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* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: The "Save-The-Squid" crowd. As Whip puts it, "''Architeuthis dux'' is doing a fine job of saving itself."

* [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever]]: The squid is eventually revealed to be over a hundred feet long. This is ''not'' as [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|far-fetched as it sounds]].

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: After the squid sinks the boat, Whip fends it off with a chainsaw, severing several of its limbs, before the monster disarms him.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: A surprisingly sympathetic version. Osborn Manning has a lot of money and he certainly throws his weight around, what with blackmailing Whip into helping him. That said, he's also got a very understandable motivation: his son and daughter were killed by the squid and he wants revenge.

* [[The End or Is It]]: The squid is dead, yet as the epilogue shows, more and more of them are being born every year.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Osborn Manning certainly does.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: The squid is too dumb to tell the difference between living animals and inorganic matter, leading to attacks on boats and submarines.

* [[Gaias Vengeance]]: Why is the squid here? Well largely because we've killed off most of the animals that eat them when they're babies (tuna, sharks, sea turtles), and most of the animals that eat them when they're adults (sperm whales), and all the food at the bottom of the ocean that they normally eat. That's right kids: we're increasing the numbers of one of the few animals that can fight us on relatively even terms.

** [[Revenge Before Reason]]: Manning has a bad case of this, and it ultimately gets him killed.

* [[Science Is Bad]]: Whip chastises himself for putting faith in science, saying "The only thing scientists admit is what they know. What they don't know - what might be, all the stuff in the in the realm of the possible but unproven - they dismiss as myth." Something of a Wallbanger.

* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: Osborn Manning.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Liam St. John; Osborn Manning might count too.