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.

*[[Death By Childbirth]]: Kay Keith ~~dies~~ this way after giving birth to Mark Dixon. Supposedly justified in that Mark's father is Cthulhu, but he appears to be shaped exactly like a normal human until Nyarlathotep shines the crystal on him.

*[[Death by Childbirth]]: Kay Keith is said to have died this way during the [[Time Skip]] after giving birth to Mark Dixon. Supposedly justified in that Mark's father is Cthulhu, but he appears to be shaped exactly like a normal human until Nyarlathotep shines the crystal on him.

*[[Decoy Protagonist]]: The viewpoint characters are arguably all this, except Mark at the end.

*[[Dying Dream]]: Mark thinks he's having one of these when he's taken away by the fish people, but it's real.

*[[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.