Der Schwarm: Difference between revisions

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* [[Animal Wrongs Group]]: The group around Greywolf, harassing whale watchers. But they disperse after the whales have gone postal.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|The goal of the yrr}}.

* [[Assassin Outclassin']]: {{spoiler|Vanderbilt attempted to kill Johanson, but Greywolf and Anawak prevented it.}}

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Averted, although the persons involved are not that famous. They are scientists who helped Schätzing [[Shown Their Work|do his research]]. Mostly minor roles, although one of them even [[Badass Bookworm|fights]] a [[Everything Is Even Worse With Sharks|shark]]!

* [[Nuke'Em]]: {{spoiler|Judith Li, Jack Vanderbilt, Mike Rubin and others secretly plan to annihilate the yrr, with poison instead of nuclear weapons, but the general idea is the same.}}

* [[Pungeon Master]]: The author's acknowledgements are FULL of puns related to the word "yrr", at least in the original German version.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: It's similar with {{spoiler|Jack Greywolf}}.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Many scientists in the cast = many [[Mister Exposition|Mister Expositions]]. And Schätzing did so much research that he was even able to publish a second (non-fiction) book about the themes dealt with in ''Der Schwarm''.

* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: Stan Frost is quite a cliched Texan, boisterous and plucky. And a very capable scientist.

* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: It irks Leon Anawak to no end that Jack Greywolf intentionally [[Flanderization|Flanderizes]] his Native American heritage.

* [[The Swarm]]: Well, duh!

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|The researches of Johanson, Anawak and the others were secretly used for creating an anti-yrr poison.}}

* [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]]: Early in the novel, a [[Magical Native American]] [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this with the closing words of his own speech.