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* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Johnny Tsalal. Hunter S. Thompson took comfort in this.

* [[Butterfly of Doom]]: Averted until cca. the 18.-19. century, when Europeans start venturing closer to Antarctica.

* [[Call a Rabbit A Smeerp]]: Averted. Antarctica actually has a surprisingly detailed ecology of unique animals. Most of them are based on the prehistoric animals native to Australia and South America, of which they are evolved forms, specialized to the insanely hostile Antarctic climate and ecosystem.

* [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: Averted. Antarctica actually has a surprisingly detailed ecology of unique animals. Most of them are based on the prehistoric animals native to Australia and South America, of which they are evolved forms, specialized to the insanely hostile Antarctic climate and ecosystem.

* [[Chupacabra]]: The [[Spell My Name ~~With~~ an "S"|Chupa/Shupa]] is a very obvious expy.

* [[Chupacabra]]: The [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Chupa/Shupa]] is a very obvious expy.

* [[Church Militant]]: Several examples of Tsalal religious authorities that form a state within a state.

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Too many to count, but the Hali culture is the most infamous practitioner of this. And they do it [[For the Evulz]].

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* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]] & [[Dark-Skinned Redhead]]: Becouse of their Australoid origins and about 40000 years of social selection preferring black skin, Tsalal skin tones are as dark as humanly possible. Hair colors show more variety, but those redheads are quite rare.

* [[Death World]]: The native lifeforms of Antarctica are just plain ''nasty''. There are the Gugs, ants that shoot fire, giant platypi that have evolved convergently similar to crocodilians, and a kind of small mammal whose bite sends humans into comas. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|And that's just the tip of the iceburg...]]

* [[Drop Bear]]: the Southern Koala is this, with some flavoring of [[Alien (~~Film~~)|Xenomorph]]. A dreaded taboo creature [[Eviler Than Thou|even for the Tsalal]].

* [[Drop Bear]]: the Southern Koala is this, with some flavoring of [[Alien (franchise)|Xenomorph]]. A dreaded taboo creature [[Eviler Than Thou|even for the Tsalal]].

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The Nightmare Children ([[Child Soldiers]] who were raised to be complete and utter psychopaths from birth) were viewed as horrific and cruel even by the Tsalal.

* [[Everyone Is Bi]]: More like "Everyone of the Tsalal is bi, if it's a way of degrading your inferiors. Or their [[I Love the Dead|dead bodies]].

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* [[Oedipus Complex]]. In time's of famine, it's perfectly acceptable in Tsalal culture for a boy to kill and eat his father, and then take his mother and sister as his wives. That is assuming his father doesn't do it first.

* [[Orange and Blue Morality]]: The Tsalal civilization in general, but especially the Hali.

* [[Powered By a Forsaken Child]]: The Tsalal use children as guidance systems for their bigger rockets and space program. And they don't understand why the Northerners are so upset about it.

* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: The Tsalal use children as guidance systems for their bigger rockets and space program. And they don't understand why the Northerners are so upset about it.

* [[Prison Rape]]: The Ptarh culture is built on it. Ironically, the same culture also lacks real prison.

* [[Rule of Scary]]

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: The Antarctic natives discover things like coal mining, rocketry, and domesticated monkeys way, way ahead of time. Guns, not so much.

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Howard Phillips' Flayerman mask.

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Howard Phillips' Flayerman mask.

* [[Secret Police]]: Probably.

* [[Shout-Out]] / [[Homage]]:

** To [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and his famous adventure/horror novella ''[[~~The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (Literature)|~~The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]''. The very name of the disturbing Antarctic natives of this [[Alternate History]] is kind of a dead giveaway. The story by Poe featured the "Tsalals", black-skinned, black-toothed evil natives living near the South Pole. The author has acknowledged this series was [[Inspired By]] them.

** To [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and his famous adventure/horror novella ''[[The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket]]''. The very name of the disturbing Antarctic natives of this [[Alternate History]] is kind of a dead giveaway. The story by Poe featured the "Tsalals", black-skinned, black-toothed evil natives living near the South Pole. The author has acknowledged this series was [[Inspired By]] them.

** Also, to virtually every other [[Mysterious Antarctica]] piece of fiction ever written. including those by H.P. Lovecraft : The ''[[Cthulhu Mythos|Plateau of Leng]]'', complete with wierd landscape, architecture and really disturbing inhabitants. That, and... Suprise ! [[Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman|Lovecraft himself is a journalist]] in this [[Alternate History]], who travels to Antarctica to study all the weird and creepy native civilizations (and get some ideas for his short stories, presumably).

** To ''[[The King in Yellow]]'', not only with the obvious "kings in yellow", but also by using other names supposedly present in the fictional play, like Hali.