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The Brain Eaters

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The Brain Eaters	comment	A 1985 science fictior/horror novel written by Gary Brandner, who also wrote The Howling. People in Milwaukee begin experiencing a bizarre skin affliction, causing them to be covered in shiny, boil-like pustules; worse, they begin exhibiting homicidal urges. Workman Hank Stransky goes insane in a bar and kills several people. An afflicted taxi driver runs pedestrians over. A woman murders her husband before leaping to her death through a window. Intrepid Reporter Corey Macklin of the Milwaukee Herald is on the case!Investigating Biotron Laboratory in Appleton, Macklin discovers that there has apparently been some kind of mixup. Helicopter pilots were supposed to spray crops with an experimental pesticide, but the canister they used contained instead a bioweapon consisting of wormlike parasites that devour their victims' brains and turn them into homicidal maniacs. But was it really an accident that the pilots grabbed the wrong canister? Despite being pressured by his editor at the Herald to kill the story, Macklin is determined to get to the bottom of things before it's too late.No connection to the 1958 Roger Corman film of the same name. And definitely not to be confused with the sci-fi fandom term "The Brain Eater".
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The Brain Eaters / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
The Brain Eaters / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: The overall demeanor of the infected people, courtesy of the Puppeteer Parasites in their brains.
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The Brain Eaters / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Brain Eaters / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: "Doc," who chain smokes and spends nearly every scene he's in hacking up a lung.
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The Brain Eaters / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Brain Eaters / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: The experimental parasites. They were supposed to be used to control pests that get at crops, but turned out to infect people as well.
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The Brain Eaters / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Brain Eaters / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Zachry. He may be out to stop the plague, but he is not a nice person. When an obviously infested Eddie Gault turns up at Biotron begging for the cure Kitzmiller has been developing, Zachry has him taken into the woods to be shot. He gets away, however.
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The Brain Eaters / int_30b41d96	type	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress
The Brain Eaters / int_30b41d96	comment	Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: One of the infected people turned into a killer is a woman who kills the groom at her own wedding.
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The Brain Eaters / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
The Brain Eaters / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: The woman who murders her husband at their wedding does a Super Window Jump to her death.
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The Brain Eaters / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
The Brain Eaters / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Subverted with Dr. Kitzmiller. Russian scientist Kuryakin is a more straightforward, though benign, example.
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The Brain Eaters / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Brain Eaters / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: Corey's best friend Doc shoots himself after realizing he's infected.
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The Brain Eaters / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Brain Eaters / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Kitzmiller takes his orders from Zachry.
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The Brain Eaters / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Brain Eaters / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Two. First there's Eddie Gault, who feels guilty for his part in unleashing the plague (not to mention angry that Roanne used him). He tries and fails to make good by killing Roanne, the mastermind of the outbreak. Then there's Kuryakin. A Russian scientist, he developed something similar to what Biotron accidentally created and feels as though he owes it to the Americans to help them. Unlike Eddie, he actually succeeds and survives the story.
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The Brain Eaters / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Brain Eaters / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: In addition to driving their victims insane, the parasites also cause them to break out in hideous boils and pustules all over their bodies.
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The Brain Eaters / int_51616227	type	Power Born of Madness
The Brain Eaters / int_51616227	comment	Power Born of Madness: The affected people possess superhuman strength. This is due to a mixture of their adrenal glands going nuts and the fact they honestly don't care how much damage their bodies take in their afflicted state. Stu Anderson literally tears himself apart trying to get free from the Biotron orderlies struggling to subdue him, and Norman Hastings is able to wrench open the handle for the emergency exit of the plane he's in despite it being locked in place. Steward Mike Endersbee notes that this shouldn't be possible.
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The Brain Eaters / int_561dab6b	type	Mistaken for Gay
The Brain Eaters / int_561dab6b	comment	Mistaken for Gay: Steward Mike Endersbee, or as Norman Hastings calls him, a "male stewardess." It's Norman's opinion that any man serving as a flight attendant has to be a homosexual. In reality, Mike is straight and has a girlfriend.
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The Brain Eaters / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
The Brain Eaters / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Roanne survives Eddie's effort to kill her, but is infected with the parasites and so hasn't got long to live, so no matter what, she will pay for being the mastermind behind the whole thing.
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The Brain Eaters / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
The Brain Eaters / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Racist airplane passenger Norman Hastings, flipping out, opens the emergency exit door while the plane is in flight, causing himself and several other people to get sucked out to their deaths.
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The Brain Eaters / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
The Brain Eaters / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: Milwaukee Herald reporter Corey Macklin.
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The Brain Eaters / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
The Brain Eaters / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: As the title implies, the parasites (at least partially) consume the brains of the people they infect.
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The Brain Eaters / int_6cc39b20	type	Puppeteer Parasite
The Brain Eaters / int_6cc39b20	comment	Puppeteer Parasite: The worms drive people to commit murder and even kill themselves.
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The Brain Eaters / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Brain Eaters / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: As a result of the infected Stransky going full-blown spree killer while having a brewskie after work.
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The Brain Eaters / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
The Brain Eaters / int_7484b619	comment	Herr Doktor: Dr. Kitzmiller, a German scientist who doesn't like Russians because of what the Soviets did to postwar Germany, particularly when they hanged his brother, a soldier in the German army. As it turns out, despite his short temper and lack of people skills, he's actually a very reasonable man and wants to stop the parasites as much as anyone.
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The Brain Eaters / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Brain Eaters / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Lloyd Bratz. Unlike his co-pilot Stu Anderson, he wasn't afflicted by the parasites, but he's never seen or mentioned again after being detained by Biotron security.
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The Brain Eaters / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Brain Eaters / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Norman Hastings, who is a racist and a homophobe. The parasites exacerbate this and turn it up to eleven. He isn't exactly missed when he gets himself sucked out of a jet plane in midair.
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The Brain Eaters / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Brain Eaters / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Helicopter pilots Stu Anderson and Lloyd Bratz. As far as they knew, they were just releasing some dye as part of a dispersal test, only to realize too late that the canister containing the dye had been switched with one containing the parasites in an aerosol form, starting the whole thing.
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The Brain Eaters / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
The Brain Eaters / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: Biotron.
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The Brain Eaters / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
The Brain Eaters / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Roanne Tesla is the one responsible for the parasites getting out, as she persuaded Eddie Gault to switch the canisters. When a vengeful Eddie tries to kill her, Zachry, for some reason, comes to her rescue. But it's All for Nothing as she ends up getting infected and dying at the end anyway.
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The Brain Eaters / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Brain Eaters / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Zachry risks - and gives - his life to save Roanne Tesla from the vengeful Eddie Gault, only for Roanne to end up being infected with the parasites without knowing it. Due to her hatred and distrust of modern science, she then avoids allowing herself to be sprayed with the cure, and the end implies she dies a horrible death.
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The Brain Eaters / int_b40bb08a	type	Living Weapon
The Brain Eaters / int_b40bb08a	comment	Living Weapon: The parasites are a Synthetic Plague version of this. In a subversion, they were created accidentally, although their release into the environment was no accident, but part of an eco-terrorism plot.
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The Brain Eaters / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Brain Eaters / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Visiting Russian scientist Kuryakin is appalled at what has happened. This is because he developed something similar to the parasites back in Russia and knows what they can do. He constantly argues with his companion Raslov about whether they should do something, and eventually goes rogue to get to Biotron to explain that he knows of a cure.
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The Brain Eaters / int_b4b2a42a	type	Widowed at the Wedding
The Brain Eaters / int_b4b2a42a	comment	Widowed at the Wedding: And the bride widows herself!
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The Brain Eaters / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Brain Eaters / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Roanne. Because of her anti-government tendencies, she hides rather than let herself get sprayed with the cure for the parasites. Trouble is, she's already infected and beginning to experience the symptoms. If she'd trusted the government more, she would've survived.
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The Brain Eaters / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Brain Eaters / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: An infected taxi driver in New York kills and injures several people by running them over with his car.
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The Brain Eaters / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Brain Eaters / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Eddie. After realizing he's infected and that Roanne used him to start the whole thing, he wills himself to keep going long enough to kill her with his bare hands before he himself dies. Even being shot multiple times by Zachry's men isn't enough to put him down. He does eventually succumb to the infestation, but only after brutally killing one of Zachry's men and finally Zachry himself.
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The Brain Eaters / int_f641252f	type	Da Editor
The Brain Eaters / int_f641252f	comment	Da Editor: Eichorn, the owner of the newspaper, who wants the story about the parasites quashed. At least at first.
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