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* AliensInCardiff: Carnivorous jam in Brisbane (although it's implied to have covered [[spoiler: all of Australia]]).
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* ArmiesAreEvil: Played with. Y is a frighteningly-good soldier who willingly murders a lot of people whenever ordered to, and X goes to murderous lengths to conceal her and Y's part in the jampocalypse. Plus, [[spoiler: the American Navy quarantines the entire country and fires upon those who try to escape]]. However, [[spoiler: the quarantine thing was a big misunderstanding and once they know the truth, the entire American Navy basically does a mass HeelFaceTurn.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: Poor [[TheWoobie woobieish]] Travis just can't catch a break what with everybody around him either dying, trying to murder him or shouting a lot. Also Dierdre when [[spoiler: Lord Awesomo dies]] and Angela when [[spoiler: she learns that the jampocalypse was a pointless accident.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Mary. Also HEPL. In a darker and more literal sense, Dr. Thorn's sniper rifle.
* CreatorProvinicalism: Yahtzee lives in Brisbane.
* ChekhovsGun: Mary. Also HEPL. In a darker and more literal sense, Dr. Thorn's sniper rifle.
* CreatorProvinicalism: Yahtzee lives in Brisbane.
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* EvilVersusEvil: The war between Lord Awesomo and the Hibatsu executives. With X and Y also thrown in as a third side, which is also basically evil.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Tim.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Tim.]]
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Surprisingly, everybody retains their sanity pretty well in the face of the jampocalypse, acclimatising well. [[spoiler: Too well in Tim's case. He goes mad at the revelation that it ''isn't'' the real apocalypse.]]
* GovernmentConspiracy: Zig-zagged. It's clear from the start that X and Y know more than they admit to, and Angela is convinced that they're part of an American governmental conspiracy. [[spoiler: They aren't, but the American government ''is'' covering up their colossal cock-up]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: X and Y.
* HiddenDepths: Pretty-much everyone except Travis and Don (who, weirdly, [[spoiler: are then the only ones to survive]].)
* {{Hipsters}}: Lord Awesomo and his followers. They're ''ironically'' evil. Because not being evil is too mainstream.
* IndustrialisedEvil: Hibatsu.
* GovernmentConspiracy: Zig-zagged. It's clear from the start that X and Y know more than they admit to, and Angela is convinced that they're part of an American governmental conspiracy. [[spoiler: They aren't, but the American government ''is'' covering up their colossal cock-up]].
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: X and Y.
* HiddenDepths: Pretty-much everyone except Travis and Don (who, weirdly, [[spoiler: are then the only ones to survive]].)
* {{Hipsters}}: Lord Awesomo and his followers. They're ''ironically'' evil. Because not being evil is too mainstream.
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** Also, the jam was released as a direct result of [[spoiler: HEPL trying to work out how they would save the day if ever the jam was released]].
* JugglingLoadedGuns: Dr Thorn tries to use a sniper scope as a telescope. While the sniper rifle is still loaded.
* JustFollowingOrders: Y literally does ''nothing but'' follow orders. It's kinda scary.
* KillTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Angela]] dies while trying to save [[spoiler: her previously-Arch-Enemy X]].
* {{MacGuffin}}: Don's build. [[spoiler: It doesn't even survive in the end.]]
* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler: HEPL ''did'' cause the xenocide of Australia, but it was through negligence rather than intention.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Both Hibatsu and the ironic cult of Crazy Bob take this approach to pretty-much every single problem they encounter.
* JugglingLoadedGuns: Dr Thorn tries to use a sniper scope as a telescope. While the sniper rifle is still loaded.
* JustFollowingOrders: Y literally does ''nothing but'' follow orders. It's kinda scary.
* KillTheCutie: Poor, poor [[spoiler: Angela]] dies while trying to save [[spoiler: her previously-Arch-Enemy X]].
* {{MacGuffin}}: Don's build. [[spoiler: It doesn't even survive in the end.]]
* MistakenForMurderer: [[spoiler: HEPL ''did'' cause the xenocide of Australia, but it was through negligence rather than intention.]]
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Both Hibatsu and the ironic cult of Crazy Bob take this approach to pretty-much every single problem they encounter.
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** [[spoiler: HEPL, specifically Y, accidentally released the jam [[{{Irony}} while trying to study it to find a way of counteracting it in the event that it got out]]. All because Y ''left it on top of a car''.]]
* OceanMadness: After floating on a lifeboat for a while, Travis begins to talk to himself, and mis-attributes the replies to his ''spider''.
* OceanMadness: After floating on a lifeboat for a while, Travis begins to talk to himself, and mis-attributes the replies to his ''spider''.
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** Tim also thinks of himself this way. [[spoiler: He is very wrong.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: The ironic cult of Crazy Bob.
* ReligionOfEvil: The ironic cult of Crazy Bob.
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* SupportingProtagonist: Travis is the one character that rarely if ever does anything proactive. Angela [[LampshadeHanging notes that]] if this was a film, the main character would be either Tim or Don, depending on whether this was a [[ApocalypseHow world-wide apocalypse of just a localised one]].
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* DepopulationBomb: The jam obviously. It destroys everything organic but leaves most of the infrastructure intact.
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** HalfLife: [[spoiler: The jam was supplied (and possibly created) by a research facility in New Mexico.]]
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* SuperSoldier: Y. Dear sweet heavens, Y.He easily takes on multiple opponents in situations where he is at a severe disadvantage, and can improvise weapons out of almost any materials at hand.
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* IncrediblyLamePun: The name of the substance that can [[spoiler: neutralize the jam? Peanut butter.]]
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A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel by [[BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]], with a twist.
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* GodwinsLaw: Whenver Tim compares a group of survivors to Nazi Germany, Don is quick to call him out on it.
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the population above ground level surviving the initial event.
* ApocalypticLog: Angela attempts to keep one. [[spoiler:The battery for her camcorder ran out, but she felt it was too important to stop]].
* ApocalypticLog: Angela attempts to keep one. [[spoiler:The battery for her camcorder ran out, but she felt it was too important to stop]].
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:Who created the jam]], [[spoiler:Y's name (though it begins with an "S")]], and [[spoiler:Deirdre's fate]].
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: As Tim points out, the cultists don't really know what irony is.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: As Tim points out, the cultists don't really know what irony is.
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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: Kathy]] reaches out to touch the jam coming through the window.
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* {{Determinator}}: Don will get his hard drive back if it's the last thing he ever does.
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* {{Irony}}: The inhabitants of the mall form a death cult based around irony, or at least what they understand to be irony. For instance, one of their leaders, Princess Ravenhair, is blonde.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Firing a flamethrower into a knickknack shop? Full of wood and accelerants? Really, Tim?
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* FluffyTheTerrible: Travis calls his huge tarantula "Mary".
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* InsistentTerminology: Angela is not a journalist, she is a journalism student.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The jam before it was unleashed on Brisbane.]]
* ShoutOut: Several to MogWorld.
** "I think that's a [[InsistentTerminology trebuchet]]."
* SuperSoldier: Y. Dear sweet heavens, Y.
* InsistentTerminology: Angela is not a journalist, she is a journalism student.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The jam before it was unleashed on Brisbane.]]
* ShoutOut: Several to MogWorld.
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Travis, an unemployed everyman {{everyman}} from Brisbane, wakes up one morning to discover that the city has been covered in a thick layer of a red, sticky substance that smells distinctly of strawberry, not too much unlike jam. The problem, however, is that the substance has one major characteristic that it doesn't share with jam: It likes to eat kind all sorts of living things, and that unfortunately includes humans.
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A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel by [[BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]], with a twist.
Travis, an unemployed everyman from Brisbane, wakes up one morning to discover that the city has been covered in thick layer of red, sticky substance that smells distinctly of strawberry, not too much unlike jam. The problem, however, is the substance has one major characteristic that it doesn't share with jam: It likes to eat kind all sorts of living things, and that unfortunately includes humans. And it seems to be alive on some level too.
Travis, and his friend Tim, is forced to brand together with a group of other survivors, and together they attempt to stay alive, which is really tricky when you can't get down to street level without getting eaten.
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Travis, an unemployed everyman from Brisbane, wakes up one morning to discover that the city has been covered in thick layer of red, sticky substance that smells distinctly of strawberry, not too much unlike jam. The problem, however, is the substance has one major characteristic that it doesn't share with jam: It likes to eat kind all sorts of living things, and that unfortunately includes humans. And it seems to be alive on some level too.
Travis, and his friend Tim, is forced to brand together with a group of other survivors, and together they attempt to stay alive, which is really tricky when you can't get down to street level without getting eaten.
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*AfterTheEnd
*ApocalypseHow