History Literature / Jam

* OnlySaneMan: Don believes himself to be this, and he may not be wrong.

* OceanMadness: After floating on a lifeboat for a while, Travis begins to talk to himself, and mis-attributes the replies to his ''spider''.

A [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] novel by [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]], with a twist, and even a couple of [[{{Satire}} satirical]] jabs at some of the apocalypse genre's recurring tropes.

* ActionSurvivor: Tim tries a ''[[{{Understatement}} little]]'' too hard to be this.

* GreyGoo: The Jam converts all organic matter it touches into more of itself. It's compared to the classic "Grey Goo eats everyone and covers the earth" scenario a few times.

* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Every major character except Travis and Don dies. Deidre/Princess Ravenhair possibly survived, though the book ends before we can confirm that.]]

* AscendedExtra: Don, one of the human characters in Croshaw's book Literature/{{Mogworld}}, is a main character.

* [[spoiler: CassandraTruth: At one point, X says the Jam wasn't released as a deliberate attack. Angela believes her for all of five minutes. Turns out, Y left a sample on the roof of his and X's car and the container broke when they drove off.]]

** Using things lying around their office, Hibatsu had jury rigged a full-scale catapult that used office hardware (printers, filing cabinets) as ammunition. They also made improvised bows, crossbows, and slingshots to shoot box cutter blades, glass, and sharpened DVDs.

* [[GreyGoo Red Goo]]: The Jam converts all organic matter it touches into more of itself. It's compared to the classic "Grey Goo eats everyone and covers the earth" scenario a few times.

** VideoGame/HalfLife: [[spoiler: The jam was supplied (and possibly created) by a research facility in New Mexico.]]

** Naming the spider that Travis is talking to (and not getting a response from) Mary may have been a been a joke about SilentHill.

* 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]].

* TheWormThatWalks: The Jam is reffered to as a "swarm" by X and Dr Thorn.

* DysfuntionJunction: Most character are either profoundly neurotic in some way, and the few who aren't are being dragged along.

* ActionSurvivor: Tim tries a [[{{Understatement}} little]] too hard to be this.
* AfterTheEnd

* ApocalypticLog: Angela attempts to keep one. [[spoiler:The battery for her camcorder ran out, but she felt it was too important to stop]].
* 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:Y was a very moral person and obeying those orders caused him a lot of psychological grief; also, the quarantine thing was a big misunderstanding and once they know the truth, the entire American Navy basically does a mass HeelFaceTurn.]]

* DudeNotIronic: The central gag of the Bagmen living in a mall is that their group was founded by a bunch of young people on some survivalist internet forum, who constantly misuse the term {{irony}} due to MemeticMutation. Tim eventually [[YouKeepUsingThatWord calls them out on this]] while campaigning to become their new leader.

* FunWithAcronyms: X and Y mistake a mis-spelling of HELP for [[spoiler:'''H'''uman '''E'''xtinction '''P'''rotocol '''L'''ibra]].
* GodwinsLaw: Whenever Tim compares a group of survivors to Nazi Germany, Don is quick to call him out on it.

* {{Hipster}}: Lord Awesomo and his followers. They're ''ironically'' evil. Because not being evil is too mainstream.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Y makes himself a bow-and-arrow out of some sticks and a pair of underpants. The Hipster Cult makes spearsd out of broomsticks and kitchen knives, and later a stun-gun out of a nerf dart shooter, and a [[AerosolFlamethrower a flamethrower out of a barbecue starter, two peices of wood, and three cans of hairspray]].
* IndustrializedEvil: Hibatsu.

* AscendedExtra: Don, one of the human characters in Croshaw's book MogWorld, is a main character.

* ShoutOut: Several to ''Literature/MogWorld'', which may double as {{Continuity Nod}}s since they seem to take place in the same universe.

-> ''I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three foot layer of man-eating jam.''

-> ''"I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three foot layer of man-eating jam... I didn't notice straight away."''

** Semi-justified in that X is a government agent trying to cover it all up, but she's also a very BadLiar. InsaneTrollLogic is pretty much all she has.

* 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.]]

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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Every major character except Travis and Don dies.]]

* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: X and Y accidentally release the jam by leaving it on the roof of their car.

* MikeNeslonDestroyerOfWorlds: X and Y accidentally release the jam by leaving it on the roof of their car.

-> '''"I woke up one morning to find that the entire city had been covered in a three foot layer of man-eating jam... I didn't notice straight away."'''