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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Children don't look like they come from any human ethnicity.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Children don't look like they come from any human ethnicity.
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure[=/=]NuclearOption: An entire Russian village that has undergone a similar baby boom is nuked by the military. They can't even warn the innocent parties to leave, because if they did, the babies would be tipped off and do something about it...
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* ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure[=/=]NuclearOption: ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure: An entire Russian village that has undergone a similar baby boom is nuked by the military. They can't even warn the innocent parties to leave, because if they did, the babies would be tipped off and do something about it...
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* RapidAging[=/=]YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:The Children age almost twice as fast as normal humans. By the time they are chronologically 9 years old, they look about 16-17.]]
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* RapidAging[=/=]YoungerThanTheyLook: RapidAging: [[spoiler:The Children age almost twice as fast as normal humans. By the time they are chronologically 9 years old, they look about 16-17.]]
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* SuperIntelligence: Possibly as a result of being a HiveMind, possibly just because whatever they are.
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It has been filmed twice under the title ''Village of the Damned'', first in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960 1960]] and then in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995]]. Creator/{{Sky}} has a series based on the novel premiering in 2022.
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It has been filmed twice under the title ''Village of the Damned'', first in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960 1960]] and then in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995]]. Creator/{{Sky}} has a series based on the novel premiering in 2022.[[Series/TheMidwichCuckoos 2022]].
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All the women of childbearing age and capability in the village of Midwich simultaneously become pregnant with alien children who all share the same uncanny appearance and have the ability to mentally manipulate people.
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All the women of childbearing age and capability in the village IdyllicEnglishVillage of Midwich simultaneously become pregnant with alien children who all share the same uncanny appearance and have the ability to mentally manipulate people.
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* IdyllicEnglishVillage: Midwich matches this trope fairly well; the story then of course subverts it by making things rather less than idyllic.
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It has been filmed twice under the title ''Village of the Damned'', first in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960 1960]] and then in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995]].
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It has been filmed twice under the title ''Village of the Damned'', first in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1960 1960]] and then in [[Film/VillageOfTheDamned1995 1995]].
1995]]. Creator/{{Sky}} has a series based on the novel premiering in 2022.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gordon Zellaby, the Children's teacher and the only person they respect, decides that the Children are too dangerous to let live and uses a bomb to kill the them all alongside himself inside the school.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gordon Zellaby, the Children's school teacher and the only person they respect, decides that the Children are too dangerous to let live and uses a bomb to kill the them all alongside himself inside the school.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gordon Zellaby, the Children's teacher and the only person they respect, decides that the Children are too dangerous to let live and uses a bomb to kill the them all alongside himself inside the school.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: The Dayout, apart from being quite the scandal on its own, causes a bit of a tizzy when a man is discovered to have fallen down the stairs in the cottage of a married woman whose husband was at work.
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!!This novel provides examples of:
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* BaitAndSwitch: Anthea's pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's a human baby; she just happened to conceive at the worst possible time.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: Anthea's Angela's pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's a human baby; she just happened to conceive at the worst possible time.]]
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* BizarreBabyBoomBizarreBabyBoom: When every woman of child-bearing age wakes up from a day they don't remember pregnant.
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* HiveMind: At the very least, all of the male children and all of the female children are linked together. [[spoiler: Zellaby suggests that they might not be individuals at all, but rather one male and one female example of their species with several bodies]].
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* HiveMind: At the very least, all of the male children and all of the female children are linked together. [[spoiler: Zellaby suggests that they might not be individuals at all, but rather one male and one female example of their species with several bodies]].bodies. Most of the other characters express skepticism and at one point one male child addresses he is sometimes just Joseph and sometimes all the boys which tends to suggest they are still individuals who link into the HiveMind]].
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* MayDecemberRomance: Zellaby is much older than his wife Angela who is closer in age to her teenage stepdaughter.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Children aren't being deliberately malicious as we would understand it--they simply put protecting themselves above literally everything else.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Children aren't being deliberately malicious as we would understand it--they simply put protecting themselves above literally everything else. [[spoiler: They also don't ''hate'' humanity; they merely see conflict between the two species as inevitable and therefore intend to win.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Several of the female researchers at the government facility up and leave, refusing to deal with the Children anymore. [[spoiler: Ferralyn Zellaby also leaves, although it takes some convincing.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Several of the female researchers at the government facility up and leave, refusing to deal with the Children anymore.they gave birth to (one of them even threatens to sue if they try to make her come back). [[spoiler: Ferralyn Zellaby also leaves, although it takes some convincing.]]
*SuperIntelligenceSuperIntelligence: Possibly as a result of being a HiveMind, possibly just because whatever they are.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The Dayout, apart from being quite the scandal on its own, causes a bit of a tizzy when a man is discovered to have fallen down the stairs in the cottage of a married woman whose husband is at work.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The Dayout, apart from being quite the scandal on its own, causes a bit of a tizzy when a man is discovered to have fallen down the stairs in the cottage of a married woman whose husband is was at work.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: The Children don't look like they come from any human ethnicity.
* BaitAndSwitch: Anthea's pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's a human baby; she just happened to conceive at the worst possible time.]]
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* MindRape: Let's just say that if you're not afraid of the Children, and start yelling at one, you will soon learn ''exactly'' how afraid you ought to be.
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* MindRape: Let's just say that if you're not afraid of the Children, and start yelling at one, you will soon learn ''exactly'' how afraid you ought to be. When they apply that fear by directly triggering the chemicals in your brain as hard as possible. [[spoiler: This is supposed to be a temporary punishment, but Gayford and the psychologist realize that the psychological effect is going to last forever.]]
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* MindRape: Let's just say that if you're not afraid of the Children, and start yelling at one, you will soon learn ''exactly'' how afraid you ought to be.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Children aren't being deliberately malicious as we would understand it--they simply put protecting themselves above literally everything else.
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* CreepyChild: Although, unlike the examples in both film adaptations, [[spoiler:they don't stay that way, at least not physically]].
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* CreepyChild: Although, unlike the examples in both film adaptations, [[spoiler:they don't stay that way, at least not physically]]. They are also capable of ''not'' being this, provided they like you enough--Gayford is stunned by how they act around Zellaby.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Any pain inflicted on the children is immediately met by the harshest retaliation they can muster, no matter whether it was an accident. Some of this is by simply not quite understanding their own strength or how humans work (the boy Child doesn't seem to understand that [[spoiler: he's permanently damaged the Chief Inspector]], for example). A lot, though, is because they understand the concept of the preemptive strike extremely well.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Any pain inflicted on the children is immediately met by the harshest retaliation they can muster, no matter whether it was an accident. Some of this is by simply not quite understanding their own strength or how humans work (the boy Child doesn't seem to understand that [[spoiler: he's permanently damaged the Chief Inspector]], for example). A lot, though, is because they understand the concept of the preemptive strike extremely well.
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* CreepyChild: Although, unlike the examples in both film adaptations, [[spoiler: they don't stay that way, at least not physically]].
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* CreepyChild: Although, unlike the examples in both film adaptations, [[spoiler: they [[spoiler:they don't stay that way, at least not physically]].
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* KillItWithFire: The villagers attempt to destroy the Grange with torches. [[spoiler: It ends with their being forced to fight one another, in a few cases to the death]].
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* KillItWithFire: The villagers attempt to destroy the Grange with torches. [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It ends with their them being forced to fight one another, in a few cases to the death]].
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* AssholeVictim: The wifebeater father of one of the babies is forced to repeatedly punch himself in the face after striking his infant son hard enough to leave a bruise.
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* AssholeVictim: The wifebeater father of one of the babies is [[StopHittingYourself forced to repeatedly punch himself in the face face]] after striking his infant son hard enough to leave a bruise.
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* BlondesAreEvil: The alien children.
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It has been filmed twice under the title ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned''.
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