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The Stand

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The Stand	comment	One of Stephen King's best-regarded (and thickest) novels, The Stand is a classic work of modern apocalyptic fiction. It is the book which introduces (and primarily describes, on Earth at least) King's most famous villain and "antichrist" figure, Randall Flagg.King set out to write "an American Lord of the Rings", although he later demurred as to whether he was successful. Still, it is often rated his most popular book, and, along with IT, one of the most important works of King's early period.The story concerns the travels and travails of well over a dozen characters following intersecting story arcs across the United States during and after an apocalyptic Super-Flu nicknamed Captain Trips kills 99.4 percent of humanity. The survivors are left to cope with their loss and stay alive, until everyone starts having dreams that signal the arrival of an even darker menace...First published in 1978, the novel was reissued in 1990 in a "complete and uncut edition" containing about 400 additional pages of material from King's original manuscript.In the 1980s, a film adaptation was planned, but ultimately was not made due to the length of the book and issues with adapting the narrative. However, an eight hour made-for-tv Mini Series based on the novel, The Stand (1994), aired for four nights on ABC in 1994 instead.In December 2020 Paramount+ premiered a 9-episode series adaptationnote It was originally 10 but was reduced to 9 due to production issues mostly caused by the 2020 Covid-19 global pandemic., The Stand (2020).
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The Stand / int_1045c71a	type	Dying Town
The Stand / int_1045c71a	comment	Dying Town: Arnette, Texas, where the novel opens, is one of these even before the Captain Trips outbreak. Every city and town becomes one of these as the virus spreads.
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The Stand / int_112f8ee1	type	Look Behind You
The Stand / int_112f8ee1	comment	Look Behind You: Stu Redman tells the "doctor" who's been sent to terminate him at the Stovington hospital that there's a huge rat behind him, then hits him over the head with a chair. Lampshaded when Stu is so surprised it works as well as it does that he almost fails to follow up on his own distraction.
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The Stand / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Stand / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: It starts with a super plague that kills 99% of the entire world, and after that there's a fairly high mortality rate among the survivors.
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The Stand / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
The Stand / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Via Psychic Dreams for Everyone, all the survivors find themselves leaving their point of origin and journeying towards either Mother Abigail or Randall Flagg.
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The Stand / int_129074bf	type	Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate
The Stand / int_129074bf	comment	Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate: A running theme through the book is that God always gives you a choice (however much it might suck), and all the people who go over to Flagg's side do it of their own free will; they may go because they're scared spitless, but they aren't mind-controlled zombies. Interestingly, the book also hints that Flagg may be the one character who has no control over his own destiny.
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The Stand / int_1506032a	type	BoomHEADSHOT
The Stand / int_1506032a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Poke Freeman gets a good chunk of his head blown off in the botched robbery that gets his partner in crime Lloyd sent to prison. The Judge and Glen Bateman also die this way.
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The Stand / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
The Stand / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: As the superflu grows out of control, society begins to increasingly break down. Things turn really bad when information leaks to the public that not only is the U.S military using lethal violence to supress protests and cover up just how bad the outbreak is, the government created the superflu in the first place and the entire disaster is their fault. Desertion becomes rampant as soldiers turn on their officers, civilians form into mobs, there's widespread looting, rape and murder everywhere and a series of executions are broadcast on television. The only reason things aren't even worse is because the flu kills almost everyone.
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The Stand / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
The Stand / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: Whitney Horgan's speech is cut short.
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The Stand / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Stand / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: During a short section from Kojak's point of view, it's said that all animals have some telepathy with others of the same kind. It's also said that Kojak would go on to live for 16 more years, although in real life anything longer than 16 years would be an exceptionally long lifespan for a dog.
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The Stand / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Stand / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Abagail, during her Final Speech.
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The Stand / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Stand / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The superflu that the U.S. military cooked up has a 99.4% death rate... but it's loose on American soil. And, thanks to a mean-spirited effort by the military, starts to spread to other countries as well.
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The Stand / int_19da8a03	type	Incurable Cough of Death
The Stand / int_19da8a03	comment	Incurable Cough of Death: If a character coughs or sneezes, chances are they're a goner. Justified in that The Plague is an "on steroids" version of the flu, for which coughing is a typical symptom. Subverted when Stu fakes a coughing fit to spite his caregiver-captors in Stovington, sending them into a complete panic until he reveals the joke.
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The Stand / int_1b711f57	type	Faceplanting into Food
The Stand / int_1b711f57	comment	Faceplanting into Food: A scientist at Project Blue dies in the cafeteria with his face in a bowl of soup, which Starkey finds a very undignified way to spend eternity.
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The Stand / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
The Stand / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: One guard manages to escape the facility housing Captain Trips with his family before the base goes into lockdown, dooming most of the human race.
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The Stand / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
The Stand / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: The incident with black soldiers in a game show studio. They take the game show set over and start executing people.
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The Stand / int_1e95dd12	type	Adam and Eve Plot
The Stand / int_1e95dd12	comment	Adam and Eve Plot: A rare animal version: Dayna Jurgens finds a female puppy in a storm drain and the residents of Boulder celebrate her and Kojak as the "canine Adam and Eve".
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The Stand / int_1ef7232d	type	Wild Child
The Stand / int_1ef7232d	comment	Wild Child: Joe/Leo is reduced to this by the trauma of his family dying in the plague and nearly dying himself of an infected animal bite.
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The Stand / int_1ffe48eb	type	Incredibly Inconvenient Deity
The Stand / int_1ffe48eb	comment	Incredibly Inconvenient Deity: God is this for Mother Abagail. As she tells Nick: "'Abby,' the Lord says to me, 'thereâ€™s work for you far up ahead. So I'll let you live an live, until your flesh is bitter on your bones. I'll let you see all your children die ahead of you and still you'll walk the earth. I'll let you see your daddy's land taken away piece by piece. And in the end, your reward will be to go away with strangers from all the things you love best and you'll die in a strange land with the work not yet finished. That's My will, Abby,' says He, and 'Yes, Lord,' says I. 'Thy will be done,' and in my heart I curse Him and ask, 'Why, why, why?' and the only answer I get is 'Where were you when I made the world?'"
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The Stand / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
The Stand / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Stu Redman is forced to perform an appendectomy, though the guy dies as he's doing it. Later on, the Free Zone is forced to rely on a veterinarian until a doctor arrives, and even then the doctor tells the vet that he needs to train him to be better able to take care of humans, especially as the doctor is rather old.
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The Stand / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Stand / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The nuclear weapons out in the desert. The Trashcan Man transports one to Las Vegas, thinking it would please Flagg, but it gets detonated by Randall's energy ball, killing everyone in the city. One random scene in the first part of the novel, when society is collapsing as the superflu runs wild, described the panicked flight of the citizens of Boulder, Colorado. The people of Boulder left the town en masse after a false rumor that the plague started at the Boulder Air Test Center. Much later, when survivors begin concentrating in Boulder, they find the town largely free of corpses.
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The Stand / int_22eff5dd	type	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam
The Stand / int_22eff5dd	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam: A few of these are described: Stu and Tom look through one to find a stick shift car that Stu can drive with his injured leg since Tom can't drive. Later, on the way back to Boulder, they're in an area of deep snow and Stu finds that they're actually on top of one of these, which is buried under the snow. There's also the massive traffic jam inside the Lincoln Tunnel, which is also full of corpses of civilians the military massacred when they tried to flee the city.
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The Stand / int_22f6000b	type	Everybody's Dead, Dave
The Stand / int_22f6000b	comment	Everybody's Dead, Dave: Many of the characters in the immediate post-plague chapters are left wandering in shock at how deserted the world is now.
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The Stand / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Stand / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Larry hooks up with Rita, who's old enough to be his mother, shortly after the plague. Stu and Fran have a considerable age gap; he's around 30 and she's a college student. At Flagg's behest, the thirty-seven-year-old Nadine takes up with Harold, who's seventeen. A few other examples occur among the minor characters, and it's noted that age gaps don't really matter as much in the post-plague world.
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The Stand / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Stand / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Glen, Stu, Larry and Ralph all quote "I will fear no evil" from Psalm 23.
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The Stand / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
The Stand / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The narration gives a great deal of emphasis to the natural beauty of New England and Boulder after the plague.
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The Stand / int_254bd239	type	Gasoline Lasts Forever
The Stand / int_254bd239	comment	Gasoline Lasts Forever: At the very end of the extended version, Stu and Fran are casually driving across the country together, many months after any gasoline was being refined.
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The Stand / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
The Stand / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: In Lloyd and Poke's backstory, they helped a gun/drug-runner called Gorgeous George double-cross the Mafia on a drug shipment so they could split the profits themselves, and tied him up and gave him some token bruises at his request. It's quickly and horrifyingly subverted when Poke wonders if George can keep a secret, and decides to pokerize him just to be on the safe side. This is how their murder spree kicks off.
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The Stand / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
The Stand / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: It's hinted Flagg is Nyarlathotep.
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The Stand / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Stand / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: There's a sequence about a third of the way through the book that touches upon the stories of several isolated survivors, all of whom die from accidents, injuries, or misadventure in the days or weeks immediately following the plague. It's very difficult for parents to read. One story is about a five-year-old who accidentally falls down a dry well, breaks both legs, and dies several hours later. Another is about a Catholic man who loses his entire family to Captain Trips, throws all his energy into running in an attempt to find an outlet for his grief, and proceeds to overexert himself to the point of having a heart attack.
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The Stand / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Stand / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The extended edition features a reference to the AC/DC song "Who Made Who," which was used as the theme song of the King-directed adaptation Maximum Overdrive.
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The Stand / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Stand / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: In-universe. A chapter is devoted to vignettes of plague survivors who succumbed to gruesome accidents because they were reckless and/or lacked the interpersonal support they could have expected from normal pre-plague society. One plague survivor becomes a Body In Abreadbox with the corpses of her husband and infant son and dies of starvation.
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The Stand / int_2991089a	type	Oppressive States of America
The Stand / int_2991089a	comment	Oppressive States of America: The federal goverment resorts to very draconian measures in an attempt to contain Captain Trips, instituting lockdowns of infected towns, censoring reports of the true magnitude of the epidemic, and executing anyone who tries to reveal the truth. In the end, their efforts are for naught.
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The Stand / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
The Stand / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: While it's certain that Anyone Can Die in the apocalypse, the story spends a fair amount of time on the deaths of the gay/bi characters, including Kit Bradenton, The Kid, Trash, and Dayna.
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The Stand / int_2bdb6280	type	The Big Rotten Apple
The Stand / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Discussed (sort of) by Rita and Larry. Rita says "the Big Apple is baked," while they're discussing leaving New York City after most of the population is dead.
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The Stand / int_32cb267a	type	Magical Negro
The Stand / int_32cb267a	comment	Magical Negro: Mother Abagail is the daughter of two freed slaves and has psychic and prophetic powers which she believes are the result of her becoming "God's will".
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The Stand / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Stand / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The world of The Stand goes through an apocalypse and then focuses on the struggles of the survivors.
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The Stand / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Stand / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Flagg runs into an innocent fawn. "Rub a dub dub, thanks for the grub!"
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The Stand / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Stand / int_35022c20	comment	King has said he regretted not mentioning what happens to the rest of the world... beyond speculation that there may be rival Flaggs popping up all over the globe in an apparent violation of the villain playbook. The book does make clear that the people running Project Blue deliberately spread it around the world once it's clear that there's no hope of saving America from annihilation.
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The Stand / int_37cb353b	type	Ate His Gun
The Stand / int_37cb353b	comment	Ate His Gun: General Starkey and Harold Lauder. Starkey kills himself after it becomes clear that there is no stopping Captain Trips and the whole human race is doomed. Harold kills himself after he's stranded in the desert with a broken leg, abandoned by Nadine, Flagg having decided that Harold has outlived his usefulness.
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The Stand / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Stand / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Larry starts off as a selfish, arrogant Jerkass, but gradually grows enough to become the de facto leader of the heroes after Stu gets injured en route to Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Stand / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: They get to Boulder, they get the electrical system ready to go again, they throw the switch to turn the power back on... and it immediately shuts back down again, because every light, every television, every space heater, every electrical device that was on when people died is still on, and they were not bringing the system back up at full capacity. So before they try again, they have to go around and turn everything not being used off. After Captain Trips has run its course, there follows a second wave of deaths caused by accidents and other illnesses. Even though the victims are immune, they end up dying due to the inability to get medical attention or to not having someone to look after them. One chapter focuses exclusively on several such people: A boy who falls down a dry well while picking blackberries and breaks both legs. A woman who tries to defend herself against a man she thinks is going to rape her, using her father's rusty old pistol and ammo, only for it to backfire and explode. A man who suffers a heart attack while jogging. A woman who gets drunk and falls asleep after lighting a cigarette, burning down her house and most of the town she lives in. A man who tries to amputate his own foot after stepping on a rusty nail and developing an infection. A girl who suffers a skull fracture after falling off her bike. A man who is bitten by a rattlesnake. A teenage girl who becomes trapped in a meat locker with the bodies of her husband and son. A man who hooks his house up to a gas-powered electric generator and electrocutes himself trying to start it. A heroin addict who inadvertently overdoses on his dealer's supply, unaware that its purity is eight times higher than anything he's ever used.
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The Stand / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Stand / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Literally, Deus ex Nukina. The actual Hand of God appears from heaven and detonates Trashcan Man's nuke, destroying Las Vegas and Flagg.
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The Stand / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Stand / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Stu and Fran are reunited, but most of the main characters die at God's behest. Humanity is on the path to recovery at the end, but Flagg is still alive (in the expanded edition).
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The Stand / int_42866088	type	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo
The Stand / int_42866088	comment	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo: 108-year-old Abagail Freemantle recalls appearing on a talent show back in 1902. Before her, a woman performed a "racy French dance", showing her ankles "to the raucous whistles, cheers, and stamping feet of the men in the audience."
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The Stand / int_42f85f99	type	Shared Dream
The Stand / int_42f85f99	comment	Shared Dream: All of the Superflu survivors have recurring dreams of Mother Abagail and Randall Flagg beckoning them to come to either Boulder, Colorado or Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_441bd048	type	Patient Zero
The Stand / int_441bd048	comment	Patient Zero: Campion. The second he and his family made it off the base and encountered other people, it was already entirely too late to contain Trips.
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The Stand / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Stand / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Flagg sends wolves to save Trashcan Man from The Kid.
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The Stand / int_4503f7d4	type	Who Watches the Watchmen?
The Stand / int_4503f7d4	comment	Who Watches the Watchmen?: The escape of Campion, the security guard at the research facility who spreads Captain Trips beyond hope of containment, is explained thusly: Also crops up when the Boulder committee start thinking about law and order and the enforcement thereof. They look to Mother Abagail for guidance... But later they wonder the implications of their various rules, for example, whether restoring electrical power would lead to restoring the electric chair. They avert this trope somewhat by consciously making their society and committee status democratic.
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The Stand / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
The Stand / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: After Bobby Terry winds up shooting the Judge's face to pieces rather than keeping it whole per Flagg's explicit orders, Randall personally appears to savagely tear Bobby apart.
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The Stand / int_4789b0b7	type	The Hand Is God
The Stand / int_4789b0b7	comment	The Hand Is God: At the end Randall Flagg tortures one of his men with a ball of electricity he'd conjured. At this point, there is a huge distraction and Flagg loses concentration on the ball and it flutters away. The distraction was the Trashcan Man, who'd found a nuclear bomb and towed it all the way back to Las Vegas. Flagg panics and tries to tell Trashcan to get rid of it. Then one of the men who'd been sent to challenge Flagg screams "The Hand Of God!" and points. The ball of electricity had grown to an enormous size, it was heading straight for the nuclear bomb, and it looked just like a hand. You only get one guess as to what happened when it reached the bomb...
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The Stand / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Stand / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Added to the Uncut edition, to strengthen the tie with The Dark Tower: Randall Flagg wakes up after the nuclear blast on an island somewhere and possibly even another reality (or level of the Dark Tower), and begins to take over a society once again. Ka is referenced.
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The Stand / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
The Stand / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: The first arc revolves around Stu, Nick and Larry's road trips, as they are drawn to Boulder. The novel's final chapters are centered around Stu, Ralph, Larry and Glen as they make their way to Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
The Stand / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The book is filled with vivid descriptions of cities left abandoned and falling into ruin from the plague.
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The Stand / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Stand / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Not a spoken line, but a thought that Flagg has early in the novel, as he gleefully realizes that some vast change is coming to the world: "After all, why else could he suddenly do magic?"
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The Stand / int_4eb04425	type	Squeamish About Slaughter
The Stand / int_4eb04425	comment	Squeamish About Slaughter: When Mother Abagail needs to feed a large group of survivors, she asks two of the men to take her to a neighboring farm that has a fattened pig. They help her butcher it, but are too disturbed by what they witnesses to eat dinner.
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The Stand / int_4f3c14ca	type	Go Mad from the Isolation
The Stand / int_4f3c14ca	comment	Go Mad from the Isolation: As deaths from Captain Trips begin to taper off, many people who survived the virus but are left completely alone begin to suffer from this trope, leading to a "second epidemic" of deaths from accidents or suicides.
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The Stand / int_4fba8b43	type	Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
The Stand / int_4fba8b43	comment	The invokedLimited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition (book) was updated with references to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic only.)
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The Stand / int_4fc20818	type	Born After the End
The Stand / int_4fc20818	comment	Born After the End: In the final chapters, Frannie (who was pregnant when The Virus killed over 99% of humanity) gives birth. Her son is the first known baby who is born after the super flu and survives the delivery (two other babies were stillborn in an earlier chapter), revealing that the next unborn and yet-to-be-born generation will inherit their parentsâ€™ genetic disposition toward surviving the virus.
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The Stand / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Stand / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When Trashcan Man shows off some new toys he found in the desert (incendiary grenades), some of Flagg's goons tease him about his obsession with fire; unfortunately, they don't realize how personally he takes it until he rigs several vehicles with the grenades, blowing them up and killing a half dozen men.
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The Stand / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
The Stand / int_511728ae	comment	Interestingly, the book inverts the typical "Magic Versus Science" trope: supernatural forces merely take advantage of the sudden, artificially engineered holocaust to initiate the Apocalypse more or less.
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The Stand / int_533d53a0	type	Fantasy Americana
The Stand / int_533d53a0	comment	Fantasy Americana: A seminal example. King said his goal was to write an American Lord of the Rings.
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The Stand / int_535865be	type	I Resemble That Remark!
The Stand / int_535865be	comment	I Resemble That Remark!: When Stu tells the doctor to take Geraldo, the guinea pig who's been breathing his air, he says, "Don't forget your guinea pig." He really means the other guinea pig.
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The Stand / int_53dc1e7	type	Throw-Away Country
The Stand / int_53dc1e7	comment	Throw-Away Country: A divine wind ensures that Los Angeles gets the short end of a nuclear fallout incident entirely offscreen, thereby sparing the good guys. Don't even ask what happened to other countries.
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The Stand / int_546b3fc7	type	City of Gold
The Stand / int_546b3fc7	comment	City of Gold: Cibola! Seven-in-One! Las Vegas appears this way to Trash in a mirage.
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The Stand / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Stand / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Many editions, especially foreign language ones, go so far as to split it up into multiple books (incidentally, this actually becomes a plot point in 20th Century Boys, which heavily alludes to The Stand). It's longer than War and Peace, Moby-Dick and some editions of The Bible. The audiobook on CD is 37 discs long. The Audible.com version is 47hrs and 52min.
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The Stand / int_56b53152	type	Green Aesop
The Stand / int_56b53152	comment	Green Aesop: The condition of the natural environment visibly improves in the months after the plague.
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The Stand / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Stand / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The Marvel Comics adaptation. Helps that it features a lot of the darker stuff that was cut from the network TV mini-series adaptation due to content issues, as well as exploring the psyches of several characters like Harold Lauder, who were given short shrift in the TV mini-series.
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The Stand / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
The Stand / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The creation of the virus, the attempt to suppress news of its outbreak, and the deliberate spreading of the virus to other countries to ensure the U.S. doesn't go down alone, is dwelt on. It's noted that some people are so obsessed with secrecy that they will continue trying to kill witnesses like Stu, even when there's hardly anyone left for him to tell, and no one really cares any more.
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The Stand / int_5c3c800f	type	The Immune
The Stand / int_5c3c800f	comment	The Immune: Roughly 1% of humanity are completely immune to Captain Trips for unknown reasons, as the testing Stu underwent by the CDC only revealed that his body completely destroyed the virus before it could infect him, but the staff died too quickly to figure out why. This applies to all the survivors with the exception of Flagg, who isn't human at all, and possibly Mother Abagail, who is protected by God.
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The Stand / int_5ee6a992	type	Oh, and X Dies
The Stand / int_5ee6a992	comment	Oh, and X Dies: When Dayna leaves Boulder, the narration states: "no one in the Zone ever saw Dayna Jurgens again". Indeed, she dies in Las Vegas. When Larry, Glen and Ralph have to leave Stu behind, it's similarly stated that "they never saw Stu Redman again." However, Stu survives; it's the other three who don't. While telling the story of what happened to Kojak in Nebraska, King parenthetically throws in: "Kojak lived another sixteen years, long after Glen Bateman died."
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The Stand / int_5f8ddb2c	type	Corpse Land
The Stand / int_5f8ddb2c	comment	Corpse Land: All of the cities, especially New York, are completely littered with dead bodies after the plague hits. This is likely why the survivors are guided to Boulder, as a false rumor that the plague started there caused a mass exodus while the population was still healthy enough to travel.
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The Stand / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
The Stand / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Ray Flowers. Literally. As the government desperately tries to suppress news of the unfolding disaster, Ray takes the microphone in his studio and talks about all the horrifying news for a while. Until the army barges in and shoots him.
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The Stand / int_63fcc91c	type	BallsOfFire
The Stand / int_63fcc91c	comment	Balls Of Fire: Flagg releases an Energy Ball at the climax.
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The Stand / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Stand / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Dayna Jurgens commits suicide so Flagg won't be able to torture her until she reveals the identity of the third spy (Tom Cullen). Her sacrifice is a large contribution to his eventual downfall.
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The Stand / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
The Stand / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas serves as Flagg's residence.
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The Stand / int_658a406d	type	Not Too Dead to Save the Day
The Stand / int_658a406d	comment	Not Too Dead to Save the Day: The spirit of Nick Andros leads Tom Cullen to save Stu's life.
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The Stand / int_68da6712	type	Canon Welding
The Stand / int_68da6712	comment	Canon Welding: The Stand became part of The Dark Tower continuity (as did most of King's work).
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The Stand / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
The Stand / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: One whole chapter of the book is dedicated to recounting the deaths of characters who had not appeared at all before that chapter. All are plague survivors; the chapter illustrates the secondary mortality rate of scattered survivors in an After the End world.
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The Stand / int_6c3553cd	type	Repressive, but Efficient
The Stand / int_6c3553cd	comment	Repressive, but Efficient: Las Vegas gets the utilities running in their city much more quickly than Boulder, and discipline is harshly enforced, with crucifixion being a common punishment for crimes as petty as recreational drug use.
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The Stand / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
The Stand / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: When Lloyd belatedly learns about Tom being a spy, he sends security forces to collect him, explicitly saying this. (Though of course it's very obvious to everyone that it's Flagg who would want him alive, so don't screw it up.)
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The Stand / int_6cac9d40	type	National Anthem
The Stand / int_6cac9d40	comment	National Anthem: A virus wipes out 99% of the population of America (and presumably the rest of the world). The survivors group in Boulder and try to form a state. At the end of their first meeting, they sing "The Star-Spangled Banner", which leaves half of the people in tears, since America is no more.
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The Stand / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Stand / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Many examples. Several people involved with Project Blue are stated to have committed suicide after seeing the destruction it unleashed. Starkey shoots himself after being relieved of his duty at Project Blue. Rita Blakemoor can't handle the shock and stress of the post-plague world, and overdoses on sleeping pills. Dayna rams her head through a window and then slashes her neck with the broken glass to avoid being interrogated by Flagg. Harold ultimately shoots himself, though it's more like a self-Mercy Kill because he's already dying miserably by then. Nadine goads Flagg into killing her.
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The Stand / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Stand / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Played with. The first baby to be born after the plague is only partially immune, due to having only one immune parent, and quickly dies. The first main character's baby is likewise partially immune, but survives.
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The Stand / int_6ec624b7	type	Escape from the Crazy Place
The Stand / int_6ec624b7	comment	Escape from the Crazy Place: Stovington Hospital. Stu is the only one left alive in the place and spends an entire chapter going through it, encountering dead or nearly dying people. The doctor that wanted to exterminate him even tries to kill him one last time before expiring himself.
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The Stand / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Stand / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: In the Extended Cut, Randall Flagg wakes up on a small island after the events of the climax. He introduces himself to the cowering natives and starts manipulating them with his charisma and charm.
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The Stand / int_6fbe7285	type	Walk into Mordor
The Stand / int_6fbe7285	comment	Walk into Mordor: The third act of the book centers on one, as Stu, Ralph, Larry and Glen start the journey to confront Flagg in Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
The Stand / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: Rita Blakemoor can't handle the shock and stress of the post-plague world and uses sleeping pills to overdose and kill herself.
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The Stand / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Stand / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: The nurse at the CDC who knows there's a deadly virus around, who passes right by signs saying any odd symptoms should be reported immediately but thinks there's simply no way her sneeze could possibly be connected to all that...and thus infects the entire CDC and takes out the only people who could have found a vaccine.
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The Stand / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Stand / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The classic cover (currently the page image) features a white-clad warrior with a sword battling a black-clad monster with a scythe and the head of a crow, which symbolically represents the book's good vs. evil narrative, but can leave new readers pretty confused since it seems to hint at some sort of medieval High Fantasy rather than a modern post-apocalyptic story. A more recent cover features a man holding a bullet between his teeth which really just has nothing to do with the story at all, even on a symbolic level. Another cover features the head of a crow. This refers to how Flagg can turn into a crow, but is still confusing. The more recent cover of the expanded edition features a foggy road strewn with corpses, which fits the story better than either of the aforementioned covers. The older edition of the Swedish translation features a man who is presumably meant to be Randall Flagg considering he wears Flagg's iconic buttons, but whoever illustrated the cover appears to have taken Flagg's title as "the dark man" literally, as he's been drawn as a heavyset african-american man with a buzzcut and a moustache, which doesn't match his description in the book at all. A newer edition instead shows a gas mask lying in the middle of a graveyard in an abandoned city, with a crow sitting on it.
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The Stand / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
The Stand / int_73328e84	comment	Nadine goads Flagg into killing her.
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The Stand / int_73eae19a	type	Distract and Disarm
The Stand / int_73eae19a	comment	Distract and Disarm: Stu disarms the guard sent to kill him by yelling that there's a rat off to the side. When the guy turns to look, Stu clobbers him with a chair. It stuns him long enough for Stu to struggle with him and eventually get the gun away before the guy can use it.
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The Stand / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Stand / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "No great loss." "You ain't no nice guy" for Larry. "My life for you!" for those who worship Flagg.
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The Stand / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
The Stand / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: Two of them. First there's Captain Trips, which wipes out 99% of the human race. Then there's the Deus ex Nukina that detonates in Las Vegas and wipes out Flagg and his followers.
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The Stand / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
The Stand / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: Harold suggests help will be found at the Stovington plague facility that Stu managed to escape from; despite Stu telling them the place is dead, the other characters go in and confirm this fact for themselves.
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The Stand / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Stand / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: Stu breaks his leg during the mission to Vegas, leaving Larry to lead the others in their confrontation with Flagg.
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The Stand / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Stand / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: First the plague hits, then Randall Flagg appears and starts gathering an army to slaughter the survivors.
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The Stand / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
The Stand / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Becomes a big trend in Stephen King's work. With Mother Abagail's faction being unambiguously good, and Flagg's faction being satanically evil. It becomes more complicated with individual characters such as Harold Lauder, who is drawn to Mother Abagail but ultimately goes over to Flagg's side out of romantic jealousy, as well as the Trashcan Man, who can't really be called evil despite his destructive urges because he's severely mentally ill.
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The Stand / int_7bd8307f	type	The Infiltration
The Stand / int_7bd8307f	comment	The Infiltration: The Boulder leadership sends Judge Farris, Dayna Jurgens and Tom Cullen to Las Vegas to join (and spy on) Flagg's operation. It goes horribly wrong, with the first two suffering tragic deaths, and the third returning only days after Las Vegas had already been destroyed by the Hand of God.
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The Stand / int_7c6709e2	type	Crisis Point Hospital
The Stand / int_7c6709e2	comment	Crisis Point Hospital: Larry takes his mother to a hospital which is overflowing with Superflu patients; many of the staff are themselves infected. When his mother dies and he can't get anyone's attention, he writes her name and age on a piece of paper, pins it to her clothes, and then leaves the hospital.
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The Stand / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
The Stand / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: This was a point of dispute between King and his publishers when the novel was first published. The publishers succeeded in getting the first edition edited down but King released an extended edition later. Much of the additional material is basically filigree that doesn't particularly advance the plot. Trashcan's Man terrifying adventure with the psychotic rapist The Kid, which was cut from the first edition of the novel, is a good example.
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The Stand / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Stand / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: One survivor of Captain Trips is so afraid of being raped that she gets her father's World War II-era pistol out of storage for protection. It hasn't been cleaned or oiled in decades, and the ammunition is old and tarnished, but she still loads it and keeps it handy. The first time she tries to shoot someone, it explodes in her hand and kills her.
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The Stand / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Stand / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: The Captain Trips situation goes from Flowerpot to Troy, and finally Rome Falls.
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The Stand / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
The Stand / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: In-universe, and extensively talked about by the characters themselves. One of the original "Evil US Government quarantines innocent civilians at gunpoint and leaves them to die" plots, it seemed uncharacteristically cynical (even for King) until, say 2005 (as if!) Capt. Trips itself.
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The Stand / int_83f43ca9	type	Dystopia Is Hard
The Stand / int_83f43ca9	comment	Dystopia Is Hard: The theme behind the Vegas plotline. The book doesn't shy away from showing how harsh life is under Flagg's iron rule.
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The Stand / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Stand / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: Randall Flagg visually resembles a normal man, but anyone who spends more than a few seconds in his company quickly comes to view him as an Eldritch Abomination. Dayna subtly notes he lacks wrinkles on his hands, and Nadine is driven insane when she has sex with him.
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The Stand / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Stand / int_8543ec22	comment	Reality Subtext: The scene early in the novel when a group of students riots and is shot by the military is based, according to King, on the real life massacre at Kent State in 1970. For bonus points, the in-universe riot is set at Kent State.
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The Stand / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Stand / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Major Len Creighton has a fairly substantial role in the first section of the book as General Starkey's second in command in Project Blue, and after Starkey's suicide becomes the head of the military coverup. He's last "seen" on-page talking over the radio to one of his officers in LA during the last days of the plague. It is very possible he died of the superflu but notably he gives no indications of being sick even at this very late stage, leaving his fate a mystery.
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The Stand / int_8792383c	type	Censorship by Spelling
The Stand / int_8792383c	comment	Censorship by Spelling: Campion uses it when he says that everybody died in the research facility in front of his little daughter.
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The Stand / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
The Stand / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Several characters refuse to acknowledge the dreams of Abigail or the Dark Man.
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The Stand / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
The Stand / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The story opens just a few minutes after the plague is released and begins infecting people.
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The Stand / int_8e4f6448	type	College Widow
The Stand / int_8e4f6448	comment	College Widow: Rita Blakemoor's husband died two years before the story begins, thus she's the first eligible woman Larry meets.
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The Stand / int_91835104	type	Motivational Kiss
The Stand / int_91835104	comment	Motivational Kiss: Stu gives Dayna Jurgens two kisses for luck when she's about to go away on a dangerous mission.
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The Stand / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Stand / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 1, verging on Class 2. The planet itself is okay, but 99.4% of the human race is exterminated by Captain Trips.
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The Stand / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Stand / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Dayna sleeps with Lloyd in Vegas to gain information from him but she doesn't enjoy it and fakes her orgasms. After her cover is blown, she tells him that he was the worst lover she ever had.
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The Stand / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Stand / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Randall Flagg, who would go on to become King's "ubervillain" via Canon Welding.
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The Stand / int_980f7fac	type	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It
The Stand / int_980f7fac	comment	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It: "... this thirtieth day of September, the year nineteen hundred and ninety, now known as The Year One, year of the plague."
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The Stand / int_9af977f4	type	Second-Person Narration
The Stand / int_9af977f4	comment	Second-Person Narration: Fran recalls that Harold used to publish short stories in the high school's literary magazine that were written in present tense or second person or both. "You come down the delirious corridor and shoulder your way through the splintered door and look at the racetrack stars â€” that was Haroldâ€™s style."
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The Stand / int_9b9d2629	type	Evil Will Fail
The Stand / int_9b9d2629	comment	Evil Will Fail: Randall Flagg's half of civilization begins to deteriorate when the presence of so many volatile personalities mix in one society, fear stops being as effective for control, and every minor failure makes the Big Bad himself go into fits of rage and lose his focus, causing errors in judgement.
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The Stand / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Stand / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Harold spends at least two chapters writing and recording a Take That! speech to be played by his bomb before it explodes. Nick, the only deaf character, is the only person in the house when it detonates.
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The Stand / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Stand / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: All over the place; some examples more subtle than others. A very subtle example when Glen Bateman and Stu Redman have this exchange shortly after meeting:
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The Stand / int_9e4ed124	type	Mundanger
The Stand / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: While Captain Trips and Randall Flagg are the main threats to the survivors and both are magical in nature, many minor antagonists are just regular humans who happen to be violent (Ray Booth) or self-centered (Julie Lawry). All of Harold's more heinous actions are done of his own choice. Flagg merely lets him know that he exists, but doesn't magically interfere with his life in any way, shape or form.
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The Stand / int_9f6198cb	type	What Is This Feeling?
The Stand / int_9f6198cb	comment	What Is This Feeling?: When Trashcan Man arrives in Las Vegas and interacts with other of Flagg's followers, he realizes he is feeling happy.
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The Stand / int_9f6c3cd9	type	Grin of Rage
The Stand / int_9f6c3cd9	comment	Grin of Rage: "HEY BOBBY TERRY, YOU SCROOOOWED IT UP!"
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The Stand / int_a0c7f4e9	type	Abandoned Hospital
The Stand / int_a0c7f4e9	comment	Abandoned Hospital: The Project Blue underground laboratory, and later, the Stovington Plague Center. Both are medical facilities where all occupants have succumbed to Captain Trips and died.
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The Stand / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Stand / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Bobby Terry shooting the Judge is technically an example of this; he is trying to kill him, but he had explicit orders from Flagg not to damage the target's head. He also entirely accidentally shoots his own partner through the throat and kills him while attempting to aim at his actual target.
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The Stand / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Stand / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Poke Freeman, whose eye and half of his face are mangled by the bullet of a .45 revolver. Nick, who in the expanded novel suffers an eye gouge during his scuffle with Ray Booth in the Shoyo jail.
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The Stand / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
The Stand / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Starkey spends a great deal of time watching the monitor depicting Private Bruce face down in a bowl of soup. After he's relieved of command, he enters the quarantined area and makes a point to remove Bruce's face from the bowl (and clean it up) before killing himself. Frannie Goldsmith burying her father in his garden, told in painful and realistic detail. Nick Andros, in preparing Jane Baker for her burial. The claimed reason behind the creation of the Boulder Burial Committee. The real one being for health concerns.
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The Stand / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
The Stand / int_a971e83c	comment	Flagg is described as "the last magician of rational thought." Glen speculates that Flagg is drawing all the "rationalist, engineer types" who want to quickly get the old society back up and running, military and all, while Mother Abagail attracts those seeking a Hidden Elf Village or Utopia and struggles to turn on the lights. It's not suggested that Straw Atheists are attracted to Flagg, however; merely people looking for quick solutions.
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The Stand / int_a9f86a47	type	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
The Stand / int_a9f86a47	comment	What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Many characters express these sentiments when they stumble upon particularly terrible scenes of death. Averted with the narrator, as he has this to say when describing a chapter of survivor's demises from various accidents:
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The Stand / int_aa2bd65c	type	Mordor
The Stand / int_aa2bd65c	comment	Mordor: The entire U.S. west of the Rockies is shadowed by Flagg's evil presence, but his power and followers are largely concentrated in Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
The Stand / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: The superflu immunity didn't appear along family lines, meaning that if any of the survivors had family, they quickly lost every one of their loved ones. The immunity was so rare that most survivors weren't just the last of their family, they were the last living soul in their entire town. Fran and Harold are the only characters in the novel who are mentioned as having a previous relationship with another survivor at all.
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The Stand / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
The Stand / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Teenage characters unironically calling cops "pigs", which even in 1980 was a rather dated insult and had become all the more so when the setting had been updated to 1990.
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The Stand / int_ab1c1cca	type	Characters Dropping Like Flies
The Stand / int_ab1c1cca	comment	Characters Dropping Like Flies: All over the place, even before the narrative as such really picks up steam. In one particularly vicious chapter, darkly titled "No Great Loss", King introduces â€” and then immediately kills off â€” more than a dozen characters, not even from Captain Trips but from disturbingly plausible and mundane accidents.
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The Stand / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Stand / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Harold Lauder realizes that he was the only one to blame for his own fall. If he had just gotten over his petty grudge, he would have become a valued part of the community. It merely saddens him to realize this as he lies dying. Trashcan Man is a true pyromaniac, and while he loves setting fires, he feels horribly guilty for the consequences of them. He can't control his own behavior, and actively hallucinates persecutors to voice his guilt when everyone dies out. He loves Flagg solely due to Flagg's manipulation of him, but can't even hold to that. Trash is ultimately just a very sick and dangerous man.
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The Stand / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Stand / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Barry Dorgan insults Trash at the airfield, causing him to revert to his old ways.
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The Stand / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Stand / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Bobby Terry after shooting the Judge in the face in direct contradiction to Flagg's orders. His panic is very quickly proven to be justified. Pretty much everyone in Las Vegas when The Trashcan Man returns bearing his last gift for Flagg.
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The Stand / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
The Stand / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The whole sub-plot with General Starkey. Fran's diary.
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The Stand / int_ad63e89f	type	Disaster Democracy
The Stand / int_ad63e89f	comment	Disaster Democracy: Instituted (albeit in a modified form) in Boulder.
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The Stand / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Stand / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Harold frequently munches on chocolate Paydays, though he gives them up during the journey to Boulder. By the time Larry's caught up with him, having figured out trail-of-breadcrumbs-style that they were Harold's favorite food and thus brought some as a gift, Harold politely declines them.
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The Stand / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Stand / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: The only reason Flagg does anything. Justified in that he's a Satan analogue.
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The Stand / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Stand / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: The good people in the story (Stu, Frannie, Nick, Larry, and the like) dream of Mother Abagail and her farm. The bad people (Harold, Nadine, Trash, and others) dream of Randall Flagg and Las Vegas.
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The Stand / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Stand / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Mother Abagail: You come see me, ___. You and all your friends. The Trashcan Man has "My life for you!" as his mantra and battle cry once he starts worshipping Flagg. Tom Cullen's speech pattern includes repeated usage of the phrases "M-O-O-N, that spells (random word)" and "Laws yes!" The Kidâ€™s â€œthat happy crappyâ€� and â€œdonâ€™t tell me, Iâ€™ll tell you.â€�
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The Stand / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Stand / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: A few examples are seen here and there, two of the most obvious being Frannie's mother (who has an entire chapter devoted to showing how selfish and unreasonable she was with Frannie over the years) and Trashcan Man's biological father (who got drunk one night and shot the whole family, save for the five-year-old Trashy and his mother). In a sadly ironic but perhaps understandable twist, Trashy identifies with his father and hates his stepfather, "the father-killing sheriff," who shot his father in the line of duty and later married his mother. From what the reader can tell, the sheriff was a pretty stand-up guy who did his best by Trash, but eventually could no longer cover for the kid's unstable behavior and habit of arson and has to have him committed.
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The Stand / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Stand / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: A Catholic survivor of the plague, who lost his wife and all of his children, literally runs himself to death while out jogging in order to circumvent his moral and religious compunctions about suicide.
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The Stand / int_b486877f	type	Squick
The Stand / int_b486877f	comment	Squick: In-universe: The dead body Larry finds in the lavatory◊ with a swollen neck the size of a tire. Larry says it had this effect on him despite everything else he'd seen.
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The Stand / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Stand / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Several towards Ronald Reagan (in the 1990 edition). For instance:
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The Stand / int_b739b613	type	Elvis Lives
The Stand / int_b739b613	comment	Elvis Lives: Stu notes to Fran that before the apocalypse, when his friend who ran his town's gas station had given him the graveyard shift job as a favor, that he met a long-haired driver with a beard that he fully believed was Jim Morrison.
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The Stand / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Stand / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Trashcan Man does NOT deal well with being made fun of for his pyromania. When some of the Las Vegas boys tease him about it, he responds by single-handedly blowing up several vehicles and essentially crippling Flagg's military.
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The Stand / int_bce536e1	type	Residual Evil Entity
The Stand / int_bce536e1	comment	Residual Evil Entity: Randall Flagg, the dark man, vanishes in the nuclear destruction of Las Vegas, ending his fledgeling evil empire... until he wakes up on an island surrounded by natives, introducing himself as Russell Faraday and claiming he's come to teach them how to be civilized.
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The Stand / int_bd0af87b	type	Honorable Marriage Proposal
The Stand / int_bd0af87b	comment	Honorable Marriage Proposal: When Fran is impregnated by her boyfriend, his idea of "taking responsibility" is to offer to either marry her or pay for an abortion, her choice. She refuses both and decides to raise the baby herself, later accepting the help of new beau Stu Redman.
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The Stand / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Stand / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Glen, upon meeting Flagg. He laughs with derision, whereupon Flagg has him shot.
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The Stand / int_c3ab9165	type	Tuneless Song of Madness
The Stand / int_c3ab9165	comment	Tuneless Song of Madness: Having been jailed just prior to the apocalypse, Lloyd Henreid ends up trapped when the virus wipes out everyone else at the prison, eventually finding himself trying to pick meat off the arm of the prisoner in the neighboring cell, all while continuously singing the nonsense chorus lyrics from "Camptown Races." Quoth the Trashcan Man, "Ci-a-bo-la, bumpty-bumpty-bump!", to the tune of Tower of Power's "Down to the Nightclub", as he makes his way to Las Vegas to meet the Dark Man.
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The Stand / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
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The Stand / int_c6f45871	comment	Fake Orgasm: In Vegas, Dayna becomes Lloyd's mistress in order to get information from him. She fakes an orgasm while they are having sex and thinks about how she would like to put his penis through a meat grinder.
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The Stand / int_c70059b4	comment	Psychic Dreams for Everyone: The survivors receive prophetic dreams from both Mother Abagail and Randall Flagg.
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The Stand / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Stand / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: "Captain Trips" was originally a nickname of Jerry Garcia. King had first used it much earlier, for another Superflu, in his Night Shift story "Night Surf". One of the initial Trips carriers is a vacationing police detective from the 87th Precinct. Larry goes to see a Freddy Krueger movie early in the "uncut" version, and much later Stu and Tom watch a (fictitious) Rambo installment. When Flagg introduces himself to Lloyd, he says "Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name." Fran imagined her father's garden was part of Middle-Earth, and compares the empty countryside to Middle-Earth at another point. Flagg's sigil is a black stone with a red eye, among other similarities. Mother Abagail and other characters often describe Flagg as a red eye in the far off darkness, searching for them. Stu Redman name-checks Watership Down when describing how terrified he felt in the hospital: it made him go tharn. Allusion to an AC/DC song (which had appeared in King's Maximum Overdrive movie) in the 1990 revised and expanded edition of the novel, where a survivor of the flu pandemic changes the lyrics to "Flu made who." Lest we forget, the book name-checks the works of H. P. Lovecraft...just like every other King work. "I will place you high in my councils, Trash, and I will set you...to burn." The Kid tells Trash that they "ain't gonna eat no pork and beans. We're gonna eat more chicken than any man ever seen." Mother Abagail mentions that her grandmother used to describe her psychic powers as "the shining lamp of God, sometimes just the shine". When Flagg is reborn in the epilogue, the narration notes "He awoke before dawn. He put his boots on." King also shows off his love of poetry â€” W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" are both quoted, and E. E. Cummings is name-checked. A lynched man with a LOOTER placard is one of many influences from George R. Stewart's Earth Abides.
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The Stand / int_c78e289b	comment	Chandler's Law: According to King, Harold's bomb was caused by him having writer's block, and feeling the heroes were getting complacent in Boulder.
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The Stand / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Trashcan Man did not have a happy childhood, which prompted him to light fires as a sort of coping mechanism. This only gave his bullies more excuses to hurl taunts and insults at him, which only gave him more reason to light fires... and it went downhill from there.
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The Stand / int_c9aea8c8	type	Armies Are Evil
The Stand / int_c9aea8c8	comment	Armies Are Evil: The US military is portrayed as being willing to gun down civilians with no compunction. In the last days of the plague it degenerates into bands of mutineers, rioters and looters. Stu's group encounters one such band on the road, who have devolved into a rape gang. There's also the fact that they deliberately spread Captain Trips to other countries out of sheer spite once they realize things are out of their control.
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The Stand / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Stand / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Once America's leadership realizes they're doomed, they deliberately infect the rest of the world with Captain Trips to ensure no country can rise to fill the power vacuum.
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The Stand / int_cd01a310	comment	Nick Andros, a young and skinny but tough and resourceful deaf-mute drifter, takes his coffee black. Lampshaded by Sheriff Baker: "Take it like a man, do you?"
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The Stand / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Stand / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: What exactly Stu encounters in the dark stairwell on his way out of the hospital is never revealed.
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The Stand / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: In both the book and the mini series, the only non-Caucasian characters are Abagail, the Rat Man, Leo (though he has blonde hair and light-colored eyes) and the Judge (only in the series, in the book it's never specified), not counting the group of black people who execute the soldiers in a television studio. In many cases in the novel, the character's race is not mentioned.
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The Stand / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
The Stand / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: Originally set in 1980, updated to 1990 in the expanded version. The inspiration for Flagg was Donald DeFreeze, the Patty Hearst kidnapper. (Another inspiration was then-current cult leader Jim Jones.) The invokedLimited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition (book) was updated with references to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic only.) In the original edition, Bobby Terry is reading a Howard the Duck comic shortly before the Judge comes driving by. The "remix" changes this to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic, King presumably worrying that his 90s readers wouldn't be so familiar with Howard. The Dark Tower books explained this by saying the plague happened in different times in alternate realities; we just live in one where it hasn't hit yet. The version of Topeka, Kansas that Roland and his ka-tet visit in The Waste Lands had its plague occur in 1986.
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The Stand / int_cecce86	type	Feedback Rule
The Stand / int_cecce86	comment	Feedback Rule: Stu deals with this during his speech at the first public Free Zone meeting. He says they have to get used to technology again (most of Boulder still had no power but they had a generator set up for the meeting). Plus, Stu was also nervous.
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The Stand / int_d18dfc1f	comment	The classic cover (currently the page image) features a white-clad warrior with a sword battling a black-clad monster with a scythe and the head of a crow, which symbolically represents the book's good vs. evil narrative, but can leave new readers pretty confused since it seems to hint at some sort of medieval High Fantasy rather than a modern post-apocalyptic story. A more recent cover features a man holding a bullet between his teeth which really just has nothing to do with the story at all, even on a symbolic level.
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The Stand / int_d41a6617	comment	Wandering Walk of Madness: One chapter discusses the fact that many survivors of the superflu end up dying anyway due to "those ole emergency room blues" â€” in other words, bad luck. One, a man in his fifties, used to jog for the sake of his health prior to the plague; however, now that the plague has killed off all his friends and family, he's ultimately reduced to jogging obsessively around his neighbourhood â€” partly as a coping strategy but mostly because he has absolutely nothing else to do. By the end, his demons have gotten the better of him and he is now running in a blind, obsessive panic, until at last his heart gives out after nearly six hours of non-stop running; to his immense relief, he drops dead on the spot.
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The Stand / int_d64827f6	comment	Good Hurts Evil: Characters drawn to Flagg are afraid of Mother Abagail in their dreams.
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The Stand / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
The Stand / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: Stuart Redman's nurse Vic in the Stovington Plague Center, dying of Captain Trips, asks Stuart to kill him with the pistol he's carrying.
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The Stand / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
The Stand / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Though the action ranges across the country, quite a lot of it takes place in Maine (which is a frequent King locale) and Boulder (where he was living at the time of writing, and of which he is apparently quite fond). King has said he regretted not mentioning what happens to the rest of the world... beyond speculation that there may be rival Flaggs popping up all over the globe in an apparent violation of the villain playbook. The book does make clear that the people running Project Blue deliberately spread it around the world once it's clear that there's no hope of saving America from annihilation.
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The Stand / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Lampshaded. The characters speculate on what will happen to all those corpses, how life will never be the same, etc.
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The Stand / int_d98f92	type	Bring Him to Me
The Stand / int_d98f92	comment	Bring Him to Me: Dayna Jurgens is discovered while acting as a spy in Vegas on behalf of the Free Zone and taken before Flagg for interrogation.
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The Stand / int_d9f4972a	type	Recruited from the Gutter
The Stand / int_d9f4972a	comment	Recruited from the Gutter: Lloyd Henreid is in prison when the super-flu hits, awaiting trial for armed robbery and murder, and finds himself to be the only survivor. He would have starved to death in his cell if the Antichrist Randall Flagg hadn't rescued him. Because of this, he remains Flagg's most loyal follower.
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The Stand / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
The Stand / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: A common criticism is that the protagonists don't really do much against The Empire created by Randall Flagg. His people are already losing faith in his infallibility by the time Our Heroes show up to make their titular stand, and desertions have become common. Then one of his tragically crazy henchmen shows up with a nuke in tow, which is detonated by Deus ex Machina. The heroes don't do much besides watch. And die.
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The Stand / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Stand / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Elder, the military doctor who comes into Stu's room with the intention of killing him after society has collapsed, is just following his orders, but he'll do so with absolutely no hesitation. Stu thinks that it makes absolutely no sense for the guy to kill him — civilization is in ruins, there are no more secrets to keep or people to keep secrets from, and Elder is himself sick and dying from the superflu. But he also knows that this is the kind of man to whom it would never in a million years occur to disobey an order, no matter how ridiculous or out-of-date, and he would kill Stu with a smile on his face and without a second thought. Addressed throughout the book, where the military executes a brutal plan to try and contain the virus, and, when that fails, follows up with an equally brutal and entirely senseless plan to deliberately spread it across the world while suppressing any public dissent at home. A lot of soldiers just follow their orders and kill civilians when told to do so, but others don't, often getting into firefights with the first group.
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The Stand / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Stand / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman:Julie Lawry. After being run off by Nick and Tom early in the second part of the book, she joins the Vegas group in the third part of the book and recognizes Tom undercover as a spy, and gives Lloyd and Flagg the information they need to realize Tom is the third spy. Ultimately subverted, however: by the time they come to this realization, Tom has already left Vegas and is able to slip past the guards Flagg sets up at the Utah-Nevada border.
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The Stand / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
The Stand / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: Early on in the 1990 version, Larry sees a slasher flick in the theater, and assumes there will be another one next year, because the title has a Roman numeral at the end of it. The problem? King happened to choose the one franchise that used Arabic numerals, not Roman.
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The Stand / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
The Stand / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: Parts of the book are told from the perspective of Kojak, the dog.
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The Stand / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
The Stand / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: Two updates of the novel were done. The mid-1980s one just tweaked a few cultural references. The Complete Uncut restored much of what King was forced to cut, either because it made the book too long or because it would have offended too many back in the 70s.
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The Stand / int_e022585	type	Television Geography
The Stand / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: The town of Arnette is said to be in East Texas, but is described as having West Texasâ€™s wide-open, arid landscape, and later East Texas native Stu is surprised by the green vegetation of the eastern states. East Texas is dominated by pine forest to the north and swampy, dense wetland forest to the south. Moving west, the landscape gives way to lush, wet grassland. There are no dry prairies for a couple of hundred miles.
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The Stand / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
The Stand / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: After the plague, the sudden cessation of commuting and industrial activity results in green areas across America being much more vibrant.
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The Stand / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
The Stand / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Dark Man, Randall Flagg, if his name wasn't enough of a indication. He often takes the form of a raven when traveling and even transforms into a black cat-like creature right before he's defeated. Additionally, he builds his empire in the dark, seedy Las Vegas in comparison to Mother Abagail's wholesome, farm-filled Boulder.
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The Stand / int_e8d3858e	type	Individualism vs. Collectivism
The Stand / int_e8d3858e	comment	Individualism vs. Collectivism: Zigzagged between the Boulder Free Zone and Flagg's empire in Las Vegas: While the Free Zone has a rudimentary government and elects Stu sheriff, everyone is still free to live and do however they like (so long as no one is harmed). Las Vegas quickly becomes a fascist society, where everyone is assigned a job and crimes as small as drug use are punishable by torture and death. Yet because of their discipline, Vegas has electricity and supplies while the Free Zone struggles to even turn the lights on. In the end, as the Zone becomes closer to a pre-plague society, Stu notes that it's probably best for everyone to go their separate ways.
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The Stand / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
The Stand / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: There's no real main protagonist to be found.
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The Stand / int_ede69913	type	Worthless Currency
The Stand / int_ede69913	comment	Worthless Currency: With so few plague survivors and so many goods free for the taking, money becomes meaningless. An early scene with a survivor depicts him (futilely) attempting to buy someone's help with a suitcase full of looted cash. Later, in Vegas, even using cash for high-stakes poker only provides a short-lived thrill.
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The Stand / int_f1bb4bd4	type	Emergency Presidential Address
The Stand / int_f1bb4bd4	comment	Emergency Presidential Address: The unnamed president gives one full of Implausible Deniability. While American society is falling apart due to the superflu, he still insists that the disease is not deadly. The speech is interrupted several times by the President's coughing fits.
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The Stand / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
The Stand / int_f3626b09	comment	Harold ultimately shoots himself, though it's more like a self-Mercy Kill because he's already dying miserably by then.
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The Stand / int_f589bf3a	type	Real Men Take It Black
The Stand / int_f589bf3a	comment	Real Men Take It Black: Nick Andros, a young and skinny but tough and resourceful deaf-mute drifter, takes his coffee black. Lampshaded by Sheriff Baker: "Take it like a man, do you?" Larry doesn't like getting Rita's cream-and-sugar-laced coffee. He "subscribed to the truckers' credo of 'if you wanted a cup of cream and sugar, why'd ya ask for coffee?'"
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The Stand / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Stand / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In spite of the hardships it faces, things end on a high note for the Free Zone and its denizens. Stu survives his voyage over the mountains, Fran has her baby, the Zone finds prosperity and humanity is safe from Flagg... for the time being.
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The Stand / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
The Stand / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: This book was written in the '70s and "back to the land" themes are prominent. Captain Trips is a scientifically engineered Holocaust. Flagg is described as "the last magician of rational thought." Glen speculates that Flagg is drawing all the "rationalist, engineer types" who want to quickly get the old society back up and running, military and all, while Mother Abagail attracts those seeking a Hidden Elf Village or Utopia and struggles to turn on the lights. It's not suggested that Straw Atheists are attracted to Flagg, however; merely people looking for quick solutions. Interestingly, the book inverts the typical "Magic Versus Science" trope: supernatural forces merely take advantage of the sudden, artificially engineered holocaust to initiate the Apocalypse more or less.
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The Stand / int_f690d996	type	Refuge in the West
The Stand / int_f690d996	comment	Refuge in the West: The main characters travel from the east coast to Nebraska and eventually to Colorado to find refuge there.
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The Stand / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Flagg's callous nature and personal obsessions are part of what makes Vegas fall. Glen easily manipulates him because of this.
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The Stand / int_fb25bc5f	type	Code Emergency
The Stand / int_fb25bc5f	comment	Code Emergency: "Tell him 'Rome Falls'." It meant everything was screwed and it was time to put the plan to infect the rest of the world in motion.
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The Stand / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Flagg has since become one of King's most popular villains, and has made numerous reappearances in other books.
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The Stand / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Stand / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: King lived in Boulder for a time, so all the street names and places referenced in the book are real. As one example, the Mormon church where Harold helps remove about 70 bodies and has an epiphany about his character, is, as of 2019, still in the location where King described it.
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The Stand	hasFeature	Birth-Death Juxtaposition / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Black Republican / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Blue-Collar Warlock / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Born After the End / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Bury Your Gays / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	But We Used a Condom! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Camping a Crapper / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Celebrity Survivor / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Childhood Friends / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Citywide Evacuation / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Closest Thing We Got / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Code Emergency / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Code Name / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Collateral Damage / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	College Widow / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Cool Car / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Cool, Clear Water / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Creepy Crows / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Crisis Point Hospital / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Cult Defector / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dead Guy Junior / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dead Guy on Display / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dead Person Conversation / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Deadline News / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Deadly Scratch / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Deafness in Media / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Death Equals Redemption / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Debut Queue / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Deer in the Headlights / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Depopulation Bomb / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Disability Immunity / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Disabled Means Helpless / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Disaster Democracy / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Distract and Disarm / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dogs Are Dumb / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Doomed Hurt Guy / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Double Don't Know / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Downer Beginning / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Drama Bomb / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dreaming of Things to Come / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Dying Alone / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Enemy to All Living Things / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Evil Nerd / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Evil Will Fail / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Eye Spy / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Faceplanting into Food / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Failed Future Forecast / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Failsafe Failure / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Fake Orgasm / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Fantasy Americana / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Feedback Rule / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Fist of Rage / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Fourth-Date Marriage / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Fruit of the Loon / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Gas Siphoning / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Gasoline Lasts Forever / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Geek Physiques / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Ghost Town / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Go Mad from the Apocalypse / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Go Mad from the Isolation / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Gone Horribly Wrong / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Good Feels Good / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Good Hurts Evil / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Greaser Delinquents / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Grin of Rage / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Gruesome Goat / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Gut Feeling / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Hair-Trigger Temper / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Harbinger of Impending Doom / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Hates Reading / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	"Have a Nice Day" Smile / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Hazmat Suit / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Healing Hands / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	High Fantasy / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Hit So Hard, the Calendar Felt It / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Honorable Marriage Proposal / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Hookers and Blow / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Am Legion / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Call Him "Mister Happy" / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Control My Minions Through... / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Miss Mom / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Want My Mommy! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	I Want Them Alive! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Idiot Savant / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Incurable Cough of Death / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Individualism vs. Collectivism / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Infection Scene / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Instant Illness / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Insufferable Genius / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Just Before the End / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Kirk Summation / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Liberated, but Loyal / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Locked in a Freezer / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Locked into Strangeness / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Locked Up and Left Behind / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Lost in the Maize / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Ludd Was Right / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Mad Libs Catchphrase / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Magical Antibiotics / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Magical Negro / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Make It Look Like a Struggle / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Manchurian Agent / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Many Spirits Inside of One / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Mayor of a Ghost Town / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Moment of Lucidity / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Momma's Boy / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Most Writers Are Writers / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Mundane Luxury / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Mundanger / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Narrative Filigree / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Never Learned to Read / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	New Eden / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	No Bikes in the Apocalypse / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	No FEMA Response / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	No Healthcare in the Apocalypse / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	No Party Like a Donner Party / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Not Too Dead to Save the Day / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Nothing Up My Sleeve / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Oh, and X Dies / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Old-Timey Ankle Taboo / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	108 / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Opt Out / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Origins March On / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Orphan's Ordeal / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Orwellian Retcon / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Ouija Board / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Patient Zero / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Pinball Protagonist / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Police Pig / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Dog / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Post-Apocalyptic Traffic Jam / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Public Execution / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Pyromaniac / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Reading Lips / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Real Men Take It Black / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Realism-Induced Horror / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Recruited from the Gutter / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Reduced to Ratburgers / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Refuge in the West / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Residual Evil Entity / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Road Trip Plot / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Rocky Mountain Refuge / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Savage Wolves / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Scary Teeth / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Second-Person Narration / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Self-Surgery / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Shared Dream / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Sickening "Crunch!" / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Free Will vs. Fate / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Spelling for Emphasis / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Squeamish About Slaughter / int_a6492af2
Stand	seeAlso	The Stand
The Stand	hasFeature	Stern Old Judge / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Stock Quotes / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Successful Sibling Syndrome / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Suddenly Significant City / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Suicide by Pills / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Survival Mantra / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Synthetic Plague / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Talking with Signs / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Tastes Like Friendship / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Team Pet / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Teens Are Monsters / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Antichrist / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Blank / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Caretaker / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Drifter / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The End... Or Is It? / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Epic / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Friendly Texan / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Great Politics Mess-Up / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Hand Is God / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Immune / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Last DJ / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Magic Comes Back / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Rain Man / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Smart One Turns Traitor / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Social Expert / int_a6492af2
The Stand	seeAlso	The Stand
The Stand	hasFeature	The Trope Kid / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Trope without a Title / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	The Un-Smile / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	They Look Just Like Everyone Else! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	30-Second Blackout / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Tom the Dark Lord / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Trade Your Passion for Glory / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Trauma Swing / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Trigger Phrase / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Tuneless Song of Madness / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Tyop on the Cover / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Typhoid Mary / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Unfriendly Fire / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Vasquez Always Dies / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Villain of Another Story / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Virgin Power / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Viva Las Vegas! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Waif Prophet / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Wall of Text / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Wandering Walk of Madness / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Wasteland Elder / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Wasteland Warlord / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Watering Down / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Wed Locking / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Worthless Currency / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Xenofiction / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	You Monster! / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Younger Than They Look / int_a6492af2
The Stand	hasFeature	Transformation at the Speed of Plot / int_a6492af2

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