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** The wife of Tom's survivalist neighbor also kills herself after being forced to kill her daughter. Another victim of the Pulse is found to have died from swallowing jagged shards of glass.

* [[Dying as Yourself]] - {{spoiler|Ray killing himself.}}

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] - The Raggedy Man/The President Of Harvard.

* [[Eye Scream]] - {{spoiler|How the Head dies.}}

* [[It's Raining Men]] - {{spoiler|Or at least pieces of them. The effect of setting off explosions in crowds of Phoners. The first example gets Clay's group marked by evolved Phoners. The second kills the horde of evolved Phoners that are about to execute them.}}

* [[Kill the Cutie]] - {{spoiler|Alice, of course.}}

* [[90% of Your Brain]] - After the initial blast of crazy wiped out the higher reasoning of anyone talking on their cell phones at the time of the disaster {{spoiler|the Phoners who survive the chaos begin to regain some of their abilities, along with some [[Psychic Powers|entirely new ones]]}}. The characters develop a theory in-Universe that they are using parts of their brains which had been dormant before.

* [[No Ending]] - {{spoiler|When Clay finds Johnny, he tries to fix him by giving him a second dose of the Pulse. The book ends just as he puts the phone to his son's ear. Lampshaded by King in his afterword, in which he thinks it wouldn't be right to fully show the effects.}}

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]] - After Clay & Co {{spoiler|blow up a mass of sleeping Phoners, they are declared "untouchables" and made to report for a ceremonial execution by the appointed head of phoners, a man in a Harvard hoodie.}}

* [[Psychic Powers]] - {{spoiler|The Phoners eventually develop these, a few days after being Pulsed. They communicate through telepathy, telekinesis, and the ability to levitate so that that they can get over cars stalled on the roads}}.

* [[Shout-Out]] - There are a lot of references to the work of George A. Romero, and he is directly acknowledged in Stephen King's note at the beginning of the book.

** Additionally, Clay's graphic novel contains a character called "The Dark Wanderer", whose initials are R.D., and a wizard called Flack. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Does This Remind You Of]] [[The Dark Tower|Anything?]]

* [[Slasher Smile]] - The President of Harvard is ''always'' smiling an unsettling grin. {{spoiler|The protagonists even imagine he died smiling that smile of his, finding one piece of his Harvard sweater to read [[Evil Laugh|HAR]].}}

* [[Strawman Political]] - The crazy old lady who the group runs into leaving Boston.

* [[Technically Living Zombie]] - The Phoners, but only in the beginning.

[[Category:Works By Stephen King]]

[[Category:Horror Literature]]