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Remnants
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The end of the world has come... and gone.Written by K. A. Applegate and Michael Grant (the co-authors of Animorphs and Everworld), Remnants is a 14-book Young Adult series published in the early 2000s. The series begins with a giant asteroid called "The Rock" striking Earth, obliterating the planet and all life on it. A last, desperate gambit by humanity is enacted, the Mayflower, a space shuttle rapidly retrofitted with experimental technology, including hybernation berths. Eighty people are shot off into space for the distant hope that someday, they can awaken and find a new planet to refound human civilization on. When they're plucked from space by a sentient super-ship called "Mother", and come into contact with the aliens that call her home, the series proper begins. No one gets out without sacrificing their body or sanity in some manner.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The series is roughly divided into two arcs, though it is a continuous narrative. The first seven books deal with the group attempting to take control of Mother, while the second batch of seven deals with their returns to the broken ruins of Earth. Along the way they deal with internal power struggles, mutations, war, violence, trauma, and Mind Rape. Additionally, as Mo'Steel says, the kids from Lord of the Flies have nothing on this group. Everyone has secrets, personality flaws, hidden agendas, and some are just plain crazy, and despite the fact the group dwindles daily, there's still plays for power and control being made.Remnants is a dark series, with violent deaths in nearly every book. Aside from the art history and group politics, this is what happens when you combine Loads and Loads of Characters with Anyone Can Die. The author promised that Jobs and Mo'Steel would survive; anyone else is fair game. And yes, believe it or not, this is a kids series. That does not stop it from being one of the darkest things ever written.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })The series consists of fourteen books: The Mayflower Project Destination Unknown Them Nowhere Land Mutation Breakdown Isolation Mother, May I? No Place Like Home Lost and Found Dream Storm Aftermath Survival Begin Again | |
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AnyoneCanDie | |
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Anyone Can Die: Aside from Jobs and Mo'Steel, no one is safe. The human characters die often and without warning. | |
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I Am A Humanitarian: Tamara's baby needs to eat people to get power to fight the Riders. Also, Tate's mutation involves her eating people that threaten her. Yago, Charlie, and Amelia all get eaten, eventually. | |
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Feel No Pain | |
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Feel No Pain: Kubrick, due to having his skin replaced with some kind of clear covering... stuff. In fact, he doesn't feel any touch at all. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Virtually every death in the series, but one standout is Big Bill's death. Worms eat his leg from the inside out, while he remains completely able to feel pain. The worms then spread to the rest of the body, and Billy does a Mercy Kill by shutting down his mind. | |
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Fingore | |
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Fingore: In Destination Unknown, one of Violet's fingers gets eaten by worms. | |
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Cute and Psycho | |
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Cute and Psycho: Yago is described (by himself) to be one of the most desirable teenagers on the planet, starting all sorts of trends and having tons of fangirls. He's also an egomaniac with a strong ability to manipulate and control others. Doubles for Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon in this. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Anything that can go wrong in this series does. There's a very short reprieve in Book 8 when the group has finally taken control of the ship and is leading semi-normal lives in a recreation of an urban neighborhood, but it only lasts until the end of that book and there are still some problems brewing. | |
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Fire-Forged Friends | |
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Fire-Forged Friends: All of the Remnants who support each other. The only people who knew each other at the start of the series were Jobs and Mo'Steel, but by the end, they're extremely close. Being the last humans alive probably does that to you. | |
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Earth That Was | |
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Earth That Was: A later story arc involves them returning to Earth to see what became of it after The Rock hit. Turns out that Earth is still habitable, if only just barely. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Most of the parents are dead, either due to hibernation failure or getting killed off during the series. The only parent that makes it to the end of the series is Mo'Steel's mom, Olga. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The Mother, for most of the series. Interfacing her causes instant Mind Rape; only Billy can survive it. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: 2Face is the tomboy to Violet's girly-girl. | |
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Dead Guy Junior | |
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Dead Guy Junior: Jobs and Echo's daughter is named after Tate. | |
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First-Episode Spoiler | |
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First-Episode Spoiler: Mark's death. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: The entire series starts with Earth being destroyed, and picks up with the handful of survivors that escape. | |
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Official Couple | |
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Official Couple: Jobs and Violet, Mo'Steel and Noyze, Jobs and Echo, Violet and Sanchez. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: The books don't shy away from killing major characters, most surprisingly 2Face and Billy in the final book. | |
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Time Marches On | |
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Time Marches On: Jobs took his name in honor of Steve Jobs; at the time the books began, 2000+, Steve Jobs was a comparatively obscure figure. Ten years later, who doesn't know who he is? Played with in regards to some of the technological advances. Things like "links" (essentially blue-tooth headsets with internet access and video and audio streaming) and self-driving computerized cars were not too out of left-field for a 2000s author imagining the world of 2011, and they still might come around in our lifetimes, though now several years late. | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
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Blessed with Suck: Billy has psychic powers that drive him insane and back again. Also, the mutations, especially Violet's and Tate's, and especially the Troika, are not the kind they like having. | |
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Flat "What" | |
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Flat "What.": | |
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Infant Immortality | |
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Infant Immortality: Not exactly (since the youngest person in the Mayflower was around ten), but when the Mayflower lands, they note that you were far more likely to die if you were a teenager than if you were older. However, it gets subverted when the vast majority of those teenagers die. | |
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HappilyEverAfter | |
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Happily Ever After: Assuming you survived to the end of the series, you actually got a pretty good ending, all things considered. A Gainax Ending, but a happy one. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Mother is a sentient ship/computer that has spent centuries, perhaps millennium, wandering space. With no sensory input, she ended up Going Mad From The Isolation. | |
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Touched by Vorlons | |
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Touched by Vorlons: Quite a few of the characters (it's never explained whether their superpowers appeared during the voyage or after landing on Mother), but especially Billy. | |
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Fling a Light into the Future | |
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Fling a Light into the Future: The Mayflower was a pretty solid example of the non-warning variety, although it had more people on it than the usual. | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar | |
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Getting Crap Past the Radar: There's an enormous amount of violence and Nightmare Fuel in the series, and even some cannibalism. According to Word of God, no one at Scholastic other than the editor really read any of them, and it shows. While the "young adults" rating of ages 12-18 is not wrong, the series is pushed up against the far right of that scale. | |
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White Male Lead | |
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White Male Lead: Jobs, despite the rest of the cast being extremely diverse. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation: It's a common theme in the series. For one thing, it's the reason that Mother is so insane. Billy seems to have avoided ultimately going completely unhinged, but it definitely affected his head. Although it's hard to tell what's mundane trauma and what's him being Touched by Vorlons. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early Installment Weirdness: The first book is the only one where nobody dies violently (unless you count Cordelia, the girl Jobs has a crush on, who gets impaled by a support beam when a chip of the Rock destroys San Francisco Bay), although it technically has the highest body count of any book in the series, since every human on Earth dies in it. It's also the only one where the plot approaches what could be called "normal." | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Characters lose limbs, get impaled, mutilated, etc, in horrific detail. | |
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Action Survivor | |
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Action Survivor: All of the Remnants are human beings, and a small handful have experience in fighting or physical activity. Yet a surprising number of them survive a long time. | |
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Nobody Poops | |
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Nobody Poops: Averted, though it isn't focused on, the need for bowel movements is not hidden. | |
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Le Parkour | |
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Le Parkour: It isn't referred to by name, but Mo'Steel appears to be a practitioner, presented as part of his general enthusiasm for extreme sports; he and Jobs use it to get around their neighborhood quickly and stealthily in the first book. | |
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ILoveNuclearPower | |
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I Love Nuclear Power: Everyone says that one reason they have superpowers is that they were exposed to radiation aboard the Mayflower, although they also acknowledge that this isn't an adequate explanation. | |
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Genius Loci | |
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Genius Loci: Mother, although she could also be considered a Sapient Ship, since she has aspects of both. | |
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The Un-Reveal | |
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The Unreveal: The Ancient Enemy, the source of the mutations, the Missing Five, just what the "Troika" are, Roger Dodger and D-Caf's dreams, how a Shipwright became Tamara's Baby (or maybe vice-versa), how Earth possibly reformed and civilization on it survived. Yeah, there's a lot of questions left hanging. | |
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Forced to Watch | |
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Forced to Watch: Mr. DiSalvo had to watch while his son's skin was cut off piece by piece. | |
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AwesomeMcCoolName | |
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"Awesome McCool" Name: Some of the survivors have this, as in the future taking a new name is essentially the fashion trend of the decade. Mo'Steel takes the cake; he's not sure if it stands for "More Steel" or "Man of Steel" (he's broken so many bones most of them are made of metal now), but he fits under either definition. His birth name, "Romeo Gonzales," is also cool. | |
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You Kill It, You Bought It | |
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You Kill It, You Bought It: Mo'Steel is chosen to be the leader of the Marauders after he kills their previous leader. This is how the Riders' hoverboards work - they're mentally controlled by whichever Rider originally owns them, unless you kill that Rider, at which point, control goes to whoever is riding the board. | |
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Oh, and X Dies | |
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Oh, and X Dies: Inverted; Applegate informed us beforehand that Jobs and Mo'Steel would make it to the end; everyone else was fair game. | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler | |
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Late-Arrival Spoiler: Originally, it was a big revelation that the Remnants had landed on a ship instead of a planet. But it's been spoiled by so many blurbs and descriptions for the series that it's not really worth hiding here. | |
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Future Slang | |
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Future Slang: Appears in a minor capacity, especially from Mo'Steel. | |
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The Lancer | |
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Mo'Steel -> Marco/Rachel, as the snarky action-inclined Lancer. | |
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Death World | |
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Death World: Post-Rock Earth. For starters, the planet's rotation has stopped, causing it to be divided into two extreme climate zones with a mild Shadow Zone in between. Second, the surface randomly spews columns of flames-which kills one of the characters. Lastly, there are a variety of hellish beasts making life difficult for whoever decides to live on its surface. | |
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Robbing the Dead | |
| Remnants / int_6480c255 | comment |
Robbing the Dead: The group is not shy about taking supplies from their fallen members, as they don't have the luxury to be frugal. | |
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Battle in the Center of the Mind | |
| Remnants / int_67a7cd88 | comment |
Battle in the Center of the Mind: At one point, Yago, Amelia, and Tate all telepathically fight over who should take control of the body they share. | |
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Precision Crash | |
| Remnants / int_6a1b7aee | comment |
Precision Crash: In The Mayflower Project, the planet-killing asteroid runs over a comet on its way in. A fragment breaks off and hits San Francisco, killing a minor character whose camera catches the whole thing and blows the secret to the world. The main body of the asteroid hits Portugal. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Remnants / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Shy Huang, 2Face's dad, is a quiet and meek man. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
| Remnants / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: The captain of the Mayflower shoots himself rather than going to sleep with the Eighty because his family was left behind. | |
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Babies Ever After | |
| Remnants / int_6d9bc945 | comment |
Babies Ever After: The ending epilogue recounts the survivors have children now. | |
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Hard Light | |
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Hard Light: All the living creatures (and only the living creatures; the inanimate objects are real) native to Mother's world are made out of force fields and holograms, which does nothing whatsoever to stop them from being dangerous. | |
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior | |
| Remnants / int_77ed6b7d | comment |
Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: All of the kids do this a lot, but Yago in particular. Considering what they go through, not surprising. | |
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The Big Bad Shuffle | |
| Remnants / int_77eeb348 | comment |
The Big Bad Shuffle: The main antagonist changes several times, and includes Mother, The Baby, Yago, the Troika, and a few of the human survivors on Earth. | |
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All Love Is Unrequited | |
| Remnants / int_7a82c3d2 | comment |
All Love Is Unrequited: Kubrick loves 2Face, but she doesn't feel the same, as the main reason Kubrick loves her is her deformity. | |
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Token Evil Teammate | |
| Remnants / int_7aa989ea | comment |
Token Evil Teammate: Yago. All of the remnants have to work with him to survive, but he's definitely evil and not trusted. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
| Remnants / int_7c7589af | comment |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The Rock causes one. Literally; Earth splits apart in a huge explosion. | |
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NiceJobBreakingItHero | |
| Remnants / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: In Nowhere Land, the Remnants witness a battle between the Blue Meanies and some kind of... squid... things... around a sculpture while they were in an old-fashioned boat. The boat had cannons, so the Remnants decided to win the Meanies' favor by attacking the squids. But the cannons hit the sculpture, angering the Meanies. This caused them to attack. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
| Remnants / int_820ac3c5 | comment |
Dysfunction Junction: A large number of the characters have serious psychological problems and limited social skills. Some were like that on Earth (like Yago and 2Face), others got that way either because of the mutations or what they experienced during the trip (like Billy). Being the last survivors of Earth and subsequently getting put through hell wouldn't be good for anyone's psyche, mind you. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
| Remnants / int_82accf22 | comment |
Gainax Ending: Hooooo boy, a classic example. After returning to Earth and somehow Mother has traveled through time to crash on Earth and be a ruin worshiped by the Marauders, some sort of "ritual" is performed using Echo's baby, Mother, Billy, and "the Missing Five" that Billy somehow carries inside him. Whatever this ritual entails is never clear, but in the epilogue it apparently has restored life to Earth and we have Babies Ever After. And that's not getting into the many plot points that go unresolved. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
| Remnants / int_8411ab92 | comment |
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Mo'Steel is the action-loving Hot-Blooded red, Jobs is the intelligent and careful blue. | |
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FrickinLaserBeams | |
| Remnants / int_8491d51e | comment |
Frickin' Laser Beams: The Blue Meanies shoot them. They turn out to be Instant Death Bullets, as demonstrated by Shy's death. | |
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World of Chaos | |
| Remnants / int_850cbe5c | comment |
World of Chaos: Mother's artificially generated environment, which was mostly created from paintings. All sorts of paintings. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
| Remnants / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: Tamara's "baby" is humanoid, but clearly not human. | |
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Noah's Story Arc | |
| Remnants / int_85650443 | comment |
"Noah's Story" Arc: The series is centered around eighty humans who blast off in an experimental rocket ship to escape the destruction of the Earth by an asteroid. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
| Remnants / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Billy has them, though it isn't explained how. | |
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Villain with Good Publicity | |
| Remnants / int_87bb6874 | comment |
Villain with Good Publicity: Yago, being the President's son, knows that he has to get people to like him in order to have control. This works to a surprising extent, dispute his being Obviously Evil. | |
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| Remnants / int_8b5e8731 | type |
Kudzu Plot | |
| Remnants / int_8b5e8731 | comment |
Kudzu Plot: To the point it sees like Writing by the Seat of Your Pants. Plot points and characters comes and go as needed, the story swerves several times, many mysteries and ideas are brought up and never resolved... it's a mess. | |
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Just Before the End | |
| Remnants / int_8bf8adfa | comment |
Just Before the End: The first book covers the events leading up to Earth's destruction. | |
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Mr. Exposition | |
| Remnants / int_8cb844c6 | comment |
Violet -> Cassie, as the emotional core of the group. Also a bit of one for Ax, as the alien ship creates environments based on classical art and thus she ends up acting as Mr. Exposition to the group. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
| Remnants / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: Where do we start? It would be a class 4, if not for the survival of small amounts of humans and other creatures. | |
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Apocalypse Wow | |
| Remnants / int_91e8cd03 | comment |
Apocalypse Wow: The destruction wrought by the Rock is described in exacting detail in the first book. First a small chunk that broke off the main asteroid utterly destroys San Francisco midway through, then the real thing at the end of the book. | |
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Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse! | |
| Remnants / int_994b9db5 | comment |
Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: Almost everyone has this attitude to some extent, but the ones that really do are Mark and D-Caf, who break onto the Mayflower and get a berth so that they can survive, rationalizing "what's anyone gonna do?". This doesn't really work out for Mark, who dies before the ship takes off, but it does for D-Caf. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
| Remnants / int_9c8701b5 | comment |
A Day in the Limelight: Survival, starring Tate, who is more or less a Recurrer otherwise. Also ends up being A Death in the Limelight. | |
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| Remnants / int_9eca61c8 | type |
Production Foreshadowing | |
| Remnants / int_9eca61c8 | comment |
Production Foreshadowing: Probably an unintentional example, but in Them, Yago says that it'll be "freaks vs. normals", and he spends much of the rest of the series trying to create that conflict. The phrase "freaks vs. normals" would be very important in Grant's next series, Gone. | |
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Eye Scream | |
| Remnants / int_a2b38d3b | comment |
Eye Scream: One of the more obvious mutations Tamara's baby has is that its eyes melted. This doesn't seem to inconvenience it, but it's still pretty horrible. | |
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| Remnants / int_a5bdd9e7 | type |
Only Fatal to Adults | |
| Remnants / int_a5bdd9e7 | comment |
Only Fatal to Adults: Only a few adults survived the hibernation in the Mayflower, but the majority of the kids aboard made it. | |
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| Remnants / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| Remnants / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: A large number of the (human) characters, because of the rename-friendly culture they come from. We do generally know their birth names - for example, Jobs is Sebastian Andreeson, Mo'Steel is Romeo Gonzalez, 2Face is Essence Hwang, and Violet is Dallas Lefkowitz-Blake - but they're only used by their parents. | |
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And I Must Scream | |
| Remnants / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Billy during the Mayflower voyage, during which he spends five hundred years awake. | |
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| Remnants / int_a939d96a | type |
Adults Are Useless | |
| Remnants / int_a939d96a | comment |
Adults Are Useless: Olga, Mo'Steel's mom, is the only adult who isn't completely useless, but she's pretty close since she does little of actual importance. Everyone else is entirely useless, especially Wylson, Violet's mom, who only makes everything worse by trying to run the group when she's obviously got no clue what she's doing. In the end, all the adults but Olga die anyway. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
| Remnants / int_a94eaaa4 | comment |
Odd Friendship: Jobs and Mo'Steel, as lampshaded by Violet in Nowhere Land. | |
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Transgender | |
| Remnants / int_aebbc464 | comment |
Transgender: Or something of that nature. | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
| Remnants / int_af7d483f | comment |
Dreaming of Things to Come: Billy has psychic dreams to this effect sometimes. He had these before he went insane aboard the Mayflower, by the way. | |
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Elegant Gothic Lolita | |
| Remnants / int_afcf369c | comment |
Elegant Gothic Lolita: The "Janes", girls who model themselves on Jane Austen characters in dress and manner - represented among the survivors by Miss Violet Blake - are like a somewhat more grown-up version that hasn't been filtered through Japanese culture and puts rather more emphasis on rejecting technology. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| Remnants / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Several characters end up wishing they were dead after what they went through. A few get their wish eventually, given Anyone Can Die. | |
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Sapient Ship | |
| Remnants / int_b1b5081b | comment |
Sapient Ship: "Mother" is a sapient starship. Unfortunately, after having been abandoned by her creators for centuries, she's also kind of insane. | |
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Colony Drop | |
| Remnants / int_b3eecaae | comment |
Colony Drop: The Rock is an asteroid that hits Earth. | |
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The Worm That Walks | |
| Remnants / int_b4754f84 | comment |
The Worm That Walks: Violet's mutation is the ability to dissolve in a mass of worms that can actually bring back the dead. She eventually passes it on to Rodger Dodger, D-Caf, and 2Face. | |
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Hide Your Lesbians | |
| Remnants / int_b506c9ff | comment |
Hide Your Lesbians: Tate's sexuality was ambiguous, as were her feelings toward Tamara, but she was intended to be as least bi-sexual with an interest in Tamara. | |
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Twofer Token Minority | |
| Remnants / int_b6ec7566 | comment |
Twofer Token Minority: Tamara, Tate, and Noyze are all black women. Tate has Ho Yay with Tamara that was almost explicit homosexuality, and Noyze grew up deaf. 2Face is an Asian girl whose severe facial burns could be considered a disability, though they don't really inconvenience her that much directly. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Remnants / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Do not mess with Mo'steel's mom. This is a lesson that Rattler learns the hard way. | |
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Mind Screw | |
| Remnants / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: The entire series is full of sudden plot twists and unknown mysteries. It gets exponentially worse once the Remnants decide to return to Earth, and suddenly the plot becomes almost incoherent. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
| Remnants / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: D-Caf vanishes from the series after he accidentally kills Anamull, and is not seen in the last three books, not even a mention in the epilogue. It unfortunately seems the author just forgot about him. | |
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There Is Another | |
| Remnants / int_c555059a | comment |
There Is Another: The Mayflower survivors think they're the last humans alive until they go back to Earth and meet the Alphas and Marauders. | |
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Big Bad Wannabe | |
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Big Bad Wannabe: Yago is a candidate for main antagonist, but only by virtue of being the most recurring one; he actually doesn't do much in terms of seizing power, and the few chances he gets to do so, he bungles it and is put in his place by the more dangerous villains. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Doesn't happen enough to be a real motif or a proper example of Theme Naming, but The Beatles get two: the Blue Meanies, and the title of the fourth book, Nowhere Land. Also, 2Face. | |
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Horror Hunger | |
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Horror Hunger: Tate's ability is that whenever she's afraid, her mouth becomes enormous and she tries to eat whoever is threatening her. This results in her eating Yago, Charlie, and Amelia. | |
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Loads and Loads of Characters | |
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Loads and Loads of Characters: Thirty-something characters make it to The Mother, and all of them are mentioned on a regular basis. And even more characters show up when they make it to the Earth That Was. | |
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Improbable Age | |
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Improbable Age: All but one of the Remnants to make it to the end of the series are teenagers. | |
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Dark Action Girl | |
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2Face -> Rachel, with Rachel's negative traits ramped up to create a crazed Dark Action Girl. | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
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The End of the World as We Know It: The beginning of the series is this. | |
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Mistaken for Apocalypse | |
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Mistaken for Apocalypse: Played with. It turns out the Rock didn't destroy the Earth to quite the extent that they thought, but it was definitely an apocalypse. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: Yago comes to think he's a messianic god destined to lead humanity. | |
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Two-Act Structure | |
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Two-Act Structure: Books 1-10 are about escaping the Mother alive, books 11-14 are about restoring Earth to its former glory. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Tate has a very close friendship with Tamara, but it's not clear if it's deeper than that. | |
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The Hero | |
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Jobs -> Jake, as level-headed The Hero. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: of the Animorphs characters, naturally, although some of the parallels are a little loose. Jobs -> Jake, as level-headed The Hero. Mo'Steel -> Marco/Rachel, as the snarky action-inclined Lancer. Billy -> Tobias, as the estranged and tormented outsider. 2Face -> Rachel, with Rachel's negative traits ramped up to create a crazed Dark Action Girl. Violet -> Cassie, as the emotional core of the group. Also a bit of one for Ax, as the alien ship creates environments based on classical art and thus she ends up acting as Mr. Exposition to the group. | |
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Meaningful Rename | |
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Meaningful Rename: The books' future society is one where peoples selection of nicknames is far looser. They tend to choose something that that reflects them, ie—Anamull ("animal") and Yago (from "Iago"). | |
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The Grotesque | |
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The Grotesque: How Kubrick views himself, due to, you know, having see-through synthetic skin that shows his organs. And how everyone else views 2Face due to her face. | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Riders and the Slizzers are described as giant insects. Slizzers are implied to be mutated cockroaches. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Yago spends most of his time lording his imagined superiority over other people. | |
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Ensemble Cast | |
| Remnants / int_ec212e4d | comment |
Ensemble Cast: Though Jobs is the central hero, there is a large and diverse cast with their own stories going on around him. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: They only sent eighty people in the first place, more than half of them died on the way there, and Anyone Can Die is in full effect for the thirty-some-odd people who made it to Mother. Not everyone dies in the end, and some more characters turn up when they return to Earth, but only seven of the Mayflower's passengers survive to the end. If you're curious, the survivors are Jobs, Mo'Steel, Olga, Edward, Violet, Noyze, and Roger Dodger. D-Caf suffered from Chuck Cunningham Syndrome, so strictly speaking he never died, either. | |
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Swallowed Whole | |
| Remnants / int_eea96e78 | comment |
Swallowed Whole: Tate's own ability to "go Mouth" | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Pre-series, Mark Melman to D-Caf. During the series, Jobs tries to take this role for his brother Edward. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: Published in 2001, the first book begins in 2011, before their hibernation after earth is hit. | |
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EarnYourHappyEnding | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The characters go through endless hell, yet at the end of the series, Earth has been restored to its former beauty and everyone is living a peaceful existence. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: It starts with The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Averted. In Applegate's version of the year 2011, cars have been made that can drive by themselves, so kids as young as twelve can ride them legally. The first book opens with Jobs taking a cruise on the highway. | |
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Planet Spaceship | |
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Planet Spaceship: The humans who awaken when the ship reaches a destination initially think they've landed on a bizarre alien world. They soon discover it's a massive spaceship controlled by a sentient AI that brought them aboard as a curiosity. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: D-Caf does this to Anamull; he just intended to scare him, but lost control of his mutation. | |
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