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The Dead Zone

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The Dead Zone	comment	The Dead Zone, a.k.a. Stephen King's Dead Zone (in the USA) is a 2002 American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series based on Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, Starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith.Small-town teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a car accident that leaves him comatose for approximately six years. After regaining consciousness, Johnny begins having visions of the past and future triggered by touching items or people; doctors attribute the visions to activity in a previously unused "dead zone" of his brain that is attempting to compensate for the impaired function of the portions injured in the accident. Johnny also learns that his fiancée, Sarah, gave birth to his son in the interim following the accident, but has since married another man.With the help of Sarah, her husband Walt, and physical therapist Bruce, Johnny begins using his abilities to help solve crimes. However, his attempts to do good are complicated by intermittent visions of apocalyptic events brought about following the future election of congressional candidate Greg Stillson (Sean Patrick Flanery) to be President of the United States.The show was originally commissioned for UPN, but the network later dropped the show and it was picked up instead by USA Network. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for its first five seasons. The sixth and last season was billed as "The season that changes everything" and production was moved to Montreal. The Dead Zone was expected to be renewed for a seventh season, however due to low ratings and high production cost the series was canceled in December 2007, without a proper series finale.Not to be confused with the first Dragon Ball Z movie.
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The Dead Zone / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
The Dead Zone / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: In the second episode, Johnny has a vision of himself comforting Sarah at Walt's funeral and is tempted to let the latter die. He doesn't go through with it.
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The Dead Zone / int_1122f435	type	Pregnant Hostage
The Dead Zone / int_1122f435	comment	Pregnant Hostage: Late in Season 5, Sarah is kidnapped during the early stages of pregnancy. This isn't revealed to the audience (or her family) until the midpoint of the episode, though.
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The Dead Zone / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Dead Zone / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Rev. Purdy, Bruce Lewis, and Malcolm Janus.
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The Dead Zone / int_118a41d5	type	Daydream Surprise
The Dead Zone / int_118a41d5	comment	Daydream Surprise: Occasionally, John or someone else will get themselves killed, only for the scene to snap back and reveal that it was just a vision. John then takes another action, preventing the death.
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The Dead Zone / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Dead Zone / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: "The Cold Hard Truth" has a VERY thinly-veiled Expy of Howard Stern.
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The Dead Zone / int_133938ca	type	Costume-Test Montage
The Dead Zone / int_133938ca	comment	Costume-Test Montage: At the beginning of "Dinner with Dana", Dana combines this with the Lingerie Scene as she prepares for her date with Johnny.
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The Dead Zone / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
The Dead Zone / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The opening narration retains the line "My son doesn't know who I am," for a while after the Internal Reveal. They finally update it after a few episodes.
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The Dead Zone / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Dead Zone / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In episode 1.10, the small town of entirely white people give strange looks to the only black man around (Bruce) and a few of them end up tracking him down to attack him unprovoked. The two things aren't correlated in context, but the subtext is clear as day.
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The Dead Zone / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Dead Zone / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Every version features the phrase "the dead zone". However, oddly enough each version ascribes the phrase a different meaning. In the TV series, Johnny's powers stem from the fact that his brain was badly enough damaged during the coma that certain mental functions were re-routed through an area which had up until then been dormant — a "dead zone".
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The Dead Zone / int_198bef8	type	ManBehindTheMan
The Dead Zone / int_198bef8	comment	Malcolm Janus in the final season. He was the Man Behind the Man for much of the show, the Big Bad of Season 5, and an all-around Magnificent Bastard...and best of all, that season's finale seems to be setting us up for a BIG epic showdown between him and Johnny. And what happens? In the first episode of Season Six, he is killed ignominiously in a fire along with Sheriff Walt Bannerman.
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The Dead Zone / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Dead Zone / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Walt, particularly one scene with him standing around in his underwear.
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The Dead Zone / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Dead Zone / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The Christopher Wey arc of Seasons 2 and 3 seems to be building up to some major revelations about what leads to Armageddon. Ultimately, however, Johnny decides to throw away the object that allows him to have psychic conversations with people after Armageddon at the start of Season 4 after being lied to and manipulated by his future self. See Trivia for why. More blatantly was how the promise of an epic fate-of-the-world final duel in the Season 5 finale between Johnny and Janus was unceremoniously thrown away in the first episode of Season 6, which has Janus killed in a fire and Armageddon seemingly prevented, just like that. Frustratingly, this arc seems to be restarted in the Season 6 finale only for the show to be cancelled.
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The Dead Zone / int_246330ec	type	Noir Episode
The Dead Zone / int_246330ec	comment	Noir Episode: Season Six's "Switch", which involves Johnny trying to protect a Femme Fatale from being thrown off a train. Bonus points for most of the action taking place at night — with the train stations seeming lit specifically for noir.
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The Dead Zone / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Dead Zone / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: "Zion" is a It's a Wonderful Plot episode where Bruce sees how Johnny's life would turn out if they never meet: Johnny gets killed while attempting to murder Stilson. Bruce is a Canon Foreigner and the turn of events is how the novels ends.
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The Dead Zone / int_275d19ee	type	Birds of a Feather
The Dead Zone / int_275d19ee	comment	Birds of a Feather: John and Alex are immediately attracted to each other due to their similar personalities and to both of them being psychic.
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The Dead Zone / int_28604695	type	Rogue Juror
The Dead Zone / int_28604695	comment	Rogue Juror: The episode "Unreasonable Doubt", a Whole-Plot Reference to 12 Angry Men, right down to the fact that Johnny initially votes not guilty not because of any doubts that his powers had given him about the evidence, but because he knows that the accused is facing a death sentence (in this case, he has a vision of him being shanked in prison) and wants to be sure they've done their job properly.
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The Dead Zone / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
The Dead Zone / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Johnny is tempted to let this happen to Walt in the second episode after seeing a vision of himself getting back together with Sarah at the funeral. He doesn't go through with it. He eventually dies for real in the sixth season, opening up the possibility of John and Sarah coming back together.
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The Dead Zone / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Dead Zone / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Sarah suspects that Walt is having an affair in one episode after acting more distant than usual. It turns out his gun was stolen by a criminal, explaining why he is so distracted. Miranda finds an unknown earring in Stillson's room, which is what drives her into the arms of John. Later it turns out Stillson meant to give her the earrings as a present, but had simply misplaced one. She does not take this well. Except then it turns out the earrings were poisoned by the man who revealed this to her, so who knows what they were really meant for.
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The Dead Zone / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
The Dead Zone / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Reverend Purdy's first priority is almost always his own self-interest, but at his core he's a good man who wrestles with the morally ambiguous decisions he finds himself making and he truly does care about Johnny's well-being.
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The Dead Zone / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
The Dead Zone / int_2ec219ee	comment	The TV series added the character of Bruce, Johnny's best friend, who wasn't in the book. The season 2 episode "Zion" shows what would have happened if Bruce wasn't in Johnny's life. For the most part, things play out exactly how they did in the book... except instead of Stillson attempting to use a human shield, he is instead knocked to the ground as protection, meaning Stillson escaped the assassination attempt with his reputation intact.
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The Dead Zone / int_2ff4c09b	type	Special Person, Normal Name
The Dead Zone / int_2ff4c09b	comment	Special Person, Normal Name: Johnny Smith. Leads to a Running Gag where people smile and treat his name like it's a cover name.
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The Dead Zone / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Dead Zone / int_309b8806	comment	Johnny is in bed with Dana, and since he's in his bed, memories of Sarah crouch up, and just when you think he's Cursed with Awesome because A Threesome Is Hot, David Ogden Stiers as the ex shows up in the vision.
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The Dead Zone / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
The Dead Zone / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Okay! So Janus is dead, Stilson tells Johnny he's going to change his ways, and Johnny sees Washington D.C. perfectly fine. Happy ending — wait... there's a whole season left?!? More apparent when you watch it on DVD, or otherwise know that Season 6 is the last, and thus there isn't going to be a new big arc to replace Armageddon.
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The Dead Zone / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
The Dead Zone / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: In 1.10, "Here There Be Monsters", John is detained on a witchcraft charge to try and frame him for a murder.
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The Dead Zone / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
The Dead Zone / int_37690091	comment	In "Shaman", Johnny meets a Native guy from the past who has the same ability he has. The Native saw Johnny appear to him in Johnny's future, so he knows he has to save Johnny so Johnny can later appear in his past. Is something of a Stable Time Loop as well.
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The Dead Zone / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
The Dead Zone / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Maggie from "Switch" is able to read people this way, which John is able to confirm with his visions. She correctly identifies a couple as being on the brink of divorce based on their clothing, and another man as a secret crossdresser based on his tan line. She is also able to correctly assume details about John and Sarah's complex relationship.
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The Dead Zone / int_3f1aadeb	type	Strictly Formula
The Dead Zone / int_3f1aadeb	comment	Strictly Formula: Good luck finding an episode where the vision that sets up the plot of the episode does not occur in the Cold Open.
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The Dead Zone / int_3f2e2a7c	type	Same Face, Different Name
The Dead Zone / int_3f2e2a7c	comment	One episode has a hotel desk clerk reading a book by Richard Bachman.
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The Dead Zone / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Dead Zone / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So Averted. Turns out the the visions of the future allows one to change it.
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The Dead Zone / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Dead Zone / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Johnny always has good intentions, but he's not afraid to use his knowledge of the future to manipulate those around him for the best possible outcome. Using his knowledge of people's personal traumas, sabotaging police operations, and keeping information from his allies are all fair game if it gets the desirable result.
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The Dead Zone / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Dead Zone / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: "Cycle of Violence" ends with a student getting shot in the stomach. An ambulance is called, but the episode ends before we found out whether he survived or not.
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The Dead Zone / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
The Dead Zone / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Malcolm Janus in the final season. He was the Man Behind the Man for much of the show, the Big Bad of Season 5, and an all-around Magnificent Bastard...and best of all, that season's finale seems to be setting us up for a BIG epic showdown between him and Johnny. And what happens? In the first episode of Season Six, he is killed ignominiously in a fire along with Sheriff Walt Bannerman. Walt could count as well since it seemed calculated to give Johnny and Sarah a chance to hook up, but the ramifications of his death were handled much more realistically.
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The Dead Zone / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
The Dead Zone / int_44bed14c	comment	Hostage Situation: The bank robber in ep 1.08 "The Siege". John allows himself to be captured in order to keep everyone alive.
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The Dead Zone / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
The Dead Zone / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The series is implied to be this compared to the book. The closest the show had gotten to the book was the Season 2 episode "Zion", which showed what would have happened if Bruce hadn't been around. Things don't play out exactly how they did in the book, as Stillson doesn't try and use someone as a human shield, meaning Johnny dies without bringing him down.
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The Dead Zone / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
The Dead Zone / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Both Stilson and Janus view Johnny as this.
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The Dead Zone / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Dead Zone / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Johnny's mother is revealed to have died during Johnny's coma — by suicide, out of grief over losing her son. In the book, she's the voice of "faith" for Johnny... which Rev. Purdy supplies in the series. Johnny's father is indicated to have died a long time before the series begins. In the book, he's Johnny's voice of reason. Bruce fills that role in the series.
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The Dead Zone / int_48e453d0	type	Episode on a Plane
The Dead Zone / int_48e453d0	comment	In the Episode on a Plane "Cabin Pressure", one extra notably sleeps through the entire troubled flight and awakens only after the danger has passed. Something very similar happens with one passenger on the dimension-crossing flight in Stephen King's short story "The Langoliers".
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The Dead Zone / int_4c5f0662	type	Girl Next Door
The Dead Zone / int_4c5f0662	comment	Played with some with Sarah and Dana (seasons 1 and 2). Sarah, a brunette, Johnny's old Childhood Friend Romance, is Betty, but she's married now. Dana, the redhead, is more like a typical Veronica.
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The Dead Zone / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
The Dead Zone / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Walt and Janus are killed off in the sixth season's first episode. Halfway through the episode, even.
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The Dead Zone / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
The Dead Zone / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: John generally avoids this, due to his visions being unpredictable. In "Deja Vodoo", however, he sees a vision of himself kissing a woman and then goes on to dazzle her with his powers to make it come true. He ends up sleeping with her, but due to the unique "Groundhog Day" Loop rules of the episode, he decides to let her go so she can marry someone else.
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The Dead Zone / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Dead Zone / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: They manage to break up Stillson and Sarah, but by doing that The End of the World as We Know It is put back on track; it had previously been averted. Thanks both to a WGA strike and declining ratings, this cliffhanger is not resolved. Potentially a Bittersweet Ending, as Johnny's father notes that if Johnny doesn't marry Sarah the world will end. Just before he dies, he tells Johnny that Sarah still loves him, despite the rift. Further, an arc over the course of the season has culminated in JJ discovering his own "dead zone" abilities — which may be even more powerful than Johnny's. As such, the fact that Sarah and Johnny are on the path to reconciliation in the final scene implies that things might be on the right track, after all. In addition, given how casually The End of the World as We Know It became an Aborted Arc in the Season 6 premiere, Armageddon might not be that hard to stop after all.
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The Dead Zone / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Dead Zone / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In the very first episode, the doctor confirms both that Johnny's mother is dead and he's been unconscious for six years, both of which are departures from the source material and indicate that the show is going to stick to its own ideas.
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The Dead Zone / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Dead Zone / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: John and Bruce are able to use a vision to re-create a murder in the pilot, with Bruce "playing" the victim. In later episodes John can't conjure up scenes at will, and only he can take the role of other people.
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The Dead Zone / int_524904cd	type	Pensieve Flashback
The Dead Zone / int_524904cd	comment	Pensieve Flashback: Some of Johnny's visions work in this manner. He can even sometimes rewind or replay the vision in Bullet Time to get a better perspective of the events he's seeing.
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The Dead Zone / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Dead Zone / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: In "Cabin Pressure", Johnny sees the Captain of the plane throw the aircraft into its destructive dive, leading him to naturally conclude that he wanted to crash it. When he's deposed and another vision shows the co-pilot doing the same thing, he instead realizes he was trying to save the plane.
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The Dead Zone / int_551c5085	type	It's a Wonderful Plot
The Dead Zone / int_551c5085	comment	It's a Wonderful Plot: "Zion", where Bruce sees what it would have been like had he not left his hometown (and not been there for Johnny). Resulting plot is a Mythology Gag based on the original novel's ending.
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The Dead Zone / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Dead Zone / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Johnny and Stillson deeply dislike and distrust one another, but they are occasionally forced to work together to solve the mystery of the week.
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The Dead Zone / int_5c219298	type	Phony Psychic
The Dead Zone / int_5c219298	comment	Phony Psychic: John is often accused of being a fake psychic, but is always able to prove the accusations wrong.
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The Dead Zone / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Dead Zone / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Season 6 shows that, unlike Janus, Stillson doesn't actually want to destroy the world, and has been holding Smith's father as a captive psychic in order to use his visions to gain power without causing Armageddon.
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The Dead Zone / int_6a3bedce	type	Modesty Bedsheet
The Dead Zone / int_6a3bedce	comment	Modesty Bedsheet: Dana, Sarah, and any love interest for Johnny or Stilson or whoever that has a bed scene.
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The Dead Zone / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Dead Zone / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The pilot suggests that Johnny woke up when the nurse whose house was burning down brushed his arm because he had a vision of her daughter. The Season 1 finale reveals that in fact he woke up the moment Greg Stillson was sworn in as a state representative, kicking off the main story arc of the next few seasons. In addition, the pilot also implies that Johnny was in a coma from the moment of the crash. A Season 3 episode has him discovering lost memories of his lingering before ultimately losing consciousness in the hospital. "Babble On" has a memorable one where Johnny discovers that his father didn't die when he thought, but at some point gained the same abilities Johnny did, only stronger... which seemingly drove him insane. This leads to another one in the Season 6 finale, where he discovers that his father's alive, and being held by Stilson as an unwitting adviser. The Season 5 finale reveals that not only dos Janus know about Johnny's visions of Armageddon...he and his crew actually want it to happen, so as to rid the world of the old order and bring in the new. The Retcon concerning Janus's organization can count as this: They may not have been the Illuminati after all — but a band of crooked former soldiers posing as a grand, evil cabal so they can intimidate people into giving them what they want.
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The Dead Zone / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Dead Zone / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Malcolm Janus
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The Dead Zone / int_6f059863	type	Oddly Small Organization
The Dead Zone / int_6f059863	comment	Oddly Small Organization: Initially, it can be pretty hard to believe that Janus's "Coalition for a Better America" consists of the small group of former soldiers in the photo Johnny and Walt discover late in Season 5 — until we realize that 1) aside from Janus himself, we've barely seen anyone from his group, and 2) those in the photo could easily be explained as the leadership who formed the Coalition out of an elaborate con game.
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The Dead Zone / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
The Dead Zone / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: Johnny is critically injured in a car accident and is in a coma for six years. When he wakes up, he has Psychic Powers, including precognition and psychometry. Averted with his physical state, though. It takes few operations, implants and months of rehabilitation for him to be able to even move on his own. He's well-aware and informed many times that he will be never as strong as before the accident.
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The Dead Zone / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Dead Zone / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: In an episode guest starring Lochlyn Munro and Ally Sheedy as old friends of Johnny's who are brother and sister, he kept getting visions that ended up in the same way; the sister, with whom Johnny shares a mutual attraction, getting into a fatal car accident so her heart goes to her brother, who is in desperate need of it. He tries desperately to change the events, but is forced to let it happen at the end.
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The Dead Zone / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Dead Zone / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Johnny holds on to it pretty tight in the episode "Panic". A teenager in the witness protection program shows up at his door bleeding from a gunshot wound in the leg. Johnny doesn't call the police, and performs terrible first aid on the leg. When the assassins try to get into the house, Johnny activates his security system, but doesn't punch in the panic code that would automatically alert the authorities. Then, when one of them is trying to break into the room where he is hiding with the witness and his own son, the three of them rush up to the door to hold it shut knowing the guy has a gun. He's lucky he has the Power of Plot on his side.
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The Dead Zone / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
The Dead Zone / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Poor Bruce, who must be spending every spare moment away from his physical therapist job helping Johnny on his various adventures. Sarah also fills this role on occasion throughout the series — most blatantly in Season 6, following Bruce leaving town.
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The Dead Zone / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Dead Zone / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Dana leaves in the second season. The Bus Came Back eventually, but only for one episode. Bruce and Gene Purdy in Season 6 of the show. Rebecca leaves in the fourth season premiere, and she hints that she might return someday.
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The Dead Zone / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
The Dead Zone / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Discussed in the second episode; when Johnny and Bruce recreate the failed murder attempt, Bruce realizes why Allison is still alive even though they were certain the killer targeted her: because Bruce called her to warn her, she ran into the house instead of walked, and thus got past the killer waiting to ambush her without realizing the danger she was in. The TV series added the character of Bruce, Johnny's best friend, who wasn't in the book. The season 2 episode "Zion" shows what would have happened if Bruce wasn't in Johnny's life. For the most part, things play out exactly how they did in the book... except instead of Stillson attempting to use a human shield, he is instead knocked to the ground as protection, meaning Stillson escaped the assassination attempt with his reputation intact.
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The Dead Zone / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
The Dead Zone / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: See example under The Missus and the Ex.
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The Dead Zone / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
The Dead Zone / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: The final season changes the status quo a great deal. It replaces both the Opening Narration and the Opening Credits with a simple Title-Only Opening. Walt is Killed Off for Real which ends up changing the family dynamic between John, JJ and Sarah. His replacement is a hard Agent Scully, making John's job a lot harder. Bruce is written out as well, leaving John without a Watson. Also, Sarah has a new hairstyle.
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The Dead Zone / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
The Dead Zone / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Nearly every episode until Season 6 has Johnny explaining the premise of the show to the audience:
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The Dead Zone / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Dead Zone / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The visions in "Cabin Pressure" reveals that the pilots' attempts to save the out-of-control plane end up being the things that cause it to explode.
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The Dead Zone / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Dead Zone / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Walt gets his in the second episode. When Johnny comes to him to explain he's had a vision of a murder, Walt seems to just shove him out the door with a promise to call him with any updates. It seems like a meaningless platitude, but after he's gone, Walt actually sends out a patrol to look for her like he promised he would.
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The Dead Zone / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
The Dead Zone / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: The fourth season finale is a Christmas Special. While there is some minor danger, most of the conflicts are solved early on. It ends on what is probably one of the most wholesome and sugary sweet moments in the entire show.
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The Dead Zone / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
The Dead Zone / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Sarah, upon seeing the baby Johnny found in "Grains of Sand". Maternal instinct on overdrive.
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The Dead Zone / int_85ca9dab	type	Second Love
The Dead Zone / int_85ca9dab	comment	Second Love: Walt for Sarah.
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The Dead Zone / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
The Dead Zone / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: In "Shaman", Johnny meets a Native guy from the past who has the same ability he has. The Native saw Johnny appear to him in Johnny's future, so he knows he has to save Johnny so Johnny can later appear in his past. Is something of a Stable Time Loop as well. A loose story arc beginning in Season 2's "The Storm" and continuing on to the premier of Season 4 has Johnny regularly contacted by future counterpart Christopher Wey, who survived Armageddon and is just as desperate to find out how it happened as Johnny is. Ultimately, Johnny breaks contact because of the harm it's been risking to his brain. Also "Collision" Johnny finds out his future self appeared to him in a vision right after the car crash and saved his life otherwise Johnny wouldn't be alive.
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The Dead Zone / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
The Dead Zone / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Grandson: When Artie comes to Johnny in ep 1.04 "Enigma" after seeing a woman he loved sixty years ago, not aged a day, it turns out to be a case of Identical Granddaughter.
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The Dead Zone / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
The Dead Zone / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Most of the season finales, naturally — but also "Babble On", where Johnny investigates what really happened to his father, culminating in a Wham Line as he confronts Rev. Purdy: "WAS MY FATHER LIKE ME?!"
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The Dead Zone / int_90f2fd8a	type	Grandfather Paradox
The Dead Zone / int_90f2fd8a	comment	Grandfather Paradox: Played with in "Visions". Johnny meets a man from the future who tells Johnny that he needs to figure out how he ended up in a coma (and activated his own Dead Zone). The dilemma is if Johnny does, the man never goes into a coma to have a vision to tell Johnny about it. Ultimately subverted as the man ultimately changes priorities to saving his family — which Johnny does.
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The Dead Zone / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Dead Zone / int_927b2f11	comment	Dana leaves in the second season. The Bus Came Back eventually, but only for one episode.
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The Dead Zone / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Dead Zone / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Played with some with Sarah and Dana (seasons 1 and 2). Sarah, a brunette, Johnny's old Childhood Friend Romance, is Betty, but she's married now. Dana, the redhead, is more like a typical Veronica. Sarah could be dealing with her own inverted version: The sensitive Nice Guy Johnny as Betty, and the Manly Man Walt as Veronica.
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The Dead Zone / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Dead Zone / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Despite his many crimes and corrupt dealings, Stillson had nothing to do with the murder of Rachel Caldwell or the apparent murder of Miranda Ellis ( at least, not the first time around), despite being Smith's prime suspect in both cases. In fact in the former case Stillson flew into a murderous rage upon learning the true culprit's identity and killed him ( his father), and in the latter case he was actually forced to team up with Smith to clear his name.
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The Dead Zone / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
The Dead Zone / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: From the Season 4 premiere to the Season 6 premiere, Greg Stilson and Malcolm Janus.
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The Dead Zone / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Dead Zone / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: The Season 6 finale indicated this has happened with Stilson. Janus may be dead but Stilson seems to be running the organization in his place — and doing a disturbingly good job of it.
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The Dead Zone / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Dead Zone / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: John's mother appearing alive during his It's a Wonderful Plot episode where he never lapsed into a coma suggests that his accident is directly related to her death. A few episodes later reveals that she was Driven to Suicide when she was told that John would never wake up.
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The Dead Zone / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Dead Zone / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The logo of the Native American casino in "Dead Men Tell Tales" is the cave drawing the old shaman in Johnny's vision of the past made of Johnny in "Shaman".
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The Dead Zone / int_9e1beee3	type	90% of Your Brain
The Dead Zone / int_9e1beee3	comment	90% of Your Brain: Johnny's powers come from the "dead zone" of his brain being activated.
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The Dead Zone / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
The Dead Zone / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Sarah has a simple and somewhat hauntingly tragic piano melody (a version of which, interestingly enough, also serves as the end credits theme). Also, the emotional arc in Seasons 2 and 3 involving her emotional reconciliation with Walt over the events of "Destiny" is powered by a sadly romantic theme, introduced in the opening scene of "Descent".
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The Dead Zone / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Dead Zone / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted with Reverend Gene Purdy, who is a typical Protestant minister and dresses in suits.
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The Dead Zone / int_ac7cbf8d	type	Myth Arc
The Dead Zone / int_ac7cbf8d	comment	Myth Arc turned into Aborted Arc: The TV show is based off of Johnny trying to stop Stillson's rise to power. At the start of Season 6, this is dropped entirely, leaving the show to do a bunch of standalone episodes. The ratings suffered from the drastic changes to everything. Realizing their mistake, the writers picked up the arc again at the end... just in time for the show to get canceled.
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The Dead Zone / int_add9abb3	type	The Missus and the Ex
The Dead Zone / int_add9abb3	comment	The Missus and the Ex: Johnny is in bed with Dana, and since he's in his bed, memories of Sarah crouch up, and just when you think he's Cursed with Awesome because A Threesome Is Hot, David Ogden Stiers as the ex shows up in the vision. Also, Sarah's entire life in the show until Walt dies in the season 6 premiere. She's fully committed to Walt, but the Love Triangle is still always there.
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The Dead Zone / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Dead Zone / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Bruce has a tendency to take his wacky circumstances with a dry quip and wise advice.
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The Dead Zone / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Dead Zone / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "There's still time." Reviewer Billie Doux refers to this as "The Dead Zone Mantra."
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The Dead Zone / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Dead Zone / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Dana. Sarah also has her moments.
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The Dead Zone / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
The Dead Zone / int_b2279346	comment	The Retcon concerning Janus's organization can count as this: They may not have been the Illuminati after all — but a band of crooked former soldiers posing as a grand, evil cabal so they can intimidate people into giving them what they want.
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The Dead Zone / int_b2e7f372	type	The Anticipator
The Dead Zone / int_b2e7f372	comment	The Anticipator: Johnny plays this trope very well by sometimes exploiting his Spider-Sense and sometimes just being really intuitive. In the episode "Vanguard", when Stilson returns to his limo in front of the lab, Johnny is sitting in the other seat already, which temporarily surprises Stilson. It is unclear whether his powers had anything to do with it. Johnny, since he is psychic, exploits Spider-Sense to invoke this plenty of times. However, some instances stands out; in the episode "Double Vision" Johnny knows fellow psychic Alex will be in a parking garage so he waits for her casually. However, this trope gets weirdly subverted when Alex also anticipates him being there in the parking garage. They are expecting each other, but both refuse to be the one to open the door. Neither ever see each other in that scene. Alex becomes the Anticipator later when a clue she leaves for Johnny leads him to a fancy restaurant. She has prepared for him a sports coat he likes, but pretends not to; she has ordered his favorite foods, and she begins rambling about what he'll think of the meal.
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The Dead Zone / int_b3aa5504	type	Convenient Coma
The Dead Zone / int_b3aa5504	comment	Convenient Coma: It's one of few examples where this trope is averted.
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The Dead Zone / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Dead Zone / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: In "Deja Voodoo", Johnny lives the visions, and when he and the Girl of the Week get shot, it resets to the point of the original vision.
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The Dead Zone / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Dead Zone / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Also, Sarah's entire life in the show until Walt dies in the season 6 premiere. She's fully committed to Walt, but the Love Triangle is still always there.
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The Dead Zone / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
The Dead Zone / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Arthur Allen (George Murdock) in "Enigma".
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The Dead Zone / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Dead Zone / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Kind of subverted with Johnny as they don't really happen, but he lives the personal visions. He even went so far to say that one vision living through another man's affair was his first time since Sarah. He even had a vision of being in bed with Dana before actually being in bed with Dana. A tally is being kept in the trivia section
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The Dead Zone / int_c222c94f	type	Hiding Behind Religion
The Dead Zone / int_c222c94f	comment	Hiding Behind Religion: The series' Big Bad is a corrupt, manipulative, womanizing sociopath with an encyclopedic memory of scripture who represents himself in public as deeply religious. In contrast, Reverend Gene Purdy is a genuinely religious character who at first seems sinister but over the course of the series proves to actually be compassionate and well-intentioned, albeit prone to a lot of internal conflict over the more ethically questionable decisions he makes from time to time.
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The Dead Zone / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Dead Zone / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Somewhat subverted in "Misbegotten" when Penny, the obsessed Crazy Cat Lady, wants to have Johnny's baby. Johnny is not thrilled. It's not portrayed as good at all, but she's portrayed as slightly sympathetic.
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The Dead Zone / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: At one point, it seems like a broken and tearful Stilson has been defeated, though a potential scandal involving double-homicide. And then Janus shows up, and takes charge as his new mentor. Season 6 has one with the death of Janus, and Johnny shaking Stilson's hand and seeing a perfectly fine Washington, D.C. Turns out Stilson — and presumably Janus — have been using Johnny's father as a drugged adviser to help them anticipate future events — and when he dies, Johnny sees the Armageddon vision again. For the characters, the season also builds up to Sarah and Johnny falling in love again. But then Sarah learns that Johnny lied to her about the circumstances of Walt's death, and a rift occurs which doesn't heal until the last moments of the season finale.
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The Dead Zone / int_c5249b29	comment	Sarah could be dealing with her own inverted version: The sensitive Nice Guy Johnny as Betty, and the Manly Man Walt as Veronica.
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The Dead Zone / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point, Bruce is seen playing Halo: Combat Evolved while on the phone with Johnny. An aspiring writer who Johnny sees in a vision is told that "Stephen King must be shaking in his boots." In the Episode on a Plane "Cabin Pressure", one extra notably sleeps through the entire troubled flight and awakens only after the danger has passed. Something very similar happens with one passenger on the dimension-crossing flight in Stephen King's short story "The Langoliers". In "The Storm" Robert Picardo says Jane Lynch was a Firestarter, which she dismisses as accidents. Wild Mass Guessing could be that she is Charlie grown up. One episode has a hotel desk clerk reading a book by Richard Bachman.
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The Dead Zone / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Beautifully done in season 3 when Sarah finally tells JJ that Johnny is his biological father. JJ doesn't want to believe it and runs up to his room; Sarah and Walt follow. Johnny slowly, sadly heads to the door... and JJ reappears.
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The Dead Zone / int_ca270ea2	comment	We Have Those, Too: On the first episode, Sarah starts explaining to Johnny what a CD is, only for him to tell them that they had CDs when he went into his coma in 1996.
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The Dead Zone / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Season 3's twelfth episode reveals that Johnny's dead zone is killing him; without brain surgery to operate (and remove his psychic ability), he will die. He has been experiencing blackouts, memory loss and debilitating headaches. Season 3 ends with Johnny collapsed in his house from his condition. Season 4 opens with Johnny in the hospital. He checks himself out, never gets the surgery, experiences no further blackouts, never mentions the surgery, and is shown to be in perfect health once again by the next episode with no explanation whatsoever. See the Trivia for the full behind the scenes situation.
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The Dead Zone / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Walt and Malcolm Janus in the beginning of Season 6. In the finale, Stilson's former dragon Sonny.
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The Dead Zone / int_ce6652e5	comment	Classy Cat-Burglar: Maggie, from "Switch". She's beautiful, stylish and claims to only steal from "the rich and well insured." She doesn't have any fighting skills, preferring to use deception and Slipping a Mickey.
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The Dead Zone / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Johnny, when he was a science teacher.
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The Dead Zone / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Mr. Cartwright from "Unreasonable Doubt" calls Johnny a stubborn fool for refusing to change his not guilty vote when everyone disagrees with him. When the position gets reversed, he completely loses it, says that everyone else let a "nutcase" influence their thoughts, and refuses to change his vote.
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The Dead Zone / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Johnny has constant visions of it.
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The Dead Zone / int_d9c4365c	comment	Reset Button: Occasionally.
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The Dead Zone / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Sheriff Bannerman. He's a calm, level-headed leader who's good at his job, keeps an open mind towards Johnny's powers from the very beginning, and realizes that even when Johnny is working against him, they're both working towards the same goals.
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The Dead Zone / int_dd5c2ab6	comment	All Abusers Are Male: In the first season episode "Unreasonable Doubt" Johnny expresses sympathy for a fellow juror who he sees was attacked (probably raped) by a group of men by saying it's something no man can really understand because they never experienced it (denying both male victims of this, plus female perpetrators).
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The Dead Zone / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Caring for a kid shot in the leg, Johnny starts by tying a tourniquet above the wound. See the trope page for why this is a bad idea. He also does this while the kid is sitting on his countertop with the leg dangling down. The first thing you should do with a heavily bleeding wound is elevate the limb, to lessen the blood flow.
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The Dead Zone / int_e022585	comment	Television Geography: The first 5 seasons were filmed in Vancouver. The obvious signs are the Rogers video stores.
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The Dead Zone / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: in episode 1.07, "Enemy Mind", Johnny, suffering hallucinatory versions of his visions due to exposure to ketamine, sees the villain of the piece, who has a tattoo of a cougar on the back of one hand, as a literal cougar.
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The Dead Zone / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Walt is a combination of two characters in the novel: the sheriff and Sarah's husband.
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The Dead Zone / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: Of The Cassandra trope. John spends most of each episode trying to convince people who refuse to believe his visions. He manages to save the day every time though, and is therefore able to vindicate himself and get an apology from the person(s) he was trying to save.
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The Dead Zone / int_e7117c09	comment	Back Story: For both Johnny and Stilson, uncovered in bits and pieces over the course of the show.
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The Dead Zone / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Some USA Network promo ads are skits where Jonny Smith meets with Adrian Monk (several times) and Shawn Spencer of Psych.
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The Dead Zone / int_ed61457c	comment	The Illuminati: Malcolm Janus sports a ring with the all-seeing eye, implying that the Illuminati is what's behind Stilson. Ret-conned in Season 5 where Janus's group is implied to be a relatively small group of former soldiers.
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The Dead Zone / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Although in the beginning Johnny Smith has little control over his powers and they manifest only at dramatic moments, as the series goes by he gets better at using them voluntarily, sometimes just to make his life easier. For example, telling which worm has the greatest chance of catching a fish during a fishing trip.
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The Dead Zone / int_f1c860c4	comment	Johnny, since he is psychic, exploits Spider-Sense to invoke this plenty of times. However, some instances stands out; in the episode "Double Vision" Johnny knows fellow psychic Alex will be in a parking garage so he waits for her casually. However, this trope gets weirdly subverted when Alex also anticipates him being there in the parking garage. They are expecting each other, but both refuse to be the one to open the door. Neither ever see each other in that scene.
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The Dead Zone / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In "Enemy Mind", Johnny sees Jill's boyfriend Scott sell her out to a drug dealer in a vision but makes a point to not tell her, keeping her feelings for him intact.
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