Gone (novel)/YMMV

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  • Cargo Ship: Drake and his whip hand.
    • Petey/Gameboy is pretty popular too.
    • And don't forget Toto and Nutella !
  • Canon Discontinuity: Astrid's power disappeared after book one. She forgot about it, her boyfriend did, and you're supposed to, too. Michael Grant has said in interviews that he wishes he'd never put it in.
  • Complete Monster: Drake Merwin, so much. His psych profile states "sadist". Diana drew a smiley face beside it.
    • Drake also microwaved a puppy. A PUPPY!
    • PENNY, full stop. Oh god.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Caine and Drake, believe it or not. Even the author has expressed discomfort with the level of fangirling the series' resident psychopath gets.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Considering the series' amount of characters, it shouldn't be surprising. Some examples include Lana's dog, Patrick, Cookie (who showed up a few times in Gone and Hunger), The Artful Rodger and Justin, and that's only a few of them.
  • Ho Yay: Caine and Drake. Also strays into Foe Yay.

Caine: (leans close to Drake and whispers in his ear) Don't start thinking you can take me down, Drake. You're useful to me. The minute I start thinking you're no longer useful... (smiles and pats Drake on the cheek.)

"Don't you know what I want Sam?" Drake cried. "Me," Sam said dully. "You want me." "That's the idea, Sam. And you're going to stand there and take it. Because if you don't..."

  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Even without getting into some of the gruesome spoiler details, the nightmare scenario of children on their own without any adults around is enough to scare the daylights out of anyone. And from there, things get worse.
    • In plague Dekka being eaten alive by bugs from the inside. It Got Worse when the only way to save her was for Sam to cut her open while she was still alive with Lana healing her and killing the bugs that crawled out of her body.
    • Hunger puts Duck through absolute hell, despite being a mostly innocent bystander, so when you have to read the description of this character who you've come to sympathize with being buried alive (from his perspective), it is quite disturbing.
    • Fear provides plenty of examples of this, including Penny's visions to Cigar, the fate of the kids who poofed, and the mutations. Plus, the whole idea of all of the light going out is terrifying.
  • Iron Woobie: Orc, after his mutation.
  • Memetic Badass: John Terrafino.
  • Memetic Molester: Drake. In Gone and Hunger, it was mostly just a couple lines he says to/about Diana, but by Plague, he's talking about Brianna enjoying nonspecific torture he's pretending she recieved from him, winking at Astrid while threatening to "come up and play" with her, and fantasizing about what a long time he'll take with Diana when he gets to her. In short, downright creepy.
    • The Gaiaphage as well. Especially when you consider that he/it is entering a little child's mind and tempting him to come and play "games" with him...
  • Memetic Mutation: "I WHIP MY HAND BACK AND FORTH"
    • Also "Marry me and live on a houseboat !", commonly used by the fans to express admiration toward somebody. It was originally said by Sam to Dekka.
    • "X? What X ?", from Quinn's "Radiations? What Radiations?"
    • "I had a [insert complicated word here] once. My doctor removed it."
    • Sanjit's "can't be vinced" line.
  • No Yay: A lot of the things Drake says, particularly to Diana, fall under this. And then there's the Gaiaphage and Little Pete. Actually, the Gaiaphage and everyone.
  • Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • The Scrappy: Zil. It's near impossible to find anyone who likes him. Part of this most likely comes from the fact that he's based on Hitler.
  • The Woobie: EVERYONE. Except maybe Drake.
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