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** [[spoiler:The failsafe for the Project NOAH lab was intended to be a half-kiloton suitcase nuke. Lacey ultimately uses this against hulking Master Viral Babcock, erasing them both from existence instantly.]]
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* ImmuneToBullets: Played with. The Master Virals are very heavily protected by their skin, with an RPG being a reasonable weapon [[spoiler:including one that apparently hits and hurts but does not kill Babcock]] and them being far too fast to hit with an RPG most of the time. Lesser virals have acquired this reputation after a century, but it's partially a legend from a lack of firearms and that the army failed. Sharp shooting the same weak spots you'd aim a crossbow proves effective, as do heavy machine guns.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: If Project NOAH had been conducting ''remotely'' thorough and ethical science with professional staff who might ''report'' problems, they probably learn what the virals are capable of early enough to stop it. [[spoiler:Scratch military forces ''can'' defeat virals a hundred years later. A full military approaching the outbreak as an intelligent enemy would likely have succeeded. If the experiment continued that long in the first place.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A fascistic US government "recruits" largely insane, always violent murderers as "no one will miss them" test subjects for a biological terror weapon, licensing the murder of anyone inconvenient in the process. However these disposable test subjects ''are'' being given a "virus" that causes superhuman transformation and imparts an extreme bloodlust, and this stacks on remnants of those personalities. This goes badly.
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* ItCanThink: The virus does ''not'' in fact render its subjects catatonic, mindless animals as is believed at Project NOAH. They're telepathic and capable of large scale organization, and can directly communicate with humans via visions and dreams. [[spoiler:Some virals can suppress their kill drive enough for their base personality to come through. Unfortunately, Zero and 11 of the 12 adult test subjects are sociopaths and/or criminally insane and have a HiveMind with their infectees.]] This is understood much too late as heavily defended perimeters fall to organized virals.
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* AwfulTruth: The First Colony has a couple of these. They forbid on pain of exile (death) telling children of the hellish reality until they are 8 years old; until then they're raised in a cloistered school with no view of the outside. Ironically, [[spoiler:the more critical fact that the batteries that run the vampire-repelling lights are failing and cannot be repaired or replaced is withheld from the Colony at large by Michael. He reasons that with no options, informing now would only destroy the relative happiness they have left.]]
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* DwindlingParty: The First Colony. Both in general from trying to hold off high cancer and vampire death rates with the population of a tiny town, and on-screen during its section of the story.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
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* MnOfSherwood:
** The Watch defends the First Colony from vampires and, while it is a DwindlingParty, the minor members are almost all skilled and developed characters who kill vampires with and without the main cast's help, help prevent TorchesAndPitchforks mobs, and only keep dying because of the dissent Babcock is sowing within the community with his psychic powers.
** The Army of Texas is the only survivor faction that is gaining ground against the virals instead of losing it, the heroes only encounter them late in the story, and they have a higher survival rate than The Watch.
** The Watch defends the First Colony from vampires and, while it is a DwindlingParty, the minor members are almost all skilled and developed characters who kill vampires with and without the main cast's help, help prevent TorchesAndPitchforks mobs, and only keep dying because of the dissent Babcock is sowing within the community with his psychic powers.
** The Army of Texas is the only survivor faction that is gaining ground against the virals instead of losing it, the heroes only encounter them late in the story, and they have a higher survival rate than The Watch.
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* AdultFear: The series is rife with these: miscarriage, mental illness, the death of your only child, isolationism and terminal illness are all fears which plague the characters (and happen to them).
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* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Peter Jaxon
** TheLancer: Alicia Donadio
** TheSmartGuy: Michael Fisher
** TheBigGuy: Hollis Wilson
** TheChick: Mausami Patal
** TheSixthRanger: Amy
** TheMedic: Sara Fisher
** TheHero: Peter Jaxon
** TheLancer: Alicia Donadio
** TheSmartGuy: Michael Fisher
** TheBigGuy: Hollis Wilson
** TheChick: Mausami Patal
** TheSixthRanger: Amy
** TheMedic: Sara Fisher
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* DeathOfAChild
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* InfantImmortality: Frequently averted.
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* BadDreams: Several characters have them, due to the Twelve having the ability to influence people through dreams.
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* TheWarOnTerror: A terrorist attack on the Mall of America results in the United States adopting a number of fascist tendencies, including military checkpoints at state borders and an expanded form of the Patriot Act.
** Guilder's third-person narrations refer to a law colloquially called "'The Do Whatever the Fuck You Want' Act"
** Guilder's third-person narrations refer to a law colloquially called "'The Do Whatever the Fuck You Want' Act"
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused confused]] with the 1979 film ''Film/ThePassage'', which is an adaptation of the book ''Literature/PerilousPassage''.
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''Literature/PerilousPassage''. It is also unrelated to the 2002 Creator/ConnieWillis novel ''Literature/{{Passage}}'', or to the 2007 [[FreewareGames freeware]] game ''VideoGame/{{Passage}}''
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