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* [[Adaptation Displacement]] - Inspired by the book ''[[The World Without Us]]'' which, due to its success and also to perhaps because it was named one of
* [[Idiot Plot]]: The show essentially makes it clear that humanity ''literally'' disappears overnight, instantaneously without any actual method or cause beyond [[A Wizard Did It]]. Many of the show's points (accurate or not) are because of this otherwise impossible scenario, especially the [[Tear Jerker]] mentioned below. Especially important [[Fridge Logic|is the problem of ALL of humanity dying without anything else on the planet being affected, despite the fact that humanity would be one of the most
** The idea that most human
* [[Tear Jerker]]: For pet lovers, at least. The pilot episode of the first month or so takes extra care to mention the millions of cats, dogs, hamsters, and fish all locked inside their houses, waiting for humans that will never show up. And then they had to show cats pawing at the doorknob and dogs scratching at loaves of bread, desperate for food.
** Also the [[Real Life]] fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with wastes.
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