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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.}}
* [[Eagle Land]] - Invoked when Clay, Tom, and Alice break into a redneck home - it contains a gun vault complete with a very illegal machine gun and ammo. Which prove to {{spoiler|''not'' be examples of [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Gun]].}}
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] - The Raggedy Man/The President Of Harvard.
* [[Eye Scream]] - {{spoiler|How the Head dies.}}
* [[Laughing Mad]] - Alice is able to hold herself together until the group reaches Tom's house, then has a hysterical breakdown. {{spoiler|She recovers.}} She does it again when the {{spoiler|group kills their first flock.}}
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* [[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}}.
* [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Gun]] - When the main characters decide to stay at Tom's house early in the book, Alice finds a boombox sitting in the closet. They debate turning it on to see if they can pick up any radio stations, even though there is a risk of the Pulse being on the radio waves, too. {{spoiler|In the end, neither they nor the reader ever find out what would have happened if they had decided to go through with it}}.
* [[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]].}}
* [[Spear Carrier]] - Several characters, as the protagonists travel to Maine, literally pass in the night and exchange tidbits of info, such as New Hampshire closing its borders and some changes in Phoner behavior.