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Them or Us
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Them or Us is a novel by David Moody, which follows Dog Blood in the Hater series.After the End, when the last of the Unchanged have been hunted down, Haters begin to turn on each other to establish dominance. Since most areas are an uninhabitable, polluted wasteland due to nuclear catastrophe, the story focuses on a town called Lowestoft, where Haters have gathered from miles around. The leaders battle for power, and everyone else fights for scraps. | |
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Trilogy | |
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Trilogy: It's the third book, following Dog Blood, so this series is known as the Hater trilogy. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death / There's No Kill like Overkill: Hinchcliffe gets thrown out a car windscreen when he crashes without a seatbelt, breaking his leg and losing a lot of blood, manhandled by a series of unchanged who throw themselves at him, receives a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown courtesy of Dr Tracy and another unchanged whaling on him with a pipe and a wooden plank, then stabbed, and he still survives long enough to blow himself up. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Barbarian Tribe versus Barbarian Tribe | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React | |
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Villains Act, Heroes React - When people try to play the blame game of who started the war, the Unchanged claim this, though it's actually Manslaughter Provocation in the eyes of the Haters, who sometimes wonder if it all was necessary in the first place. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Danny's weapon stash, consisting of a pistol, some ammo and a grenade. Hinchcliffe uses the grenade in a last ditch attempt to kill the unchanged. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Danny imagines a far-flung future where Haters have rebuilt society proper, and there is a hospital with a delivery room for women to have their babies. The room is divided down the middle with tape, with medical supplies on one side and weapons on the other. If the newborn is a Hater, it is nurtured and allowed to survive. If the newborn is Unchanged, it is killed. However, he shouldn't worry too much as no children ever seem to be killed directly by a Hater, but rather turned into Child Soldiers. Near the end, some children are chased, but no kids are killed "onscreen". Though Danny has the rare ability to "hold the hate" (control his Hate to the point of not killing Unchanged) all Haters seem to have the ability to hold the hate when it comes to Unchanged children, especially since the Hater leader has demanded that none of the children be killed, so they can be brought to the Hater's lair to be experimented on by the local doctor so that Hater children won't be feral and Unchanged children won't be so cowardly. Danny finds their corpses later. They died of Parental Neglect thanks to their new Mad Doctor mommy Rona Scott, but not savagely attacked like the adults. At one point, Rona Scott throws a glass jar at a child, but purposefully misses and smashes it against the wall near the child. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical / Blessed with Suck: Danny's ability to "hold the Hate" - the ability to NOT kill the Unchanged -seems pretty useless in a world with no Unchanged, and he constantly fears You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. Danny has managed to get on the good side of one of the new leaders, Hinchcliffe, who sees other qualities in Danny, and continues to send him out to spy on other Haters. As Hinchcliffe puts it, his other talent is the ability to blend in, "You're forgettable. No one notices you. No one even gives you a second glance." | |
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Goal in Life | |
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Goal in Life: Now that the Unchanged are gone, most Haters don't have one. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: and many of the subtropes, but especially Scavenger World. The few thousand people in Lowestoft make up half the population for the whole country, and the other half spread here and there across the land. 1/3 are not expected to survive the winter. And the battle between Ankin and Hinchcliffe nearly wipes out everyone in Lowestoft. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Hinchcliffe kills Rufus with a wrench to the face mostly just to vent anger, but with a little bit of punishment mixed in. Hinchcliffe also has many verbal Kick the Dog moments. | |
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Silly Reason for War | |
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Silly Reason for War: In this case, really no reason at all, other than that people can be separated into different groups or teams that have no real differences other the title of their team, like a football game, and any real or imagined differences between different members of the team. The only real difference is the increased adrenaline that sharpens the senses and increases the physical strength and speed of the Haters, a difference that only seems to happen during battle. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Danny's more of Villain Protagonist or Anti-Villain, but the point stands. | |
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Sex Starts, Story Stops | |
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Sex Starts, Story Stops: A session between Danny and the woman is described in flat, dry, technical terms, and has no real effect on the plot in the long run. | |
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Machete Mayhem | |
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Machete Mayhem: Many prominent deaths are by machete. | |
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Mood-Swinger | |
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Mood-Swinger: Hinchcliffe is wildly insecure, and can go from calm to batshit insane at the drop of a hat. | |
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President Evil | |
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President Evil: Hinchcliffe killed Lowestoft's previous leader and took his place. It's implied that Chris Ankin isn't much better. | |
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Useless Useful Spell | |
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Useless Useful Spell: Danny's ability to hold the Hate is all but useless now that the Unchanged are on the verge of extinction. Because of this, he worries that Hinchcliffe will decide that Danny is now useless to him and kill him. | |
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Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy | |
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Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy: People are separated into the leader, the generals, the best fighters, the switchbacks, and the underclass. The underclass are divided into beggars, scavengers, and thieves. There are also Brutes, which were guard dogs in the last novel, but are regarded as too much of a wild card in this novel to be allowed in Lowestoft. | |
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The Emperor | |
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The Emperor: Hinchcliffe, a Genius Bruiser / Jerkass / Smug Snake. He's fairly ruthless, which earns him the Embarrassing Nickname K.C. which is short for "King Cunt". Hinchcliffe will do anything to secure his status as leader of The Empire. | |
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Orphan's Ordeal | |
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Orphan's Ordeal: Rona Scott and her Orphanage of Fear, where she acts as child corruptor, and child neglecter and forces children to fight each other to the death. | |
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality | |
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Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality: Because of the Hate, Hater women can easily overpower Unchanged men and take out a dozen people. However, Hater women are still weaker than Hater men, and therefore suffer in a society where there are no Unchanged, and Haters rule mostly by physical strength. | |
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Unstoppable Rage | |
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Unstoppable Rage: Hinchcliffe, whenever he gets pissed, which doesn't take a lot. | |
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Conspicuously Public Assassination | |
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Conspicuously Public Assassination: How Hinchcliffe is introduced, by publicly killing the former leader and hanging his body up for all to see. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Almost inverted when Hinchcliffe mentions that he'll kill anyone, even if that person is a "Black Lesbian Jew." Used to show that Haters don't care about any of the things that society has used for excuses to discriminate: Race, sexual orientation, or religion, for example. The only discrimination is reserved for Haters and Unchanged. Violence against Unchanged is business, violence against Haters is personal. | |
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Atomic Hate | |
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Atomic Hate: The bombs have stopped dropping, but the effects are still being felt by the survivors. | |
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Get It Over With | |
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Get It Over With: Spoken by characters when facing what seems like certain death, as well as Danny's motto for any given task. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Danny has nightmares about the nukes and what happened to his daughter. | |
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Exposition | |
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Exposition: Most of what is happening in A World Half Full is explained to Danny, and experienced by the reader via Danny's first-person Point of View. | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down | |
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Kick Them While They Are Down: Many times, most often by Hinchcliffe. Many people will mortally wound someone else, and then deliver a kick or kicks to a tender part of the body such as the kidneys or the face. | |
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Just Like Us | |
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Just Like Us: In one of many tirades, some people try to point out that Haters and Unchanged are this as well as each other. | |
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Heartwarming Orphan | |
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Heartwarming Orphan: A few of the children melt the heart of a cranky old Hater. | |
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Fetus Terrible | |
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Fetus Terrible: Danny imagines what would happen if a woman was pregnant with twins, one a Hater and one an Unchanged, and he imagines the fetuses attacking each other like fetal shark pups do. | |
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Villainous Breakdown | |
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Villainous Breakdown: Hinchcliffe gets three. First, when a plane flies over Lowestoft, second when Ankin's army comes to town and the third when Danny grows a pair and defects to help the Unchanged escape on a boat. | |
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Death by Irony | |
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Death by Irony: A certain person with Incurable Cough of Death refuses cigarettes, proclaiming, "Those things will kill you." He's already showing symptoms of "The Big C". | |
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The End... Or Is It? | |
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The End... Or Is It?: The last of the Unchanged are sailing away to live in peace, and Danny dies. The last thing that he sees is two children fighting. Does that mean that there will be no peace? Also, he isn't described as "dying" as much as simply shutting his eyes after slipping in and out of consciousness for days as the battle wounds and cancer take their toll, but does he really die immediately, or is there another tale to be told with Danny? | |
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Meet the New Boss | |
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Meet the New Boss: The Big Bad Shuffle shows ruthless leader after ruthless leader, each killing the last for leadership, or savaging any threat to leadership, all of whom simply want to be on top in order to increase their own individual chance of survival by being on top. | |
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While Rome Burns | |
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While Rome Burns: Hinchcliffe's room, where he smokes cigarettes, eats food, drinks clean water, sleeps in a cozy bed, has sex, enjoys the heat, and plays videogames on England's last working television as everyone else succumbs to the elements, gets infections, starves, gets radiation poisoning, and generally gets Driven to Suicide. | |
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Dénouement | |
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Dénouement: Averted. Mysteries are not unraveled, fates are not determined and explanations are not made. | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn | |
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Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Lots of pillaging, lots of burning, and some implied rape and borderline rape. | |
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Lost Tribe | |
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Lost Tribe: The last nest of Unchanged that Danny uncovers, which results in a Near-Villain Victory | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name | |
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A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Haters and their Final Solution, especially the ones who do experiments on children. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: (A World Half Full) - Whereas Dog Blood was Darker and Edgier compared to Hater, this one is shades lighter than either. Danny's turn as savior of the Unchanged and savior of innocent, doe-eyed children, giving them candy as he rescues them after learning the error of his ways, and leading them to the Convenient Escape Boat, not to mention how all of his bodycount in this book is tinted with Mercy Kill, definitely makes this Lighter and Softer. | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here | |
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Danny's dozen thwarted escape attempts. | |
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History Repeats: Danny's personal history, as well as socio-political squabbles, repeats themselves. Danny, so dissatisfied with his job and people in general in the first book, must cling to groups of people for survival and take on other dissatisfying jobs to remain in more groups of people, noticing many parallels, navigating socio-political games in order to survive. As before the war, he finds himself in cliques, bullied by people who have power over him. More hierarchy battles for leadership with the elite always oppressing everyone else. The leader often wants to be leader not because it's for the greater good, but rather because it secures the greatest chance for survival. Danny is as miserable as he's ever been because this all sounds so familiar, and life as a Hater seemed to offer a chance at being a really cool, primal badass, which was untrue. The only time Unchanged children are attacked and killed by Haters, is when the Haters are also children, but not in this specific book. Adults never attack children. And it's never shown, only described as something that has happened in the past, especially in Dog Blood. | |
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Betrayal Tropes | |
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Betrayal Tropes: Everyone is looking out for #1, so there is plenty of betrayal going on. Most notably... Double Agent, The Mole, The Mutiny, etcetera. And various instances of Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal to help motivate Danny into deciding which team he wants to help. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Danny's justification when he kills the last starving, infected, miserable Unchanged is to A) End their suffering, telling himself and others that, "It's better this way," and, "Don't delay the inevitable." And B) Get the war over with, to stop the fighting, because once the Unchanged are all gone, the Haters can live in a Peace & Love Utopia... flawed logic since all Haters do is bicker and squabble and backstab. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Rufus, the closest thing to comic relief in the book, gets his face bashed in by a wrench-wielding Hinchcliffe about halfway through. | |
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Deadly Doctor | |
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Deadly Doctor: Rona Scott, who has killed people, being a Hater and all... She also recommends suicide for a guy with cancer. "Take one bullet before bedtime. May cause headaches and drowsiness." | |
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