History Literature / TheApocalypseAccordingToMarie

* MultiEthnicName: Indian Burgh Kassam has an Anglo-Saxon first name (given that he is Indian, this was probably inspired on Eric de Burgh, Chief of Staff in the old British India) and a Muslim surname (not impossible for a Dalit, but a bit unusual). His childhood friend Kyssa, on the other hand, has a more difficult name; it seems to be a variation AsLongAsItSoundsForeign of the African name Kisa.

** Marie references ''Literature/HarryPotter'' by comparing herself and Gordon to Harry and Hermione respectively. ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Franchise/FlashGordon'' and ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' are also namedropped.

* ThreeAmigos: Cyal, Kano and Elikan are childhood friends and work together as a team as adults.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Masai tribe is said to be threatened from ancient times by an enemy tribed named Kimba. This seems to be either a typo or a stand-in for the real life Himba tribe.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Although Kassam claims his disorder impeded him from feeling anything after experimentally killing his best friend, he sheds tears afterwards and feels an inner agony he later dismisses. This implies it's not that he cannot feel love and morality, bur rather that he cannot comprehend them, which given his upbringing and AbusiveParents makes a wholly new sense.

** The Foundation's facility in Puzzle Palace is a giant reference to the Hive from the first ''Film/ResidentEvil'' film, down to the morally ambiguous super-computer with a female voice that seals the facility when the villain frees a toxic agent that turns people into ravenous cannibals.

* AmbiguousSituation: Cayley has an IdenticalStranger in Grant, having even the same personality. Aside from the vaguely implied HandWave that it's because they are both Guardians, it's never explained why they are identical to each aren't, as the other Guardians aren't. If they were twin brothers or something, it strikes as odd that none of them acknowledged or even mentioned the other.

* BadassNormal: Mike Brannigan, the Foundation's security chief, does pretty well to fight Kassam's rebellion solely through management and smart measures.

* ContinuitySnarl: ''Literature/TheGospelOfEvil'' and ''The Apocalypse according to Marie'' are confirmed to be same continuity by the aforementioned nod, but their respective stories are very difficult to reconcile in a single timeline. The first book established that the world is secretly ruled by Novus Ordo, a cabal of Satanist millonaires aided by supernatural spirits that serve {{Satan}}, which is an ancient entity imprisoned on Earth that caused disasters every time it got free. In this book, however, there's an ancient order of superhuman guardians that predate civilization, who are also opposed by their own devastating supernatural entity that has seemingly nothing to do with Satan, as well as another cabal of millonaires unrelated to Novus Ordo. Why those factions never encountered each other in the history of the world is just as odd as it is unexplained, especially given that their respective powers and fields of action would have ''ensured'' that they sensed each other.

* MultiEthnicName: Indian Burgh Kassam has an Anglo-Saxon first name (given that he is Indian, this was probably inspired on Eric de Burgh, Chief of Staff in the old British India) and a Muslim surname. His childhood friend Kyssa, on the other hand, has a more difficult name; it seems to be a variation AsLongAsItSoundsForeign of the African name Kisa.

* PetTheDog: Kassam threatens Ash to subject him to YouHaveFailedMe if he fails to catch Marie and company, a threat he has already carried on in other mooks. However, even although Ash does fail in his mission, Kassam noticeable doesn't carry on and instead and retains Ash in his side without ill feelings until the end.

** The book features an arcane order of all-female Reverend Mothers with psychic powers, some of which allow them to upload their memories on their successors while others serve to control other minds, who intervene in human history from the shadows for the greater good, and a drug that makes one prescient and capable to curve space is also mentioned. The inspirations from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are clear.

** The Foundation's facility in Puzzle Palace is a giant reference to the Hive from the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' film, down to the morally ambiguous super-computer with a female voice that seals the facility when the villain frees a toxic agent that turns people into ravenous cannibals.

* TraumaCongaLine: Marie, already an orphan by the age of 15, had her husband and daughter killed in a car accident that left her psychically BlessedWithSuck. [[spoiler:But there's more: Marie's parents weren't her first foster family, but the second, which was abusive. And there's even more: both families were murder by a serial killer that held little Marie hostage for months. No, not enough: said serial killer, Anthony Gardener, is her biological father. Still not enough: learning all of this has caused Marie, already mentally disturbed, to develop an antisocial SplitPersonality.]]

* MultiEthnicName: Burgh Kassam has an Anglo-Saxon first name (probably inspired on Eric de Burgh, Chief of Staff in the old British India) and a Muslim nickname. His childhood friend Kyssa, on the other hand, has a more difficult name; it seems to be a variation AsLongAsItSoundsForeign of the African name Kisa.

** The book features an arcane order of all-female Reverend Mothers with psychic powers, some of which allow them to upload their memories on their successors while others serve to control other minds, who intervene in human history from the shadows for the greater good. A drug that makes one prescient and capable to curve space is also mentioned. The inspirations from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are clear.
** As in Creator/SteveAlten's ''Literature/{{Domain}}'' trilogy, the story features a space-themed HumanSubspecies with superhuman powers whose eyes are distinctively white, with the BigBad being a former victim abuse with an instrumentalized form of their powers who is possessed by humanity's Great Enemy and has millonaire resources to his fingertips. Both stories share a heroic organization named the Guardian(s), the description of the future spaceport from ''Marie'' is also similar to the facility holding the ''Balam'' ship, the Nazca lines are mentioned to be also related to the plot, and even Gordon's character resembles Mick in both personality and background.

** One of the special forces soldiers that raid Puzzle Palace is surnamed Shepard, probably a reference to ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'' and its many tributes in video game history.
** The psychic powers showcased in the story are telepathic in nature, yet they can cause bloody physical damage to the point of head exploding, and are tapped into through special drugs, as in ''Film/{{Scanners}}''.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Masai tribe is said to be threatened from ancient times by an enemy tribed named Kimba. This seems to be either an error, a typo or a stand-in for the real life Himba tribe.

* ContinuityNod: The case of the murdered nuns from ''Literature/GospelOfEvil'' is mentioned in Marie's dreams. The rest of the continuity, however, falters.

* MagicPants: Cyan, Kano and Elikan suffer a kind of psychic attack that disaggregate the molecules of their bodies, although they soon recover their physical forms. The odd thing is that they are described as leaving behind only their coats, with no other piece of cloth mentioned.

* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Marie seems to be under the impression that Hermione Granger is Literature/HarryPotter's love interest, which means that she's either not that familiar with the saga or a Harmony shipper.

** The book features an arcane order of all-female Reverend Mothers with psychic powers, some of which allow them to upload their memories on their successors, that intervene in history for the greater good. A drug that makes one prescient and capable to curve space is also mentioned. The inspirations from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' are clear.
** As in Creator/SteveAlten's ''Literature/{{Domain}}'' trilogy, the story features a space-themed HumanSubspecies with superhuman powers whose eyes are distinctively white, with the BigBad being a former victim abuse with an instrumentalized form of their powers who is possessed by humanity's Great Enemy and has millonaire resources to his fingertips. The description of the future spaceport from ''Marie'' is also similar to the facility holding the ''Balam'' ship, and even Gordon's character resembles Mick in both personality and background.
** Marie namedrops ''Literature/HarryPotter'' and compares she and Gordon to Harry and Hermione Granger.
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is also mentioned.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marie Parks, already an orphan by the age of 15, later had her husband Mark and daughter Rebecca killed in a car accident that scrambled Marie's brain and turned her into a medium. [[spoiler:But this is just the tip of her iceberg.]]

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* AbusiveParents: Kassam's parents abused him because they believed he was an evil child (essentially, because he was the only of his many siblings who had a good health and didn't die).

* BitterswetEnding: [[spoiler:Humanity is saved from extinction, and from out perspective all is going wonderfully, as psychics are being born and in less of four centuries we will be a spacefaring civilization. However, this will likely bring new problems in the style of Kassam, and we still don't know what happened to the entity possessing him.]]

** The book features an arcane order of all-female Reverend Mothers with psychic powers, some of which allow them to upload their memories on their successors, that intervene in history for the greater good. The inspiration from ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' is clear.

* ThreeAmigos: Cyal, Kano and Elikan are childhood friends and work together as a team as adults.