History Series / Daybreak2019

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Before the Apocalypse, Jaden Hoyles was despised by absolutely everybody in the school, due to him abusing the knowledge that Burr took a bribe to do whatever he wanted. Even the other jocks couldn't stand him.

* AdamWesting: ZigZaggedTrope. Music/WuTangClan's RZA provides narration in episode 5, but is intended to be the inner narration Wesley has. He is explicitly meant to be the voice of RZA, however, as Wesley apparently always wanted to have RZA narrate his life.

** Post-apocalypse: all adults still alive by the time of the series are either Ghoulies or [[spoiler: Baron Triumph. Though Ms. Crumble, while insane, is an exception to this trope.]]
** Pre-apocalypse: very few characters had adult figures in their lives who were actually useful, either due to neglect (Josh's parents, Angelica's parents, Turbo's parents), bad parenting (Hoyles' parents), or general incompetence and mismanagement (Burr). Crumble has a great deal of angst about her inability to help her students, while Burr [[spoiler:blamed the teenagers for his inability to properly mentor and support them, resulting in his FaceHeelTurn]]. And this is without getting into the fact it was explicitly adults who let the world fall apart in the first place (something the kids are aware of and call out).

* ApocalypseHow: Not totally clear where on the scale this one falls. In one episode, the gamers mention playing ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' online with people around the world, which indicates what remains of Glendale is not the last bastion of humanity, but they do not say if the other players' countries are intact or in a similar state. In theory it could be a Class 0 where only California was destroyed but has been quarantined, a Class 1 planetary societal disruption with only the direct participants in the war fully collapsing or a Class 2 scenario where the whole world is in the same disastrous state.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Burr became one shortly before the Apocalypse. Though he was always imposing policies for his own benefit while claiming they are for the students themselves, and accepting bribes from rich parents to change their children's grades while manipulating Miss Crumble into helping, and playing off of her insecurities to have sex with her while also trying to crush her interest in singing. Meanwhile, post-apocalypse, after seemingly having a HeelFaceTurn and getting a chance to return to the way things were (thus, proving him wrong about the children), he then returns to his cannibalistic ways anyway.]]

** Josh tries to cut his arm off after being bit by a ghoulie, but his cheap sword can't do the job even after multiple whacks, and he only manages to lop off a finger when he whiffs one of his swings. Angelica then tells him ghoulies don't work like that by showing her many bite marks.

* FireForgedFriends: Josh hated Wesley and Angelica pre-Apocalypse, the former for being a JerkJock and the latter for being a BrattyHalfPint. A few close-calls together and they become [[TrueCompanions The Daybreakers]]. Likewise Eli and Josh warm up to one-another as they go off on their infiltration mission together to rescue Sam, and [[spoiler:Turbo gets over his obsessive jealously and hatred towards Josh when they work together to fight Triumph, even siding with him while the Jocks follow Sam.]]

** Eli; even though Wesley, Angelica, and Josh all have moments where they seem to bond with him, it's a stretch to say any of them truly come to ''like'' him, [[spoiler:though, Josh does mourn his death]], and it seems none of the rest of the mall inhabitants care for him. Even pre-Apocalypse, it seems he didn't have friends in school due to his obnoxious behavior.

** Pre-Apocalypse Wesley was seemingly just a JerkJock, but inside he was conflicted by his conflicting loyalties to his teammates (especially Turbo) and his family (his cousin was the star player on the rival school's team). And though he's a BadassGay now, before the apocalypse he was struggling in the closet, due to his family's explicit homophobia, with only Turbo (and anyone who guessed his sexuality) in the know.

** Turbo is otherwise the biggest badass among the Jocks, and virtually no one wants to fight him if they can help it. Which makes the ease in which Triumph can knock him around all the more terrifying. Likewise, pre-Apocalypse Hoyles got away with a lot of his bullying, not just because he had a powerful father, but also because he was just ''way'' stronger than everyone else. [[spoiler:So when Josh finds him tied up and terrified after being captured by Burr, it's a great indicator of just how scary Triumph is.]]

---> This is important to the next episode. We put it there. Back to the mission.

---> '''Angelica''': It was at that time that my hypothesis was proven right. My mother would rather spend time underwater in a submarine in Russia than be in the same room with me.

** Turbo uses a figurine of [[WesternAnimation/HeMan Skeletor]] to indicate who the traitor is in his diagram of the battle at the mall.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Sam delivers an epic and well-deserved one to Josh in the final episode for how he's treated her.]]

* BrokenAesop: Josh's desire to find Sam is partially [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone motivated]] by [[spoiler: his [[TheAtoner guilt]] about SlutShaming her over the guys she'd slept with before him.]] While this was an undoubtedly cruel and hypocritical thing to do to the person who [[spoiler: just took your virginity, the fact he mentioned her consensual sleeping with [[JerkJock Jaden Hoyles]], the school's unrepentant rapist of a BarbaricBully, and that she did so twice, meaning she must've known full well who he was by that point, does rather mar her [[FriendToAllLivingThings saintly image.]] It's not OK to judge someone over how many people they've slept with, but to call them out on being intimate with such an [[ObviouslyEvil obviously bad person]] seems a little more reasonable. This is especially egregious because other main character Wesley spends most of the season [[TheAtoner atoning]] for and struggling with his own dalliance with Turbo, who the show portrays as a much lesser evil than Hoyles and possibly even [[HeelFaceTurn redeemable.]]]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The Golf Team as a StarterVillain, Turbo and Baron Triumph as (seemingly) {{Disc One Final Boss}}es, Turbo taking up as BigBad [[spoiler:until he's dethroned by Burr who becomes the season's true BigBad, and Sam potentially setting herself up as BigBad for season two]], with other tribes as {{Hufflepuff House}}s to be avoided as potential threats [[spoiler:or courted as potential allies]] and Ghoulies serving as Wandering Monsters.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Pre-bombing Hoyles was despised by absolutely everybody in the school, due to him abusing the knowledge that Burr took a bribe to do whatever he wanted. Even the other jocks couldn't stand him.
* TheAce: It turns out that Josh's Canadian upbringing made him a fantastic survivor in the apocalypse, as he's able to rig solar panels, hunt, track, and generally be self-sufficient when he needs to be. He's also more charismatic than he realized, making him a natural leader. ''And'' he was briefly a child actor, and still remembers ASL from learning it for one song.

** The Cheermazons are an entire Tribe of this, having intentionally modelled themselves after the Amazons of mythology (or more likely, off of Franchise/WonderWoman).

** Post-apocalypse--all adults still alive by the time of the series are either Ghoulies or [[spoiler: Baron Triumph. Though Ms. Crumble, while insane, is an exception to this trope.]]
** Pre-apocalypse--very few characters had adult figures in their lives who were actually useful, either due to neglect (Josh's parents, Angelica's parents, Turbo's parents), bad parenting (Hoyles' parents), or general incompetence and mismanagement (Burr). Crumble has a great deal of angst about her inability to help her students, while Burr [[spoiler:blamed the teenagers for his inability to properly mentor and support them, resulting in his FaceHeelTurn]]. And this is without getting into the fact it was explicitly adults who let the world fall apart in the first place (something the kids are aware of and call out).
* AerithAndBob: Character names range from Josh, Angelica, and Eli to Turbo and Samaira (which is Sam's full name), as well as ''all'' the Jadens (which vary on spelling). Somewhat Justified, by this being a middle-class white suburban town in California, where there's plenty of parents who think giving their children creative names is original.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: Glendale is like this now.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Burr is killed, the nuke he attempted to detonate was shot into the atmosphere and Ms. Crumble survives her apparent HeroicSacrifice...but Josh DidNotGetTheGirl and it's implied that [[HereWeGoAgain Sam is going to reign as the new authoritarian warlord of the region]] with the acclaim of all but Josh's Daybreakers.]]

** In order to get him to abandon his suicidal quest to save Sam, [[spoiler:Angelica and Wes pull this with Sam, making a random dead body they found look like her]].

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: During their confrontation. Both Josh and [[spoiler: Burr]] throw blame between the kids and the adults as worthless. Josh points out that adults were the ones who destroyed the world, while [[spoiler: Burr]] points out that with none of the adults left, instead of doing anything positive like banding together and rebuilding the world the kids all chose to continue wasting their potential, play Fortnite and kill each other.

** A large portion of the cast gets to do this -- Josh is the standout example who even physically moves between flashbacks, but Angelica, Wesley, Eli, Burr and even Turbo get the chance to acknowledge the fourth wall and discuss what is occurring with the audience.

** The same can also be said of [[spoiler:Turbo, who rapidly is walked out on by the love of his life as he gets more and more violently unhinged, is deposed by Burr, and is brutally beaten. Wes patches him back up, and he joins the heroes and is together with Wes again, now significantly mellowed out.]]

* BrokenAesop: Josh's desire to find Samaira is partially [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone motivated]] by [[spoiler: his [[TheAtoner guilt]] about SlutShaming her over the guys she'd slept with before him.]] While this was an undoubtedly cruel and hypocritical thing to do to the person who [[spoiler: just took your virginity, the fact he mentioned her consensually sleeping with [[JerkJock Jaden Hoyles]], the school's unrepentant rapist of a BarbaricBully, and that she did so twice, meaning she must've known full well who he was by that point, does rather mar her [[FriendToAllLivingThings saintly image.]] It's not ok to judge someone over how many people they've slept with, but to call them out on being intimate with such an [[ObviouslyEvil obviously bad person]] seems a little more reasonable. This is especially egregious because other main character Wesley spends most of the season [[TheAtoner atoning]] for and struggling with his own dalliance with Turbo, who the show portrays as a much lesser evil than Hoyles and possibly even [[HeelFaceTurn redeemable.]]]]

* CosyCatastrophe: Josh at the start seems to think so, using the apocalypse as an excuse to get everything he ever wanted-his journey for Sam being to complete that goal. Even aside from that, the mall Eli took over still has electricity and functioning amenities and a lot of places likewise still function -- some kids are even still able to play ''Overwatch''.

* DramaticIrony: For all the progressive views spoken of and upheld by other students and antagonists alike, Josh himself (regular Josh, not Tennis Josh, Big Truck Josh, Gay Josh or the other Gay Josh) has some very close minded mentalities about women. He kept looking at Sam as an ideal rather than as a person; and the season finale shows he really hasn't changed all that much since the apocalypse. It could be excused considering Josh is still young himself and his big moment coinciding with [[spoiler: his father's death]] may have screwed things up, but considering the others who have similar if not worse issues, it's surprising to see or hear something like that out of Josh.

* TheDreaded: The Baron Triumph is this for the rest of apocalyptic Glendale. He kidnaps and eats children. His identity is implied to be Hoyles [[spoiler: but is actually Principal Burr.]]

* EntitledBastard: Hoyles. Due to the leverage he had on Burr he knew he could do whatever the hell he wanted. He vaped an e-cig in the lunchroom. Had sex in the girls stalls. Defaced school property and even outright assaulted other students. [[spoiler:Burr actually knew he would do this and simply waited until Hoyles did something Burr could get him immediately arrested for.]]

** Mona Lisa [[spoiler:turns on Turbo when he frames Gary just to get one over on Josh, because even though Gary is a ButtMonkey, if Turbo can betray one of them, he can betray any of them]].

** PlayedForLaughs, but no matter their morality, most of the cast are pretty sensitive to socially marginalised groups and try to be respectful. Which makes some weird sense as the two biggest factions are lead by a BadassGay and a StrawFeminist. Even the Cheermazaons are led by a triumvirate consisting of an African American, a Muslim, and a Mute (with interpreter). Eli's casual racism is used largely to illustrate ''just'' how terrible he is, and Angelica calling Wesley gay and retarded (albeit, not intending it to insult his sexuality, but as a general insult) pretty much illustrates her sociopathic TokenEvilTeammate status.

* FamilyOfChoice: Angelica desperately wants one of these. [[spoiler: The Daybreaker tribe is intended to be one.]]

** The instructions on the school's fallout shelter end with "then kiss your ass goodbye".
** Turbo's entire speech. Transcribed [[https://www.reddit.com/r/DaybreakNetflix/comments/dn61pg/turbos_epic_speech_episode_6/ here]].

** Eli; even though Wesley, Angelica, and Josh all have moments where they seem to bond with him, it's a stretch to say any of them truly come to ''like'' him, [[spoiler:though, Josh does morn his death,]] and it seems none of the rest of the mall inhabitants care for him. Even pre-Apocalypse, it seems he didn't have friends in school due to his obnoxious behaviour.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ms. Crumble seems to be on the cusp of pulling one in the finale, willingly staying behind to get rid of Burr's nuke. However, she herself does not think this is the case and claims she will survive by turning into mist...whether she did that or not, this trope is Subverted with her managing to survive the missile's launch.]]

* HufflepuffHouse: There are a number of warlord factions like the Disciples of Kardashia and the 4H Club who barely appear at all, with the jock tribe, Cheermazons and Daybreakers being the main factions depicted.

** Josh as well has shades of this, [[NotSoDifferent which Eli accuses him of]], [[RightForTheWrongReasons albeit for reasons that only make sense from Eli's perspective]]. He's less motivated about finding Sam for Sam's sake, and more because he wants the idealised version of her, and finding her fits with his KnightInShiningArmor narrative that he sees himself as. He'd also have preferred to be a lone wolf survivor, until Angelica and Wesley all-but forced him into becoming TheHero. However, Josh himself does seem to realise this and tries to be better about it.

* LovingAShadow: [[spoiler: The Sam everybody, especially Josh looked up to, was never the real person. Which put enormous pressure on her along with a deep seated resentment of not being allowed to act like a regular person. She decides to embrace this idealised image of herself when she becomes the overlord of Glensdale.]]
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sam's a Deconstruction of this. [[spoiler:Josh fell for her hard-and-fast when he moved to Glendale, with her helping him to get out of his shell and find positivist in his new home. However because Josh put her on a pedestal (as did everyone), it left her feeling less like her own person as nobody saw her for anything besides a popular influencer and homecoming queen, and when she tried to demonstrate she was more than that, Josh saw it as a BrokenPedestal moment. Her relationship with Josh was toxic from both sides because of this, which ultimately lead to them breaking up right before the apocalypse. Josh only wants to reunite with her largely because he's still not over his memory of her.]]

** Mavis is this for Eli, since for all his faults he never says anything about her beyond how dedicated he is to her.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Josh not [[spoiler: posted Sam's viral video and then later slut-shamed her and given her a ReasonYouSuckSpeech after his dad died, she probably wouldn't have become a VillainWithGoodPublicity at the end of the season]]

** Briefly, Mona-Lisa and Barry of the Golfers, with the former taking pity on him [[spoiler:once he becomes [[LastOfHisKind the last Golfer]], to the point she informs him her real name [[ThemeNaming is Mary]]]].
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Eli's whole wardrobe is based on this, buying bootleg versions of name brand items. Even his last name, Cardashyan, is one to the Kardashians. It's the main reason he is so greedy when it comes to the mall. Growing up his family was poor and could never afford anything that wasn't absolutely neccesary like quality clothes, fresh food or nice toys. Forcing him to make due with cheap inferior versions of everything he wanted. After the apocalypse he starts impersonating Baron Triumph but all his gear are just inferior versions of the real thing.

** Wesley references a lot of karate and kung fu movies, including some that are not existent even in-universe.

** Gap Year in the podcast embodies most of the stereotypes, though he does more than just weed.

** The 'Cheermazons' embody this trope, excluding men from their tribe and treating all males they encounter with hostility, at least until Angelica convinces them that [[TwoferTokenMinority gay black man]] Wesley is even more marginalized than they are, but even then they try to argue briefly that despite his status, Wesley ''was'' a JerkJock who maintained social authority in school[[note]]ignoring that he was still closeted and would likely not fare well after school, not to mention the fact they were all once AlphaBitch cheerleaders[[/note]]. However, they're not wrong about the mistreatment women faced in the old society, and it ''was'' a bunch of men with power who blew up the world, and now they all have to live with their consequences, which to a bunch of traumatized teenagers who naturally have trouble with nuance, would lead to their extremist stance. They also notably seem to grow out of this quickly; after Triumph's attack, they willingly join forces with the Daybreakers.
** Averted with most other characters who demonstrate feminist leanings, mind; Angelica, Crumble, Sam, and Mona Lisa all demonstrate feminist opinions, but are also morally complex and genuinely well-rounded characters who just happen to also be feminists. Wesley and Josh also demonstrate male feminist/feminist-ally opinions (Josh outright refusing to use vulgar language to describe Angelica because he's "part of the solution"). Justified really as this is a middle-class neighborhood in California where their school encouraged woke attitudes. And Josh is implied to be Straw in the other direction, paying lip service to feminist ideals while harboring latent but distinctly misogynist opinions (see below).

** Gary of the Golfers is revealed as this as well, [[spoiler:after his death]], as one of the sexist comments Sam got for her video was from him. Before that, him and the other Golfers made disparaging remarks about Sam when introduced, and in general often act with fairly Incel-like behaviour, except [[TokenGoodTeammate for Barry]].
** Though not among their leadership (which of course, includes a woman as TheDragon), the Jocks seem to act as a SpearCounterpart to the Cheermazons, with one going on [[InsaneTrollLogic a ridiculous rant]] to defend a 'smelly vag' comment, arguing that men's ball sweat contains pheromones and thus propagate the species while women's just smell bad, [[CriticalResearchFailure which is not at all how any of that works]]. Mona Lisa is very quick to put him in his place and intimidate him into apologising.

* UngratefulBastard: Sam Dean to Josh in many episodes. PlayedWith: Josh ''is'' risking is life to try and save her from all the very real dangers of the apocalypse, but is also doing it out of a misguided sense of being the KnightInShiningArmor out to rescues the DamselInDistress. Sam rejects the notion of being at all damselish, though she ''did'' need Josh and his friends to help her save the world (from a villain she let loose, no less). Ultimately, both of them could stand to be a little more self-aware.

* UnreliableNarrator: Most flashbacks leave something out, usually something that would be unflattering to the character in focus at the moment--Josh leaves it until almost the end of the series before [[spoiler: admitting he called Sam a slut]], Burr ''severely'' underplays the extent to which he [[spoiler: took bribes]] and does not mention [[spoiler: sleeping with Crumble]], and most egregiously [[spoiler: outright claims to be dead when he is actually alive and the BigBad]]. Wesley leaves out things which are unflattering to Turbo, but calls himself out on lying about his own actions, while Crumble declares ''herself'' this before she finds the strength to believe in her own memories.

* TheVoiceless: Turbo post-apocalypse speaks almost solely in grunts, gestures and spelling words out via writing or alphabet-shaped cereal. He says a grand total of five words: [[spoiler: "You lose" after the failed gamer raid on the school, and "I love you" to Wesley during their confetti-gun duel.]] This is because the bomb, in addition to scarring his face, severely damaged something in his throat; whenever he talks he starts spitting blood.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Overall, the show mixes between being a quirky teen sitcom in the vain of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' and a post-apocalypse zombie survival show ala ''Series/TheWalkingDead''.

-->'''Wesley''': It's easy to [[BladeSpam hack and slash]]. Every eight-year-old with a broom thinks they're a [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]]. The reason you can't wield a blade isn't for a missing finger. [[TheBerserker It's because you're full of rage.]] Being a swordsman is about control. Every stroke has intention, thought, knowing that a single swipe could sever a man from his own life.\\

*** The podcast host Harvard pre-apocalypse hosted a true crime podcast about who ejaculated on a tampon dispenser, a premise that sounds similar to [[Series/AmericanVandal a recently cancelled Netflix series]].

** Episode 1 has Josh try to give a {{Fingore}} to Terry while he's FlippingTheBird with his new katana, only to hit his wrist instead and get stuck in the bone. It's plenty painful, sure, but the sword remains stuck in the bone until Josh gets enough leverage to rip it free.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Hoyles, one of the biggest assholes in school had open sex in a stall in the girls bathroom without even trying to hide it. Fitting for this trope he was so unimpressive that the girl he was doing it with was casually scrolling through her phone with a mildly bored expression like she wasn't even having sex in the first place. [[spoiler: Turbo has pretty great sex with Wesley while still evil, but eventually he joins the Daybreakers and becomes good. Josh and Sam's first attempt at a first time (for him, anyway) is as awkward and unsexy as it can get; their second attempt features Sam pushing his comfort zones with some pretty kinky play. Josh and KJ have a very comfortable and romantic encounter. . . before Josh drops her because he learns Sam is still alive. Who exactly is "good" in this equation is left nebulous even as the season concludes.]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Hoyles, one of the biggest assholes in school had open sex in a stall in the girls bathroom without even trying to hide it. Fitting for this trope he was so unimpressive that the girl he was doing it with was casually scrolling through her phone with a mildly bored expression like she wasn't even having sex in the first place. [[spoiler: Turbo has pretty great sex with Wesley while still evil, but eventually he joins the Daybreakers and becomes good. Josh and Sam's first attempt at a first time (for him, anyway) is as awkward and sexy as it can get; their second attempt features Sam pushing his comfort zones with some pretty kinky play. Josh and KJ have a very comfortable and romantic encounter. . . before Josh drops her because he learns Sam is still alive. Who exactly is "good" in this equation is left nebulous even as the season concludes.]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Hoyles, one of the biggest assholes in school had open sex in a stall in the girls bathroom without even trying to hide it. Fitting for this trope he was so unimpressive that the girl he was doing it with was casually scrolling through her phone with a mildly bored expression like she wasn't even having sex in the first place. [[spoiler: Turbo has pretty great sex with Wesley while still evil, but eventually he joins the Daybreakers and becomes good.]]

** Nut allergies and nut-free kitchen zones and equipment show up very frequently as a FunnyBackgroundEvent. [[spoiler:But it really serves to keep a ChekovsGun fresh in the audience's mind.]]

** Though he does espouse pro-feminism ideology, Josh himself ends up falling into misogynistic attitudes, something that Sam calls him on, and is a big reason why [[spoiler:they were ultimately not meant to be]]. He looks at women with a MadonnaWhoreComplex, putting Sam on a pedestal and becoming angry when she doesn't match his vision of her, and in the end, despite everything he went through, he ''still'' never bothered to think about what she actually wanted. [[spoiler:Never mind how he happily slept with KJ after knowing her for only a short amount of time (and only being able to communicate with her for roughly a day), despite his SlutShaming of Sam, something Sam is ''very'' quick to yell at him for.]]

** Averted with most other characters who demonstrate feminist leanings, mind; Angelica, Crumble, Sam, and Mona Lisa all demonstrate feminist opinions, but are also morally complex and genuinely well-rounded characters who just happen to also be feminists. Wesley and Josh also demonstrate male feminist/feminist-ally opinions (Josh outright refusing to use vulgar language to describe Angelica because he's "part of the solution"). Justified really as this is a middle-class neighborhood in California where their school encouraged woke attitudes.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: When the golf team first confronts Josh, they declare that they will make him wear a shock collar and be their slave, only for the one African-American member of the team to take offense to that choice of term. The team quickly switches to saying Josh will become their "indentured American". The rest of the show engages in some good-natured ribbing, but generally leans progressive in its tone.

** Post-Apocalypse, all adults still alive by the time of the series are either Ghoulies or [[spoiler: Baron Triumph. Though Ms. Crumble, while insane, is an exception to this trope.]]
** Pre-Apocalypse, very few characters had adult figures in their lives who were actually useful, either due to neglect (Josh's parents, Angelica's parents, Turbo's parents), bad parenting (Hoyles' parents), or general incompetence and mismanagement (Burr). Crumble has a great deal of angst about her inability to help her students, while Burr [[spoiler:blamed the teenagers for his inability to properly mentor and support them, resulting in his FaceHeelTurn]]. And this is without getting into the fact it was explicitly adults who let the world fall apart in the first place (something the kids are aware of and call out).

** Averted with most other characters who demonstrate feminist leanings, mind; Angelica, Crumble, Sam, and Mona Lisa all demonstrate feminist opinions, but are also morally complex and genuinely well-rounded characters who just happen to also be feminists. Wesley and Josh also demonstrate male feminist/feminist-ally opinions (Josh outright refusing to use vulgar language to describe Angelica because he's "part of the solution"). Justified really as this is a middle-class neighbourhood in California where their school encouraged woke attitudes.

** Not universally, but quite common. Turbo's gang of jocks decided to reenact ''Mad Max'', Eli attempts to deny people access to safety in the mall he found refuge in due to selfishness and weird anti-immigration views, and other factions war with each other quite often. Even pre-apocalypse a lot of the teenage characters were jerks-including Wesley, who is a pretty decent guy post-apocalypse.

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: "Turbo" is, in fact, Turbo's actual first name. Josh and crew question whether his parents ''wanted'' him to turn out to be a JerkJock.