key Card | |
Odd Thomas / int_b063ec7d | comment |
Skeleton Key Card: Odd uses his driver's license to break into "Fungus Man's" house. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b063ec7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b063ec7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b063ec7d | |
Odd Thomas / int_b11ac9f5 | type |
Abusive Parents | |
Odd Thomas / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Odd's dad is a narcissistic attention whore. Odd's mom is The Ophelia who threatened her son and herself with a gun when she felt overwhelmed by the responsibility of having a child. Stormy's adoptive father apparently just adopted her as some kind of sex toy and did so until she finally worked up the courage to call social services. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b11ac9f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b11ac9f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b11ac9f5 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b26ca4f5 | type |
The Champion | |
Odd Thomas / int_b26ca4f5 | comment |
The Champion: Odd pledges to be Anamaria's. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b26ca4f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b26ca4f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b26ca4f5 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b39d5719 | type |
Sadist | |
Odd Thomas / int_b39d5719 | comment |
Sadist: The Rhinestone Cowboy and the rest of the Satanists. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b39d5719 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b39d5719 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b39d5719 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b3bdf232 | type |
Alien Geometries | |
Odd Thomas / int_b3bdf232 | comment |
Alien Geometries: The various unnatural creatures are simply wrong — they move in an impossible, quasi-mechanical fashion. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b3bdf232 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b3bdf232 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b3bdf232 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b41acf08 | type |
AxeCrazy | |
Odd Thomas / int_b41acf08 | comment |
Axe-Crazy: Datura. And how! | |
Odd Thomas / int_b41acf08 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b41acf08 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b41acf08 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b47d95be | type |
No OSHA Compliance | |
Odd Thomas / int_b47d95be | comment |
No OSHA Compliance: The people who built the Panamint Resort and Spa cut corners in several ways. For example, they hung a chandelier from a wooden beam when they should have used a steel beam and they didn't put in all of the fire safety equipment that the blueprints called for. When an earthquake hit, the damage to the hotel was much worse than it should have been and several of the guests and staff died. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b47d95be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b47d95be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b47d95be | |
Odd Thomas / int_b5fb096b | type |
People Puppets | |
Odd Thomas / int_b5fb096b | comment |
People Puppets: The Harmony's are this to The Presence. | |
Odd Thomas / int_b5fb096b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_b5fb096b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_b5fb096b | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc74ef27 | type |
Berserk Button | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: When one of the cultists gloats over the impending murders of the children, the usually gentle Odd shoots him dead without missing a beat. | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc74ef27 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc74ef27 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_bc74ef27 | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc848be9 | type |
Intangible Time Travel | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc848be9 | comment |
Intangible Time Travel: Odd's theory about the bodachs. | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc848be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_bc848be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_bc848be9 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c042eee9 | type |
Invisible to Normals | |
Odd Thomas / int_c042eee9 | comment |
Invisible to Normals: The Rhinestone Cowboy. People, normal people, can't notice him. Also the estate at which his fellow Satanists are gathering. | |
Odd Thomas / int_c042eee9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c042eee9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c042eee9 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c23525d4 | type |
Character Title | |
Odd Thomas / int_c23525d4 | comment |
Character Title | |
Odd Thomas / int_c23525d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c23525d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c23525d4 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c5249b29 | type |
Nice Guy | |
Odd Thomas / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Odd. | |
Odd Thomas / int_c5249b29 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c5249b29 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c5249b29 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c57293d6 | type |
Chastity Couple | |
Odd Thomas / int_c57293d6 | comment |
Chastity Couple: Odd and the love of his life, Stormy, are this because of Stormy's traumatic childhood sexual abuse, and his willingness to wait until she's ready. Tragically, they never will, because she perishes partway through the story. | |
Odd Thomas / int_c57293d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c57293d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c57293d6 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c70059b4 | type |
Psychic Dreams for Everyone | |
Odd Thomas / int_c70059b4 | comment |
Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Odd is occasionally troubled by these. So is one of his neighbors. | |
Odd Thomas / int_c70059b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c70059b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c70059b4 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c9597a03 | type |
Self-Deprecation | |
Odd Thomas / int_c9597a03 | comment |
Self-Deprecation: Odd is a master of this trope. | |
Odd Thomas / int_c9597a03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_c9597a03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_c9597a03 | |
Odd Thomas / int_cb70651c | type |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
Odd Thomas / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There're hints that Datura's servants might be zombies, but ultimately their nature remains a mystery. | |
Odd Thomas / int_cb70651c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_cb70651c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_cb70651c | |
Odd Thomas / int_d03fc3f1 | type |
Good Shepherd | |
Odd Thomas / int_d03fc3f1 | comment |
Good Shepherd | |
Odd Thomas / int_d03fc3f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d03fc3f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d03fc3f1 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d2b59903 | type |
Cool Old Lady | |
Odd Thomas / int_d2b59903 | comment |
Cool Old Lady: Mrs. Edie Fischer regularly drives over one-hundred miles an hour in a souped up limo, has got more pluck and courage in her little old body than people a fourth her age, and is funny and mysterious as can be. | |
Odd Thomas / int_d2b59903 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d2b59903 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d2b59903 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d3beb0de | type |
Precocious Crush | |
Odd Thomas / int_d3beb0de | comment |
Precocious Crush: Jolie has one on Odd. | |
Odd Thomas / int_d3beb0de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d3beb0de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d3beb0de | |
Odd Thomas / int_d49f90ea | type |
Western Terrorists | |
Odd Thomas / int_d49f90ea | comment |
Western Terrorists | |
Odd Thomas / int_d49f90ea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d49f90ea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d49f90ea | |
Odd Thomas / int_d791dbbb | type |
Cannibal Larder | |
Odd Thomas / int_d791dbbb | comment |
Cannibal Larder: Thomas finds a very tidy such larder in the killer's refrigerator. It's unclear if they are truly intended for eating, or are just trophies. | |
Odd Thomas / int_d791dbbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d791dbbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d791dbbb | |
Odd Thomas / int_d8085f48 | type |
Hollywood Voodoo | |
Odd Thomas / int_d8085f48 | comment |
Hollywood Voodoo: What little can be understood of Datura's constant torrent of nonsense is a half-understood twisting of Voudoun. Justified, in that Datura has just incorporated elements of Voudoun into her schizophrenia. | |
Odd Thomas / int_d8085f48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d8085f48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d8085f48 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d959f4db | type |
Immortality Seeker | |
Odd Thomas / int_d959f4db | comment |
Immortality Seeker: Cloyce and his household. | |
Odd Thomas / int_d959f4db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_d959f4db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_d959f4db | |
Odd Thomas / int_da346c6b | type |
Disabled Snarker | |
Odd Thomas / int_da346c6b | comment |
Disabled Snarker: Danny Jessup, largely as a coping mechanism. | |
Odd Thomas / int_da346c6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_da346c6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_da346c6b | |
Odd Thomas / int_da53340 | type |
Religious Horror | |
Odd Thomas / int_da53340 | comment |
Religious Horror: The sub-genre of this book in the series; the horror is man attempting to duplicate the methods of God. | |
Odd Thomas / int_da53340 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_da53340 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_da53340 | |
Odd Thomas / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
Odd Thomas / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: As it's a staple of the mystery/suspense genre, even Odd's psychic powers and great intuition occasionally lead him to false conclusions, however briefly. | |
Odd Thomas / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_dbca2c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_dbca2c99 | |
Odd Thomas / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
Odd Thomas / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: The Big Bad of the book. | |
Odd Thomas / int_dc1761bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_dc1761bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_dc1761bd | |
Odd Thomas / int_dca70c44 | type |
Reasonable Authority Figure | |
Odd Thomas / int_dca70c44 | comment |
Reasonable Authority Figure: The Abbot, the Mother Superior, heck, every authority figure in the book. | |
Odd Thomas / int_dca70c44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_dca70c44 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_dca70c44 | |
Odd Thomas / int_deb39de3 | type |
Bad Future | |
Odd Thomas / int_deb39de3 | comment |
Bad Future: The shifts into the future feature a dystopian future where there're swarms of ferocious giant-batlike creatures and packs of man-eating pig-man things that are the result of messing around with DNA. Odd's effect with disabling Roseland somewhat lessens the terribleness of this future. | |
Odd Thomas / int_deb39de3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_deb39de3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_deb39de3 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e303d198 | type |
Whole-Plot Reference | |
Odd Thomas / int_e303d198 | comment |
Whole-Plot Reference: The core plot mechanic is the same as Forbidden Planet. Odd lampshades it. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e303d198 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e303d198 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e303d198 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e313bcdc | type |
Ignore the Fanservice | |
Odd Thomas / int_e313bcdc | comment |
Ignore the Fanservice: Datura is very sure that she can seduce anyone. Odd notes her sexiness rather clinically and dismisses it as unimportant. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e313bcdc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e313bcdc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e313bcdc | |
Odd Thomas / int_e35ab565 | type |
Indy Ploy | |
Odd Thomas / int_e35ab565 | comment |
Indy Ploy: This is the way Odd works in dangerous situations, he's helped by his psychic instincts. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e35ab565 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e35ab565 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e35ab565 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e390612a | type |
Hollywood Satanism | |
Odd Thomas / int_e390612a | comment |
Hollywood Satanism: The group who stole the children. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e390612a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e390612a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e390612a | |
Odd Thomas / int_e407c172 | type |
Silk Hiding Steel | |
Odd Thomas / int_e407c172 | comment |
Silk Hiding Steel: Mazie is a kind, soft-spoken woman... who happens to be the moving and driving force of Casa Bolthole which is a a bunker fitted with an arsenal to rival most military bunkers and she and her family are always inventing more weapons and technology with which to outfit The Resistance. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e407c172 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e407c172 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e407c172 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e5da07dd | type |
Badass Unintentional | |
Odd Thomas / int_e5da07dd | comment |
Badass Unintentional: Odd never wanted his powers and he'd rather have a boring, uneventful life cooking, selling tires or maybe even sticking promotional flyers on people's cars, but because of his gift he frequently becomes the only person with enough knowledge to stop something bad from happening and does so. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e5da07dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e5da07dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e5da07dd | |
Odd Thomas / int_e83f211c | type |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
Odd Thomas / int_e83f211c | comment |
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's well established that the dead don't talk, so Odd is stunned when Alfred Hitchcock shows up and says hello. | |
Odd Thomas / int_e83f211c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_e83f211c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_e83f211c | |
Odd Thomas / int_ea39d156 | type |
Who Wants to Live Forever? | |
Odd Thomas / int_ea39d156 | comment |
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Henry Lolam hates living forever as much as he wants it, and Tim is a ninety year old man stuck in a young child's body. | |
Odd Thomas / int_ea39d156 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_ea39d156 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_ea39d156 | |
Odd Thomas / int_eae41a | type |
The Vamp | |
Odd Thomas / int_eae41a | comment |
The Vamp: Datura. | |
Odd Thomas / int_eae41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_eae41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_eae41a | |
Odd Thomas / int_ec7da60a | type |
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
Odd Thomas / int_ec7da60a | comment |
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Nikola Tesla invented a way to time travel, though considering the man this doesn't really seem that far out. | |
Odd Thomas / int_ec7da60a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_ec7da60a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_ec7da60a | |
Odd Thomas / int_eef90616 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
Odd Thomas / int_eef90616 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick / Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Odd describes the fallout of a deadly casino fire, listing off fraud indictments, bankruptcy claims, federal charges, "... and one sex change operation." | |
Odd Thomas / int_eef90616 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_eef90616 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_eef90616 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f005bd1c | type |
Friend on the Force | |
Odd Thomas / int_f005bd1c | comment |
Friend on the Force: Chief Wyatt Porter | |
Odd Thomas / int_f005bd1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f005bd1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_f005bd1c | |
Odd Thomas / int_f42f96fa | type |
Would Hit a Girl | |
Odd Thomas / int_f42f96fa | comment |
Would Hit a Girl: Odd never before did that, but when necessary, he knocks a girl out so she wouldn't alert any of her compatriots. He ends up killing her later when she escapes and threatens to kill Tim. | |
Odd Thomas / int_f42f96fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f42f96fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_f42f96fa | |
Odd Thomas / int_f458e883 | type |
Right Man in the Wrong Place | |
Odd Thomas / int_f458e883 | comment |
Right Man in the Wrong Place: Pretty much the consequence of Odd's being Blessed with Suck. | |
Odd Thomas / int_f458e883 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f458e883 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_f458e883 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
Earn Your Happy Ending | |
Odd Thomas / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Pretty much Odd's reason for existing after Stormy dies. He wants to join her in "service" in the afterlife and feels he won't be able to if he gives up. Also the reason he becomes The Determinator. | |
Odd Thomas / int_f64a9cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f64a9cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odd Thomas | hasFeature |
Odd Thomas / int_f64a9cf7 | |
Odd Thomas / int_f6e10f3e | type |
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment | |
Odd Thomas / int_f6e10f3e | comment |
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In-Universe example. Odd describes a bizarre encounter with Lyndon Johnson, in which the former President, dressed in the hospital pajamas he died in, got off a bus, looked around, spotted Odd, mooned him, and then got on another bus. | |
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I See Them, Too | |
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I See Them, Too: Verena one of the children Odd is trying to rescue can also see ghosts, which works out plotpoint-wise when he has her follow Boo to safety while he draws off the Senoculus. | |
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Homeschooled Kids | |
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Homeschooled Kid: Jolie is homeschooled. Was before The Presence came, and had to be after it did. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Mrs. Edie Fischer is the sweetest, cutest old lady you'll ever meet. When she finds out that the Rhinestone Cowboy intends to murder three children, she threatens to cut off his testicles and feed them to a coyote while he watches. | |
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Alternate Self | |
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Alternate Self: Cloyce killed Tim, then went back in time to save him and bring him to the future but it makes a paradox that both things are true; Tim's dead body still exists, and he remembers both getting killed and not getting killed. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: A recurring theme in the series. In almost every book there's a scene of one or more extremely evil characters acting either like petulant children or the dullest bores you ever met. | |
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Ephebophile | |
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Ephebophile: Odd's dad likes dating 19-year-old girls who look 16. Odd's mother was one such girl. It is implied that this started after Dad got in trouble for soliciting a minor. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Happy childhood? The only part of his childhood that Odd recalls with fondness is when his grandmother would take time off from gambling and traveling the country to visit him. | |
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Evil-Detecting Dog | |
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Evil Detecting Cat: Terrible Chester arches his back and hisses when he sees the ghost of Fungus Man standing on Little Ozzie's front lawn. | |
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Villainesses Want Heroes | |
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Villainesses Want Heroes: Datura has a bit of a Villainous Crush on Odd, but only because he can do the one thing she can't, which is see the dead. | |
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