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* [[An Aesop]]: It's disastrous to let your fear rule you, and just as bad to block fear out entirely. Learn to feel fear without letting it control your life.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Somewhere between class 0 and class 5; as there's no reliable sources of information, neither the characters nor the reader ever find out for sure. We never even find out what caused the disaster. Nimura theorizes that {{spoiler|a meteor or a nuke may have hit Mount Fuji and triggered massive earthquakes throughout the entire country}}, but Iwada points out that they really have no idea.
* [[Attempted Rape]]: Nimura's intention on landing in Sakurayama is to find fuel, weapons, and women. Yamazaki tries to rape Ako, but she manages to beat him up and escape.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Nobuo. The few Izu survivors who gave into their fear rather than shutting themselves off from it also qualify. Lastly, {{spoiler|The Researcher}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The reconnaissance team is slaughtered by the Researcher's cult, Izu (and, for all we know, all of Japan and possible the world) is slowly being covered with ash, and Tokyo now has a brand-new volcano. Oh, and the unnamed foreign country, itself having problems, is preparing to use 'every available option' to try to find and secure the missing nuclear weapons -- and if they can't, the Researcher might use them for his own psychotic ends. Yet Teru refuses to give up, either by giving in to his fear or shutting it off completely, and he vows to pull through and survive.}}
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: {{spoiler|Mount Fuji}}.
* [[Brick Joke]]: The Dragon Heads aren't even introduced until about halfway through the series.
* [[Corporal Punishment]]: How Nimura works out his anger at having to go into the Izu town while Iwada fixes the helicopter.
* [[Crapsack World]]
* [[Dark Is Evil]]: Nobuo's descent into madness is often described as him 'giving in to the darkness.' Also, the thick cloud of ash, and the {{spoiler|pitch black void that once contained Mount Fuji}}.
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* [[The Engineer]]: Iwada ends up as this, as he's the only one who knows how to fix the helicopter.
* [[Face Death with Dignity]]: Teru, who thinks that he's almost certain to die whatever he does, yet continues on regardless. Subverted by Nimura, who calmly lies down and waits for the world to finish falling apart... only to become terrified again as Tokyo gets its shiny new volcano.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Teru, temporarily, when he gives in to fear.
* [[The Faceless]]: The faces of the news broadcasters are blurred out because of the terrible reception.
* [[Fingore]]: How Ako deals with Yamazaki.
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* [[Kent Brockman News]]: Teru and Ako catch an emergency broadcast, which features one announcer breaking down into hysterics and ranting that nowhere is safe and everyone is doomed.
** Averted in the end, when the television station reads the Document, which provides more description of what actually happened and is happening than any other point in the story.
* [[Law of Conservation of Detail]]: Only the three initial main characters get full names. The supporting characters get a first name. Most of the others, including virtually all of the insane people, only get nicknames.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: {{spoiler|Mount Fuji. This, as well as a pit that may well extend into the Earth's core, for all the characters know}}.
* [[Mad Science]]: {{spoiler|The Researcher}} seems positively gleeful about the end of the world.
* [[The Mentor]]: The Lady, possibly the only sane person the characters encounter after arriving in Izu.
* [[Mildly Military]]: Given the circumstances, Iwada's palpable contempt for his commanding officer is perhaps understandable.
* [[The Medic]]: The Lady.
* [[The Movie]]: Was made into a live-action movie. Notable differences included {{spoiler|meeting the Researcher earlier, and Nimura's death}}.
* [[The Mutiny]]: Nimura decides that the military situation is untenable, and orders his helicopter to desert. {{spoiler|later, all the other helicopters are destroyed approaching Mount Fuji}}.
* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: Nimura. Seems to die down somewhat while the group is in Izu, but once they return to Tokyo, it kicks back in.
* [[No Ending]]: What caused the destruction? What is the significance of the Dragon Heads? Did any of the characters survive and rebuild? No one will ever know.
* [[No Name Given]]: Teru, Ako, and Nobuo are the only characters who get full names. The soldiers get one name each, as do Teru's classmates and one character who introduces the Dragon Heads. Everyone else is known by nicknames or descriptors (The Lady, The Cop, Bandage-Man, The Researcher, the Dragon Heads).
* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: Averted. Iwada has no problem leaving Nimura behind, until Ako puts a gun to his head. When {{spoiler|Iwada dies, Ako and Nimura bury him and leave the body.}}
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: when the group arrives at {{spoiler|what used to be}} Mount Fuji, they begin to descend. {{spoiler|they can't see anything. The next two pages are what the characters see -- completely black, with no detail or information whatsoever}}.
* [[One-Man Army]]: Iwada, while Nimura and Ako are in the Izu town and Teru is convalescing.
* [[Pater Familicide]]: The Izu survivors do this for the whole town.
* [[Redshirt Army]]: The helicopter fleet that Teru and Ako see {{spoiler|is, excluding Nimura's helicopter, completely destroyed offscreen by the Mount Fuji ruins}}.
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Science Is Bad]]: [[Played With]]. While scientific advances are the only way that humans can even go on living -- all that remains is processed and bottled food and water, and helicopter is the only way to travel large distances -- the Researcher also says that science tried to eliminate fear, with disastrous results.
* [[Self
* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: Teru lectures Nimura on how, while he's afraid, his urge to find out what happened to his family keeps him going. {{spoiler|Nimura calmly informs Teru that his family is dead and buried.}}
* [[Sidequest]]: Upon arriving in Izu, Teru collapses due to an infection, necessitating a two-volume detour into a city full of insane, suicidal people in order to find medicine.
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