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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|David, Rosalind, Petra, Rachel and Michael are the only survivors among the titular group by novel's end.}}
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Alan Erwin. {{spoiler|And Joseph Strorm.}}
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]: Not only the Bible, but also the book "Repentances" and a document known as "The Definition of Man," that give specific conditions for man, beast and crops to be considered normal and not deviant. Joseph Strorm and other like-minded religious zealots are fond of quoting these sources to justify their actions and behavior.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Sophie. Alan learned it the hard way.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Mutants are one to the populace of Waknuk in general.
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* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Like you wouldn't believe, in-universe.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Rosalind has one after being forced to shoot a man who was covertly hunting her, David and Petra following the trio's flight from Waknuk.
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* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{spoiler|Uncle Axel's murder of Alan to protect the titular group's secret.}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Anne. David also prays for this at one point, out of fear of what he's witnessed happening to mutated crops and animals and fearing that the same may happen to him if he's found out.
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* [[Mercy Kill]]: In the second half of the book, Michael instructs David to do so to Petra and Rosalind if the trio are caught.
* [[The Mole]]: Michael, the oldest and best-educated of the telepaths and one of the few whose ability remains undiscovered, joins one of the groups hunting David and company in order to give them play-by-play information on what the fugitives need to do.
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* [[Not So Different]]: The argument presented in [http://www.sfreviews.net/chrysalids.html this review] of the novel suggests that, in terms of personality and motivation, {{spoiler|the S/Zealanders are really no different from Labrador's society}}.
** While in the Fringes, David comments that, barring tolerance of deviation, the mutants in the fringes aren't different from the townspeople of Waknuk.
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