Children of the Last Days: Difference between revisions

* [[Brainwashed]]: What the teacher attempted to do to Jack Tobac's mother. Also, what Fr. Andrei and Fr. Potempko fear will happen to Arrow.

** This is what the cult did to Colin in the back-story of ''Eclipse of the Sun''.

* [[Character Filibuster]]: ''Strangers and Sojourners'' and ''Plague Journal'' contain these. Some of them double as [[Author Filibuster]].

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Jan Tarnowski.

* [[Easy Evangelism]]: Averted, particularly with Anne and Colin.

* [[The End of the World As We Know It]]: What Fr. Elijah seeks to prevent, by converting the Antichrist. {{spoiler|He fails.}}

** The Archbishop of Vancouver is also known simply by his title.

** So are the Pope and the Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. However, it is strongly implied that they are John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger, respectively.

** In Count Smokrev's back-story, as a child, his playmate rejected a sexual advance. In response, Smokrev killed the boy's pet rabbit, right in front of him.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Pawel, Alice, Nathaniel.

* [[La Résistance]]: The Underground in ''Sophia House''.

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Rose and Binemin.

* [[New Media Are Evil]]: Interestingly enough, in 1998, O'Brien focused on television, when even then, the Internet (from a conservative Catholic point of view) was proving to be more problematic in providing impressionable minds with access to offensive material.

** It turned out that he eventually did include the Internet on his moral hitlist...''in 2004.'' Needless to say, his response was ''very'' predictable.

** In ''Plague Journal'', as a prank, Nathaniel leaves a deranged message on Doc's answering machine, firing a starter pistol to make it seem like he killed himself. [[It Makes Sense in Context]] {{spoiler|however, Nathaniel's phone is being tapped, and the [[Government Conspiracy]] uses this prank (which they pretend to take seriously) as evidence that he really is crazy.}}

* [[Nostalgia Aint Like It Used to Be]]: Subverted. Considering the author's conservative views, one would expect him to portray [[The Fifties]], and anytime before, as some sort of golden age. Instead, he criticizes, among other things, the racism and ethnic bigotry, the internment camps for the Japanese, the materialism and lack of concern for the environment, the rumormongering and gossip, the lack of awareness of child abuse prevalent in previous times; he maintains that the problems our society faces now are really [[Older Than They Think]], and lurked beneath the surface in days gone by.

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Maurice offers Nathaniel a position with the government in ''Strangers and Sojourners''. Later, in ''Eclipse of the Son''. Maurice states that, had Nathaniel accepted, he would have shared in the global conspiracy's power {{spoiler|instead of being liquidated by Maurice}}.

** The Antichrist gives a makes a straight version of this offer to Fr. Elijah. He refuses, of course.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: The Antichrist and Maurice.

* [[Wish Fulfillment]]: The reforms of the Archdiocese of Vancouver, which begin with Fr. Ron's church.