Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** At one point, Em experiences a dream of a world in which nobody dies. The universe ends up completely packed wall-to-wall with bodies unable to do anything.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 83 (click to see context) from:
* IronicEcho: Before Martha comes back again, she's thrown in an open grave as one of the brothers say they wish that she'd ran, because it's more run that way. Guess what she says after she comes back and rips one brother's throat out?
to:
* IronicEcho: Before Martha comes back again, she's thrown in an open grave as one of the brothers say they wish that she'd ran, because it's more run fun that way. Guess what she says after she comes back and rips one brother's throat out?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
''Revival'' is a "rural noir" comic book published by ImageComics, written by Tim (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton. It ran for 47 issues, from 2012 to 2017, as well as one crossover issue with ''Chew''.
to:
''Revival'' is a "rural noir" comic book published by ImageComics, Creator/ImageComics, written by Tim (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton. It ran for 47 issues, from 2012 to 2017, as well as one crossover issue with ''Chew''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
to:
!! This work contains examples of:
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/revival_hc_9.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* DarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets even before the Revival action starts.
to:
* DarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing brings a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets even before the Revival action starts.
** Lester Majac [[spoiler:committed a murder to set off the Revival.]]
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Diane Dillisch]] is an unregistered reviver who becomes more violently self-destructive over time from pills to self-decapitation, eventually succeeding at terrible cost. The spouse attempts to keep this under wraps to protect both of them.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:Nithiya escapes with a copy of ''Banks of the Broken Creek'' and buys a house at the side of a river.]]
Changed line(s) 113 (click to see context) from:
* UndeadChild: A rare non-evil version. [[spoiler:Martha]] was pregnant at the time she was revived and the reviver infant represents a bridge between life and death. When the mother reclaims the infant's Passenger, the mother is destroyed but the baby is bonded with it and lives.
to:
* UndeadChild: A rare non-evil version. [[spoiler:Martha]] [[spoiler:Martha Cypress]] was pregnant at the time she was revived and the reviver infant represents a bridge between life and death. When the mother reclaims the infant's Passenger, the mother is destroyed but the baby is bonded with it and lives.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Dana takes a field trip to New York and discovers that someone is shipping reviver flesh out of town. The recipient is killed, as are his future clients - but did his past clients become revivers?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 50 (click to see context) from:
** Multiple LoveTriangles, see below.
to:
** Multiple LoveTriangles, kinds of LoveTriangle, see below.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Individual level, not whole town with one secret
* DarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets even before the Revival action starts.
** Multiple LoveTriangles, see below.
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].
** Multiple LoveTriangles, see below.
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].
** Joe Myers is still in love with his first girlfriend though he married another woman.
Deleted line(s) 106,111 (click to see context) :
* TownWithADarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets.
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** Joe Myers is still in love with his first girlfriend decades later even though she married another man.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** Joe Myers is still in love with his first girlfriend decades later even though she married another man.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
** All of these serve to emphasize that ''death itself'' is an OutsideContextProblem from the perspective of any given living thing.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Passengers are the souls of the revivers split from the recently dead during the Revival event. Passengers attach emotional weight to memory, so revivers lack emotional connections. Passengers have free will when separated from their hosts. When a Passenger reattaches to its host they are both destroyed. Passengers can also attach to other hosts as body snatchers.]]
Deleted line(s) 89 (click to see context) :
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Passengers are the souls of the revivers. They were split from the recently dead during the Revival event. Passengers attach emotional weight to memory, so revivers lack emotional connections. Passengers have free will when separated from their hosts. When a Passenger reattaches to its host they are both destroyed. Passengers can also attach to other hosts as body snatchers.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 88 (click to see context) from:
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Passengers are glowing humanoidish figures heard whispering in the woods outside town. They're visible on cameras, capable of moving like a gas, unable to cross salt, susceptible to physical restraint, and can be killed by drowning.
to:
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: OurSpiritsAreDifferent: The Passengers are glowing humanoidish figures heard whispering in the woods outside town. They're visible to humans and on cameras, capable of moving like a gas, unable to cross salt, susceptible to physical restraint, and can be killed by drowning. drowning.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
does not fit explicit definition on trope page
Deleted line(s) 85 (click to see context) :
* MayDecemberRomance: Lester and Bonnie. She's in her forties but he's decades older.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 47 (click to see context) from:
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Revival incident isolates a specific area around Wausau, Michigan. The military administrator happens to personally know a secret ninja assassin who lives less than fifty miles away.
to:
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Revival incident isolates a specific area around Wausau, Michigan.Wisconsin. The military administrator happens to personally know a secret ninja assassin who lives less than fifty miles away.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
** Jamie Hettinga is cheating on her husband with Justin Hine.
Changed line(s) 108 (click to see context) from:
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair]].
to:
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair]].affair and murdered their father to finance it]].
Changed line(s) 110 (click to see context) from:
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife.]]
to:
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife.]]wife]].
Changed line(s) 118 (click to see context) from:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
to:
* WhoWantsToLiveForeverWhoWantsToLiveForever: The revivers are universally emotionally detached. Their families are left with an echo of the person they were, a constant reminder that makes it impossible to grieve and move on. Revivers can feel no joy or accomplishment for themselves which leaves their existence a hollow mockery of life.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HorrifyingTheHorror: Late in the series Jordan Borchardt gets to [[spoiler:imprison a Passenger in her own body.]] The Passenger in question finds this terrifying.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* GoryDiscretionShot: The series has frequent and brutal depictions of gore, but refuses to show November Dismember taking a knife to his own genitals.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 42 (click to see context) from:
* BodySnatcher: The Passengers become this near the end of the series. Several are radicalized by imprisonment and begin taking over armed members of the US military to attack.
to:
* BodySnatcher: BodySurf: The Passengers become try this near the end of the series. Several are radicalized by imprisonment and begin taking over armed members of the US military to attack.attack, skipping to new hosts when the old bodies get killed.
Changed line(s) 84 (click to see context) from:
* MilitaryCoup: [[spoiler:Louise Cale]] leads one against the replacement general at the end of the series, supported by troops eager to see death permanently averted.
to:
* MilitaryCoup: TheMutiny: [[spoiler:Louise Cale]] leads one against the replacement general at the end of the series, supported by troops eager to see death permanently averted.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 48 (click to see context) from:
* Creepy Child: As a reviver Jordan Borchardt projects an emotionless disposition. Like others she has no compunctions against self-harm, which makes for a WhamShot at the close of one issue. Later she claims that guards don't notice her passing because she's so lifeless.
to:
* Creepy Child: CreepyChild: As a reviver Jordan Borchardt projects an emotionless disposition. Like others she has no compunctions against self-harm, which makes for a WhamShot at the close of one issue. Later she claims that guards don't notice her passing because she's so lifeless.
Changed line(s) 57 (click to see context) from:
* Functional Addict: Derrick regularly smokes weed and used to be a dealer before the quarantine. He's holding down a job as a freelance tattoo artist and has a stable relationship with Nikki. Despite Dana's low opinion of him, he watches Cooper responsibly and performs several high-risk ventures for her.
to:
* Functional Addict: FunctionalAddict: Derrick regularly smokes weed and used to be a dealer before the quarantine. He's holding down a job as a freelance tattoo artist and has a stable relationship with Nikki. Despite Dana's low opinion of him, he watches Cooper responsibly and performs several high-risk ventures for her.
Changed line(s) 77,78 (click to see context) from:
* Love Triangle:
** Aaron and Nethiya are married, but he had an affair with Em. Nethiya implies that this has happened before but it has no effect on her affection for him.
** Aaron and Nethiya are married, but he had an affair with Em. Nethiya implies that this has happened before but it has no effect on her affection for him.
to:
* Love Triangle:
LoveTriangle:
** Aaronand Nethiya are married, but he had an affair with Em. His wife Nethiya implies that this has happened before but it has no effect on her affection for him.
** Aaron
Changed line(s) 100 (click to see context) from:
* Telepathy: Em and a handful of other revivers can read minds by kissing the subject. Em even reverses this ability to commune with Patricia in the finale.
to:
* Telepathy: {{Telepathy}}: Em and a handful of other revivers can read minds by kissing the subject. Em even reverses this ability to commune with Patricia in the finale.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 16 (click to see context) from:
* Actual Pacifist: Randy the morgue technician becomes one after discovering that the John Doe he was incinerating came back to life mid-burn. Randy quit the job immediately to avoid injuring anyone else who might come in as a corpse-but-not. He's one of the leaders of a pacifist group that meets near the end of the series; by then the conflict has escalated to a shooting war between the US military and the libertarians' militia.
to:
* Actual Pacifist: ActualPacifist: Randy the morgue technician becomes one after discovering that the John Doe he was incinerating came back to life mid-burn. Randy quit the job immediately to avoid injuring anyone else who might come in as a corpse-but-not. He's one of the leaders of a pacifist group that meets near the end of the series; by then the conflict has escalated to a shooting war between the US military and the libertarians' militia.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 55 (click to see context) from:
* First Episode Spoiler: Em is an unregistered reviver murdered the night of the Revival incident. Keeping Em's secret and investigating her murder drive Dana for the rest of the series.
to:
* First Episode Spoiler: FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Em is an unregistered reviver murdered the night of the Revival incident. Keeping Em's secret and investigating her murder drive Dana for the rest of the series.
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Lester Majak got famous decades ago for his fitness book ''Strong Century''. He's still a local celebrity and quite fit for his age, but he's been coasting downward from that one success ever since.
* HumanResources: The miracle of the Revival creates an instant black market in reviver body parts for scientific and... other... purposes.
** Many citizens of the area dug up their dead relatives to sell as counterfeit reviver parts. This was common enough that one shipment filled an entire truck.
** The Check brothers are selling genuine reviver parts by hacking an unregistered reviver to pieces and allowing his healing factor to regrow him.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Wayne after Diane's reviver reveal.
* HumanResources: The miracle of the Revival creates an instant black market in reviver body parts for scientific and... other... purposes.
** Many citizens of the area dug up their dead relatives to sell as counterfeit reviver parts. This was common enough that one shipment filled an entire truck.
** The Check brothers are selling genuine reviver parts by hacking an unregistered reviver to pieces and allowing his healing factor to regrow him.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Wayne after Diane's reviver reveal.
* KillItWithFire: How a reattached Passenger and reviver die.
* KillItWithWater: The only demonstrated way to destroy Passengers.
* KillItWithWater: The only demonstrated way to destroy Passengers.
* LittleMissBadass: Fannie's tween daughter Atlee is a ninja assassin to rival her own mother. She likes cartoons.
* LivingLieDetector: Em and a handful of other revivers can innately tell when someone is telling the truth.
* Love Triangle:
** Aaron and Nethiya are married, but he had an affair with Em. Nethiya implies that this has happened before but it has no effect on her affection for him.
** Derrick is still in love with Dana though she's long over him. Nikki is still in love with Derrick despite this.
** Ibrahim may have had a relationship with his sister-in-law Ami while his brother was in prison.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Lester consults with a Native American friend to address the Passengers around his property. Though the Passengers have arisen according to Hindu ritual, the chief is able to apply his own tribe's rites to trap them.
* MayDecemberRomance: Lester and Bonnie. She's in her forties but he's decades older.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Every US soldier killed across the series is male except for Big Tina. Civilian deaths include females.
* MilitaryCoup: [[spoiler:Louise Cale]] leads one against the replacement general at the end of the series, supported by troops eager to see death permanently averted.
* OffModel: One reviver severs his left arm during breakout from containment. Its gruesome stub is consistently depicted until issue 41, when it abruptly regenerates between pages for two panels.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Passengers are glowing humanoidish figures heard whispering in the woods outside town. They're visible on cameras, capable of moving like a gas, unable to cross salt, susceptible to physical restraint, and can be killed by drowning.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Passengers are the souls of the revivers. They were split from the recently dead during the Revival event. Passengers attach emotional weight to memory, so revivers lack emotional connections. Passengers have free will when separated from their hosts. When a Passenger reattaches to its host they are both destroyed. Passengers can also attach to other hosts as body snatchers.]]
* OutsideContextProblem:
** The US government isn't prepared for the dead to return to life and handles it like a disease outbreak with a heavy-handed quarantine. [[spoiler: Then a heavy-handed concentration camp, then a heavy-handed extermination.]]
** Dana, trained law enforcement officer, is initially sent to address a livestock dispute. This escalates to a melee fight with a reviver who happened to live nearby.
** Scientific analysis of the revival is pretty much useless since it's based on Hindu mysticism.
** Dana and Em are investigating Em's murder. They do not expect an Amish ninja assassin to get involved.
* PhonyPsychic: Rose Blackdeer's day job, supplemented by drugging and hypnotizing her clients.
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Martha Cypress]]
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Edmund Holt, Des, and their recruits.
* RuleOfCool: Late in the series Weaver Fannie is introduced. She is an Amish ninja assassin single mother who is recruited and immediately betrayed specifically to add her to the Cypress sisters' team. This rule is the only excuse.
* SaltSolution: A line of salt on the ground is an impenetrable barrier for the Passengers.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Used by Holt's militia to undermine the quarantine.
* SequentialArtist: Cooper Cypress is an aspiring comic artist. He even gets a plot-relevant commission from Jordan.
* Telepathy: Em and a handful of other revivers can read minds by kissing the subject. Em even reverses this ability to commune with Patricia in the finale.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ibrahim Ramin]] is feeding information to the CIA.
* ToiletPaperSubstitute: Holt uses this to show disrespect to Wayne's trespassing ticket
* LivingLieDetector: Em and a handful of other revivers can innately tell when someone is telling the truth.
* Love Triangle:
** Aaron and Nethiya are married, but he had an affair with Em. Nethiya implies that this has happened before but it has no effect on her affection for him.
** Derrick is still in love with Dana though she's long over him. Nikki is still in love with Derrick despite this.
** Ibrahim may have had a relationship with his sister-in-law Ami while his brother was in prison.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Lester consults with a Native American friend to address the Passengers around his property. Though the Passengers have arisen according to Hindu ritual, the chief is able to apply his own tribe's rites to trap them.
* MayDecemberRomance: Lester and Bonnie. She's in her forties but he's decades older.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Every US soldier killed across the series is male except for Big Tina. Civilian deaths include females.
* MilitaryCoup: [[spoiler:Louise Cale]] leads one against the replacement general at the end of the series, supported by troops eager to see death permanently averted.
* OffModel: One reviver severs his left arm during breakout from containment. Its gruesome stub is consistently depicted until issue 41, when it abruptly regenerates between pages for two panels.
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The Passengers are glowing humanoidish figures heard whispering in the woods outside town. They're visible on cameras, capable of moving like a gas, unable to cross salt, susceptible to physical restraint, and can be killed by drowning.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: [[spoiler:The Passengers are the souls of the revivers. They were split from the recently dead during the Revival event. Passengers attach emotional weight to memory, so revivers lack emotional connections. Passengers have free will when separated from their hosts. When a Passenger reattaches to its host they are both destroyed. Passengers can also attach to other hosts as body snatchers.]]
* OutsideContextProblem:
** The US government isn't prepared for the dead to return to life and handles it like a disease outbreak with a heavy-handed quarantine. [[spoiler: Then a heavy-handed concentration camp, then a heavy-handed extermination.]]
** Dana, trained law enforcement officer, is initially sent to address a livestock dispute. This escalates to a melee fight with a reviver who happened to live nearby.
** Scientific analysis of the revival is pretty much useless since it's based on Hindu mysticism.
** Dana and Em are investigating Em's murder. They do not expect an Amish ninja assassin to get involved.
* PhonyPsychic: Rose Blackdeer's day job, supplemented by drugging and hypnotizing her clients.
* PregnantBadass: [[spoiler:Martha Cypress]]
* RightWingMilitiaFanatic: Edmund Holt, Des, and their recruits.
* RuleOfCool: Late in the series Weaver Fannie is introduced. She is an Amish ninja assassin single mother who is recruited and immediately betrayed specifically to add her to the Cypress sisters' team. This rule is the only excuse.
* SaltSolution: A line of salt on the ground is an impenetrable barrier for the Passengers.
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Used by Holt's militia to undermine the quarantine.
* SequentialArtist: Cooper Cypress is an aspiring comic artist. He even gets a plot-relevant commission from Jordan.
* Telepathy: Em and a handful of other revivers can read minds by kissing the subject. Em even reverses this ability to commune with Patricia in the finale.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ibrahim Ramin]] is feeding information to the CIA.
* ToiletPaperSubstitute: Holt uses this to show disrespect to Wayne's trespassing ticket
Changed line(s) 69 (click to see context) from:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
to:
** Thang Vang reveals she stole from her former employer.
** Joe Myers is still in love with his first girlfriend decades later even though she married another man.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife.]]
*WhoWantsToLiveForeverUndeadChild: A rare non-evil version. [[spoiler:Martha]] was pregnant at the time she was revived and the reviver infant represents a bridge between life and death. When the mother reclaims the infant's Passenger, the mother is destroyed but the baby is bonded with it and lives.
* WhamShot: In standard comic book style several issues end on one.
** [[spoiler:A car accident reveals smuggled human body parts.]]
** [[spoiler:A reviver escapes the quarantine on a bus.]]
** [[spoiler:Jordan Borchardt cuts off her eyelids.]]
** [[spoiler:A reviver is pregnant.]]
** [[spoiler:The Silver Creek runs red with blood and is clogged with bodies.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* YouAreWhoYouEat: Inverted with reviver flesh. It's sold on the black market to be eaten so that the consumer may become a reviver themselves. The New York butcher seems to confirm that this works. It's attempted at scale by a society of IdleRich, but their victim sabotages the experiment.
** Joe Myers is still in love with his first girlfriend decades later even though she married another man.
** The Hine stepsiblings [[spoiler:are having an affair]].
** The Check brothers [[spoiler:murdered their transgender father]].
** Wayne Cypress [[spoiler:was drunk the night he crashed his motorcycle, killing his wife.]]
*
* WhamShot: In standard comic book style several issues end on one.
** [[spoiler:A car accident reveals smuggled human body parts.]]
** [[spoiler:A reviver escapes the quarantine on a bus.]]
** [[spoiler:Jordan Borchardt cuts off her eyelids.]]
** [[spoiler:A reviver is pregnant.]]
** [[spoiler:The Silver Creek runs red with blood and is clogged with bodies.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
* YouAreWhoYouEat: Inverted with reviver flesh. It's sold on the black market to be eaten so that the consumer may become a reviver themselves. The New York butcher seems to confirm that this works. It's attempted at scale by a society of IdleRich, but their victim sabotages the experiment.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
In Rothschild, Wisconsin, a small town surrounded by farms, people die sometimes. When they do, they sometimes come right back to life, just as if nothing had ever happened.
to:
In Rothschild, Wisconsin, a small town surrounded by farms, people die sometimes. When they do, they sometimes One day some of them come right back to life, just as if nothing had ever happened.
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," right as their existence is becoming national news. Now she gets to deal with the crimes that follow from the phenomenon, the media circus that erupts around it, and a series of increasingly violent murders committed by the revivals themselves.
to:
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," "Revivers," right as their existence is becoming national news. Now she gets to deal with the crimes that follow from the phenomenon, the media circus that erupts around it, and a series of increasingly violent murders committed by the revivals revivers themselves.
Changed line(s) 11,12 (click to see context) from:
* AnyoneCanDie
* BodyHorror: The "revivals," as part of the deal, get a very strong healing factor and greater than normal strength, which restores them to health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" shown in the series is discovered yanking her teeth out with pliers, then discarding them onto the floor of a barn, only for the teeth to quickly regrow. A reviver introduced later in the series has become the star of his own series of extreme sports videos, going viral by virtue of his inability to die from failed stunts.
* BodyHorror: The "revivals," as part of the deal, get a very strong healing factor and greater than normal strength, which restores them to health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" shown in the series is discovered yanking her teeth out with pliers, then discarding them onto the floor of a barn, only for the teeth to quickly regrow. A reviver introduced later in the series has become the star of his own series of extreme sports videos, going viral by virtue of his inability to die from failed stunts.
to:
* AnyoneCanDie
ActionGirl: Em gets a defining character moment in the first issue by wielding a scythe against a reviver. She gets several more combats and is undefeated post-Revival.
* ActionMom: A few.
** Dana Cypress is a police officer responding to the most violent reviver-related crimes in the area. Her son Cooper thinks she's a superhero.
** Weaver Fannie is a ninja assassin. Her daughter Atlee thinks she's a superhero.
** Louise Cale is a fierce military administrator who also evenly matched a ninja assassin hand-to-hand. No word on what her son Jacob thinks.
* Actual Pacifist: Randy the morgue technician becomes one after discovering that the John Doe he was incinerating came back to life mid-burn. Randy quit the job immediately to avoid injuring anyone else who might come in as a corpse-but-not. He's one of the leaders of a pacifist group that meets near the end of the series; by then the conflict has escalated to a shooting war between the US military and the libertarians' militia.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler:Ibrahim Ramin]] is forced to inform for the CIA because his brother will be indefinitely imprisoned otherwise.
* AndIMustScream
** Jesse Blackdeer is in constant agony due to his revival during his own cremation.
** [[spoiler:Aaron Weimar]] is repeatedly drowned and revived by the water of the Silver Creek for weeks.
** Arguably all of the revivers. They are incapable of feeling happiness and have no further goals in life. They're just there.
* AnyoneCanDie: The whole book is about death explored by multiple regular fatalities over the series. Some are only briefly introduced, but most have significant characterization before their deaths to increase the impact.
** All of the Revivals were dead as the series begins, of various causes. Several die again over the course of the series. [[spoiler: They're all finished off in the final issue.]]
** [[spoiler:The Check brothers]]
** [[spoiler:Anders Hine]]
** [[spoiler:Aaron Weimar]]
** [[spoiler:Rose and Jesse Blackdeer]]
** [[spoiler:Jeannie Gorski]]
** [[spoiler:May Tao]]
** [[spoiler:Blaine Abel]]
** [[spoiler:Diane and Ken Dillisch]]
** [[spoiler:Rhodey Rasch]]
** [[spoiler:Janae and Jacob Cale]]
** [[spoiler:Lester Majak]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Louise Cale is an experienced military administrator who fights a ninja assassin hand-to-hand to a stalemate.
* BadFuture: Inverted. Em uses reviver telepathy to sent Patricia a vision of what the future would be if they both lived. Patricia gets to experience that good future though it will never come to pass.
* BodyHorror: The"revivals," as part of the deal, revivers get a very strong healing factor and greater than normal strength, which restores them to health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" appearance.
** Arlene Dittman is shownin the series is discovered yanking ripping out her own teeth out because they keep growing back and interfering with pliers, then discarding them onto her dentures.
** The junkie used by thefloor of a barn, only for Check brothers is kept strung out on drugs while he's slowly vivisected and allowed to regenerate.
** Jordan Borchardt slices off her own eyelids to better experience theteeth to quickly regrow. A reviver introduced later in the series afterlife.
** Rhodey Rasch has become the star of his own series of extreme sports videos, going viral by virtue of his inability to die from failedstunts.stunts. He also has a pay-per-view website devoted to gruesome self-harm.
* BodySnatcher: The Passengers become this near the end of the series. Several are radicalized by imprisonment and begin taking over armed members of the US military to attack.
* BondVillainStupidity: The soldiers Dana and Em meet on the roof of the hospital. They literally have their targets surrounded at gunpoint but the superior officer takes time to clarify to his own men that they have orders to kill, listen to and then negate the protests of the targets, and count to three before firing. [[spoiler:Atlee]] has plenty of time to show up and save the day.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Several revivers volunteer as this during the shootout at Silver Creek to defend the Cypresses.
* ActionMom: A few.
** Dana Cypress is a police officer responding to the most violent reviver-related crimes in the area. Her son Cooper thinks she's a superhero.
** Weaver Fannie is a ninja assassin. Her daughter Atlee thinks she's a superhero.
** Louise Cale is a fierce military administrator who also evenly matched a ninja assassin hand-to-hand. No word on what her son Jacob thinks.
* Actual Pacifist: Randy the morgue technician becomes one after discovering that the John Doe he was incinerating came back to life mid-burn. Randy quit the job immediately to avoid injuring anyone else who might come in as a corpse-but-not. He's one of the leaders of a pacifist group that meets near the end of the series; by then the conflict has escalated to a shooting war between the US military and the libertarians' militia.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [[spoiler:Ibrahim Ramin]] is forced to inform for the CIA because his brother will be indefinitely imprisoned otherwise.
* AndIMustScream
** Jesse Blackdeer is in constant agony due to his revival during his own cremation.
** [[spoiler:Aaron Weimar]] is repeatedly drowned and revived by the water of the Silver Creek for weeks.
** Arguably all of the revivers. They are incapable of feeling happiness and have no further goals in life. They're just there.
* AnyoneCanDie: The whole book is about death explored by multiple regular fatalities over the series. Some are only briefly introduced, but most have significant characterization before their deaths to increase the impact.
** All of the Revivals were dead as the series begins, of various causes. Several die again over the course of the series. [[spoiler: They're all finished off in the final issue.]]
** [[spoiler:The Check brothers]]
** [[spoiler:Anders Hine]]
** [[spoiler:Aaron Weimar]]
** [[spoiler:Rose and Jesse Blackdeer]]
** [[spoiler:Jeannie Gorski]]
** [[spoiler:May Tao]]
** [[spoiler:Blaine Abel]]
** [[spoiler:Diane and Ken Dillisch]]
** [[spoiler:Rhodey Rasch]]
** [[spoiler:Janae and Jacob Cale]]
** [[spoiler:Lester Majak]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Louise Cale is an experienced military administrator who fights a ninja assassin hand-to-hand to a stalemate.
* BadFuture: Inverted. Em uses reviver telepathy to sent Patricia a vision of what the future would be if they both lived. Patricia gets to experience that good future though it will never come to pass.
* BodyHorror: The
** Arlene Dittman is shown
** The junkie used by the
** Jordan Borchardt slices off her own eyelids to better experience the
** Rhodey Rasch has become the star of his own series of extreme sports videos, going viral by virtue of his inability to die from failed
* BodySnatcher: The Passengers become this near the end of the series. Several are radicalized by imprisonment and begin taking over armed members of the US military to attack.
* BondVillainStupidity: The soldiers Dana and Em meet on the roof of the hospital. They literally have their targets surrounded at gunpoint but the superior officer takes time to clarify to his own men that they have orders to kill, listen to and then negate the protests of the targets, and count to three before firing. [[spoiler:Atlee]] has plenty of time to show up and save the day.
* BulletproofHumanShield: Several revivers volunteer as this during the shootout at Silver Creek to defend the Cypresses.
Changed line(s) 14 (click to see context) from:
* HealingFactor
to:
* HealingFactorConservationOfNinjutsu: Weaver Fannie equipped with a ninja sword engages the US military equipped with assault rifles. She makes mincemeat of them until she is challenged to single combat by Cale. Cale (with her rifle as a melee weapon) fights her to a standstill [[spoiler:until Fannie stabs through her own body to kill them both]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Revival incident isolates a specific area around Wausau, Michigan. The military administrator happens to personally know a secret ninja assassin who lives less than fifty miles away.
* Creepy Child: As a reviver Jordan Borchardt projects an emotionless disposition. Like others she has no compunctions against self-harm, which makes for a WhamShot at the close of one issue. Later she claims that guards don't notice her passing because she's so lifeless.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Technically how the love triangle between Aaron, Nethiya, and Em ended. Em got better. [[spoiler: In the finale it's implied that Em broke it off with Aaron when she discovered he was going to help Lester with the revival ritual. Moreso, as a reviver Em's emotions would be repressed making a continuation of the affair unlikely.]]
* DisguisedHostageGambit: Used by the militia late in the series, causing the deaths of [[spoiler:Janae and Jacob]].
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: After Jordan's revival, Dr. Borchardt asked her if she'd seen God while dead and was disappointed when Jordan said her eyes were closed. Jordan proceeds to cut off her eyelids so her eyes will be open the next time she dies.
* DrowningMySorrows: May Tao turns to this after several failed stories shake her faith in her own journalistic chops.
* EyepatchOfPower: Both Edmund Holt and Des.
* FantasticFragility: The loophole that allows the Revival ritual to be undone only exists because one of the revivers happened to be pregnant at the time.
* First Episode Spoiler: Em is an unregistered reviver murdered the night of the Revival incident. Keeping Em's secret and investigating her murder drive Dana for the rest of the series.
* FourStarBadass: General Louise Cale. She's an unmerciful administrator but that doesn't slow her down in a combat situation.
* Functional Addict: Derrick regularly smokes weed and used to be a dealer before the quarantine. He's holding down a job as a freelance tattoo artist and has a stable relationship with Nikki. Despite Dana's low opinion of him, he watches Cooper responsibly and performs several high-risk ventures for her.
* GrandTheftMe: Inverted by Jordan. With her own Passenger dead, Jordan invites another reviver's Passenger into her body and then imprisons it by force of will to prevent it from bonding with and destroying its true body.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler:Rhodey Rasch]] gets one during his escape from containment by severing his own arm and sharpening the humerus to a lethal point.
* HealingFactor: The Revivers are effectively immortal. We see them survive massive trauma and blood loss regularly. Self-harm is pretty common.
* HollywoodExorcism: Blaine Abel has a side gig performing these. He genuinely believes in demonic possession and has (poorly) researched the subject. However most of his successful cases were themselves faking it and backed down when he called them out.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nikki. She's a stripper but she's drug-free and has strong boundaries against sex work. Overall she is a decent match for Derrick and a stabilizing force for Cooper. Dana certainly can't see past her profession and blames her for Derrick's failure to improve himself.
* ContrivedCoincidence: The Revival incident isolates a specific area around Wausau, Michigan. The military administrator happens to personally know a secret ninja assassin who lives less than fifty miles away.
* Creepy Child: As a reviver Jordan Borchardt projects an emotionless disposition. Like others she has no compunctions against self-harm, which makes for a WhamShot at the close of one issue. Later she claims that guards don't notice her passing because she's so lifeless.
* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Technically how the love triangle between Aaron, Nethiya, and Em ended. Em got better. [[spoiler: In the finale it's implied that Em broke it off with Aaron when she discovered he was going to help Lester with the revival ritual. Moreso, as a reviver Em's emotions would be repressed making a continuation of the affair unlikely.]]
* DisguisedHostageGambit: Used by the militia late in the series, causing the deaths of [[spoiler:Janae and Jacob]].
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: After Jordan's revival, Dr. Borchardt asked her if she'd seen God while dead and was disappointed when Jordan said her eyes were closed. Jordan proceeds to cut off her eyelids so her eyes will be open the next time she dies.
* DrowningMySorrows: May Tao turns to this after several failed stories shake her faith in her own journalistic chops.
* EyepatchOfPower: Both Edmund Holt and Des.
* FantasticFragility: The loophole that allows the Revival ritual to be undone only exists because one of the revivers happened to be pregnant at the time.
* First Episode Spoiler: Em is an unregistered reviver murdered the night of the Revival incident. Keeping Em's secret and investigating her murder drive Dana for the rest of the series.
* FourStarBadass: General Louise Cale. She's an unmerciful administrator but that doesn't slow her down in a combat situation.
* Functional Addict: Derrick regularly smokes weed and used to be a dealer before the quarantine. He's holding down a job as a freelance tattoo artist and has a stable relationship with Nikki. Despite Dana's low opinion of him, he watches Cooper responsibly and performs several high-risk ventures for her.
* GrandTheftMe: Inverted by Jordan. With her own Passenger dead, Jordan invites another reviver's Passenger into her body and then imprisons it by force of will to prevent it from bonding with and destroying its true body.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler:Rhodey Rasch]] gets one during his escape from containment by severing his own arm and sharpening the humerus to a lethal point.
* HealingFactor: The Revivers are effectively immortal. We see them survive massive trauma and blood loss regularly. Self-harm is pretty common.
* HollywoodExorcism: Blaine Abel has a side gig performing these. He genuinely believes in demonic possession and has (poorly) researched the subject. However most of his successful cases were themselves faking it and backed down when he called them out.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Nikki. She's a stripper but she's drug-free and has strong boundaries against sex work. Overall she is a decent match for Derrick and a stabilizing force for Cooper. Dana certainly can't see past her profession and blames her for Derrick's failure to improve himself.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7,8 (click to see context) from:
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror comic book published by Image, written by Tim (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
to:
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror a "rural noir" comic book published by Image, ImageComics, written by Tim (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
Norton. It ran for 47 issues, from 2012 to 2017, as well as one crossover issue with ''Chew''.
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* BodyHorror: The "revivals," as part of the deal, get a very strong healing factor and greater than normal strength, which restores them to health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" shown in the series is discovered yanking her teeth out with pliers, then discarding them onto the floor of a barn, only for the teeth to quickly regrow.
to:
* BodyHorror: The "revivals," as part of the deal, get a very strong healing factor and greater than normal strength, which restores them to health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" shown in the series is discovered yanking her teeth out with pliers, then discarding them onto the floor of a barn, only for the teeth to quickly regrow. A reviver introduced later in the series has become the star of his own series of extreme sports videos, going viral by virtue of his inability to die from failed stunts.
Added DiffLines:
* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler: Dana takes a short field trip to New York City at one point, in an attempt to track down a reviver who'd escaped the quarantine zone. When she finds him, he's decided to make money as an open buffet for experimental rich people, who hope to gain his immortality by eating his flesh. Unfortunately for them, the reviver's also poisoned the ''hell'' out of himself.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The crossover issue with Comicbook/{{Chew}} begins with Cooper drawing his own crossover comic combining Comicbook/{{Saga}} with WesternAnimation/RobotChicken. When Martha questions how such a combination makes sense Cooper responds by invoking RuleOfCool and RuleOfFun.
Changed line(s) 18,19 (click to see context) from:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
to:
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
WhoWantsToLiveForever
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7,8 (click to see context) from:
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror comic book published by Image, written by Tim (''HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
to:
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror comic book published by Image, written by Tim (''HackSlash'') (''ComicBook/HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12 (click to see context) from:
* CameBackWrong: A reviver remembers everything about his or her life, but some of them don't have the same emotional connections thereof. One in particular, [[spoiler: Em]], has picked up a really vicious tendency towards self-mutilation.
to:
* CameBackWrong: A reviver remembers everything about his or her life, but some of them don't have the same emotional connections thereof. One in particular, [[spoiler: Em]], has Several have picked up a really vicious tendency towards self-mutilation.
Changed line(s) 15 (click to see context) from:
* IronicEcho: Before Martha comes back again, she's thrown in an open grave as one of the brothers say they wish that she'd ran, because it's more run that way. Guess what she says after she comes back and rips one brother's thoat out?
to:
* IronicEcho: Before Martha comes back again, she's thrown in an open grave as one of the brothers say they wish that she'd ran, because it's more run that way. Guess what she says after she comes back and rips one brother's thoat throat out?
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* IronicEcho: Before Martha comes back again, she's thrown in an open grave as one of the brothers say they wish that she'd ran, because it's more run that way. Guess what she says after she comes back and rips one brother's thoat out?
-->'''Martha''': Run. It's more fun when you run.
-->'''Martha''': Run. It's more fun when you run.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," right as their existence is becoming national news.
to:
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," right as their existence is becoming national news.
news. Now she gets to deal with the crimes that follow from the phenomenon, the media circus that erupts around it, and a series of increasingly violent murders committed by the revivals themselves.
Changed line(s) 11 (click to see context) from:
* BodyHorror: A "reviver," as part of the deal, gets a very strong healing factor and seems to restore many people to, if not youth, strength and awareness. Many of them turn to self-mutilation, such as yanking out their teeth with pliers, which subsequently regrow.
to:
* BodyHorror: A "reviver," The "revivals," as part of the deal, gets get a very strong healing factor and seems to restore many people to, if not youth, strength and awareness. Many of greater than normal strength, which restores them turn to self-mutilation, such as health and awareness without changing anything about their physical appearance. The first "reviver" shown in the series is discovered yanking out their her teeth out with pliers, which subsequently regrow.then discarding them onto the floor of a barn, only for the teeth to quickly regrow.
* CameBackWrong: A reviver remembers everything about his or her life, but some of them don't have the same emotional connections thereof. One in particular, [[spoiler: Em]], has picked up a really vicious tendency towards self-mutilation.
* CameBackWrong: A reviver remembers everything about his or her life, but some of them don't have the same emotional connections thereof. One in particular, [[spoiler: Em]], has picked up a really vicious tendency towards self-mutilation.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
In Rothschild, Wisconsin, a small town surrounded by farms, people die sometimes. When they do, they sometimes come right back to life, just as if nothing had ever happened.
Some people handle it better than others.
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," right as their existence is becoming national news.
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror comic book published by Image, written by Tim (''HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
----
* BodyHorror: A "reviver," as part of the deal, gets a very strong healing factor and seems to restore many people to, if not youth, strength and awareness. Many of them turn to self-mutilation, such as yanking out their teeth with pliers, which subsequently regrow.
* HealingFactor
* IntrepidReporter: May Tao, who's brought to Rothschild by contacts within its Hmong community.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
Some people handle it better than others.
Dana Cypress, a divorcee with a young son, is an officer in the Rothschild police department, and she's put in charge of policing the "Revivals," right as their existence is becoming national news.
''Revival'' is an ongoing horror comic book published by Image, written by Tim (''HackSlash'') Seeley and drawn by Mike Norton.
----
* BodyHorror: A "reviver," as part of the deal, gets a very strong healing factor and seems to restore many people to, if not youth, strength and awareness. Many of them turn to self-mutilation, such as yanking out their teeth with pliers, which subsequently regrow.
* HealingFactor
* IntrepidReporter: May Tao, who's brought to Rothschild by contacts within its Hmong community.
* TownWithADarkSecret: The dead coming back to life has a bad habit of bringing a lot of people's skeletons out of their closets.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
