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In the early 21st century, a supervirus known as "the Big Death" was unleashed across the planet: highly communicable, short incubation period and one-hundred-percent fatal to anyone who had reached the age of puberty or higher. Within six months, the population had been decimated and the only survivors were the pre-pubescent children, who somehow had to rebuild a society they never fully knew. [[After the End|Fifteen years later]], one such survivor is Jeremiah (Perry), who [[Walking the Earth|travels]] between the rural, low-tech communities that have cropped up in the intervening years and searches tirelessly for something called "Valhalla Sector", a place his father once spoke of as a possible refuge against the Big Death.

* [[Big Bad]]: Daniel is set up as one, although it's eventually subverted in that {{spoiler|there is no Daniel, he's a computer-generated figurehead propped up by some as-yet unidentified shadowy figure.}}

* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: "The Question"

** Also seen in the 2nd episode, where Jeremiah and Kurdy drive past a bunch of cultists who are reverently holding vigil around a broken telegraph pole.

{{quote|'''Jeremiah''': So, er, what are you doing?

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: In "The Question", Mr. Smith offers one guaranteed miracle from God if Marcus, Kurdy, and Jeremiah ask for it and wait at an appointed place in time. {{spoiler|In the end, Mr. Smith is the only one to do so and the only one to receive his miracle. Then again, bringing someone [[Back from the Dead]], eliminating all weaponry from the planet, and having Jeremiah personally chew out God face-to-face was... probably not something the show would want to do anyway.}}

** Note that, as with everything else Mr. Smith does, the question of whether this was actually divine intervention or not is deliberately left open.

* [[Disaster Scavengers]]

* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]

* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Daniel

** {{spoiler|Who doesn't exist.}}

* [[La Résistance]]

** See also: literally everything related to Mister Smith. Every miracle or instance of divine intervention he witnesses always has a convenient mundane explanation, even if it's a somewhat unlikely one.

* [[Mission from God]]: Mr. Smith, possibly also a [[Cosmic Plaything]]. "I'm just God's sock puppet okay? He shoves his hand up my ass and words come out the other end."

* [[Mysterious Past]]: Mr. Smith, most likely a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] too."I have some issues ... One of thousands. Would you like to hear them alphabetically or in order of psychic trauma?"

* [[No Name Given]]: Mr. Smith. "So if I was going to introduce you to somebody, I'd say, this is Mr. Mr. Smith?"

* [[The Plague]], which is [[Only Fatal to Adults]]

* [[The Pornomancer]]: Jeremiah himself, who manages to sleep with virtually every woman he encounters over the course of the series.

{{quote|'''Jeremiah''' ''Are you happy? Are you satisfied? That's how it works, isn't it? You set us up, you take someone like him, and you give him hope, so you can take it away again? What did he do to you? What did any of us ever do to you? What did the whole fucking world do to you, that we deserve all of this? What, the locusts and the death of the firstborn wasn't good enough for you anymore so now it's the death of the eldest? Death of heroes? You know what? Fuck you. Because we're not just going to lay down and die here anymore. You want to finish off the job? Come down here! Do it yourself! You send the angel of death, you better give him one hell of a big sword, 'cause I tell you what; we are going to kick his ass right back to the great white fucking throne! And then we're coming for you. We're coming for you. ''}}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Marcus

* [[Refusal of the Call]]: Mr. Smith says this didn't go well for him.

* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: Theo again.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Megan and Marcus, one of the worst cases when you think about it.

* [[Stargate City]]: They even use the [[Stargate SG-1|SGC]] as their HQ!

* [[Take Up My Sword|Take Up My Rover]]: In the pilot episode, one of Thunder Mountain's scouting teams are killed; the leader, on his final breaths, encourages Jeremiah and Kurdy to take the rover back to Thunder Mountain in their place.

* [[Teenage Wasteland]], though the show shows what happens after those kids grew up

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Specifically, ''neo''-Nazis; several different groups of them are encountered over the course of the series, and it's mentioned in a throwaway line of background dialogue that one particularly powerful neo-Nazi group controls almost all of Montana.

* [[Typhoid Mary]]: Megan; she even [[Lampshade Hanging|explicitly refers to herself as such]] at one point.

* [[Unlimited Wardrobe]]: Where the heck does Libby get all of those [[Fan Service]] outfits? Heck, where does all of Jeremiah's unlimited ''paper'' come from?

* [[Walking the Earth]]: As much of it as can be reached from their home base on a single tank of gasoline, anyway.

* [[Woman in White]]: Megan

 

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