The 100

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The 100 (pronounced The Hundred) is a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on The CW. The series, developed by Jason Rothenberg, is loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan.

Tropes used in The 100 include:
  • Adaptation Displacement: The book series is mostly a footnote to the TV series at this point.
  • Cliff Hanger: After resolving the main story, each season finale ends with one to set up the main conflict of the next season:
    • Season 1 ends with many of the main characters knocked out with gas grenades by what look like special ops troops. When Clarke wakes up, she’s in an all white quarantine room inside Mount Weather, revealing that they’re the Mountain Men the Grounders have been afraid of.
    • Season 2 ends with Jaha and Murphy having made their way to an oddly intact mansion on an island. Murphy sees a video telling how an AI got nuclear launch codes nearly a century ago, while Jaha meets the AI itself.
    • Season 3 has the revelation that ALIE was uploading human minds to the City of Light in order to make sure they would survive Praimfaya, a wave of fire and radiation that would likely kill everyone within six months.
    • Season 4 ends with a time jump. Even though Earth was supposed to be survivable again after 5 years, it's been a bit more than 6 years later and no one has come down from space or out of the bunker. What Clarke thinks is her friends coming down from space turns out to be a prisoner transport ship coming back to Earth.
    • Season 5 ends with the destruction of Earth, for good this time. Rather than waking up from cryosleep after ten years, it's been 125 years, Monty and Harper died but left a son, and he shows Clarke and Bellamy the new planet that Monty found, which might be somewhere they can survive and do better.
    • Season 6 ends with two big ones:
      • Sheidheda has been removed from the flame, saving Madi, but escapes, presumably to take over the Eligius IV ship.
      • Diyoza's previously unborn daughter, Hope, comes out of the anomaly as an adult. She talks to Octavia, who recognizes her even though she remembered nothing from her time in the anomaly just minutes before. Hope stabs Octavia in the stomach then passes out. Bellamy tries to hold Octavia up as she's bleeding out, until the anomaly comes in to the room and she disappears in a flash of green.
  • Grey and Gray Morality: With a couple notable exceptions, everyone falls somewhere in the grey middle of morality. Frequently stated by the characters as “Maybe there are no good guys”.