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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Brittney{{spoiler|Drake}} being buried alive.

* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Dekka to Brianna during her "surgery". Brianna doesn't take it too well.}}

* [[Arc Words]]: "Hungry in the dark."

** For Astrid in ''Plague'': {{spoiler|A simple act of murder...}}

*** Threatening Brianna seems to be a bad idea all around. Dekka had a similar if not worse reaction.

** Drake pushes this intentionally to draw Sam, Dekka and Jack out. Thanks to [[Living Lie Detector|Toto]], it doesn't work.

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: The mutant coyotes in the desert.

* [[Big Creepy Crawlies]]: The bugs from ''Plague''.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: {{spoiler|Gaia}}, so very much. Within the ''four hours'' {{spoiler|from her birth}} to the end of ''Fear'', she manages to {{spoiler|torture Penny}} after she accidentally drops her {{spoiler|and then laugh at the scene}}, {{spoiler|laugh, once more, at seeing terrified children ''walk into a fire''}} due to Penny's visions and {{spoiler|forcing her mother to relieve her horrible memories of eating Panda}}. And that's not all... She also attempts to {{spoiler|kill both her own father, Caine, by trying to crush him against the FAYZ barrier}} and {{spoiler|Sam, by trying to rip him apart via telekinesis}}. {{spoiler|Thankfully, she doesn't succeed}} in any of the two cases.

* [[Ensemble Cast]]: While Sam could generally be called the protagonist (though there are always large portions of the story not focused on him), "Lies" moves all the way into this trope, with Sam getting equal or less attention than Astrid's struggle to lead the council and care for her brother, Sanjit and the island kids trying to fly to the mainland, power struggles among the Coates kids, Mary's growing mental problems, and many other subplots with the rest of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]].

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: All the Coates kids have something or someone capable of humanizing them... Except Drake, that kid [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|jumped off the slippery slope]] a ''long'' time ago and is proud of it.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Caine is understandably appalled at {{spoiler|what Penny did to Cigar in the twelve hours she had him. To put it simply, she ''tortured him to insanity.'' When Lana regenerates his eyes he thinks back to some of the hallucinations she caused, and we get to see them.}}

** Dekka is basically a transplanted [[Remnants|Tate]], with shades of Rachel.

** Caine has every bit of [[Remnants|Yago's]] ambition and ruthlessness and Diana is as manipulative and cunning as [[Remnants|2Face]].

* [[Fantastic Racism]]:

** Regular kids against the Moofs (mutant freaks).

** In ''Plague'', Lance goes full-out racist and blames blacks, gays, Mexicans and Jews for all his problems, as well as freaks.

* [[Fille Fatale]]: Diana, to some extent, although [[Teenage Wasteland|relative to the rest of the FAYZ]], fourteen isn't that young.

** Dekka and Sam:

{{quote| '''Sam:''' I don't want to sound weird, but you know I love you, right?<br />

'''Dekka:''' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Love you too, Sam.]] }}

** [[Big Bad|The Big Bad]]: Caine

** [[The Dragon]]: Drake, {{spoiler|Penny}}

** [[The Brute]]: Orc {{spoiler|pre-[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

** [[The Dark Chick]]: Diana

** [[The Hero]]: Sam

** [[The Lancer]]: Edilio, Brianna

** [[Team Pet]]: Patrick

** [[The Medic]]: Lana, Dahra

* [[Fun With Acronyms]]: The '''F'''allout '''A'''lley '''Y'''outh '''Z'''one.

{{quote| '''Howard''': "Don't worry about it. It's just a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|FAYZ!]]"}}

** And Orsay.

* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: Most mutants.

** In Plague {{spoiler|after Dekka gets hit by a greenie.}}

{{quote| '''Dekka:''' Don't let it happen. Swear to me Sam. Swaer it to me by God or by your own soul or whatever you believe, swear to me, Sam.<br />

** Also in Plague, {{spoiler|when Hunter is being [[Body Horror|eaten by greenies.]]}}

* [[I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship]]: One of Dekka's reasons for not telling Brianna she loves her.

* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: one of the possible sources for the kids' superpowers. Justified because the series takes place in an [[Alternate Universe]] where the laws of science have been rewritten.

** But the laws of science are only different in the FAYZ which was made by {{spoiler|Little Pete}} who's [[Logic Bomb|powers may have come from the nuclear incident which means because nuclear power gives powers, nuclear power gives powers.]]

* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted, and how. Sam and some others find a dead baby inside an abandoned house. {{spoiler|Also, the final battle scene in the end of ''Gone'' kills a lot of children.}}

** {{spoiler|Averted again near the end of ''Fear'' to a horrifying degree.}}

* [[It Got Worse]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Michael Grant in his blog.

{{quote| '''Grant:''' Cheerful line-up, eh? ''Gone'', ''Hunger'', ''Lies'', and ''Plague''. Ah, good times in the FAYZ."}}

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Lana in Lies. Justified because she can heal herself of any damage caused.

* [[Smug Snake]]: Zil Sperry hates [[Ho Yay|all but one]] of his teammates, resents not being recognized as a formidable antagonist, and {{spoiler|gets himself killed in a poorly planned attempt to gain recognition.}} Very smug, very irritating, and, in the end, pretty worthless.

* [[Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome]]: A lot of characters.

** {{spoiler|Chunk, the Coates Academy toadie gets killed (albeit unintentionally) by Caine when he gets thrown into a wall in ''Hunger.''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Suddenly Sexuality]]}}: {{spoiler|Edilio is revealed to be gay in ''Fear'', along with Artful Roger and the two are together. There's a bit of lead up to this in the novel itself, but not previous installments which make sense, since Edilio does not get very many POV chapters.}}

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The gaiaphage.

* [[Steven Ulysses Perhero]]: Mary and her brother John become foster parents for pretty much all children under five. Eventually they earn the nicknames Mother Mary and Brother John.

** Orsay: [[Dreaming of Things to Come|Can see the dreams of others.]]

** Penny: [[Master of Illusion]]

** Taylor: [[Teleportation]]

** Toto: [[Living Lie Detector]]

* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: The going theory is that {{spoiler|Little Pete caused the FAYZ by having a panic attack... in the middle of the catastrophic meltdown of the Perdido Beach Nuclear Power Plant}}. Later {{spoiler|confirmed.}}

* [[Take That]]:

{{quote| '''Lana''': Maybe you're attracted to dangerous unbalanced people, but listen up: [[Twilight (Literature)|I'm not Edward and you're not Bella.]]<br />

* [[Villainous BSOD]]: Caine during the period between ''Gone'' and ''Hunger.''

* [[Welcome Back Traitor]]: To Jack in Hunger.

** A lot of names come under this. Duck, Zil and for starters.

* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Drake! He kills anyone who gets in the way of what he wants {{spoiler|coyotes-in-daycare scene}}. [[Literal Minded|Or just gets in his way]]. Or just for the [[For the Lulz|fun of it.]]