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The Terror

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The Terror	comment	The Terror is a 2006 Historical Fiction/Supernatural Horror novel written by Dan Simmons, detailing the Franklin Expedition, the doomed 1845 voyage by the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus to explore the Northwest Passage. In Real Life, the explorers died of starvation and scurvy, while in this novel they also have a mysterious man-eating monster to contend with. There is also a mysterious, seemingly mute Inuit woman the explorers christen "Lady Silence", who may or may not know something about the monster that is stalking the expedition.It was adapted as a ten-part TV miniseries by AMC, starring Jared Harris as Captain Crozier, Ciaran Hinds as Captain Franklin, and Tobias Menzies as Commander Fitzjames, with Ridley Scott executive producing. The first episode premiered March 26, 2018.Not to be confused with the 1963 horror film directed by Roger Corman.
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The Terror / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
The Terror / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Hickey, Magnus Manson, and Richard Ayelmore are sentenced to fifty lashes as punishment for the carnivale debacle. The book doesn't skimp on describing how brutal a punishment it is.
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The Terror / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Terror / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Many anonymous crew members are eaten by the Thing, and several important characters are mentioned as having died in passing, with little to no fanfare. By the end of the book, the remaining crew is not even bothering to bury their dead.
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The Terror / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
The Terror / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The map of the area that the ships Terror and Erebus and their respective crews are traversing in the novel — placed before the story even begins — is marked with the burial locations of a number of characters, by name. When characters with these names begin showing up, it's not hard to realize who's not going to survive.
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The Terror / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Terror / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Who could think that organizing a carnival intentionally modelled after the carnival from "The Masque of the Red Death" is a bad idea? In-Universe when someone speculates that as the creature hasn't attacked them for a while, maybe it's just lost interest and walked off. Everyone immediately touches wood in invocation of this trope.
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The Terror / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Terror / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Sir John Ross, who promises in the backstory to come and find the expedition if they go missing.
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The Terror / int_18729bf8	type	Swarm of Rats
The Terror / int_18729bf8	comment	Swarm of Rats: Hundreds of rats are devouring the corpses in the Dead Room.
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The Terror / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
The Terror / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Lieutenant Irving encounters Hickey dancing naked and assumes he's gone insane. When he goes to tell Hickey to Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!, Hickey cuts his throat with a knife. Being naked meant he didn't get blood on his clothes, and the dancing kept him from freezing in the cold.
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The Terror / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Terror / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Sir John Franklin has his legs torn off by the creature and is thrown into the freezing water. Somehow he maintains the presence of mind to swim towards the hole in the ice, only for the creature to appear and bite his head off.
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The Terror / int_20e6d1c5	type	Running on All Fours
The Terror / int_20e6d1c5	comment	Running on All Fours: Inverted — the ability of the Terror to walk on its hind legs is what's creepy.
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The Terror / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
The Terror / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: The corpse with rodent-like teeth that Crozier finds on board the wreck of HMS Terror, lying in his bunk. In real life, Inuit oral testimony reports finding the corpse of a dead man with very long teeth locked within the main cabin of one of the ships (since identified to be HMS Erebus).
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The Terror / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Terror / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: The expedition has enough tinned food to last them years if needed. Unfortunately, the food was bought from a dodgy contractor who failed to cook the ingredients long enough or seal the tins properly, so most of it has spoiled or has dangerously high levels of lead. Water Source Tampering: The other theorized source of lead poisoning. The desalination system installed to support the locomotive engines aboard the ships (which required fresh water to operate) would have produced water with a dangerously high lead content.
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The Terror / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Terror / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Crozier and Lady Silence eventually become husband and wife, having two children in the end. Crozier is 53. Lady Silence's exact age isn't known, but she estimated to be at least thirty years his junior.
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The Terror / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Terror / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Crozier often comes across as this, and even he has issues with fatigue, depression and alcoholism — and makes mistakes accordingly.
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The Terror / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Terror / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Usually during the various burial ceremonies or Sunday service. Crozier causes some confusion when he quotes from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes instead.
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The Terror / int_29296c94	type	Regret Eating Me
The Terror / int_29296c94	comment	Regret Eating Me: Dr Goodsir takes a fatal overdose rather than be forced to participate in cannibalism by the mutineers, but leaves a note on his chest saying he took poison and anyone who eats his body will die. No-one dares do so.
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The Terror / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
The Terror / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: Shortly before they encounter the monster for the first time, a scouting party on King William Island is bombarded by a fierce lightning storm from which they can only cower in their tents in terror (after throwing away the metal poles, meaning that with the canvas collapsed they get pummeled black and blue by hailstones). However that doesn't prove to be as fatal in the long run as the lengthy winters that leave them icebound and drive away any animals they could hunt. For some reason the spring thaw never happens.
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The Terror / int_2f41cac1	type	Our Werebeasts Are Different
The Terror / int_2f41cac1	comment	Our Werebeasts Are Different: There's some speculation among the officers that Lady Silence and the Terror are the same, enough to contemplate killing her.
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The Terror / int_32e66ccd	type	RuleOfThrees
The Terror / int_32e66ccd	comment	Rule of Threes: Blanky escapes two encounters with the Terror, but knows he won't do it a third time. Thinking the creature is after him personally, he decides to sit and wait for it to catch him.
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The Terror / int_330841a2	type	Burial at Sea
The Terror / int_330841a2	comment	Burial at Sea: Somewhat subverted, as the sea is so deeply frozen the crew members can only dig holes in the ice to bury their dead in.
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The Terror / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Terror / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Manson, at least unless directed otherwise.
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The Terror / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Terror / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Goodsir’s toes are removed a few at a time by Hickey for refusing to do his bidding.
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The Terror / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Terror / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Doctor Harry Goodsir, who's constantly trying to figure out what's causing the illness of the crew.
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The Terror / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Terror / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Ice master Blanky and John Bridgens; both of them don't wish to slow the party down, so the former sits and waits for The Thing to catch up, and the latter walks out into the wilderness and peacefully freezes to death after watching an Arctic sunset.
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The Terror / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Terror / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: For anyone who knows about historical Franklin's expedition. However, unlike probably Real Life Crozier actually survives the story (there are Inuit references to a man who appears to have been him surviving past 1848 and being seen further south), but chooses not to return to Western civilisation.
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The Terror / int_3c689563	type	Interesting Situation Duel
The Terror / int_3c689563	comment	Interesting Situation Duel: Blanky is trapped on the deck of the ship with the creature, and has to climb the ice-slippery rigging in the dark, leaping from one mast to another while the Terror tries to knock them down or shake him off.
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The Terror / int_3d5c5deb	type	Flat Character
The Terror / int_3d5c5deb	comment	James Fitzjames is a Flat Character owing to the fact that little was known about his background at the time the book was written, hence no Character Development beyond his true-to-life perchant for heroics. However, a few years after the book was published, a biography of Fitzjames was released which detailed Fitzjames's origin as an illegitimate bastard who bluffed his way into the Royal Navy with help from his foster family. This new dimension to Fitzjames was later incorporated into his character's portrayal in the 2018 television adaptation.
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The Terror / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
The Terror / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: The book contains two examples: Perhaps the bigger example is the ultimate fate of HMS Terror. When Dan Simmons wrote the book, popular belief held that the vessel had most likely been crushed and sunk by the pack ice. At the end of the book, Crozier sets Terror ablaze after returning to the ship to find it abandoned by its skeleton crew and finding... something inside his cabin. In Real Life, not only was the sunken wreck of Terror found in Terror Bay in 2016 (a full decade after the book was published) but it was in such pristine condition that it can be hypothetically raised and made seaworthy again after restoration. (Though in a fun bit of creepiness, the divers found that silt had blocked all access to Crozier's cabin, so who knows what might be waiting in there...) James Fitzjames is a Flat Character owing to the fact that little was known about his background at the time the book was written, hence no Character Development beyond his true-to-life perchant for heroics. However, a few years after the book was published, a biography of Fitzjames was released which detailed Fitzjames's origin as an illegitimate bastard who bluffed his way into the Royal Navy with help from his foster family. This new dimension to Fitzjames was later incorporated into his character's portrayal in the 2018 television adaptation. Curiously enough recent studies published after the book indicated that lead poisoning was likely not a major factor in the expedition's failure. While it is unlikely we'll ever know, it is possible that the "Aglooka" sightings refer to different people and that Crozier didn't survive as long as he's been traditionally assumed, on account of them.
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The Terror / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Terror / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For Crozier at least. He lost his entire crew and that of Erebus (while he knows they're likely all dead, he'll never know their specific fates) his career and his tongue, and can never return to England, but he's made a new life with Silence/Silna, their children and their extended family.
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The Terror / int_43eb61dc	type	Villain Teleportation
The Terror / int_43eb61dc	comment	Villain Teleportation: The monster has an uncanny ability to appear and disappear out of the fog or from under the ice, despite its huge size. This is later revealed to be because it is a killing spirit banished from the spirit realm to the far northern wastes by the Inuit goddess of the sea.
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The Terror / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Terror / int_469e3e2f	comment	In-Universe when someone speculates that as the creature hasn't attacked them for a while, maybe it's just lost interest and walked off. Everyone immediately touches wood in invocation of this trope.
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The Terror / int_4755314a	type	Magical Native American
The Terror / int_4755314a	comment	Magical Native American: Justified — Silence has actually been bred as a spirit-governor by the Inuit to communicate with the Tuunbaq, and takes Crozier as a husband because he also has the Second Sight.
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The Terror / int_4d1b485d	type	Dedication
The Terror / int_4d1b485d	comment	Dedication: Perhaps fittingly, to the cast of The Thing from Another World.
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The Terror / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Terror / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Per history, everyone on the mission dies in ways ranging from the sad to the grotesque to the horrifying, save for Crozier. Even though he earns his happy ending, he has to endure a lot of trauma to get there, and ultimately has to set the wreck of HMS Terror alight to kill the evil that's been growing in it, finally destroying his old life.
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The Terror / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Terror / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: 'Sea lawyer' Hickey.
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The Terror / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Terror / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Dan Simmons does not skimp on how dreadful and debilitating scurvy was; not only do the crew lose their teeth, but their muscles go pudding-soft and they start leaking blood from their hair follicles!
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The Terror / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
The Terror / int_51c7574c	comment	Abandon Ship: As in Real Life, the crew has to abandon the ships after they get stuck in the ice. It's a particularly big deal for Crozier and Fitzjames; as captains who abandoned their vessels, their naval careers are, appropriately, dead in the water.
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The Terror / int_54321e11	type	Innocent Fanservice Girl
The Terror / int_54321e11	comment	Innocent Fanservice Girl: Lady Silence goes around topless whenever possible and doesn't seem to notice or care about the effect it has on the expedition's crew.
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The Terror / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
The Terror / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Sir John Franklin.
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The Terror / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Terror / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The crew members who returned to Terror and successfully navigated her through the ice, only to Abandon Ship after their own apparent encounter with another supernatural horror. Crozier encounters the aftermath, and can only speculate what happened.
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The Terror / int_59e5940e	type	AnimalMotif
The Terror / int_59e5940e	comment	Animal Motif: Hickey is constantly compared to a rat.
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The Terror / int_5b2efa6c	type	Music Soothes the Savage Beast
The Terror / int_5b2efa6c	comment	Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Inuit-throat singing placates the monster. As Lady Silence doesn't have a tongue, the monster breathes into her mouth, using her vocal cords as an instrument.
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The Terror / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
The Terror / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Hickey has nerves of steel when it comes to anything but disease, which fills him with fear and disgust.
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The Terror / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Terror / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Hickey, and how! His murder of Irving causes the massacre of the Inuit group who otherwise could have helped the Franklin expedition to survive and get back to Canada.
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The Terror / int_6383a034	type	The Mutiny
The Terror / int_6383a034	comment	After The Mutiny, Hickey taunts Captain Crozier by throwing the severed arm of his most loyal supporter among the crew (his 'strong right arm') in front of him. Later he has Manson sever various toes when Goodsir refuses to co-operate.
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The Terror / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Terror / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Hickey decides John Irving must die after he catches him and Magnus Manson with their pants down. Irving isn't interested in denouncing them, but Hickey carries out his plan anyway, to all their detriment.
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The Terror / int_68f95429	type	That's No Moon
The Terror / int_68f95429	comment	That's No Moon: An exploration party in a small boat is returning up the open lead to tell the rest of the expedition what they have found, but one is concerned to see a serac (basically a large pile of ice) next to the lead’s entrance, as it wasn’t there before. Then the “serac” turns to face them...
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The Terror / int_6a1c2a6	type	Cosmic Horror Story
The Terror / int_6a1c2a6	comment	Cosmic Horror Story: Downplayed, but the elements are there. The expedition stumbles across an abomination left over from an ancient war fought between the Inuit gods. It's a hopeless fight as the crew cannot even comprehend what the monster is, let alone harm it. And it's implied the Tuunbaaq is only the tip of the iceberg and there are things much worse lurking in the frozen north. All while the crew is slowly losing it from both the horror of the monster and their compromised food stores.
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The Terror / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Terror / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: The grog, the crew's daily ration of alcoholic drink. Once the expedition is stranded, Crozier knows the grog is the only thing keeping the crew civil and once it runs out, there will be a mutiny.
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The Terror / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Terror / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Dr. Harry Goodsir kills himself rather than endure torture and cannibalism at Hickey's hands.
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The Terror / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Terror / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Crozier, the sole survivor, and Lady Silence have two children in the book's epilogue.
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The Terror / int_745760ee	type	Polar Madness
The Terror / int_745760ee	comment	Polar Madness: The crew of Erebus and Terror begin to fray under the pressure of being trapped in Arctic ice for years on end, especially with an unknown disease whittling away at their numbers and a hideous polar monster preying on them in the dead of night. Even the attempts to improve morale through an improvised Carnival only seem to make the eccentricities even worse. By the end of the story, mutinies have torn the camps apart, people are stripping naked and stabbing each other to death, cannibalism has become distressingly common, and one particularly demented mutineer fully believes himself to be God.
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The Terror / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
The Terror / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Say, would you like to be stuck in the Arctic for several years? How would you like to be stuck in the Arctic for several years with your food running out and scurvy setting in? OK, how would you like to be stuck in the Arctic for several years with your food running out, scurvy setting in, and a terrifying sea monster stalking you?
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The Terror / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Terror / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Crozier eventually develops this with Lady Silence.
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The Terror / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Terror / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Crozier.
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The Terror / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
The Terror / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Mentioned several times with the Terror; one character thinks of a shark.
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The Terror / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Terror / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It isn't revealed what happened to the other groups of men who either tried to keep marching south or return to Terror itself, after Hickey apparently murdered Crozier. History necessitates that they obviously died (and the book suggests that those who got back to the ship encountered something even worse than the Tuunbaq) but we aren't given the details.
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The Terror / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Terror / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The Thing on the Ice qualifies — its motives are incomprehensible; seemingly For the Evulz rather than a beast that kills for food. It shows unanimal-like intelligence and cruelty, has apparently supernatural abilities, and according to Inuit legend is an ancient living weapon created during a war between their gods.
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The Terror / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Terror / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Hickey more or less rapes Magnus Manson, as Manson is a literal manchild who cannot understand or consent to their relationship.
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The Terror / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Terror / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: Especially when they are demonic supernatural beasts with a taste for human flesh and fear.
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The Terror / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Terror / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Lady Silence, since she doesn't have a tongue. Though by the end she and Crozier can communicate telepathically.
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The Terror / int_90b330ab	type	No-Respect Guy
The Terror / int_90b330ab	comment	No-Respect Guy: Franklin is known as the officer everyone likes, but no one respects as result of his disastrous Coppermine expedition and failed governorship of Van Diemen's Land (colonial Tasmania).
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The Terror / int_90c3ce7	type	Pink Elephants
The Terror / int_90c3ce7	comment	Pink Elephants: Crozier has severe alcohol withdrawal symptoms. However, his sickness-induced visions prove to be prescient.
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The Terror / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
The Terror / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story: Dr. Goodsir keeps a diary and most of the chapters centering on him consist of his diary entries.
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The Terror / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Terror / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Hickey murders his Co-Dragons so they won't usurp his power.
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The Terror / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Terror / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Goodsir is kidnapped by Hickey’s cannibalistic group to cut up bodies for their food, but refuses to do so or partake in human flesh. He loses all of his toes, an ear, and his foreskin as punishment but does not give in. When Manson is dealing with a gutshot wound, Goodsir not only lies about the severity of it, but also empties his painkiller bottles into one and fills the rest with water, so that Manson doesn’t get any (this is the only thing Goodsir regrets; not out of sympathy, but because it’s the only time in his life he has violated the Hippocratic Oath). Finally, fed up with it all, he takes the bottle containing all the painkillers to kill himself, and as a final “Fuck You” to his captors, pins a note to his chest telling them exactly what he’s done, daring them to eat his poisoned flesh. No one does.
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The Terror / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Terror / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: How did Crozier survive after being shot several times, and just how did Silence haul him out of the ice? Who, or what, was the corpse on HMS Terror, and why was the ship abandoned a second time?
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The Terror / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Terror / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Sedna, the Spirit of the Sea. Ambiguously. She created the Tuunbaq and loosed it upon her enemies, the Spirits of the Air and the Moon; killing either one would have thrown all creation into primordial chaos. When this failed, she trapped it on Earth, but bound it to the North Pole, where there still existed shamans who could contain or satiate it.
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The Terror / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Terror / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Goodsir starts off as naive and ineffectual, but is hardened due to what he endures.
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The Terror / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Terror / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: Downplayed, but the frozen ice field where the expedition are trapped is very weird, to the consternation of Crozier and the other veterans of the ice. The spring thaw never happens, the wildlife that should appear in the summer never do, and unnatural storms and sounds keep battering their ships. It's implied it has something to do with the presence of the monster.
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The Terror / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Terror / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: At the end of the book, Crozier pours gunpowder over the abandoned HMS Terror and sets her alight, convinced she’s become a Ghost Ship and a danger to anyone who tries to salvage from her. Considering what he found in his cabin...
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The Terror / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Terror / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the first chapter, Crozier sees Hickey half-frozen on deck and mentions that the men on watch have to keep moving to avoid freezing completely. This winds up being how Hickey dies, with some help from the Tuunbaq.
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The Terror / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
The Terror / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Magnus Manson, who acts as Hickey's enforcer.
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The Terror / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Terror / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: During the chaos of the creature's attack on the carnival, Dr. McDonald is accidentally shot and killed by the Royal Marines. Along with Dr. Peddie's and Dr. Stanley's death by fire, this leaves Dr. Goodsir as the only medical professional in the expedition.
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The Terror / int_a2245a73	type	Henpecked Husband
The Terror / int_a2245a73	comment	Hen Pecked Husband: Lady Franklin is described, even by her husband, as "domineering". Sir John going on the expedition is more due to her pushing than his own want.
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The Terror / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Terror / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Hickey becomes obsequious after Irving puts Manson in a separate team. Turns out Hickey is more than capable of committing murder himself.
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The Terror / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Terror / int_a8559a9f	comment	Perhaps the bigger example is the ultimate fate of HMS Terror. When Dan Simmons wrote the book, popular belief held that the vessel had most likely been crushed and sunk by the pack ice. At the end of the book, Crozier sets Terror ablaze after returning to the ship to find it abandoned by its skeleton crew and finding... something inside his cabin. In Real Life, not only was the sunken wreck of Terror found in Terror Bay in 2016 (a full decade after the book was published) but it was in such pristine condition that it can be hypothetically raised and made seaworthy again after restoration. (Though in a fun bit of creepiness, the divers found that silt had blocked all access to Crozier's cabin, so who knows what might be waiting in there...)
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The Terror / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Terror / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Hickey’s ultimate fate, frozen to death and staring into nothingness, surrounded by death, as even the Tuunbaq refuses to kill him. Not that Hickey minds; his final moments are spent insisting he is a god who controls the world around him.
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The Terror / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Terror / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The expedition members attitudes towards the natives. Sir John Franklin is genuinely puzzled that Dr Goodsir tries to save one after he's been accidentally shot.
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The Terror / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Terror / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The creature is able to shrug off point-blank shotgun fire and long-range hits from muskets.
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The Terror / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
The Terror / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Goodsir's diary. By the end, as he's dying from the effects of self-administered poison, it's very hard to read.
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The Terror / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
The Terror / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: Once the crew is in the Tuunbaq's sights, it does not give them up. Even after they abandon the ships and begin marching south, it continues to hunt them. It even kills any other animals in the area to deny them food.
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The Terror / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Terror / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Crozier does this while recovering from quitting drinking and going cold turkey, activating his Second Sight.
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The Terror / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Terror / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The Carnivale.
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The Terror / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
The Terror / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: Franklin is an incompetent jerkass, who barely puts any thought into planning when given a mission, merely presuming his superiors have given him everything he needs. He's quite rude to the civilian volunteers of the expedition and not much better to his own men. After he dies, the men mourn the extra money he promised them, but not Franklin himself.
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The Terror / int_c05de85d	type	Mindlink Mates
The Terror / int_c05de85d	comment	Mindlink Mates / Talking in Your Dreams: Crozier and Lady Silence.
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The Terror / int_c1253f2b	type	Fatal Forced March
The Terror / int_c1253f2b	comment	Fatal Forced March: Naturally features the moment where the crews of both Erebus and Terror were forced to abandon ship and flee south on foot across the ice. However, along with disease, starvation, cannibalism, mutineers and bad weather, the crew are also being picked off by a monstrous supernatural predator that appears to be actively cutting off their escape route.
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The Terror / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Terror / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: A mutiny is averted when a scout party returns with news of open water in the ice, on which they can sail the boats they've been man-hauling. The open lead turns out to be a mere lake, on which the Terror is waiting in ambush. Lieutenant Irving makes friendly contact with an Esquimaux hunting party, who can catch food and teach them how to survive in the Arctic. He's then murdered by Hickey, and the Esquimaux are massacred in the belief they were responsible, dooming the explorers.
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The Terror / int_c3cdd2b8	type	Water Source Tampering
The Terror / int_c3cdd2b8	comment	Water Source Tampering: The other theorized source of lead poisoning. The desalination system installed to support the locomotive engines aboard the ships (which required fresh water to operate) would have produced water with a dangerously high lead content.
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The Terror / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Terror / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: An in-universe example, one of the crew members suggest the Grand Venetian Carnivale tents be designed in the same manner as the colored rooms in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death". The creature is often referred to as The Thing.
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The Terror / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Terror / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: After the first attack, the marines set up a camouflaged hunting blind to ambush what they assume is a large and aggressive polar bear. Instead The Hunter Becomes the Hunted.
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The Terror / int_ca2ebf44	type	Saw It in a Movie Once
The Terror / int_ca2ebf44	comment	Saw It in a Movie Once: The idea for the Carnivale comes from a crewmember who read the story in a pulp book in the United States, but can't remember how it ended.
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The Terror / int_cb643ebb	type	Everything's Deader with Zombies
The Terror / int_cb643ebb	comment	Everything's Deader with Zombies: Crozier discovers a mummified body lying in his own cabin on HMS Terror, with the hatches firmly battened from the outside as if to prevent it getting out. He pointedly doesn't look back on hearing movement from the bunk when he's retrieving matches from his desk, instead setting fire to the ship.
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The Terror / int_ccffaa84	type	Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand
The Terror / int_ccffaa84	comment	Kill Her Now Or Forever Stay Your Hand: On hearing of a conspiracy among the crew to murder Lady Silence in the belief that she's a witch working in league with the monster, Crozier assembles his officers and men and challenges them all to do it then and there; if they're going to commit murder, everyone must share the guilt to avoid conflict afterwards.
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The Terror / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Terror / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Blanky loses first his heel, then the rest of his leg in encounters with the Terror. When his peg leg keeps breaking, he realises I Will Only Slow You Down and decides to Face Death with Dignity. After The Mutiny, Hickey taunts Captain Crozier by throwing the severed arm of his most loyal supporter among the crew (his 'strong right arm') in front of him. Later he has Manson sever various toes when Goodsir refuses to co-operate. The creature snatches two sentries off the deck of HMS Terror, then returns the upper half of one and the lower half of the other. When The Tuunaq kills Franklin, it first tears off his legs before dumping him into the sea. The crew is left with only the severed legs to bury.
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The Terror / int_d1522cf	type	Tongue Trauma
The Terror / int_d1522cf	comment	Tongue Trauma: Lady Silence has her tongue chewed off by the creature, so she can't reveal his secrets to others. Crozier endures the same fate so he can stay with her.
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The Terror / int_d6b5863	type	Driven to Madness
The Terror / int_d6b5863	comment	Driven to Madness: With the power of life and death over his followers, Hickey becomes convinced that he is God. Their deaths from hunger, murder and cold don't affect him in the least, as he's convinced he can resurrect them at any time. Then the Terror turns up and shows him who's boss.
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The Terror / int_d8fea106	type	Naked Nutter
The Terror / int_d8fea106	comment	Naked Nutter: Subverted; upon encountering Mr Hickey stark naked and dancing around in the Arctic wastes, Lieutenant Irving assumes that the caulker's mate has finally succumbed to Polar Madness. However, when he approaches, Irving realizes too late that Hickey has a very practical reason for being naked: he's planning on killing Irving; he got naked because he didn't want to get incriminated by blood on his clothes and the dancing was to keep himself warm until Irving got within reach. Full-Frontal Assault ensues.
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The Terror / int_d99d9918	type	The Captain
The Terror / int_d99d9918	comment	The Captain: Crozier. At least he becomes so after the death of the incompetent Franklin.
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The Terror / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
The Terror / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Crozier decides to stay with Silence rather than return to England in disgrace as the Sole Survivor, or start a new life under another name in America.
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The Terror / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Terror / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Hickey believes this of himself, even as he watches the Tuunbaq devour his band of cannibal mutineers.
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The Terror / int_dda12cb3	type	Cat Scare
The Terror / int_dda12cb3	comment	Bear Scare: Crozier and Fitzjames hear something stalking them in the fog. It turns out to be a hungry bear cub who flees when Crozier fires a pistol over its head. The two officers break down in laughter.
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The Terror / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
The Terror / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Captain Fitzjames crosses it after Franklin's death.
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The Terror / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
The Terror / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: Even Crozier contemplates having to eat their dead; Hickey, though, doesn't wait for them to die of natural causes.
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The Terror / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
The Terror / int_e099f0de	comment	Blanky loses first his heel, then the rest of his leg in encounters with the Terror. When his peg leg keeps breaking, he realises I Will Only Slow You Down and decides to Face Death with Dignity.
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The Terror / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Terror / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Little is known about the real Cornelius Hickey, except that he was from Limerick, Ireland, and was 24 when the expedition began. Unless surprising evidence turns up, it's probably safe to assume he wasn't the Ax-Crazy madman depicted in the book. Apparently, the makers of the TV adaptation were so perturbed by the idea of dragging the man's name in the mud like this that they wrote in a reveal that the character is not the real Cornelius Hickey, but a criminal impersonating him.
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The Terror / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Terror / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Goodsir gives a lengthy description of how to cut up the human body for eating, to deter those who are tempted. He's shocked to find himself salivating during the speech.
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The Terror / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Terror / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier. Also ice master Blanky, who successfully escapes being eaten by the creature twice. The creature ends up eating the man only because he finally sits down and allows it to.
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The Terror / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Terror / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The Tuunbaq rejects Hickey's soul in distaste.
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The Terror / int_e95acf73	type	Wooden Ships and Iron Men
The Terror / int_e95acf73	comment	Wooden Ships and Iron Men: A bit of a deconstruction. Skill and willpower isn't nearly enough to overcome circumstances in this story, and the ships themselves are first damaged and then destroyed by the Arctic environment.
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The Terror / int_e9f14d87	type	This Is as Far as I Go
The Terror / int_e9f14d87	comment	This Is as Far as I Go: Thomas Blanky and John Bridgens realize the futility of the situation and decide to die with a modicum of dignity. Blanky is eaten by the Thing; Bridgens' fate is not written but certainly he dies as well.
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The Terror / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Terror / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The expedition, as scurvy, murder, and the monster take their toll.
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The Terror / int_f8604a3c	type	The Darkness Gazes Back
The Terror / int_f8604a3c	comment	The Darkness Gazes Back: Or in this case, the snow gazes back. While waiting in the blind to ambush the creature, Sir John notices two black objects in the snow. As he watches, they blink and Franklin realizes it's the eyes of the creature that has been watching them the whole time.
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The Terror / int_fe3122a3	type	Love Before First Sight
The Terror / int_fe3122a3	comment	Love Before First Sight: Turns out the reason Silence is near Erebus and Terror in the first place, and continues to hang around, is because she had a vision that Crozier would be her husband.
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The Terror / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
The Terror / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Sir John Franklin's wife is smitten with a Peter Mark Roget. Sir John dismisses his plans of writing a "silly dictionary."
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The Terror / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Terror / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Simmons meticulously researched everything about the Franklin expedition, and a fair amount about Inuit culture and beliefs. Even Crozier surviving has some historical justification, since there are (unverified) Inuit reports that he and two other expedition members were seen many miles to the south sometime in the 1850s.
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The Terror	hasFeature	A Birthday, Not a Break / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Danger â€” Thin Ice / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Doomed Hurt Guy / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Dwindling Party / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Fatal Forced March / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Freudian Threat / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Full-Frontal Assault / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	"Good Luck" Gesture / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Hostile Weather / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Little Useless Gun / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Music Soothes the Savage Beast / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Naked Nutter / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	No-Respect Guy / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Pink Elephants / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Regret Eating Me / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Saw It in a Movie Once / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Sinister Nudity / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Soul Eating / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	The Darkness Gazes Back / int_23c57678
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The Terror	hasFeature	Through the Eyes of Madness / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Thunderbolt Iron / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Translation by Volume / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Two-Person Pool Party / int_23c57678
The Terror	hasFeature	Wooden Ships and Iron Men / int_23c57678

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