Strange Eons: Difference between revisions
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*[[Anyone Can Die]]: There are multiple protagonists throughout the book, and almost all of them die, as well as many other characters.
*[[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Mark becomes Cthulhu at the end and destroys everything.
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*[[Decoy Protagonist]]: The viewpoint characters are arguably all this, except Mark at the end.
*[[Dying Dream]]: Subverted. Mark thinks he's having one of these when he's taken away by the fish people, but it's real.
*[[Hollywood Silencer]]: The gun used to blow off the top of Fred Elstree's head is totally silent.
*[[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Mark.
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*[[Literary Allusion Title]]: The title is part of a couplet from the Necronomicon, found in "The Nameless City" and "The Call of Cthulhu": "That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die". One of the last lines in the book is "Death died", though it's never stated what this means.
*[[Nuclear Option]]: Cthulhu is successfully nuked, but Mark becomes his replacement.
*[[Time Skip]]: Mark is introduced after one of these, since he doesn't exist yet in the earlier chapters.
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