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The Host

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The Host	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Host is a 2008 Science Fiction novel by Twilight creator Stephenie Meyer, and was both her first sci-fi work and her first adult novel.It takes place After the End, where a successful infiltration-style Alien Invasion means the Puppeteer Parasites have made the world a more pleasant and peaceful place where they can just sit back and enjoy life... aside, of course, from that pesky handful of "wild" humans, who caught on sooner and have still managed to avoid capture. Enter "Wanderer", a "Soul" (alien brain parasite) who's been unusually restless, going from one world to the next... and enter Melanie Stryder, one of the few remaining wild humans, who's just been captured sneaking around Chicago and is now Wanderer's host. However, it turns out that knowing your body's going to be taken over by a Soul allows one to fight back, and Melanie fiercely resists giving up intel or her mind in an effort to protect both the man she loves and her younger brother from sharing the same fate.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This means trouble for Wanderer of course, since not only are human senses and emotions more intense than any other body she's ever experienced, so too are human memories more ridiculously vivid - and Wanderer finds herself inevitably growing to love Melanie's man Jared and brother Jamie, even though she's never met either. Eventually she even grows to consider Melanie herself a friend, despite originally wanting her to disappear. This combination leads her to risk absolutely everything to find Jared and Jamie... which gets more than a little awkward when she actually does succeed in finding them, only to be kept as a prisoner since, duh, she's one of Them now. Just to let you know exactly where all this is kind of headed towards, the novel's premise is often somewhat accurately summed up as being "a love triangle with two bodies"; "somewhat", because by the end of the book it's actually more like a love quadrangle with three bodies.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })It turns out to be an odd entry into the SF genre, though, because the aliens are actually "altruistic" and "kind" by nature, but unfortunately suffer from a seriously inverted case of What Measure Is a Non-Human? They're clever when it comes to technology and have "peacefully" conquered countless worlds and many of them have lived for literally thousands of years in different hosts ... but they have never considered that their hosts might deserve to have free will too. Which makes things more than a little uncomfortable once Wanderer realizes that she actually considers humans to be likable in their own right, and becomes torn between being loyal to her own species and betraying them for the sake of largely unrequited inter-species love.The film version of The Host was released on March 29, 2013 and was written and directed by Andrew Niccol.
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The Host / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
The Host / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English: But only the ones who've got human hosts, and only because their host would have known it first (assuming that the host did speak English, of course. The story's set in America, though, so for our purposes it's a moot point).
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The Host / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Host / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Brothers Ian and Kyle spend most of the story against one another, especially where it relates to Wanda, and it gets to the point where Ian is briefly the main person trying to kick Kyle out of the caves. Just when you think they are going to fall into Cain and Abel territory, they get moments that reveal their bond and love for each other. Sharon and Doc remain estranged for a lot of the story over their respective views towards Wanda, but in the end, she does wordlessly reconcile with him by dragging her mattress back next to hers after Melane and Wanda are separated (and after Doc gets a female assistant Sharon may have realized could be competition if they didn't fix things).
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The Host / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
The Host / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Leaving aside the fact that they have no eyes (or mouths?), have blood and other tissue that's silvery in color, and are effectively a very squishy, gracefully flowing centipede with brain-controlling tentacles, there's also their reproductive method, which involves the queens essentially committing suicide by splitting apart into thousands upon thousands of tiny little babies... well, yeah. Not to mention the other species the souls have captured. These include gelatinous floating creatures, aliens with double-sided hands and four hearts, and multiple species of sentient plants.
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The Host / int_121865ac	type	Noble Savage
The Host / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: How Wanderer see the free humans... well, most of the time, anyway. The way Sunny reacts to being kidnapped into their community, she probably feel the same way.
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The Host / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Host / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Wanderer has one when she discovers the doc is attempting to remove souls from humans, killing both in the process. She hides herself away for two days and doesn't talk to anyone.
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The Host / int_1d311757	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Replacement Love Interest
The Host / int_1d311757	comment	Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest: A borderline case occurs towards the end when Kyle's girlfriend turns out to be brain-dead, leading the humans to place the soul back inside of her.
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The Host / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Host / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The See Weeds.
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The Host / int_1fb373c7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
The Host / int_1fb373c7	comment	May Fly December Romance: Wanderer and Ian.
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The Host / int_2612a967	type	It Has Been an Honor
The Host / int_2612a967	comment	It Has Been an Honor: Doc says a variant of this to Wanderer, right before her Heroic Sacrifice.
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The Host / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The Host / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Wanderer. Notably, she's the rounded version of this trope — she does feel dark temptations, on more than one occasion.
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The Host / int_2933bdf5	type	Genetic Memory
The Host / int_2933bdf5	comment	Genetic Memory: The Souls have a form of this, though given the way they reproduce, it kinda makes a vague sort of sense.
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The Host / int_2a4deadc	type	Only You Can Repopulate My Race
The Host / int_2a4deadc	comment	Only You Can Repopulate My Race: This was what Melanie and Jared thought while they were together. It turns out that there are other non-possessed humans in the secret camp. It makes one wonder if they stayed together because they were so used to being alone or if they truly were in love.
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The Host / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
The Host / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Wes
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The Host / int_2af7961	type	Faster-Than-Light Travel
The Host / int_2af7961	comment	Faster-Than-Light Travel: Also somewhat implied (at least if we give Meyer the benefit of the doubt). No way are any habitable, carbon-based-life-supporting planets within 5 years' travel of Earth without it, even if they are Generation Ships. It's outright stated that, even with faster than light travel, the closest planetary system takes at least a decade to reach (the furthest ones require centuries). On this point at least, Meyer has done her homework. It's also mentiond that there are a race called "Spiders" who, despite having a very short lifespan are all extreme Gadgeteer Geniuses, so FTL was one of the first things they made once taken over.
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The Host / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Host / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: The Seeker is this, with the humans being the monsters.
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The Host / int_31c5e7fb	type	Starfish Aliens
The Host / int_31c5e7fb	comment	Starfish Aliens: According to Wanderer, there are a grand total of, uh, exactly zero remotely humanoid species in the universe other than humans. So much so that they have to give new names to different species due to new mouths.
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The Host / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Host / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Considering how thick the book is, there was obviously a considerable amount of book content left out of the film version. Kyle disappears from the film after his failed attempt to kill Wanderer, but in the book, he remains a significant character and even gets a redemption arc where he rescues his Soul-infested girlfriend only to discover that her original human self did not survive the infestation process like Melanie did. But after befriending the Soul that is now inhabiting her body, he realizes that not all of the Souls are bad and pulls a Heel–Face Turn that leads to him even becoming one of Wanderer's most trusted human allies by the end of the book. In the book, the human resistance eventually gains a second Soul defector besides Wanderer with Sunny. She is completely absent from the film because her only plot importance is to play a role in Kyle's aforementioned redemption arc that is also missing from the film version (she is the Soul inhabiting the body of Kyle's girlfriend). Several of the cave dwellers from the book don't show up in the movie, most notably Melanie's cousin Sharon. The book has Wanderer giving detailed descriptions of some of the other alien species that the Souls have conquered (at least the ones from planets that she had personally spent time on before arriving on Earth). The film mentions that the Souls have conquered other planets besides Earth and establishes that Wanderer has spent time on several of them, but never gives any details about the alien species on those worlds.
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The Host / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Host / int_35e077	comment	Fourth Date Marriage: Doesn't really happen, but it's kind of the same deal with Melanie and Jared.
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The Host / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
The Host / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: Wanderer, mostly because Souls (with the exception of Seekers and members of the first wave) never needed to lie.
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The Host / int_3deab4b	type	TotallyEighteen
The Host / int_3deab4b	comment	Totally 18: Wanderer lies (to everybody in general, and to Ian in particular) about the age of her new host body - in this way, and for the associated reasons.
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The Host / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
The Host / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: Wanderer. Later also other Souls, such as Sunny.
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The Host / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Host / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Free will is more important than a utopia, and living parasitically in a host body is immoral. Which is why we'll move Wanderer against her express wishes into a different host body, ruining another alien's happy life in the process.
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The Host / int_40a447c3	type	Indestructible Edible
The Host / int_40a447c3	comment	Indestructible Edible: Twinkies in an abandoned house.
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The Host / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
The Host / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Wanda ends up doing this when her friends swap her into another vacated body.
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The Host / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
The Host / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Or rather Empathy Before Reason. In either case, this is Melanie's view on Wanderer trying to protect the life of a guy who repeatedly tried to kill her. She also tries to trade her life to save the life of the Seeker, who has hounded her for months and killed one of her friends.
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The Host / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Host / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: In three bodies! Ian loves Wanderer who falls for him in return but Mel is so steadfast in her love for Jared that the body causes Wanda not to respond to Ian and forces her to have feelings for Jared. Jared loves Melanie but there are hints that he is starting to fall for Wanderer as well.
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The Host / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
The Host / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: Or, rather, Alien Popsicle. The Souls go into suspended animation when traveling between worlds, since the trip can take up to a century.
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The Host / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Host / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The aliens certainly believe that it does.
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The Host / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Host / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kyle, though it takes a while for the "heart of gold" part to show up.
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The Host / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
The Host / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: Sharon and her mom keep clinging to the hatred and suspicion most people felt against Wanderer even long after the suspicions have been proven wrong and the hatred abandoned by almost everyone else. Towards the end, their failed attempt to keep Wanderer alienated from the community only make them alienate themselves from this same community. However, it should be noted that we only get to see their pettiness from Wanderer's far-from-impartial perspective.
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The Host / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Host / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Played perfectly straight and completely deconstructed. On an individual level, Humans are far more violent, hostile, hateful and generally dangerous than the naturally meek and friendly Souls. On the society level, humans have in the past committed genocide against their own species and harmed the environment of their own home world. Souls would never do such a thing, and can't imagine themselves doing such a thing - thus refusing to realize the truth about what they have become. They are oppressive genocidal tyrants now, and the few of them who start to realize it are having a very hard time living with themselves. On a meta level, this is where The Host connects to Twilight. Both stories are about love between a creature who is monstrous but kind and his comparatively meek and fragile little lover, and about his struggle to contain himself and his people so she doesn't get hurt. In both cases, it has nothing to do with gender, it's all about species. However, it just so happens that the male happens to be of the monstrous species (vampire in Twilight, human in The Host) while the female just happens to be of the meeker species (human in Twilight, Soul in The Host).
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The Host / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
The Host / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Kyle and Jodi/Sunny. This also is the fate of Ian and Wanda in Pet's body.
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The Host / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Host / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Melanie's relatives, but especially Jeb — he completely overhauls a cave system to make it inhabitable, solely because he thought he'd need an Elaborate Underground Base someday.
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The Host / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Host / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Zigzagged, with Sharon hating Wanda, who is inhabiting the body of her cousin and best friend, although she remains stiff even after it becomes clear Melanie may still be in there, having Took a Level in Jerkass since the last memories Wanda/Melanie has of her.
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The Host / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
The Host / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: Doc, like every other person who's still human, lives in a cave and drinks too much. But he's the only doctor who isn't a body-snatching alien. Given his efforts to remove the souls from their human hosts (which are unsuccessful until Wanda helps him, with those failures and the deaths they cause contributing to his drinking) he also embodies aspects of a Sole Surviving Scientist.
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The Host / int_5627b73e	type	JailBaitWait
The Host / int_5627b73e	comment	Jailbait Wait: Jared refused to sleep with Melanie until she turned eighteen. Wanderer took note of this, and lied about her new host body's age so that Ian wouldn't have the same scruple.
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The Host / int_5740acf7	type	Chickification
The Host / int_5740acf7	comment	Chickification: Wanderer is a strong, intelligent Soul who has been on more worlds than most and is held in high regard among the Souls. She once defeated a Claw Beast on the planet of the Bears, transplanted a friend into it on the spot, and rode it into the city. At the end of the book, she's implanted in the body of a petite young blonde girl and can't even carry her own sleeping mat without the help of her man. Melanie gets it as well. She starts out as a strong survivor who opted to jump down an elevator shaft to save herself from being assimilated. Any time her boyfriend appears onscreen though, or comes to her mind, she makes some pretty stupid decisions, including letting Wanderer know where her colony of "wild" humans are hiding (keep in mind that Wanderer's job is to find and assimilate them as well).
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The Host / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Host / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: It never occurs to the souls (including Wanderer, at first) that maybe they shouldn't be taking over the minds of every species they run across and essentially wiping them out. One species commits mass suicide to escape them; rather than rethink their system the souls cheerily continue infesting the ones who didn't escape in time, pausing only briefly to regret the waste of host bodies. They also tend to babble about humans being violent, while at the same time making an organized effort to "discard" all "wild" humans. Even after Wanda comes to the conclusion that Humans Are Special and shouldn't be hosts, she doesn't extend the same consideration to the other species that the souls have conquered. For that matter neither do the humans, who are more than happy to ship disembodied souls off to other worlds to inhabit hosts there. The Seeker, at at least in the film, makes a point to mention that Earth is the only planet that they have done this on where the inhabitants were not symbiotic with the Souls.
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The Host / int_58e008c	type	Sharing a Body
The Host / int_58e008c	comment	Sharing a Body
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The Host / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
The Host / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Kyle and Ian. Maggie and Jeb are a subversion in that Maggie comes across as rather level-headed while Jeb comes across as somewhat crazy. However, Maggie is the foolish one as she lets pride and stubbornness rule out basic logic, while Jeb is the responsible one who views things from all angles and is quick on his feet.
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The Host / int_5b0e992	type	Guilt Complex
The Host / int_5b0e992	comment	Guilt Complex: Wanderer feels that everything that goes wrong is her fault. Sometimes she's right to feel that way but most of the time it's the complex.
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The Host / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
The Host / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: Wanderer claims to be thousands of Earth years old, though she admits that she's lost count of her real age.
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The Host / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
The Host / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Wanderer gives up on retaining Melanie as a host for Melanie's sake, effectively trying to commit suicide because she doesn't even want to take over another host (she now sees it as cruel and unfair to the host)... but also largely to give Melanie back to Jared and vice versa, making it a sort of double I Want My Beloved to Be Happy.
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The Host / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Host / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Wanderer's joining the side of the humans. She is not alone in this; other souls like Sunny and Burns do the same.
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The Host / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Host / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Given that the story is told from the first-person perspective of an alien, there's a lot of subtext in the characterizations that isn't readily apparent. This leads to characters like the Seeker, Maggie, Sharon and Kyle coming off as two-dimensional Designated Villains. Meyer could have put more work into fleshing out their motives and histories.
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The Host / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Host / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Melanie attempts suicide in order to prevent the hosts from using her memories. Wanderer attempts suicide, but the others intervene at the last second.
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The Host / int_65332328	type	Mind-Control Eyes
The Host / int_65332328	comment	Mind-Control Eyes: A Soul-possessed human's eyes develop a silvery eye shine (given that the Souls' tissue and blood is silvery in color, this may or may not make a slight bit of sense). This is somewhat portrayed on the book's cover, though, as only part of the pupil appears silver, instead of the "all of it" kind of portion you'd get from eye shine. This is likely to show that Melanie is partially in control.
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The Host / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Host / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Melanie Stryder. She just spoonerized her own name. Stephenie Meyer stated that Melanie was named after her cousin and a high school classmate named Stryder.
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The Host / int_67f26dcc	type	Planet of Hats
The Host / int_67f26dcc	comment	Planet of Hats: This is how every planet taken over by the Souls is described. A deconstructed trope, since it is also mentioned that the stereotype doesn't really fit at all. The planethattery is all about giving new people a simple and efficient, although inaccurate, summary of the species that inhabit the planet.
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The Host / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Host / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "It's a strange world." "The strangest."
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The Host / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Host / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Wanderer. Lucina's son, Freedom. Generally all the names of the Souls are this since they take them from species they've been before or things they've done or personality traits.
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The Host / int_6cc39b20	type	Puppeteer Parasite
The Host / int_6cc39b20	comment	Puppeteer Parasite: Played straight but very oddly, with the invaders being basically kind, caring, albeit not always particularly perceptive individuals who just aren't really aware of just how atrocious their treatment of other species is. Some of the hosts survive the process, others do not, depending on a range of factors.
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The Host / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Host / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Some souls have these since their names tend to be mouthfuls. We get Wanda for Wanderer, Sunny for Sunlight Passing Through the Ice, Pet for Petals Open to the Moon, Fords for Fords Deeps Waters and Burns for Burns Living Flowers.
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The Host / int_74c6e65c	type	Forceful Kiss
The Host / int_74c6e65c	comment	Forced Kiss: Jared does this to Melanie, during their first meeting.
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The Host / int_786d635b	type	The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body
The Host / int_786d635b	comment	The Mind Is A Play Thing Of The Body: The Souls are strongly affected by natural instincts and sometimes memories of their hosts. If a human host loved someone before the transformation and this feeling was mutual, it's very likely their souls will become a couple. It happens even if souls haven't met each other before.
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The Host / int_7b9b523b	type	Tastes Like Diabetes
The Host / int_7b9b523b	comment	Tastes Like Diabetes: In-universe. Souls kept television around after taking over the planet, but every single pre-invasion show (save, briefly, for The Brady Bunch) was booted off the air and replaced with the Souls' original programs. All of them fit this trope.
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The Host / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Host / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Doc has shades of this.
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The Host / int_83444efe	type	Moe
The Host / int_83444efe	comment	Moe: Invoked by the choice of Wanda's final host, who is so petite and pretty that other people will naturally want to protect her and not suspect her of anything.
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The Host / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
The Host / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Does not always work out, though.
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The Host / int_91f9b1ad	type	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom
The Host / int_91f9b1ad	comment	Name That Unfolds Like Lotus Blossom: The Souls that didn't take their human host's name have these, such as 'Sunlight Passing Through the Ice', 'Glass Spires', and 'Rides the Beast'.
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The Host / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Host / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Subverted. Ian and Jared fit the bill all right, the subversion being that the Archie is actually two people in the same body with Ian only interested in Wanda and Jared interested in Melanie. Honestly, it could be viewed as a metaphor for a guy loving you for your mind/personality vs. a guy loving you for your body (although in fairness to Jared, they did confirm that Melanie's mind was still intact in there).
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The Host / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Host / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: The humans do this when they implant Wanderer into another human host whose original personality didn't survive rather than either killing her like she wanted them to or sending her to another Soul-controlled planet.
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The Host / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
The Host / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: This is very subtle, but present still. Almost all of those who die are male, and they get killed off before we really get a chance to know them much.
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The Host / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Host / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. The one black man present in the human colony does not die first. He does, however, die the only violent death onscreen, when the Seeker shoots him.
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The Host / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
The Host / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: Jared initially believes everything Wanderer does is proof that she's secretly a Seeker trying to infiltrate the group. This starts to annoy the others since he keeps it up way too long and even Jared starts to realize how ridiculous he's being.
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The Host / int_98a63dc6	type	Time Abyss
The Host / int_98a63dc6	comment	Time Abyss: The Souls. They have been around for several thousands of years and can live forever (though they can be killed by outside means). They even spend up to centuries in hibernation when they are traveling in space. At one point, Wanderer, who has lost track of her own age she's been around so long, can only pinpoint an event as being "after the dinosaurs lived on Earth".
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The Host / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
The Host / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Melanie and a few other people attempt suicide to prevent being captured and taken over. In the film, Melanie's father shot himself in the head for this reason when the Seekers showed up at their house. Later, two of the human resistance's red shirts drive their truck into a wall after the Souls have them cornered. This is actually brought up by Wanderer as something that her race finds profoundly frightening, since they see themselves as helpful and altruistic. An example of this happening on another planet is mentioned by Wanderer near the beginning - an "entire forest" of "See Weeds" starving themselves of sunlight and dying before the souls could use them as hosts, as they couldn't physically run (what with being sentient plants).
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The Host / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Host / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: On one world the Souls have already conquered the secret of their invasion got out too early and an entire continent's worth of its population committed suicide rather than be taken and used as puppets by the Souls. The Souls, of course, don't even stop to think that it might be their fault, blaming the people themselves for being too unenlightened to see how much better being mind controlled would be for them.
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The Host / int_9eb7e397	type	Long-Lived
The Host / int_9eb7e397	comment	Long-Lived: The Souls. Other alien species are implied to be this as the Souls claim that humans have some of the shortest life cycles in the Universe.
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The Host / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
The Host / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Ian.
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The Host / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Host / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Ian and Kyle have black hair in the book. In the film, they're both blonde. Wanda's replacement body is brunette instead of blonde. Burns was a redhead in the book, but has brown hair in the movie.
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The Host / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
The Host / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Sunny really enjoys being kidnapped. Well, except for when people argue over her or insist that they should set her free or at least let her out of the cave.
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The Host / int_a5f998ea	type	Stockholm Syndrome
The Host / int_a5f998ea	comment	Stockholm Syndrome: We never get to know how much of Wanderer's transformation is caused by this dynamic. It is definitely not the only factor, and the reasons why she came to the desert in the first place are surely more important. But the classic pattern is definitely in place as she is captured, subjected to systematic torture and then gradually introduced and accepted into society. (While they don't beat her up very often, the constant sensory deprivation, permanent threat of death, rough living conditions and constant bullying could break almost anyone down.) Some people think this could be the reason behind Melanie and Jared's relationship. Jared forces a kiss on her upon meeting her and Melanie is initially disgusted by this. However, after he allows her and her brother to stay, then Melanie gives into his desire for her.
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The Host / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Host / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Happens in a few cases, although generally it seems that the human's mind is destroyed upon them being possessed.
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The Host / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
The Host / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: Souls develop genuine feelings for their human host's loved ones through memory, which has lead to Wanderer and other souls developing an appreciation for humanity. At one point, Wanda notices one soul in a human's body who loves her human son enough that she has been granted permission to raise him as his own person.
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The Host / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
The Host / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Jared to Jamie.
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The Host / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
The Host / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Melanie's uncle, Jeb, is leading a group of about thirty-five people hiding in a system of natural caverns during the Puppeteer Parasite invasion. Jeb discovered the caverns and reserves a right to veto any votes by the rest of the community that go against his liking (with a flippant comment in the book and with his gun in the movie). However, his vetoes are all intelligent ones, and he has a fairly easy-going demeanor.
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The Host / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
The Host / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: Walter. Up until his death throes, the only real characterization he has is "Supports Wanderer." When his death scene rolls around, it just serves to illustrate how caring and sensitive Wanderer is.
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The Host / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Host / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Wanda loves Cheetos.
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The Host / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
The Host / int_b0a529cb	comment	Extreme Doormat: The normal way for souls to behave towards each other, much to the annoyance of the human characters when watching it on television or interacting with Wanderer. On top of Wanderer's natural disposition, add that she is constantly terrified and uses it as a survival strategy to avoid antagonizing her (understandably) hostile captors. She gets better about it as she feels less threatened and learns more of human culture. At the end, it is revealed that Wanderer was actually far LESS doormatty than the average Soul all along. The new character Sunny is portrayed as not only being far worse than Wanderer in this regard, but also as being the normal and average for her species. It becomes rather obvious that if Souls and Humans are ever going to be able to coexist on Earth, it will take not only Souls protecting the Humans from other Souls, but also Humans protecting the Souls from other Humans.
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The Host / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Host / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: To the Souls, having the host gain control of them and thus erase their identity is considered a Fate Worse than Death. The Souls doing this to their hosts is, of course, nothing of the sort.
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The Host / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Host / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: In two bodies! The triangle being Melanie/Jared/Wanderer. Love Dodecahedron: In three bodies! Ian loves Wanderer who falls for him in return but Mel is so steadfast in her love for Jared that the body causes Wanda not to respond to Ian and forces her to have feelings for Jared. Jared loves Melanie but there are hints that he is starting to fall for Wanderer as well.
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The Host / int_b7f4aa9	type	Moral Dissonance
The Host / int_b7f4aa9	comment	Moral Dissonance: The Souls consider themselves peaceful, loving, and perfectly moral, despite the fact that their primary activity appears to be wiping out other sentient species (that is, the species still exists in a biological sense, but the individuals composing it are functionally dead. At best, it's slavery on a grand scale, but since what happens to the individuals is closer to murder, "wiped out" isn't pushing it too far.)
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The Host / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
The Host / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book
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The Host / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Host / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The Souls, some of whom retain names they had in previous lives on other worlds (Fords Deep Waters, Sunlight Passing Through the Ice), and some of whom decide to take the names of their human hosts.
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The Host / int_bf1f379a	type	Sense Freak
The Host / int_bf1f379a	comment	Sense Freak: Understandable, since in the story, humans have the most (and most vivid) senses out of any species the Souls have ever taken as hosts. Wanderer's even warned about it ahead of time; apparently it's in the brochure. Humans are the only species the souls have ever encountered who have a sense of smell distinct from a sense of taste.
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The Host / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
The Host / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: The Souls completely neglect to realize that there might be something about humanity (or, hell, any species that isn't their own) worth saving, at least at first. The human version of the trope also makes a bit of an appearance, but given that the Souls not only stole our planet, but also our entire way of life, virtually all of our infrastructure, and the bodies of many loved ones, and are still somewhat set on capturing the rest of us and making us hosts as well... you can kind of see the logic in not particularly liking them much, no matter how "altruistic" and "nice" they may otherwise be.
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The Host / int_c91408cb	type	Everything Sounds Sexier in French
The Host / int_c91408cb	comment	Everything Sounds Sexier in French: When a Soul gets a new host, they automatically gain all of that host's communicative abilities, which leads Wanderer to often mention translated idioms from previous alien cultures that she's lived in... which leads to a running gag with her noting that "it sounds better in Bear".
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The Host / int_cbbf302c	type	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends
The Host / int_cbbf302c	comment	Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends: Meyer has a tendency to do this pretty much every single time she writes fiction, but at least here it's not quite to the level of being Strangled by the Red String.
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The Host / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
The Host / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Stephenie Meyer stated that Melanie was named after her cousin and a high school classmate named Stryder.
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The Host / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
The Host / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The soul's reproduction system is a suicidal process for the Mother.
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The Host / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
The Host / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": A Justified Trope in this case. The souls only know the native language of their host, so they use the closest Earth analogue to describe other alien races that they've conquered. Notable examples include the Bears (four-arms with double-sided hands, along with four hearts), the Dragons (gelatinous floating blobs), and the Dolphins (three sexes, each with either three, five, or seven legs).
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The Host / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Host / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Seeker. Also, Doc. Wanda actually asks him why that is, and it turns out he finds his real name embarrassing. It's Eustace.
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The Host / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
The Host / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: In the book Melanie is described as having tanned skin and is part Latina on her mother's side; in the Movie she is played by the white Saoirse Ronan (who is Irish, making this also crossover into Fake American).
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The Host / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
The Host / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: The main reason souls mistreat humans and humans mistreat souls is that they fail to form emotional bonds with each other across the species line. As the cause melts away, so does the effect.
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The Host / int_d8ec79d5	type	Benevolent Alien Invasion
The Host / int_d8ec79d5	comment	This is actually brought up by Wanderer as something that her race finds profoundly frightening, since they see themselves as helpful and altruistic.
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The Host / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
The Host / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The free humans live in a series of caves, complete with crops and a system of mirrors to provide sunlight when needed (and switch to stealth when Souls are lurking nearby).
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The Host / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
The Host / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Wanderer believes Doc to be this at first.
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The Host / int_dc817b0c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
The Host / int_dc817b0c	comment	Half Way Plot Switch: Happens twice. It starts out being about an alien adjusting to life as a bodysnatcher, then devotes the entire second act, and much of the third, to developing platonic and romantic relationships with the rebels, before focusing on saving the humans near the end.
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The Host / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Deconstructed, with how the Soul society is anything but totalitarian. On the contrary, their complete lack of Big Brother Is Watching You is what makes the rebels able to operate in the first place.
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The Host / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: According to Wanderer, who has experienced being most of the sentient races of the known universe, humans have more individual variation and a deeper range of emotions than any of the other species. However, this assertion might be unfair to those other races, since they were never truly given a fair chance to express themselves. And Wanderer is emotionally biased in favor of humans anyway. In any case, humans are objectively special in the sense that they are the first species to resist possession.
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The Host / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's Utopia Justifies the Means and Humans Are the Real Monsters vs. Aliens Are Bastards and Humans Are Special. Both sides are shown to have their good and bad points, and the aliens and the humans genuinely don't know the other side's motivations and think they are in the right.
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The Host / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The Seeker, again. At least in part because her host is just as bad.
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The Host / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Host / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Kyle and Ian just skirt being this. Jeb and Maggie also come close, in a rare brother-sister variation of the trope.
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The Host / int_f178203a	type	Inspector Javert
The Host / int_f178203a	comment	Inspector Javert: The Seeker
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The Host / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: An old man in the human community is painfully dying of bone cancer. Jared steals enough painkillers for Doc to give him an overdose.
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The Host / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
The Host / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Wanda is unreasonably forgiving towards Ian and a random guy, both of whom tried to kill her. The former actually becomes her boyfriend after they spend time together and Melanie is understandably upset when this happens.
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The Host / int_f7b32015	type	Sufficiently Advanced Alien
The Host / int_f7b32015	comment	Sufficiently Advanced Alien: Especially when it comes to medicine, which is almost ridiculously effective, ridding the body of infection, fever, cancer, whatever, pretty much instantly.
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The Host / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
The Host / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Melanie and, by extension, Wanda for Jamie. They are a bit overprotective, but given the environment, it's understandable.
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The Host / int_fbba5e98	comment	It's also mentiond that there are a race called "Spiders" who, despite having a very short lifespan are all extreme Gadgeteer Geniuses, so FTL was one of the first things they made once taken over.
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The Host / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Host / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Race and species inverted with Wanderer in Mel's body. Also gender inverted, since the traditional Mighty Whitey is male.
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The Host / int_ff369faa	type	Symbiotic Possession
The Host / int_ff369faa	comment	Symbiotic Possession: Wanda and Melanie finally become friends after Wanda spends some time with other humans.
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