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* BrokenAesop: In short: Horrifically killing off ([[AFateWorseThanDeath or worse]]) everyone deemed "insufficiently virtuous" would be a handy shortcut to utopia.
** Based on multiple asides about the light punishment that Molly's AxeCrazy father got, another BrokenAesop is that society is not harsh enough on criminals who are all pure evil to begin with.

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* TheTragicRose: [[spoiler:Rebecca Rose, Molly's classmate who died in her arms during her father's attack. Her death in particular has haunted Molly for years.]]


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* TheTragicRose: [[spoiler:Rebecca Rose, Molly's classmate who died in her arms during her father's attack. Her death in particular has haunted Molly for years.]]

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* ThePowerOfLove: What keeps Molly and Neil going through the events of the story.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Molly's DeclarationOfProtection in the church evokes this.



* ThePowerOfLove: What keeps Molly and Neil going through the events of the story.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Molly's DeclarationOfProtection in the church evokes this.

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Per this ATT, reverting this to that pending formal name change.


* ClimateChange: Apparently doesn't exist if the interviews on the news are anything to go by.


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* GlobalWarming: Apparently doesn't exist if the interviews on the news are anything to go by.
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* DirtyCoward: The two men in the church were hoping to exploit InfantImmortality by keeping a group of children near them. They get killed by the bug in the basement for their trouble.

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* DirtyCoward: The two men in the church were hoping to exploit InfantImmortality ImprobableInfantSurvival by keeping a group of children near them. They get killed by the bug in the basement for their trouble.
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* InfantImmortality: Children are the only group universally spared. Two people tried to exploit this, but get killed by a giant bug anyway.

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* InfantImmortality: ImprobableInfantSurvival: Children are the only group universally spared. Two people tried to exploit this, but get killed by a giant bug anyway.
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* UltimateEvil: The Leviathan, though it is eventually revealed at the end.

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* UltimateEvil: UnseenEvil: The Leviathan, though it is eventually revealed at the end.

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Renamed per TRS


* ClimateChange: Apparently doesn't exist if the interviews on the news are anything to go by.



* GlobalWarming: Apparently doesn't exist if the interviews on the news are anything to go by.
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** Based on multiple asides about the light punishment that Molly's AxeCrazy father got, another BrokenAesop is that society is not harsh enough on criminals who are portrayed as pure evil in the story.
* CaughtUpInTheRapture: [[spoiler:Some people were mentioned to have floated away, but were happy when they did so. It's implied that they went to heaven.]]

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** Based on multiple asides about the light punishment that Molly's AxeCrazy father got, another BrokenAesop is that society is not harsh enough on criminals who are portrayed as all pure evil in the story.
to begin with.
* CaughtUpInTheRapture: [[spoiler:Some people were mentioned to have floated away, including some of those who went to the bank, but were happy when they did so. It's implied that they went to heaven.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When the TV starts showing footage of graphic violence, Neil's reaction suggests that it's one of these.

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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When the Sloans' TV starts showing footage of graphic violence, violence and gratuitous sex, Neil's reaction suggests that it's one meant by the invaders to be a commentary on the depravity of these.the human race.

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