History Blog / TalesFromTheGasStation

* MenInBlack: Jack is nearly on a first-name basis with his coverup agent.

* ActionSurvivor: Just about every other member of the cast is more physically capable than Jack. Doesn’t stop him from surviving multiple near-death experiences and attempts on his life, and even an encounter with an EldritchAbomination.
* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Due to complications and repeated injuries to his leg, eventually Jack as to get it amputated.]] As with most things, he’s not too put off by it, except to complain about how annoying it makes the rest of his day-to-day.

* CloudCuckoolander: Jerry. It's not just the random and nonsensical behavior he engages in that make his intelligence teeter between "moron" and "eccentric genius", it's also the fact that he rarely, has any sort of fear.

* DefiantToTheEnd: One of the Keiffer’s dying acts is to give Jack double middle fingers. This actually makes the clerk respect him.

* FatBastard: Beaux Covillion. He's described by Jack as being "4 feet tall. Lying down on his back.". He's more laughably evil due to being so moronic, angsty, and incompetent though.

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: The Shapeshifter in the ChristmasEpisode isn't the horror, but trying to stop it. InUniverse, Ben was SadlyMythtaken and thought the Shapeshifter ''was'' the demon it fights every 100 years.]]

* HopeSpot: Jack gets an in-universe one when he finds a harmless, but interesting, large glowing caterpillar he names Starburst. For a bit, it gives him a bit of hope that not everything weird that’s happening has to be horrible, and seeing its cocoon makes him have some optimism for the future. And then one of the mutant raccoons eats it, because of course it does.
* HunterOfMonsters: Ben.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Kieffer, who [[UnexplainedRecovery died like, 3 times]] in the first arc, once by being accidentally stabbed in the heart by a carelessly thrown shovel

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Beaux Covillion. The antagonist of "Upside Down". Jack mentions that he tried to form a "Klan Club" and that he also spray-painted swastikas all over the teachers cars. He is not, however competent at all.
* PunnyName: Jack works at a gas station on the edge of town. And his name is Jack ''Townsend''. This is likely a PenName, however.
* PutOnABus: Carlos vanishes around the ChristmasEpisode without explanation, with only Spencer bringing up his absence. While there’s an individual in Finding Vanessa that’s implied to be him, no explanation is given as to why he left the Gas Station.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Mayfly Queen in ''Happy Halloween from the Gas Station.'' She resembles a six-inch-long green centipede as big around as a golf ball with bulging green eyes.

** In addition, Jack handles the bipedal deer buck buying a bottle of water from the store with less surprise and more annoyance at the deer’s general incompetence at human activities.
** In general, if it isn’t a credible threat to his life, Jack likely isn’t going to be too surprised by it. And even if it is, at most he’ll treat it like a mildly interesting inconvenience.

** In ''Upside Down,'' Jack and Jerry have a casual conversation while a crazy Eldritch god worshiper is ranting about how he plans on sacrificing them to the said entity.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In ''Upside Down,'' Jack and Jerry have a casual conversation while a crazy Eldritch god worshiper is ranting about how he plans on sacrificing them to the said entity.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Whatever Jack has, [[TheInsomniac it prevents him from sleeping/being knocked unconscious]]. It also means he's going to die soon, but he doesn't know when.
** He's later confirmed to have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_insomnia Fatal Familial Insomnia]], a rare genetic condition which causes insomnia, hallucinations, dementia, and eventual death.

* {{Cult}}: The Mathematists, who believe that mankind has the twofold responsibility of reducing suffering and increasing happiness. Sounds noble, right? Well, they're actually an ApocalypseCult, because they feel that people have focused too hard on increasing happiness without doing enough to reduce suffering. They figure they can reduce ALL suffering to 0 by [[KillEmAll exterminating mankind wholesale]]. No people means no people who can suffer.

* HopeSpot: Jack gets an in-universe one when he finds a harmless, but interesting, large glowing caterpillar he names Starburst. For a bit, it gives him a bit of hope that not everything weird that’s happening has to be horrible, and seeing its cocoon makes him have some optimism for the future. And then one of the mutant raccoons eats it, because of corse it does.

''Tales from the Gas Station'' is a horror-comedy blog detailing the adventures of Jack Townsend, the clerk (later night-time manager) of "The shitty gas station on the edge of town." Read it [[https://www.gasstationjack.com here,]] or listen to [[WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety Mr. Creepypasta]] read it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HblU4fmtIY here.]] It also has a spinoff, ''Finding Vanessa,'' about a Private Eye searching for his niece.

* {{Cult}}: The Mathmetists, who believe that mankind has the twofold responsibility of reducing suffering and increasing happiness. Sounds noble, right? Well, they're actually an ApocalypseCult, because they feel that people have focused too hard on increasing happiness without doing enough to reduce suffering. They figure they can reduce ALL suffering to 0 by [[KillEmAll exterminating mankind wholesale]]. No people means no people who can suffer.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Dark God, who looks like a humanoid tick with a mohawk, is implied to be responsible for the odd smell that permeates the station and grows the creepy, ravenous hand-plants, is actually an OK guy as far as eldritch horrors go, and his big plan was to get Kieffer Sunderland elected mayor so he'll crackdown on the local logging company.

This Horror-Comedy Blog contains examples of:

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In ''Upside Down,'' Jack and Jerry have a casual conversation while a crazy Eldritch god worshiper is ranting about how he plans on sacrificing them to the said entity.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Dark God, who looks like a humanoid tick, is implied to be responsible for the odd smell that permeates the station, and grows the creepy, ravenous hand-plants, is actually an OK guy as far as eldritch horrors go, and his big plan was to get Kieffer Sunderland elected mayor so he'll crackdown on the local logging company.
* Deadpan Snarker: jack does this almost every other thought (though he rarely voices these responses

* FunnyAnimal: One MonsterOfTheWeek installment has a herd of anthropomorphic deer go by the gas station. The alpha even comes in to buy a bottle of water.

* InSeriesNickname: Jerry was originally named after his preferred brand of cigarettes, Marlborough, until Jack learned his name.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In ''Upside Down,'' Jack and Jerry have a casual conversation while a crazy satanist is ranting about how he plans on sacrificing them to the devil.

''Tales from the Gas Station'' is a horror-comedy blog detailing the adventures of Jack Townsend, the clerk (later night-time manager) of "The shitty gas station on the edge of town." Read it [[https://www.gasstationjack.com here,]] or listen to [[WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety Mr. Creepypasta]] read it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HblU4fmtIY here.]] It also has a spinoff, ''Finding Vanessa,'' about a Private Eye searching for his neice.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The Dark God, who looks like a humanoid tick, is implied to be responsible for the odd smell that permeates the station, and grows the creepy, ravenous hand-plants, is actually an OK guy as far as eldritch horrors go, and his big plan was to get Kieffer Sunderland elected mayor so he'll crack down on the local logging company.

* NonIndicativeName: The "mayflies" in the halloween episode swarm in ''October,'' and Jack suggests a few other, more accurate names for them.
* PuppeteerParasite: The Mayfly Queen in ''Happy Halloween from the Gas Station.'' She resembles a six-inch long green centipede as big around as a golf ball with bulging green eyes.
* TheSociopath: Spencer Middleton, who enjoyed torturing small animals and nerdy kids as a schoolboy, burnt down his own house twice, and joined the army as a [=BlackOps=] TortureTechnician. When he's (surprisingly, honourably) discharged, he starts working for an EldritchAbomination and likes tormenting Jack.

* {{Cult}}: The Mathematists, who beleive that mankind has the twofold respinsibility of reducing suffering and increasing happiness. Sounds noble, right? Well, they're actually an ApocalypseCult, because they feel that people have focused too hard on increasing happiness without doing enough to reduce suffering. They figure they can reduce ALL sufferring to 0 by [[KillEmAll exterminating mankind wholesale]]. No people means no people who can suffer.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Dark God, who looks like a humanoid tick, is implied to be responsible for the odd smell that permeates the station, and grows the creepy, ravenous hand-plants, is actually an OK guy as far as eldritch horrors go, and his big plan was to get Keifer Sunderland elected mayor so he'll crack down on the local logging company.
* EldritchLocation: The land the gas station is built on is wierd somehow, to the point that even a ''god'' doesn't know exactly what's wrong with it.

* MadeOfPlasticine: Keifer, who [[UnexplainedRecovery died like, 3 times]] in the first arc, once by being accidentally stabbed in the heart by a carelessly thrown shovel

* TheSociopath: Spencer Middleton, who enjoyed torturing small animals and nerdy kids as a schoolboy, burnt down his own house twice, and joined the army as a BlackOps TortureTechnician. When he's (surprisingly, honourably) discharged, he starts working for an EldritchAbomination and likes tormenting Jack.

* PettingZooPeople:
** One MonsterOfTheWeek installment has a herd of anthropomorphic deer go by the gas station. The alpha even comes in to buy a bottle of water.
** The HalloweenEpisode has a girl dressed up as a fox.

* MadeOfPlastecine: Keifer, who [[UnexplainedRecovery died like, 3 times]] in the first arc, once by being accidentally stabbed in the heart by a carelessly thrown shovel

''Tales from the Gas Station'' is a horror-comedy blog detailing the adventures of Jack Townsend, the clerk (later night-time manager) of "The shitty gas station on the edge of town." Read it [[https://www.gasstationjack.com here,]] or listen to [[TheMidnightSociety Mr. Creepypasta]] read it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HblU4fmtIY here.]] It also has a spinoff, ''Finding Vanessa,'' about a Private Eye searching for his neice.

''Tales from the Gas Station'' is a horror-comedy blog detailing the adventures of Jack Townsend, the clerk (later night-time manager) of "The shitty gas station on the edge of town." Read it [[https://www.gasstationjack.com here,]] or listen to [=MrCreepyPasta=] read it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HblU4fmtIY here.]] It also has a spinoff, ''Finding Vanessa,'' about a Private Eye searching for his neice.

* {{Cult}}: The Mathematists, who beleive that mankind has the twofold respinsibility of reducing suffering and increasing happiness. Sounds noble, right? They're actually a DoomsdayCult, because they feel that people have focused too hard on increasing happiness without doing enough to reduce suffering, and they figure they can reduce ALL sufferring to 0 by [[KillEmAll exterminating mankind wholesale]].

* GasStationOfDoom: Right there in the name.

* {{Cult:}} The Mathematists, who beleive that mankind has the twofold respinsibility of reducing suffering and increasing happiness. Sounds noble, right? They're actually a DoomsdayCult, because they feel that people have focused too hard on increasing happiness without doing enough to reduce suffering, and they figure they can reduce ALL sufferring to 0 by [[KillEmAll exterminating mankind wholesale]].