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* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Kasumi develops a crush on Marco. The rest of the group takes notice of this, but since Marco is so hard to read it's tough to tell what he thinks of her for most of the story.

** Ron even discusses this with Kasumi in Chapter 27:

'''Kasumi''': "He already has. And despite that, I am still... }}

* [[All There in the Manual]]: The [http://www.kingofthorn.net/ Japanese website] for [[The Movie]] provides full names, ages, occupations and nationalities for most of the characters, and even gives names to some of the monsters. Then again, many details were changed in the adaptation, so [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether or not this information is canon.

* [[And I Must Scream]]

* [[Angsty Surviving Twin]]: Kasumi. {{spoiler|It's a bit more complicated than that, though.}}

* [[Artistic License Biology]]: "Well... I think it probably evolved from some animal, or [[Department of Redundancy Department|maybe suddenly mutated."]]

** Possibly justified, as "evolved" implies "mutated over a long period of time", as opposed to "suddenly mutated".

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted. He survives all the way to the end of the story!

** Played more straight in the movie. {{spoiler|He’s the third member of the group to die.}}

* [[Body Horror]]: Copious examples. Infection by Medusa causes the body to slowly [[Taken for Granite|petrify]] and eventually shatter. If you're lucky, you might instead get a very nasty [[Lovecraftian Superpower]]. And then there's Alice, {{spoiler|who has been reduced to a head, heart, one lung, and one arm, and kept alive inside a life support chamber for ''[[And I Must Scream|eight years]]''}}.

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Zeus}} is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] enough to know that letting his archenemy live after he's discovered his master plan is a bad idea, and after some [[Evil Gloating]], disposes of him rather quickly. Not only does he have one of his minions beat {{spoiler|Marco}} to a pulp and then stab him, he has him dropped from a ledge. However, {{spoiler|Zeus}} fails to consider the possibility of {{spoiler|Marco ''coming back to life.'' And then, he makes the ''very'' stupid mistake of letting Marco ''hack into his data'' and erase him from existence.}}

* [[Compressed Adaptation]]: The film adaptation, at only 109 minutes, adapts all 6 volumes. While it does follow the same basic story, there are several changes throughout.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: The film adaptation's creatures are primarily made of CGI. The characters are also CGI'd when fighting these creatures. Some creatures are better animated than others, but the characters look pretty bad. It's forgivable for the first half hour but it eventually gets in the way of the drawn animation as the film drags on.

* [[Cult]]: The [[Human Popsicle|Cold Sleep]] project was sponsored by a cult called Venus Gate. They planned to harness the power of [[The Virus|Medusa]] to remake the world, only to discover too late that [[Evil Is Not a Toy]].

* [[Dead All Along]]: {{spoiler|Kasumi}} died before the manga began. The one who appears in the story is a [[Replacement Goldfish]] who was created using a [[Lovecraftian Superpower]], and doesn't realize it until [[The Reveal]] in the final volume.

* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Marco's motivation in the movie.

* [[Death By Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|Ron, Marco, and harpy!Katherine}} survive in the manga, but not the movie.

** Also, Kasumi and Shizuku's parents. They were shown alive in the manga and were there with Shizuku to drop Kasumi off at the castle. In the movie they died from Medusa, leaving the girls living together as orphans.

* [[Demoted to Extra]] / [[Deleted Role]]: Zeus is conspicuously absent from the movie.

* [[Doomed Defeatist]]: Ron decides to split from the rest of the survivors because he figures that it's no use going on now that they've seen the condition the rest of the world is in. {{spoiler|He later changes his mind and, surprisingly, lives to tell the tale.}}

* [[Eat Me]]: Marco and Kasumi have to let the mother monster swallow them to stop Zeus and save Shizuku.

* [[Enemy Without]]: Alice, who (as a result of abuse from her family) [[Split Personality|developed an alternate personality called Laloo]] to take the abuse for her. When Alice became infected with Medusa, it manifested from her back in the form of Laloo. How did Alice respond? {{spoiler|By locking him in a room and ''[[Kill It With Fire|burning the house down]]''}}.

* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Zeus.

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: [[The Movie]] likes to reference ''[[Sleeping Beauty]]'' whenever possible. See [[Rule of Symbolism]].

* [[Fertile Feet]]: In a dark version of the trope, the ubiquitous thorny vines follow Kasumi, growing wherever she goes.

* [[Final Girl]]: {{spoiler|Kasumi and [[Infant Immortality|Tim]]}}are the only survivors left at the end of the movie.

** [[The Hero]]: Marco

** [[The Chick]] / [[The Heart]]: Kasumi

* [[Go Out With a Smile]]: In [[The Movie]]. See [[Death By Adaptation]].

* [[Grumpy Old Man]]: Alessandro.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: "[[A Fate Worse Than Death|Shizuku's fate]]... is '''your''' fault."

* [[The Hedge of Thorns]]: There's thorns growing on practically every surface, making escapes from monsters more difficult.

** In the movie, {{spoiler|Peter}} does this to save Kasumi and {{spoiler|Ron}} do this to save Marco.

* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: Katherine, subverted in that [[Abusive Parents|she isn't really a good mother]]. She regrets it, actually, and becomes a mother figure toward [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Tim]].

* [[Human Popsicle]]: The 160 Medusa victims in cold sleep. {{spoiler|But for much less time than they think.}}

* [[The Immune]]: {{spoiler|Marco}} is immune to Medusa. {{spoiler|Zeus}} eventually explains why: {{spoiler|[[Determinator|Determinators]] such as Marco or himself don't have any wounds in their psyche for Medusa to exploit.}}

* [[Intertwined Fingers]]: Kasumi and Shizuku, in the first [[Furo Scene]] flashback.

* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Happens a few times with Kasumi:

** ''Then'', {{spoiler|after finding out [[Body Horror|what Shizuku has become]], Kasumi tried to throw herself off a high place [[Suicide for Others Happiness|thinking that it'll help Shizuku]], and [[Together in Death|in order to be with Marco]], but is stopped by Zeus.}}

* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: After Alessandro (the old guy) reveals he ''paid'' to become a [[Human Popsicle]] rather than just hope he was randomly selected, some of the others react with outrage. However, he calmly points out that anyone would have done the same thing if they had the means.

* [[Our Gryphons Are Different]]: One of these is the result of {{spoiler|Katherine's}} [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

* [[Playful Hacker]] and [[The Cracker]]: Marco and Zeus, respectively.

* [[Pinky Swear]]: Between Kasumi and Shizuku.

* [[Power Tattoo]]: Marco Owen is a [[Tattooed Crook]] to begin with, but one in particular marks his upgrade from [[Badass Normal]] to [[Badass Abnormal]]: {{spoiler|when Alice alters his body so that he'll stand a chance against Zeus, he gains a large tattoo on his chest resembling the anarchy symbol}}.

* [[Was Once a Man]]: {{spoiler|The mother monster is Shizuku.}}

** {{spoiler|The entirety of the Zeus Race.}}

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]]: {{spoiler|Alice}} burnt her house down when she was a child after her family had died of the Medusa virus, along with the creature that the virus had spawned from her in the process.

* [[The Worm That Walks]]: {{spoiler|Peter Stevens}}'s Medusa manifestation.