Cell (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Identity Amnesia]] - A minor character near the beginning of the book receives an indirect dose of the Pulse from her friend's cell phone conversation, which is still enough to make her forget who she is, where she is, or that she shouldn't run into lampposts.

* [[It Got Worse]] - The book starts off with a traditional zombie apocalypse. Then, slowly, things begin to change for the worse. The zombies {{spoiler|begin to develop a Hive Mind, with different Flocks popping up wherever there are a lot of them}}. Eventually, they become the dominant species on Earth. Then, {{spoiler|things start to get worse for them}}, after an odd turn of events which basically ends with a {{spoiler|human computer virus}}.

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

* [[Ludicrous Gibs]] - {{spoiler|When Clay activates the rigged bus, it sends body parts raining on them. It also makes sure the Raggedy Man is ''really'' dead - his empty hoodie, with a hole where the heart should be, lands on top of a ride's ticket booth.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Not Using the Z Word]] - Phoners. Of course, they're not ''really'' zombies.

* [[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}}.

* [[Schrodinger'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}}.

** 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]].}}

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