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Snowpiercer

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Snowpiercer	comment	Snowpiercer is a TV series from TNT that first began airing in 2020. It is a reboot of the graphic novel Le Transperceneige and its more famous movie adaptation Snowpiercer, serving as a re-imagining which contains different characters but a setting which fans of the previous versions should already know the basics of.The world has ended in an ice age, with a luxurious train (1,001 cars long in this version) being designed by the mysterious "Mr. Wilford" to traverse the globe non stop and provide shelter from the cold. The train is built for luxury, with those who paid to be there being ridiculously pampered; those who were hired to work onboard are housed and fed adequately, although more modestly. People who simply jumped onboard as the train passed by to keep from freezing to death are less fortunate, and forced to live in squalor and misfortune. Naturally, this causes a great deal of resentment. The series follows both sides of the class struggle, as the tail section readies itself to try and break forward, whether by diplomacy or violent means, as various secrets of the train find their way closer to the light. This begins when Andre Layton, a leader of the tail section and former homicide detective, is recruited by Melanie, the train's PA announcer and head of hospitality, to investigate a series of murders further up the train with the Brakemen (the train's security force).The cast includes Tony winner Daveed Diggs as Layton, the level-headed leader of the tail section; Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly as Melanie, lead member of the hospitality staff; Steven Ogg as volatile tail-section leader Pike; Timothy V. Murphy as Commander Gray, head of the front section elite military unit; Mike O'Malley as Roche, head of the train's police-figures; and Lena Hall as the resident Miss Kitty. Joining the cast in season two are Rowan Blanchard as Alexandra, who is Melanie's daughter and first appears in the first season finale, and Sean Bean as the creator of the Snowpiercer, Mr. Wilford.The series is notable for its Troubled Production; switching networks twice, having a pilot script discarded after the actors had signed on (causing some actors to be given roles vastly different than the ones they had been preparing for), and experiencing multiple delays in filming, to the point where filming for the second season was underway long before the first one even aired due to the network not wanting to lose the actors during the delay.*And then that season had to deal with a massive gap in filming due to the COVID-19 Pandemic shutting down production. Still, it was considered enough of a success that a third season (which debuted on January 25th, 2022) was ordered prior to the second's premiere, plus a fourth before the third's premiere. It was later confirmed that the fourth season would be the end of the series, which would have made it the last original series to air to completion on TNT; however, in January 2023, the network cancelled the series, despite the completion of the fourth season, and announced it would not be aired on the network. In March 2024, it was announced that the series had been sold to AMC, and that the fourth season will air in 2025.
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Snowpiercer / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Snowpiercer / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Wilford is obsessed with being in total control of everything on the train, and ensuring that everyone is loyal to him rather than to each other.
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Snowpiercer / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Snowpiercer / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: The ticketed passengers lack the competence to find the killer, a fact Layton uses to keep them from just getting rid of him, especially when he deduces that they're less concerned about the murder itself than the secrets the victim knew and may have divulged under torture. Subverted in the sixth episode, when Melanie tells the riotous third-class passengers that she can always replace them with tailies if they get too far out of line.
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Snowpiercer / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
Snowpiercer / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: The Season 1 finale features Snowpiercer passing through Chicago, where it first departed from. Fittingly, this is where it's forced to stop after Wilford's backup train catches up to them.
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Snowpiercer / int_15aa2b3c	type	The Confidant
Snowpiercer / int_15aa2b3c	comment	The Confidant: Bennett, one of the engineers who steers the train apparently serves this role to Wilford, whose alter ego he is aware of. The second episode also shows him taking part in management discussions but questioning some of the policies the train is following.
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Snowpiercer / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Snowpiercer / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: As in the film, the backstory is a chemical fired into the atmosphere to stop global warming. Boy, did it succeed there...
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Snowpiercer / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Snowpiercer / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The pre-premiere promotional material gave a lot of people the impression that this was a prequel series to the film version, not a reboot.
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Snowpiercer / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
Snowpiercer / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Audrey in Season 2. Initially, she acts as The Mole, using Wilford's infatuation with her to gain information for Layton and the rest of Snowpiercer's leadership. However, she eventually decides she likes the comforts that come with being his paramour, and legitimately switches sides.
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Snowpiercer / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Snowpiercer / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Melanie freezes then smashes Josie's right pinky while trying to torture information out of her. Lights is attacked by Wilford supporters, who remove her pinkie and thumb in order to leave her permanently making their "W" salute.
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Snowpiercer / int_2034121a	type	Eat the Rich
Snowpiercer / int_2034121a	comment	Eat the Rich: Josie's opening monologue in episode 2 name-drops this, saying the Tail is looking forward to it.
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Snowpiercer / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Snowpiercer / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Kronole has been circulating throughout the train for two revolutions around the world, but because most of it is in the Tail, which they turn a blind eye to, Melanie and the Brakemen remain completely ignorant of this until shortly before the second murder.
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Snowpiercer / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Snowpiercer / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: As in the film, the Tailies resorted to cannibalism during the early times aboard the train. Played with in that those who didn't kill others for food ganged up on and killed the worst of the cannibals, then deliberately divvied up the cannibal leader's heart so that everyone had eaten human flesh. That way, there wouldn't be a difference in status between surviving cannibals and non-cannibals, and their society could be rebuilt with everyone on an equal footing. The climate scientists at the research station seem to have resorted to this, judging by the human arm in the freezer. Melanie is forced to seriously consider this as well, due to the loss of her rations in an avalanche, but she ends up finding another option.
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Snowpiercer / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
Snowpiercer / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: The engine in the film is a mysterious, ominous chamber with a clean and elegant design that may or may not play a part on the mind control of the passengers and is Powered by a Forsaken Child. The engine in the show is... a regular train engine, albeit a highly advanced one. To drive the point home, in the movie the passengers develop a Cargo Cult towards the engine, while in the series the cult seems to be more based on Wilford himself.
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Snowpiercer / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
Snowpiercer / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Melanie spikes Layton's sake with a sedative when the two share a celebratory drink after catching the killer, because Layton has figured out she's been impersonating Mr. Wilford.
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Snowpiercer / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Snowpiercer / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: More of the workings and various classes of the train get explored than in the film and comic.
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Snowpiercer / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Snowpiercer / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The early part of season 1 has considerable mystery around the drawers; what they're for, why there are so many of them, and who could potentially be in them, with Nikki's being reawoken and being in extremely poor shape mentally and physically playing into what could happen to the others in the drawers. In the middle it's revealed that, far from being the gulag Layton suspects, it's a way for the best and brightest to survive if something happens to the train. After this, it's almost ever mentioned briefly that everyone in them was reawakened after the rebel victory over the Jackboots, but no-one from the Drawers is ever seen or heard from. There's a few plot threads introduced in the middle of season 3 - Ben and Josie hooking up, the possibility of a Heelâ€“Face Turn for Wilford - that go absolutely nowhere and are never referred to again once Melanie returns.
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Snowpiercer / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Snowpiercer / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Till is initially assigned to assist Layton in the murder investigation simply as a means of keeping an eye on him and keeping him in line. Although their relationship starts off quite frosty, it doesn't take long before they bond over their shared background as former cops dedicated to pursuing justice. By episode 8, Till has officially turned her back on being a Brakeman, and becomes Layton's lancer in the revolution.
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Snowpiercer / int_26fb2f9e	type	Past Experience Nightmare
Snowpiercer / int_26fb2f9e	comment	Past Experience Nightmare: While in stasis in the Drawers, Layton has a nightmare of the early days of the train when he massacred a cannibal cult preying on the other Tailies, then took their leader's heart and chopped it up, before eating a piece with the other people of the Tail as a symbolic rejection of viewing each other as food.
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Snowpiercer / int_2cf5eb14	type	Endless Winter
Snowpiercer / int_2cf5eb14	comment	Endless Winter: The train has been circling the globe for almost six years and it's still below -100 degrees outside. In Season 2, Melanie discovers that the world has started to warm, with the season finale confirming that there are several regions around the equator which are now habitable again.
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Snowpiercer / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Snowpiercer / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Dr. Klimpt, the brooding jailer of the train, gets a surprisingly complex speech at the beginning of the third episode, hinting at greater insight and discontentment than previously shown.
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Snowpiercer / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Snowpiercer / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Wilford's supporters do this in Season 2 to instigate a counter-revolution against the Tallies. After mutilating Lights' hand to make it permanently resemble the "W" salute symbol of Wilford's worshippers, they then slaughter the Breachmen (Wilford's strongest supporters on Snowpiercer) to make it look like retaliation from the Tallies. This causes tensions to boil over as the other passengers start rioting and attacking the Tallies.
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Snowpiercer / int_2ea2680a	type	That One Case
Snowpiercer / int_2ea2680a	comment	That One Case: Heavily implied with Till, who played a role in the conviction of the woman accused of the first murder who now appears to be innocent, and takes an interest in the continued investigation.
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Snowpiercer / int_3107a493	type	Open Heart Dentistry
Snowpiercer / int_3107a493	comment	Open Heart Dentistry: The autopsy of the second murder victim is performed by a physician who's never done one before, but has at least seen similarly-graphic injuries before due to having served in a military medical unit in Afghanistan.
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Snowpiercer / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Snowpiercer / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Jinju is a fairly feminine character and in a relationship with Till.
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Snowpiercer / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Snowpiercer / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Icy Bob does this to the Tallies after repelling their attack on Big Alice.
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Snowpiercer / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
Snowpiercer / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Despite the incredibly rough climate, the tracks and bridges the Snowpiercer uses have no apparent need for upkeep despite being subject to a new ice age, including more complex ones like track switchers. Granted, they were designed for the exact purpose of weathering the Freeze, but it's hard to imagine a world-spanning track network needing no repairs at all for 7 years. Season 3 reveals this is not entirely the case; several tracks have degraded from exposure, namely a particularly flimsy bridge section in Africa, and it's feared that this problem will only grow worse over time. There are redundancies in place, but that only lasts so long. Averted with the Snowpiercer itself which requires near-constant upkeep, and nearly derails in Episode 6 due to mechanical failure. This is why Bennet goes behind Melanie's back when he realizes that Big Alice is out there and lets the supply train catch up, because it has numerous redundant parts stored aboard that they need. The climate research station Melanie travels to, which only needs to be powered back up, with none of its equipment being notably damaged from being exposed to the Freeze for seven years. Downplayed somewhat when the radio antenna breaks during a windstorm, nearly derailing the whole mission. Averted in season 3 with the North Korean nuclear plant, which collapses when Ben is walking across its roof while taking ice samples, trapping him inside and forcing Layton to leave the train to save him.
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Snowpiercer / int_3d5c3d42	type	Dreadlock Warrior
Snowpiercer / int_3d5c3d42	comment	Dreadlock Warrior: Layton, a dreadlocked man who fought his way onboard the train bringing many more with him, and also holds authority over the tail section's best fighters.
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Snowpiercer / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Snowpiercer / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Layton and Josie help raise Miles, whose family died when they first boarded the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_3f4613f8	type	Smart People Wear Glasses
Snowpiercer / int_3f4613f8	comment	Smart People Wear Glasses: Javi, one of the engineers who keeps the train moving, wears spectacles.
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Snowpiercer / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Snowpiercer / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: After Melanie's rant about the order necessary to keep the train going, Layton puts her down by pointing out she's dealing with murderers and cannibals among her own while the Tailies already sorted that out, so she's in no position to judge.
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Snowpiercer / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Snowpiercer / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The title for the fifth episode of season 1 ("Justice Never Boarded") is an ominous one considering that it covers the trial of the killer. The season 1 finale, "994 Cars Long", indicates that seven cars of the train, implied to be the tail section, will be separated from the rest of the train to gain speed. It doesn't refer to the tail, but seven cars near the middle where the Folgers and the Jackboots are holed up, along with several people who've been captured. Melanie and Layton (with reluctance) deliberately separate it from the rest of the train and send it down a different track while the rest reunites and continues onward.
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Snowpiercer / int_41df5e28	type	Body in a Breadbox
Snowpiercer / int_41df5e28	comment	Body in a Breadbox: The second murder victim was found under a floor panel in the Sanitation sub-train. Three of his missing limbs are discovered by Layton in a freezer compartment's ventilation duct.
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Snowpiercer / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
Snowpiercer / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Tailie women are forcibly sterilized, and the train's other occupants are only authorized to reproduce if they win a [rigged] "baby lottery".
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Snowpiercer / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Snowpiercer / int_44a1dd10	comment	Unlike in the film, Mr. Wilford does leave the engine and traverse through the train in disguise, being known as Melanie Cavill by the rest of the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Snowpiercer / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Ruth puts on an opulent fur coat before going back to the tail section to take Layton.
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Snowpiercer / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Snowpiercer / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: The fate of the prisoners in the drawers, albeit using drug-induced comas rather than actual cryonics. As episode 6 reveals, there are actually FAR more subjects in this state than is officially known. See Sleeper Ship below. Melanie is revealed to have survived this way, using a maintenance vehicle and the sleeper drugs to keep herself in suspended animation for over a year, the computer periodically waking her up to allow her to rehydrate, do some excersizes to keep her body from completely withering, and track her progress. She was still almost dead by the time the Snowpiercer found her.
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Snowpiercer / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Snowpiercer / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: The end of series 3 lays out quite clearly that Snowpiercer has three choices for leadership, all of him are deficient in some way; Melanie, whose For the Greater Good tendencies cause her to overlook the human element of the train; Layton, who's a very effective fighter and general that can never look past being a Taillie; and Wilford, a selfish, megalomaniacal tyrant with a god complex. Melanie even refers to them as the original sinners, as it's always the decisions one or other of them makes that end up leading Snowpiercer to disaster.
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Snowpiercer / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Snowpiercer / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Season 3: With Melanie off the train and presumed dead, Layton decides that Utopia Justifies the Means, and formulates a lie that there is a habitable land known as New Eden. Layton attempts to resolve a conflict with Pike peacefully. When Pike reveals he knows New Eden is a lie, Layton kills him. Subverted when Melanie, still alive, returns to the train. She hijacks the train, revealing to everyone that New Eden is a lie, and that getting there requires covering dangerous track. This causes Laytonâ€™s support to dwindle.
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Snowpiercer / int_49a2599d	type	Platonic Prostitution
Snowpiercer / int_49a2599d	comment	Platonic Prostitution: Everyone outside of Third thinks that the Nightcar is a brothel, but what it actually sells is a private room for people to be alone. In theory, it can also be used for sex, but it's unclear how often that actually happens.
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Snowpiercer / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Snowpiercer / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Melenie Cavill initially occupied the position, before Layton and Ruth Wardell started to hold it.
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Snowpiercer / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Snowpiercer / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The final spoken lines of Season 1: Wilford's representative from the second train reveals herself to be Alex, Melanie's still-alive daughter. In episode 7 of Season 3, Wilford reveals that while tracking the rogue Snowpiercer on Big Alice, he came across a track signal in France while Layton and the others were actually a continent away, and that someone else is still alive out there. Wilford believes it may be Melanie.
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Snowpiercer / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Snowpiercer / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The Season 1 finale revealing that there's a secondary supply train catching up to Snowpiercer. The second season finale reveals that Melanie's weather drones have discovered that Earth has already returned to a temperate climate around the equator, meaning that the Freeze is ending The season 3 premiere has Layton discover a set of fresh footprints inside a North Korean bunker. Shortly afterwards, he's attacked by the person who made them, the first human being to have been shown to survive outside the Snowpiercer. The man who tried to kill Layton with a bomb the same day his daughter was born was Pike! Season 3 ends with Layton and his supporters finding New Eden, which is indeed a temperate zone where human life is possible, complete with a freshwater lake, allowing the passengers to disembark for the first time in seven years.
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Snowpiercer / int_5115e5f6	type	Fantastic Underclass
Snowpiercer / int_5115e5f6	comment	Fantastic Underclass: As with the film, the "Tailies" - passengers who hopped the titular train without tickets and who have been banished to the tail-end of the train - occupy this position. Hated by most of the other passengers, they survive by the mercy of Melanie Cavill, the train's secret boss, who recognizes that some of the Tailies might have skills that she needs to keep the train running.
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Snowpiercer / int_53f261f	type	Masquerading As the Unseen
Snowpiercer / int_53f261f	comment	Masquerading As the Unseen: This happens within the first few episodes, thanks to Mr. Wilford's No One Sees the Boss status.
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Snowpiercer / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Snowpiercer / int_53f5119f	comment	With Alexandra Cavill defecting to Layton, and Sykes and Audrey captured, Mr. Wilford's new leadership on the train is comprised of himself, Kevin as The Dragon, and a pregnant Zarah serving as the Honest Advisor / The Good Chancellor (especially against Kevin's The Bad Chancellor). Ruth secretly leads the Resistance, with Pike as her second in command eventually taking over when she is captured. When the Pirate Train attacks the Great Ark Train, Wilford is overthrown again, Kevin is killed and Zarah, no longer a hostage, rejoins Layton and the others.
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Snowpiercer / int_550e75cd	type	Braving the Blizzard
Snowpiercer / int_550e75cd	comment	Braving the Blizzard: Bojan and the train's other breach workers occasionally heavily bundle up to carry out repairs outside of the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_5589bb14	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
Snowpiercer / int_5589bb14	comment	Halfway through season one, Miles is taken as an apprentice to the Engine. We may assume he will suffer the same fate of the kids taken to the Engine in the film - to power the engine manually as a living piece - but he really goes there as an apprentice. Due to the nature of the Engine here, it's unlikely they would ever consider using kids to replace missing mechanical parts.
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Snowpiercer / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Snowpiercer / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: Due to being a Continuity Reboot, some plot points from the movie we would expect to show up here are changed or removed entirely: In the movie, the protein bars the tail passengers are fed are made of cockroaches. This is discovered near the beginning and further incites the rage of the rebels. While the protein bars pretty much look the same in the show, we never learn what they're made of, nor does anyone bring this up. Halfway through season one, Miles is taken as an apprentice to the Engine. We may assume he will suffer the same fate of the kids taken to the Engine in the film - to power the engine manually as a living piece - but he really goes there as an apprentice. Due to the nature of the Engine here, it's unlikely they would ever consider using kids to replace missing mechanical parts. It's unlikely that kronol has any explosive properties in this continuity.
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Snowpiercer / int_5e782d0c	type	Super Prototype
Snowpiercer / int_5e782d0c	comment	Super Prototype: Downplayed with Big Alice in the season 1 finale, which is slower than Snowpiercer, but bigger, sturdier and far more well equipped, having been intended as a supply train. The "slower" part is also relative, as Snowpiercer is dragging 25 times the weight and can't accelerate as fast, allowing Big Alice to catch up when Bennet deliberately slows the train to gain access to Big Alice's resources and Melanie arrives too late to regain the lost speed.
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Snowpiercer / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Snowpiercer / int_617f0563	comment	There's a few plot threads introduced in the middle of season 3 - Ben and Josie hooking up, the possibility of a Heelâ€“Face Turn for Wilford - that go absolutely nowhere and are never referred to again once Melanie returns.
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Snowpiercer / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Snowpiercer / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Melanie quickly begins to lose it during "Many Miles from Snowpiercer", both from the isolation and her lack of food, as she begins having hallucinations of Wilford, Layton and Alex, so she'll have someone to talk to.
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Snowpiercer / int_63fa5d78	type	Cult of Personality
Snowpiercer / int_63fa5d78	comment	Cult of Personality: The passengers hold Mr. Wilford in reverence as the one who created Snowpiercer and perpetually works to keep the engine eternal. More heavily shown if you watch the show with subtitles, as it capitalizes the pronouns when people refer to him, a trait usually reserved for talking about God.
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Snowpiercer / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Snowpiercer / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: When the Snowpiercer passes through a massive volcano cloud of toxic gasses, Asha sacrifices herself to replace the corroded air filters on the train to save Layton and the other passengers.
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Snowpiercer / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Snowpiercer / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Ruth comes face to face with Winnie, a small child whose arm she was going to freeze off as punishment for aiding a Tailie rebellion before her mother begged to take her place. Ruth doesn't recognize her and has to be reminded that she was going to take Winnie's arm.
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Snowpiercer / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Snowpiercer / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: If you don't live in the tail section, chances are you feel this way about the people who do.
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Snowpiercer / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Snowpiercer / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: After Nikki is released from the drawers after it's proven that someone else was the killer, she's treated as a witness and the real killer makes an attempt on her life. Melanie has Layton consigned to the drawers when she realizes he's figured out that she's been impersonating Mr. Wilford all along.
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Snowpiercer / int_66dbffe8	type	Schoolmarm
Snowpiercer / int_66dbffe8	comment	Schoolmarm: So far, only one teacher for the front section children, the relatively young Miss Gillies, has appeared.
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Snowpiercer / int_6a2d1b1a	type	Rebel Leader
Snowpiercer / int_6a2d1b1a	comment	Rebel Leader: Pike, Strong Boy and Z-Wreck serve as this during the Nineteenth Revolution, while Layton, Miss Audrey and Till take the role during the joint Tailie/Third Class Rebellion with Josie, Big John, Lights, the Last Australian, Miles and Dr. Pelton each having a major or prominent role either before or during the early stages. Melanie and a reluctent Roche also secretly aid or defect to them following the Folgers' and Commander Grey's coup, or after being told what the new leadership were planning on doing to end the revolution once and for all respectively.
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Snowpiercer / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Snowpiercer / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Wilford has been dead before the train ever left. Also, he never built it, Melanie did and has been posing as Wilford to keep it and civilization going. The first season finale reveals that Wilford has actually been alive and leading another pack of survivors on a secondary supply train, Big Alice, catching up to Snowpiercer. One of these survivors is Melanie's daughter Alexandra, who Melanie thought had died during the Freeze.
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Snowpiercer / int_6b496083	type	Sole Surviving Scientist
Snowpiercer / int_6b496083	comment	Sole Surviving Scientist: Word of God claims that Bennett is one of the people who built the train, and he takes a keen-eyed interest in maintaining it to keep people alive. Dr. Klimpt is described as a former research scientist and seems caught up in the science of freezing prisoners, which is eventually revealed to have greater applications (it's The Ark in case the train fails completely). Season two introduces Mr. and Mrs. Headwood, a pair of isolated, idiosyncratic scientists from Big Alice who care for their work more than humanity and ethics. Season 3 introduces Asha, a western scientist who had been part of a small enclave of survivors in North Korea, hiding out in a nuclear plant. By the time Layton stumbles across her, she's been alone for four years, the other survivors having slowly died off from marauder attacks, the cold, and radiation, once the reactor began to fail.
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Snowpiercer / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Snowpiercer / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Jinju, who cooks for the front section and shares most of their privileges.
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Snowpiercer / int_6d0c6ed6	type	Lead Police Detective
Snowpiercer / int_6d0c6ed6	comment	Lead Police Detective: Layton is brought out of the Tail and given the title Train Detective, allowing him powers to investigate the murders wherever the evidence takes him. This is also Layton's backstory - he was a homicide detective before the Freeze. The Train Detective technically outranks even the Brakemen, Snowpiercer's version of police. In season 2, Bess Till is made Train Detective to investigate the deliberate mutilation of Lights' hand.
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Snowpiercer / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Snowpiercer / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Old Ivan in the pilot. One of the climate scientists at the research station, whose body Melanie finds by the computer terminal, having slit her wrists.
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Snowpiercer / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Snowpiercer / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: The last we see of Josie in Season 1, she appears to have been left to freeze to death. Season 2 reveals that she survived, albeit with extreme frostbite damage to her whole body.
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Snowpiercer / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Snowpiercer / int_7301ae04	comment	Several first class passengers are utterly disgusted by the actions of the Serial Killer when they're revealed during said killer's trial.
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Snowpiercer / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Snowpiercer / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Brakeman Bess Till (a former Detroit cop) kind of wants to take this role in the investigation at the beginning of the series, but doesnâ€™t exactly get off to the right foot with Layton, beating him up for trying to refuse the case, although she has more of the dynamic in the second episode, both about the case and about conditions in the tail.
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Snowpiercer / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Snowpiercer / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: There seems to be an emphasis on how the people with the real power on the train are the senior crew members, rather than the paying first class passengers, but those passengers are allowed to remain on top. In a literal sense, Terrence, the head janitor of the train (and a pre-apocalypse janitor as well), controls the train's extremely influential Black Market.
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Snowpiercer / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Snowpiercer / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "1,001 Cars long". Every opening monologue, no matter the context and who's saying it, ends with that phrase. Which makes the Spoiler Title of the season finale all the more noticeable and meaningful. The phrase is update whenever the situation changes: when seven cars are detached to get rid of the Folgers and Gray, when Wilford's Big Alice latches onto and gets stuck with Snowpiercer, and when Layton and his inner circle destroy the aquarium car and run away with the engine and a ten-car pirate train.
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Snowpiercer / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Snowpiercer / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Pike and a couple of others are sentenced to the prison drawers indefinitely at the beginning of the second episode for their revolt. They're all freed during the revolution at the end of the season.
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Snowpiercer / int_77e73dc7	type	Food as Bribe
Snowpiercer / int_77e73dc7	comment	Food as Bribe: The promise of fresh food is enough to get Pike to turn on the Tail. In season 2, Snowpiercer's ability to grow and trade fresh food proves a critical bargaining chip with Big Alice, which doesn't have the ability to grow food and has been barely subsisting on rations of some kind.
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Snowpiercer / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Snowpiercer / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: LJ's trial ends with a unanimous guilty verdict, only to be reversed by Mr. Wilford commuting her sentence because she reveals during the trial that she knows the secret of the drawers.
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Snowpiercer / int_7a9f921d	type	Extinct in the Future
Snowpiercer / int_7a9f921d	comment	Extinct in the Future: Cattle become extinct in the second episode, when the avalanche shatters the cattle-car's windows and its occupants freeze in seconds. The fourth episode reveals the train also had bee farms until they suffered a colony collapse. Everything that's not currently on the Snowpiercer or Big Alice is likely extinct, possibly aside from some deep sea vent ecosystems. Season 2 reveals that a colony of rats survived in a geothermal vent beneath a climate research station, implying other small species may have survived the same way.
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Snowpiercer / int_7d44b017	type	Balance of Power
Snowpiercer / int_7d44b017	comment	Balance of Power: Snowpiercer has been led by several individuals at various points in its history. At the start of the series, it was led by "Mr. Wilford" (later revealed to be Melanie Cavill, with help from Jinju Seong and the engineers), with power being shared by Hospitality under Melanie Cavill and Ruth Wardell, the Jackboots under Commander Nolan Grey, the Brakemen under Roche, the Night Car under Miss Audrey and First Class led by the Folgers and Rajiv Sharma, while other senior staff and key personnel included Bojan Boscovic, Jinju Seong, Dr. Henry Klimpt, Miss Gillies, Dr. Pelton, The Notary, Terrence, Senior Engineer Bennett Knox and Pastor Logan. After L.J.'s controversial trial and the outing of Melanie's impersonation of Mr. Wilford, the Folgers ended up instigating a coup with the aid of Commander Grey until Melanie and the Tailies overthrew them. Following the revolution, Layton formed a leadership council comprised of himself, Miss Audrey, Roche, Bennett Knox and Ruth Wardell. Mr. Wilford then overthrew them by turning the train against them, declared himself the Conductor and had Roche and his family imprisoned in the Drawers while Layton and Ruth, were sentenced to the Compost. After managing to escape, Layton formed his own pirate train out of the first ten cars of Snowpiercer, comprised of himself, Bennett Knox, Josie Wellstead, Bess Till and Alexandra Cavill, while Ruth ended up left behind on Snowpiercer along with a now vengeful Wilford. With Alexandra Cavill defecting to Layton, and Sykes and Audrey captured, Mr. Wilford's new leadership on the train is comprised of himself, Kevin as The Dragon, and a pregnant Zarah serving as the Honest Advisor / The Good Chancellor (especially against Kevin's The Bad Chancellor). Ruth secretly leads the Resistance, with Pike as her second in command eventually taking over when she is captured. When the Pirate Train attacks the Great Ark Train, Wilford is overthrown again, Kevin is killed and Zarah, no longer a hostage, rejoins Layton and the others. Towards the end of season 3, Melanie reveals Layton's deceit about New Eden, leading to another split. First and Javi support Melanie, the Tail (after a good bit of prodding) support Layton, with the other classes divided between the two. On top of this, Wilford escapes his imprisonment and invokes the balance part of this trope; with core support from devotees like L.J. and the last Jackboots, aiming to provide a third force either Layton or Melanie will have to court in order to win out over the other. Ironically, this only leads them to team up to finally get rid of him, with the train then split between those going onward to New Eden and those staying on the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_820a3792	type	Identity Impersonator
Snowpiercer / int_820a3792	comment	Identity Impersonator: When Melanie is asked to call Mr. Wilford on the spot, she calls someone who knows she's actually Mr. Wilford and is prepared to impersonate him.
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Snowpiercer / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Snowpiercer / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Ruth, first when she discovers Melanie has been posing as Wilford and then when Melanie relates she built the train and that rather than a visionary who saved humanity, Wilford never thought it would work long-term and simply sold tickets so he could live out his last days in luxury while humanity died. "We wouldn't have lasted one revolution with him," Melanie says. While she claims to not believe her, Ruth's reaction makes it clear she's shaken at the idea Melanie is actually telling the truth. In Season 2, when Wilford actually resurfaces alive in the backup storage train Big Alice and takes over Snowpiercer, Ruth gradually discovers just how right Melanie was, and ultimately joins the resistance against him. In Season 3, with Layton off the train looking for hotspots and Melanie's status unknown, Ruth is now the leader of the anti-Wilford resistance.
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Snowpiercer / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Snowpiercer / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Wilford is a self-absorbed despot, but is practically and as seen in season 2, literally worshipped by some passengers.
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Snowpiercer / int_8a943fe3	type	Space Cold War
Snowpiercer / int_8a943fe3	comment	Space Cold War: Melanie engineers this in the season 2 premiere by permanently sabotaging the docking mechanism on Big Alice so it can't disconnect from Snowpiercer, removing Mr. Wilford's primary leverage of being able to detach from Snowpiercer and let the cold kill the passengers.
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Snowpiercer / int_8b2f45df	type	Cryo Sickness
Snowpiercer / int_8b2f45df	comment	Cryo Sickness: Cryogenic suspension in "the drawers" is used for preserving ticketed passengers who commit crimes. Short-term confinement can cause some disorientation, but long-term confinement can lead to drastic brain damage.
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Snowpiercer / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
Snowpiercer / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: Of the "just OK" variety. The train had a prototype only 40 cars long and with less technology, speed and presumably amenities. The season finale reveals that it survived the freeze, with the real Wilford aboard, and has been following the main train the whole time.
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Snowpiercer / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Snowpiercer / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Season 3 - "Born To Bleed": Layton kills Pike in a duel to the death. Season 3 finale - Wilford is exiled on a maintenance vehicle, while Snowpiercer is split in half, with Melanie in one half, and Layton and his supporters on the other. Layton's group manages to reach New Eden, discovering that it's indeed real. L.J chokes to death on her father's glass eye.
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Snowpiercer / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
Snowpiercer / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Miles is a great math student who hopes to eventually get an apprenticeship at the front of the train, working on the engines.
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Snowpiercer / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Snowpiercer / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The very first scenes of the series (recounting how the world froze and the few survivors ended up on the train), as well as the last scene of the Season 1 finale, are presented in a style reminiscent of the original graphic novel.
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Snowpiercer / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Snowpiercer / int_9591377d	comment	Upon losing control of the train, Melanie has a Heel Realization and hands the train over to Layton.
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Snowpiercer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Snowpiercer / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Mr. Wilford from Season 2 onwards, as he's responsible for initially turning Alex against her mother, as well as the deaths of the Brakemen, sabotage of Snowpiercer, turning the majority of the train against Layton and his allies, imprisoned Roche and his family in the Drawers, created a Cult of Personality onboard the train as the Conductor and is also secretly planning a purge of half of the train's inhabitants.
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Snowpiercer / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Snowpiercer / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Melanie does this with Layton when he rages at First having endless opulence while the Tail is starving, telling him that she was originally a poor Ohio farm girl who worked her way up from nothing and as such knows what it's like to feel such anger at those of a higher class.
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Snowpiercer / int_986c3163	type	Mouth of Sauron
Snowpiercer / int_986c3163	comment	Mouth of Sauron: Melanie broadcasts Mr. Wilfordâ€™s will over the PA every day and Ruth visits the tail section to deliver in-person messages.
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Snowpiercer / int_98f22e5f	type	Wardens Are Evil
Snowpiercer / int_98f22e5f	comment	Wardens Are Evil: Done ambiguously so far with Dr. Klimpt, who oversees "the drawers" where prisoners are cryogenically frozen. He has a somewhat creepy, off-putting demeanor, but and protests at the idea of switching to an alternate means of imprisonment, but those could just be poor social skills. He also appears to be dealing drugs made from the chemicals used to render inmates comatose, but claims this is only to get additional necessities for the prisoners.
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Snowpiercer / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Snowpiercer / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: Quite a few of the front passengers, who enjoy rich foods, sauna, bowling, and luxurious cars of their own while squabbling about petty things.
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Snowpiercer / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
Snowpiercer / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: Wilford has one by the name of Jupiter who he orders to sic Javi after he's beaten up by his jackboots for helping Layton's Pirate train escape.
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Snowpiercer / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Snowpiercer / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: Lead Brakeman Roche fills this role at the start of the show, being a gruff leader who is forced to work with Layton against his will and closely watches his progress while rubbing in the lack of privilege of the tail section in Layton's face and resenting the idea that he will bargain to enact change.
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Snowpiercer / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Snowpiercer / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: As par "Old Ivan's Way", the method by which two opposing parties must settle their dispute man to man or fight to the death, the surviving party must spend a night with their deceased foe so as to help guide the into the afterlife.
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Snowpiercer / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Snowpiercer / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The series takes place in 2021, but is set about 7 years after the Freezing, meaning the disastrous attempt at reversing global warming, not to mention the technology for a perpetual motion train like the Snowpiercer happened in 2014, confirmed by the Engine's blueprints in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment. Jinju also mentions that some of the super rich who didn't join the Snowpiercer tried to upload their minds to computers to escape the apocalypse, though it's implied this failed.
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Snowpiercer / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Snowpiercer / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Icy Bob is about 8 feet tall and a few hundred pounds of pure muscle.
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Snowpiercer / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Snowpiercer / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Heavily implied to be the case for people kept in stasis in The Drawers. So far we've only seen two people taken out of stasis, Nikki and Layton, and both were in very rough shape, physically and mentally. According to Nikki, "it's nothing like sleep".
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Snowpiercer / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Snowpiercer / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Layton gives one to the Tailies as they kick off their full-scale revolution.
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Snowpiercer / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Snowpiercer / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Melanie has one in Episode 8 when her impersonation of Wilford is exposed, and an even bigger one in the season finale when she realizes that Wilford is alive and catching up to Snowpiercer on Big Alice.
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Snowpiercer / int_ad806839	type	Sexual Extortion
Snowpiercer / int_ad806839	comment	Sexual Extortion: Osweiler has the son of the woman who lost an arm give him oral sex before he'll give them painkillers.
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Snowpiercer / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
Snowpiercer / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: The series initially started with a Serial Killer onboard, until it was revealed that the Folger's bodyguard, Erik Soto, was revealed to be the killer, acting under orders from his lover and employer, L.J. Folger. Following the death of Erik, L.J.'s controversial trial and the outing of Melanie's impersonation of Mr. Wilford, Lilah & Robert Folger ended up instigating a coup with the aid of Commander Grey and the Jackboots with the overall goal of putting themselves in command of the train, until Melanie and the Tailies overthrew them. Then Mr. Wilford was revealed to be alive and well, having finally caught up with Snowpiercer after apparently chasing after them for seven long years.
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Snowpiercer / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
Snowpiercer / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Possibly - After almost freezing to death in the North Korean power plant during the season 3 premiere, Layton begins having visions of a thriving dragon tree, a plant that only exists in the subtropics, which happens to include the last remaining temperate zone they haven't been able to check yet. Unfortunately, the end of the season reveals that the "vision" was just a picture in a calendar hanging in an open locker that Layton saw while close to death, meaning that the safe zone may very well just be a delusion. At the very least, there's nothing supernatural about what Layton has been seeing.
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Snowpiercer / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
Snowpiercer / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: In the third episode Melanie tries to distract the passengers from the loss of the cattle by organizing a prize fight.
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Snowpiercer / int_b14ca7ba	type	Two Aliases, One Character
Snowpiercer / int_b14ca7ba	comment	Two Aliases, One Character: Unlike in the film, Mr. Wilford does leave the engine and traverse through the train in disguise, being known as Melanie Cavill by the rest of the train. Subverted. There was an actual Mr. Wilford who commissioned the train, but Melanie, the engineer who designed the train, decided that he didn't actually care about keeping civilization afloat (being more interested in maintaining his own comfort), so she left him behind when the train departed and stepped into his shoes.
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Snowpiercer / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Snowpiercer / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Roche seems upset to find out Osweiler has been funneling drugs to the Tail. Several first class passengers are utterly disgusted by the actions of the Serial Killer when they're revealed during said killer's trial.
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Snowpiercer / int_b5b4b24e	type	The Ark
Snowpiercer / int_b5b4b24e	comment	Dr. Klimpt is described as a former research scientist and seems caught up in the science of freezing prisoners, which is eventually revealed to have greater applications (it's The Ark in case the train fails completely).
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Snowpiercer / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
Snowpiercer / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Terrence evokes this with his control of the black market.
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Snowpiercer / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Snowpiercer / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Commander Gray relishes hand to hand combat with the tailies and looks like he's trying not to smile in the third episode when reporting on potentially violent unrest in The Tail.
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Snowpiercer / int_ba014235	type	Cryonics Failure
Snowpiercer / int_ba014235	comment	Cryonics Failure: Roche's wife is revealed to have died while in Drawer stasis, leading to him seeking revenge on Wilford.
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Snowpiercer / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Snowpiercer / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: As it turns out, this is why Melanie left the real Wilford behind and took his identity — he wanted Snowpiercer to exist solely for the sake of his personal comfort, and didn't care at all about the other passengers. When he's properly introduced in Season 2, we see that he runs Big Alice like a cult leader, leaving everyone to starve in discomfort while he keeps all the best food and supplies to himself.
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Snowpiercer / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Snowpiercer / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Bojan Bosovic.
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Snowpiercer / int_c07adb60	type	Unwanted Rescue
Snowpiercer / int_c07adb60	comment	Unwanted Rescue: Zarah, Layton's ex-wife who left the Tailies for a chance to live in third class, says that sheâ€™d rather he have let her die with her family.
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Snowpiercer / int_c142c1ff	type	Childless Dystopia
Snowpiercer / int_c142c1ff	comment	Childless Dystopia: Tail section residents arenâ€™t allowed to have kids until another five years have passed.
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Snowpiercer / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Snowpiercer / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Invoked by Wilford in that he built the special "hand holds" where people would have limbs frozen off as nothing but a bluff only for Ruth to use them thirteen times.
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Snowpiercer / int_c368b650	type	Sports Hero Backstory
Snowpiercer / int_c368b650	comment	Sports Hero Backstory: Brakeman Osweiler is a former soccer star.
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Snowpiercer / int_c498c82b	type	Cracks in the Icy FaÃ§ade
Snowpiercer / int_c498c82b	comment	Cracks in the Icy FaÃ§ade: Ruth began as a Wilford loyalist, not batting an eye when freezing limbs of insurgent passengers, including children. In the course of the series, Andrew's optimism starts to rub more and more on them, and start reflecting on her past, the first time when meeting the little daughter of the woman she mutilated (said mother having volunteered to protect her daughter Ruth originally wanted to punish). In the end of the series, she joined Andrew's colony in East Africa.
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Snowpiercer / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Snowpiercer / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: Season 3 begins with the reveal that while the Freeze is ending as predicted by Melanie's data, the weather patterns means that even the new temperate zones will be uninhabitable for human life for about a century or so, far too long for either Snowpiercer or Big Alice to last. So far, the last remaining hope appears to be a possible exception on the Arabian Peninsula. The trick will be to actually reach it. During his coma, Layton finally discovers that his "vision" of the dragon tree is actually a memory of a photo calendar he saw while almost dying in the North Korean plant, meaning that his faith that New Eden even exists is nothing but a delusion, making it even less likely that the area will be habitable. After being rescued, Melanie is convinced by Wilford that the risks of reaching New Eden are too great due to the faulty tracks, and end up exposing Laytons lie to the whole train, leading to another schism.
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Snowpiercer / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Snowpiercer / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In a flashback to the night the Snowpiercer began it's journey, Wilford referred to the launch as "The Last Train To Clarksville".
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Snowpiercer / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
Snowpiercer / int_c819533b	comment	Rage Breaking Point: Old Ivan being Driven to Suicide in the pilot kicks off another tail section revolt.
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Snowpiercer / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
Snowpiercer / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: Layton's coma dream in "Ouroboros" features just about everyone he knows in real life in different roles on an alternate Snowpiercer that has a Casablanca Noir theme.
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Snowpiercer / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Snowpiercer / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Happens to a squad of Jackboots during the uprising in Episode 8, as the Third Classers have jury-rigged a kind of makeshift ballista launcher in one of the corridors.
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Snowpiercer / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Snowpiercer / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Layton and Pike (a leader of the tail whose claim to fame is escaping from jail to make it onto the train in time as the world froze) donâ€™t get along or share many strategies. Layton also hopes to make common ground with allies in the other sections of the train who are unhappy about the class situation.
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Snowpiercer / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Snowpiercer / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God claims that Bennett is one of the people who built the train, and he takes a keen-eyed interest in maintaining it to keep people alive.
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Snowpiercer / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Snowpiercer / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Notable characters such as Lilah & Robert Folger, Commander Nolan Grey, Terrence, Javi and Bojan Boscovic are all killed off during the show's run, while the fate of Melanie Cavill is left up in the air.
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Snowpiercer / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Snowpiercer / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Commander Gray, an SAS veteran who leads the Jackboots (the train's soldiers), and Lead Brakeman Roche, who instills order on a normal basis for Wilford, come across this way at the start of the show.
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Snowpiercer / int_cff53786	type	Cover Version
Snowpiercer / int_cff53786	comment	Cover Version: Most of Miss Audrey's repertoire is made of those. Till lampshades it in a moment of snark.
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Snowpiercer / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Snowpiercer / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Layton mentions that thirteen rebels had their arms frozen and then broken off after the last attempted revolt, and the first episode ends with a demand that someone suffer that punishment for the most recent one. Ruth ends up demanding the arm of the girl who used the Borrowed Biometric Bypass, but her mother steps up to take the punishment in her place.
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Snowpiercer / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Snowpiercer / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Repeatedly throughout Season 2, Layton gets called out for the post-revolutionary compromises he's being forced to make.
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Snowpiercer / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Snowpiercer / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Melanie rants to Layton about the train being the last bastion of humanity which only persists through order and the dedication of Mr. Wilford, but if that was the only concern then all the passengers would be treated equally.
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Snowpiercer / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Snowpiercer / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Played repeatedly by Mr. Wilford. In season 2, Wilford silently engineers a mechanical failure which threatens to derail the train, one which only he has the capacity to fix. He uses this to create a surge of support and take control of the train. In season 3, an exiled and imprisoned Wilford reveals that Melanie is still alive, and leads the train to her location. Once sheâ€™s back on board, he manipulates her into betraying Layton, and uses the chaos to escape his confinement.
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Snowpiercer / int_d6fce123	type	The Future Is Noir
Snowpiercer / int_d6fce123	comment	The Future Is Noir: The series (or at least the opening mystery arc) involves a mystery in a dark, corrupt, setting where its hard to tell who is trustworthy.
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Snowpiercer / int_d7345a5d	type	Let No Crisis Go to Waste
Snowpiercer / int_d7345a5d	comment	Let No Crisis Go to Waste: A hydraulics failure that nearly derails the entire train proves to be the perfect distraction to diffuse a potential work stoppage in Third. Audrey lampshades that she got lucky with the timing and that Third isn't going to just forget their grievances, but Melanie just smugly tells her to read the room.
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Snowpiercer / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Snowpiercer / int_d8afec40	comment	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome: Melanie, who is in fact Wilford, is constantly voicing praise and support for Wilford's strategies and philosophy.
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Snowpiercer / int_d934b1c7	type	Small, Secluded World
Snowpiercer / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: Since it's impossible to even open a window without freezing to death, the world is for all intents and purposes limited to the Snowpiercer, and even then, the majority of the occupants never leave their designated class areas, especially not the Tailies who are essentially treated like human vermin and imprisoned in the back of the train.
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Snowpiercer / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Snowpiercer / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Till and Jinju start having a heated argument about supplies that's really about their relationship issues, Roche quickly leaves the room to avoid getting caught up in it.
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Snowpiercer / int_dc292b90	type	Ear Ache
Snowpiercer / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: Bojan's ears show signs of frostbite from doing repairs while exposed to the cold.
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Snowpiercer / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Snowpiercer / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: That Wilford would return on the first day in seven years where Melanie isn't opposing him, giving him a divided train to exploit by pure chance.
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Snowpiercer / int_dce448d	type	Reduced to Ratburgers
Snowpiercer / int_dce448d	comment	Reduced to Ratburgers: Miles is responsible for the care of a colony of rats, which are bred as edible livestock by the Tailies. Melanie manages to survive the loss of her rations in "Many Miles from Snowpiercer" thanks to discovering a nest of rats living in the walls of the research station, having survived the Freeze thanks to a geothermal vent in the bedrock. She eats these to last the rest of her stay.
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Snowpiercer / int_dd48b81d	type	Totalitarian Utilitarian
Snowpiercer / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Season 1: When LJ threatens to reveal the drawer project, Melanie has her sentence commuted. When Layton figures out that Mr. Wilford isnâ€™t on the train, Melanie puts him in a drawer. Melanie dismembers and attempts to kill Josie during an interrogation. Upon losing control of the train, Melanie has a Heel Realization and hands the train over to Layton. Season 3: With Melanie off the train and presumed dead, Layton decides that Utopia Justifies the Means, and formulates a lie that there is a habitable land known as New Eden. Layton attempts to resolve a conflict with Pike peacefully. When Pike reveals he knows New Eden is a lie, Layton kills him. Subverted when Melanie, still alive, returns to the train. She hijacks the train, revealing to everyone that New Eden is a lie, and that getting there requires covering dangerous track. This causes Laytonâ€™s support to dwindle.
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Snowpiercer / int_e0222ff2	type	Buy Them Off
Snowpiercer / int_e0222ff2	comment	Buy Them Off: Attempted but averted when LJ offers to arm the Tail after being caught by Layton in exchange for his silence, but he refuses.
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Snowpiercer / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Snowpiercer / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Between the Tailies and Third Classers uniting in revolt, the Jackboots being lured uptrain and cut off from communication, and learning that Wilford is dead, Roche and the other Brakemen stand aside to let the revolution carry on.
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Snowpiercer / int_e1ad8128	type	Lingering Social Tensions
Snowpiercer / int_e1ad8128	comment	Lingering Social Tensions: In the second season the train is ostensibly united after the various factions all came together to repel a brutal counter-revolution, but there's still a lot of bad blood. Namely, the Tailies are still bitter about the years of oppression they faced at Melanie Cavill's hands, and First Class being not at all happy about their loss of privileges over the Tailies. Further complicating things is that all the passengers now know that the train's owner, Mr. Wilford, who many of them view as a Physical God, was cast off the train before it departed, and that Melanie Cavill has been impersonating him for years.
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Snowpiercer / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Snowpiercer / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: The Last Australian is the only Australian onboard the train and therefore is disturbed by the Childless Dystopia nature of the tail section keeping him from having kids to pass on his heritage to. "A Simple Trade" reveals there's a woman from Perth on Big Alice, who'd long assumed she was The Last Australian. Then in Season 3, both of them have died of the flu during the time skip between seasons, so Australians are extinct. Wilford's guard dog Jupiter, who is presumably the last dog on Earth.
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Snowpiercer / int_e27693	type	The Coup
Snowpiercer / int_e27693	comment	The Coup: The Folgers, Commander Grey and Ruth unite to oust Melanie and take over the train when they find out that she's been impersonating Wilford.
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Snowpiercer / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Snowpiercer / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: What Layton hopes to be by getting a job higher up in the train and finding out more about how things work. He also alludes to the Tailies having informers in "half a dozen sectors" already helping them.
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Snowpiercer / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Snowpiercer / int_e7bfdba	comment	Divide and Conquer: Layton leaks the knowledge of Melanie's true identity to LJ so she will in turn reveal it to First. This kickstarts a mutiny in First, with Grey bringing the Jackboots uptrain to support it. Meanwhile, the Tail and Third cut off communications and open the doors to allow the full force of the Tail into the rest of the train. By the time Grey realizes he's been had, they've already set up ambushes and Grey is forced to retreat after a bloody battle.
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Snowpiercer / int_e8123047	type	Borrowed Biometric Bypass
Snowpiercer / int_e8123047	comment	Borrowed Biometric Bypass: In the first episode, a Breakman's severed hand is used to open the Tail doors, only to find Gray and his men waiting on the other side, heavily armed. The third episode shows that the door scanners read an implant in the hand. The black market occasionally extracts these from the deceased and then trades the implant around for whatever they deem valuable. Layton takes advantage of this to get one such implant into the Tail.
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Snowpiercer / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Snowpiercer / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The murderer Layton is looking for castrates the victims as torture and amputates their limbs on top of that.
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Snowpiercer / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Snowpiercer / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Strong Boy and the Last Australian in the season 1 finale, taking down Nolan and the remaining Jackboots before they can execute Layton and Roche
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Snowpiercer / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Snowpiercer / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: Just like in previous versions, the tail section passengers are packed like cattle, fed far worse, and treated as subhuman, even though in this version itâ€™s stated that there is enough room and food to provide for them decently. Outside the Tail, the train's inhabitants are strictly divided into First Class (the super-rich who paid for their fare), Second Class (train employees who attend to the needs of First Class, or whose position or expertise merits respect), and Third Class (manual laborers whose grueling and oft-dangerous work in the sub-train and the agricultural cars keep Snowpiercer in operation).
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Snowpiercer / int_efac5012	type	Fallen Princess
Snowpiercer / int_efac5012	comment	Fallen Princess: LJ becomes this in the Season 1 finale, as the Tallies take over First and toss her out of her cabin to live in Third. In Season 2, she's reduced to working as a janitor. The finle, however, has her regain some of her old status as one of Wilford's favourites.
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Snowpiercer / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Snowpiercer / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: The survivors on Big Alice had no contact with Snowpiercer since it started its journey so have no idea how the Snowpiercer society has evolved. Markedly, they have no idea what a Tailie is.
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Snowpiercer / int_f081b6bc	type	EmoTeen
Snowpiercer / int_f081b6bc	comment	Emo Teen: Teenaged first class passenger LJ Folger is introduced slumped back in a chair, looking bored and/or embarked listening to her mother complaining about the sauna and then letting out an irritated groan after being forbidden from taking a trip down to Third Class. This is somewhat justified given the nature of the train's society, being constantly overlooked and it being established how much difficulty she has feeling anything on it. This takes a darker turn once it's revealed she convinced her bodyguard to help her commit the murders simply so she'd be able to feel something.
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Snowpiercer / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
Snowpiercer / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: The Folgers, Commander Grey, the majority of the Jackboots, several First Class passengers, as well as a handful of Tail prisoners, are left behind to die during the Rebellion, but their deaths are never shown. Melanie walks out into the frozen wastes after being left behind by Snowpiercer during Wilford's takeover and Layton's hijacking, leaving her records and data behind in the research station, but we have no comfirmation of her death
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Snowpiercer / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Snowpiercer / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Ruth Wardell has a heavy Yorkshire accent, loves wearing furs, and serves as Wilford's liaison to the Tail, whose population she treats with disdain. She is essentially a younger version of Minister Mason from the film.
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Snowpiercer / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Snowpiercer / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: There is a certain amount of dissent towards the train's system in Third Class. They're the ones who do the most real work in keeping the train working and its passengers fed, while receiving less privileges than many others who do far less, and having to lobby hard to even warrant having a third class juror placed on the jury trying the First Class murderer of Third Class passengers.
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