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* [[Adaptation Decay]]
* [[Adaptation Decay]]
* [[Adaptation Name Change]] - The film changes Kurtz to Curtis because of the ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''/''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' reference. King asked them to change it to a name that still sounded similar to Kurtz.
* [[Adaptation Name Change]]: The film changes Kurtz to Curtis because of the ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''/''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' reference. King asked them to change it to a name that still sounded similar to Kurtz.
* [[Affably Evil]] - Mr. Gray
* [[Affably Evil]]: Mr. Gray
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[Anyone Can Die]] - {{spoiler|Beaver and Pete both die in the first half of the story. By the end of the book, Jonesy and Henry are the only surviving characters.}}
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Beaver and Pete both die in the first half of the story. By the end of the book, Jonesy and Henry are the only surviving characters.}}
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] - Between Mr. Gray and Jonesy.
* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]: Between Mr. Gray and Jonesy.
* [[Body Horror]] - The aliens are referred to as "shit-weasels". Guess where they come out of infected people.
* [[Body Horror]]: The aliens are referred to as "shit-weasels". Guess where they come out of infected people.
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* [[Cool Teacher]]: Jonesy. After hanging up on Henry, he has a student named David come into his office. David was caught cheating on an exam and put a huge risk to his scholarship. Jonesy, who who was using his powers, deduced that David came from a poor neighborhood and as a result, tears the exam up and tells David to do a Make-Up Essay. When Jonesy is run over, David sees his body, lamenting the possibility that Jonesy might die.
* [[Canon Welding]] - Takes place in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the site of previous King novels ''[[IT]]'' and ''[[Insomnia (novel)|Insomnia]]''. At one point a character comes across a memorial written by the Loser's Club from ''IT''. Scrawled on in graffiti is "PENNYWISE LIVES''.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Mr. Gray speaks with a British accent in the film.
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*[[Cool Teacher|Cool Teacher:]] Jonesy. After hanging up on Henry, he has a student named David come into his office. David was caught cheating on an exam and put a huge risk to his scholarship. Jonesy, who who was using his powers, deduced that David came from a poor neighborhood and as a result, tears the exam up and tells David to do a Make-Up Essay. When Jonesy is run over, David sees his body, lamenting the possibility that Jonesy might die.
* [[Evil Brit]] - Mr. Gray speaks with a British accent in the film.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]]: The animals are seen fleeing in mass migration.
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* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: Mr. Gray's head explodes, infecting Jonesy with hundreds of alien spores and transferring Mr. Gray's consciousness into him.
* [[Evil-Detecting Dog]] - The animals are seen fleeing in mass migration.
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* [[Fartillery]]: One of the signs that you're infected with one of the shit-weasels.
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* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]] - Mr. Gray's head explodes, infecting Jonesy with hundreds of alien spores and transferring Mr. Gray's consciousness into him.
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* [[General Ripper]]: Kurtz.
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* [[Fartillery]] - One of the signs that you're infected with one of the shit-weasels.
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* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]]: Duddits is of the Type C variety.
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* [[General Ripper]] - Kurtz.
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* [[Inspirationally Disadvantaged]] - Duddits is of the Type C variety.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Henry, Beaver, Pete and Jonesy when they were kids. They were more than willing to stop bullies from brutally picking on Duddits, despite not knowing him personally. Special mention goes to Kid Beaver who manages to calm a still scared Duddits down by singing Blue Bayou. Once grown up Henry and Pete [[Took a Level in Jerkass|downgrade]] to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerks with a Hearts of Gold]].
* [[Nice Guy]]: Henry, Beaver, Pete and Jonesy when they were kids. They were more than willing to stop bullies from brutally picking on Duddits, despite not knowing him personally. Special mention goes to Kid Beaver who manages to calm a still scared Duddits down by singing Blue Bayou. Once grown up Henry and Pete [[Took a Level in Jerkass|downgrade]] to [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Jerks with a Hearts of Gold]].
** Adult Jonesy still retains his nice guy attitude as a school teacher. He gives one of his students who he caught cheating on a test; a second chance to make it up to him, when he used his telepathy to find out the student, who was on scholarship has a poor upbringing. Said student was one of the witnesses to the horrific car accident that nearly killed Jonesy and is heartbroken when he thinks his teacher might die.
** Adult Jonesy still retains his nice guy attitude as a school teacher. He gives one of his students who he caught cheating on a test; a second chance to make it up to him, when he used his telepathy to find out the student, who was on scholarship has a poor upbringing. Said student was one of the witnesses to the horrific car accident that nearly killed Jonesy and is heartbroken when he thinks his teacher might die.
** Adult Beaver while foul-mouthed and a womanized, is also a nice guy in his own way. If what Jonesy said to Mr. Gray was accurate, he'd never hurt a soul. {{Spoiler|Which made his death all the more tragic.}}
** Adult Beaver while foul-mouthed and a womanized, is also a nice guy in his own way. If what Jonesy said to Mr. Gray was accurate, he'd never hurt a soul. {{Spoiler|Which made his death all the more tragic.}}
* [[Nobody Poops]] - Subverted horribly.
* [[Nobody Poops]]: Subverted horribly.
*[[Oh Crap|Oh Crap:]] When Henry, Jonesy, Pete and Beaver first meet Duddits. They threaten to tell the Bullies what they did to him. They're unfazed at first, but then Pete prepares to run, telling Henry to give the word. The bullies are still unfazed until Jonesy mentions Pete's name. Prompting one of them to look shocked. It's implied that Pete is a fast runner. So fast, no one can catch him. So if he runs, everyone would know what they did.
* [[Oh Crap]]: When Henry, Jonesy, Pete and Beaver first meet Duddits. They threaten to tell the Bullies what they did to him. They're unfazed at first, but then Pete prepares to run, telling Henry to give the word. The bullies are still unfazed until Jonesy mentions Pete's name. Prompting one of them to look shocked. It's implied that Pete is a fast runner. So fast, no one can catch him. So if he runs, everyone would know what they did.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]] - Mr. Gray plans on infecting the entire world.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Mr. Gray plans on infecting the entire world.
* [[One-Winged Angel]] - In the film both Mr. Gray and {{spoiler|Duddits}} are able to transform into monstrous creatures a their 'final form'.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: In the film both Mr. Gray and {{spoiler|Duddits}} are able to transform into monstrous creatures a their 'final form'.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]] - Mr. Gray to Jonesy.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Mr. Gray to Jonesy.
* [[Race Lift]] - Kurtz is played by [[Morgan Freeman]] in the film.
* [[Race Lift]]: Kurtz is played by [[Morgan Freeman]] in the film.
* [[The Rainman]] - Duddits.
* [[The Rainman]]: Duddits.
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Mr. Gray loves BACON.
* [[Shout-Out]] - Kurtz is named after the character ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' and ''[[Heart of Darkness]]''. [[Lampshaded]] with a comment that it's probably not his real name and probably something that he decided to call himself.
{{quote|Perlmutter had read ''Heart of Darkness'', had seen ''Apocalypse Now'', and had on many occasions thought that the name Kurtz was simply a little too convenient. He would have bet a hundred dollars (a great sum for a non-wagering artistic fellow such as himself) that it wasn’t the boss’s real name-that the boss’s real name was Arthur Holsapple or Dagwood Elgart, maybe even Paddy Maloney. Kurtz? Unlikely. It was almost surely an affectation, as much a prop as George Patton’s pearl-handled .45.}}
** The government nickname for the alien fungus is "The Ripley" after [[Sigourney Weaver]]'s character from the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' movies.
*** Jonesy is also the name of Ripley's cat from ''Alien''.
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - Mr. Gray loves BACON.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Henry and Pete become more cynical as adults than they were as kids.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Henry and Pete become more cynical as adults than they were as kids.
** Henry in a poor attempt to help one of his patients flat out tells him, to stop eating himself to death for guilt over his mother. Saying it alone is insensitive as it is, but the fact that he got the info using the gift of telepathy Duddits gave him. Something the patient, sorta catches onto. The result causes said patient to [[Self Fulfilling Prophecies|eat himself to death.]] To be fair on Henry's part, he was trying to help him with his power and even contemplated killing himself out of guilt on top of the guilt for not seeing Duddits again. This makes him come across as [[Innocently Insensitive]]. However he did nothing to stop the patient.
** Henry in a poor attempt to help one of his patients flat out tells him, to stop eating himself to death for guilt over his mother. Saying it alone is insensitive as it is, but the fact that he got the info using the gift of telepathy Duddits gave him. Something the patient, sorta catches onto. The result causes said patient to [[Self Fulfilling Prophecies|eat himself to death.]] To be fair on Henry's part, he was trying to help him with his power and even contemplated killing himself out of guilt on top of the guilt for not seeing Duddits again. This makes him come across as [[Innocently Insensitive]]. However he did nothing to stop the patient.
** Pete as a child, was a [[Nice Guy]]. Upon meeting Duddits for the first time and seeing the danger he was in through bullies, Pete was willing to run on Henry's word, implying that he was fast enough to out run them and willing to do so to get to the nearest adult. When they go looking for Josie, a missing girl, Duddits entrusts Pete with the ability known as "The Line." in which he becomes a human dowsing rod finding what he wants to find. Nowadays he became a drunken sleazy Car Salesman, who uses the line to pick up women. {{Spoiler| He redeems himself in the end, by killing a shit-weasel and telling Mr. Gray to bite his bag refusing to reveal more about Duddits.}}
** Pete as a child, was a [[Nice Guy]]. Upon meeting Duddits for the first time and seeing the danger he was in through bullies, Pete was willing to run on Henry's word, implying that he was fast enough to out run them and willing to do so to get to the nearest adult. When they go looking for Josie, a missing girl, Duddits entrusts Pete with the ability known as "The Line." in which he becomes a human dowsing rod finding what he wants to find. Nowadays he became a drunken sleazy Car Salesman, who uses the line to pick up women. {{Spoiler| He redeems himself in the end, by killing a shit-weasel and telling Mr. Gray to bite his bag refusing to reveal more about Duddits.}}
* [[Unexplained Accent]] - In the movie, Jonesy speaks with a British accent whenever Mr. Gray is controlling him for some strange reason.
* [[Unexplained Accent]]: In the movie, Jonesy speaks with a British accent whenever Mr. Gray is controlling him for some strange reason.
* [[Vagina Dentata]] - The "shit-weasels" in the film.
* [[Vagina Dentata]]: The "shit-weasels" in the film.
* [[Vorpal Pillow]] - How {{spoiler|Mr. Gray}} is killed.
* [[Vorpal Pillow]]: How {{spoiler|Mr. Gray}} is killed.
* [[Water Source Tampering]] - Mr. Gray's plan of spreading the alien infection.
* [[Water Source Tampering]]: Mr. Gray's plan of spreading the alien infection.
* [[Your Head Asplode]] - Mr. Gray's head explodes early on to infect Jonesy with his spores. Later on, {{spoiler|Kurtz's}} head is blown off with a gun.
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Mr. Gray's head explodes early on to infect Jonesy with his spores. Later on, {{spoiler|Kurtz's}} head is blown off with a gun.


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