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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Diana kills Christina, who at this point is pinned under a boulder and stripped of her magic.]]
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''Lovecraft Country'' is an American horror drama series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff and developed for Creator/{{HBO}} by Creator/Misha Green, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
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''Lovecraft Country'' is an American horror drama series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff and developed for Creator/{{HBO}} by Creator/Misha Green, Creator/MishaGreen, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
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''Lovecraft Country'' is an American horror drama series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff and developed for Creator/{{HBO}} by [[Series/{{Underground}} Misha Green]], in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
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''Lovecraft Country'' is an American horror drama series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff and developed for Creator/{{HBO}} by [[Series/{{Underground}} Misha Green]], Creator/Misha Green, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
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While a second season, subtitled ''Supremacy'', was in development, it was announced in July 2021 that the series had been canceled.
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While a second season, subtitled ''Supremacy'', was in development, it was announced in July 2021 that [[CutShort the series had been canceled.
canceled]].
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* BrickJoke: Bobo asks the Ouijia board if he'll have a good time on his vacation. [[spoiler: Come Jig-A-Bobo, it's clear Bobo is the nickname of Emmett Till, and he gets tortured and murdered on his vacation.]]
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* BrickJoke: Bobo asks the Ouijia board if he'll have a good time on his vacation. [[spoiler: Come Jig-A-Bobo, it's clear Bobo is the nickname of Emmett Till, and he gets tortured and murdered on his vacation.]]]] Also, the song "Life Could Be a Dream."
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[[caption-width-right:350:Take back your legacy.]]
''Lovecraft Country'' is a 2020 Creator/{{HBO}} American Drama/Horror series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff. Developed for TV by [[Series/{{Underground}} Misha Green]], in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
''Lovecraft Country'' is a 2020 Creator/{{HBO}} American Drama/Horror series, based on the [[Literature/LovecraftCountry novel of the same name]] by Matt Ruff. Developed for TV by [[Series/{{Underground}} Misha Green]], in collaboration with Warner Bros. Television, [[Creator/JordanPeele Monkeypaw Productions]] and [[Creator/JJAbrams Bad Robot Productions]]. It stars Creator/JurneeSmollett, Creator/JonathanMajors, Creator/AunjanueEllis, Creator/CourtneyBVance, and Creator/MichaelKWilliams.
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After completing a trip, his uncle gives Tic a letter from his father Montrose (Williams) asking him to come to a town in Massachusetts in order to look into his family history. As they embark on a road trip through the horrors of the 1950s Jim Crow America, joined by Tic's childhood friend Letitia "Leti" Lewis (Smollett), the group soon discovers that racists who can murder African Americans with impunity are not the only horrific monsters roving around America. Soon Tic and the rest of his family become entangled with eldritch creatures, ghosts, white supremacist sorcerers, and other horrors that are connected to his heritage, and want him for their schemes.
Has a [[Characters/LovecraftCountry characters]] page that is under construction. In June 2021, it was announced the series would not receive a second season.
Has a [[Characters/LovecraftCountry characters]] page that is under construction. In June 2021, it was announced the series would not receive a second season.
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After completing a trip, his uncle gives Tic a letter from his father Montrose (Williams) asking him to come to a town in Massachusetts in order to look into his family history. As they embark on a road trip through the horrors of the 1950s Jim Crow America, joined by Tic's childhood friend Letitia "Leti" Lewis (Smollett), the group soon discovers that racists who can murder African Americans with impunity are not the only horrific monsters roving around America. Soon Soon, Tic and the rest of his family become entangled with eldritch creatures, ghosts, white supremacist sorcerers, and other horrors that are connected to his heritage, and want him for their schemes.
While a second season, subtitled ''Supremacy'', was in development, it was announced in July 2021 that the series had been canceled.
Has a [[Characters/LovecraftCountry characters]] page that is under construction. In June 2021, it was announced the series would not receive a second season.\n
While a second season, subtitled ''Supremacy'', was in development, it was announced in July 2021 that the series had been canceled.
Has a [[Characters/LovecraftCountry characters]] page that is under construction.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Contrary to most modern people's preconceptions, the show accurately portrays the fact that the North of the United States could be just as virulently racist and dangerous for African Americans as the Jim Crow South, as the protagonists make their way from Chicago to Massachusetts and at one point get chased out of a 'sundown town'. The "Safe Negro Travel Guide" is a fictionalized version of the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book "Negro Motorist Green Book"]].
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** [[spoiler:Christina]], who is bi, lesbian or maybe transgender, gets killed by [[spoiler:Diana]].
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** [[spoiler:Christina]], who is bi, lesbian or maybe transgender, gets [[spoiler:gets killed by [[spoiler:Diana]].Diana]].
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** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers, [[spoiler:was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 ]](and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them [[spiler:before killing him]] make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose [[spoiler:however survives]].
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** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers, [[spoiler:was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 ]](and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them [[spiler:before [[spoiler:before killing him]] make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose [[spoiler:however survives]].
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** Another, Yahima, is shown to be "Two Spirited" and have dual genitalia. While at first accepted, the character quickly comes to a rather gruesome end with a surprise cut throat.
** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers, was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them before killing him make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose however survives.
** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers, was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them before killing him make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose however survives.
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** Another, Yahima, is shown to be "Two Spirited" and have dual genitalia. While at first accepted, the [[spoiler:the character quickly comes to a rather gruesome end with a surprise cut throat.
throat]].
** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers,was [[spoiler:was killed during the Tulsa Massacre in 1921 (and ]](and the slurs the white people shout at the two of them before [[spiler:before killing him him]] make it clear it was about more than just the anti-black pogrom occurring). Montrose however survives.[[spoiler:however survives]].
** Thomas, Montrose's gay friend when both of them were teenagers,
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* BalefulPolymorph: William[[spoiler:/Christina]] used a potion to turn Ruby into a white woman, and didn't ask first. Naturally, she's freaked out to wake up that way, but soon likes the idea since it gives her more privilege, so that her next transformations are knowing and wanted.
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* ForcedTransformation: William[[spoiler:/Christina]] used a potion to turn Ruby into a white woman, and didn't ask first. Naturally, she's freaked out to wake up that way, but soon likes the idea since it gives her more privilege, so that her next transformations are knowing and wanted.
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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The flame is still burning for George and Hippolyta Freeman after many years of marriage (though their daughter Dee would probably [[ParentalSexualitySquick prefer not to overhear them]]).
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* HappilyMarried: The flame is still burning for George and Hippolyta Freeman after many years of marriage (though their daughter Dee would probably [[ParentalSexualitySquick prefer not to overhear them]]).
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* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Uncle George survives the entirety of the book. In the TV series, he's killed off at the end of Episode 2.]]
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** [[spoiler:Uncle George survives the entirety of the book. In the TV series, he's killed off at the end of Episode 2.]]
** [[spoiler:Uncle George survives the entirety of the book. In the TV series, he's killed off at the end of Episode 2.]]
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** Working at a department store is shown to be a well respected middle class profession rather than a job that pays minimum wage.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The Shoggoths vaguely resemble gorillas, and have super speed, jump through the trees, somehow remain hidden until they attack, are weak to light, and can turn people into Shoggoths with their bite.
** Kumiho are fox spirits.
** Kumiho are fox spirits.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: AnimalisticAbomination:
** The Shoggoths vaguely resemble gorillas, and have super speed, jump through the trees, somehow remain hidden until they attack, are weak to light, and can turn people into Shoggoths with their bite.
** Kumiho are foxspirits.spirits who rape men with their ''tails'' to take their souls.
** The Shoggoths vaguely resemble gorillas, and have super speed, jump through the trees, somehow remain hidden until they attack, are weak to light, and can turn people into Shoggoths with their bite.
** Kumiho are fox
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ruby's transformations are willing after the first one, as she comes to enjoy having greated privilege in a white form. [[spoiler:Christina has also been turning into William all this time.]]
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Ruby's transformations are willing after the first one, as she comes to enjoy having greated greater privilege in a white form. [[spoiler:Christina has also been turning into William all this time.]]
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* CorruptHick: Sheriff Hunt and his deputies. Sheriff Hunt takes it so far that he’s accumulated a long list of violations of the law with his racist enforcement, though he conveniently keeps his position due to the general racism.
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* HardTruthAesop: There is nothing wrong with anger, especially when it is justified by years of oppression, wrongdoing, and injustice. Hippolyta gives a speech when she leads an Amazon group against an enemy army saying how they're led to suppress their anger because those that oppress them fear their power when they use their anger. Atticus's ancestor, who is stuck in an astral burning house, explains to him that the fire she sees, she realizes, is actually her anger, and a source of power she can pass on to Atticus.
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** Atticus' time in Korea during the war is only ever mentioned in passing in the novel, and nothing supernatural happens while he is there. In the show it gets a whole episode dedicated to it, [[spoiler:and Atticus becomes romantically involved with a ''[[{{Kitsune}} kumiho]]'']].
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** Atticus' time in Korea during the war is only ever mentioned in passing in the novel, and nothing supernatural happens while he is there. In the show it gets a whole episode dedicated to it, [[spoiler:and Atticus becomes romantically involved with a ''[[{{Kitsune}} ''[[AsianFoxSpirit kumiho]]'']].
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** [[spoiler:Sheriff Hunt]] turning into a shoggoth was quite horrific, with his body being torn apart as he changes into this.
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** [[spoiler:Sheriff Hunt]] turning into a shoggoth was quite horrific, with his Hunt]]'s body being is torn apart as he changes transforms into this.a Shoggoth.
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* AdultFear: Inverted. The usual dynamic of a parent searching for their missing child is flipped, with Atticus searching for his father Montrose instead.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: During an episode set in 1950, during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers take a whole shift of Korean nurses to a field and start executing them one by one until one of them confesses to leaking information to the communists. [[spoiler:Atticus is part of this unit and personally executes one of the innocent women. He later participates in the interrogation/torture of the spy.]]
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* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: During an episode set in 1950, during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers take a whole shift of Korean nurses to a field and start executing them one by one until one of them confesses to leaking information to the communists. [[spoiler:Atticus is part of this unit and personally executes one of the innocent women. He later participates in the interrogation/torture of the spy.]]
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* MixedAncestry:
** Atticus it turns out is partly descended from a white slave owner. This lets him into the otherwise all-white "Sons of Adam" secret society (which ordinarily doesn't allow men of color in).
** Though unstated, it's implied that Leti has some white ancestry (like her actress) as she's significantly lighter than her half-siblings.
** Atticus it turns out is partly descended from a white slave owner. This lets him into the otherwise all-white "Sons of Adam" secret society (which ordinarily doesn't allow men of color in).
** Though unstated, it's implied that Leti has some white ancestry (like her actress) as she's significantly lighter than her half-siblings.
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* BilingualBonus: A lot of Yahima's dialogue in Lokono, an Arawak language, is untranslated. In [[https://redcarpetreporttv.com/2020/09/06/talking-to-lovecraft-countys-monique-candelaria-about-yahima-in-ep4-bts-trailer-interview-hbo-arawak-dialogue-lovecraftcountry/ this interview]] Monique Candelaria, who portrayed Yahima, reveals what it all meant.
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** [[Ji-Ah's tails invade every orifice of her victims.]]
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** [[Ji-Ah's [[spoiler:Ji-Ah's tails invade every orifice of her victims.]]
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Contrary to most modern people's preconceptions, the show accurately portrays the fact that the North of the United States could be just as virulently racist and dangerous for African Americans as the Jim Crow South, as the protagonists make their way from Chicago to Massachusetts and at one point get chased out of a 'sundown town'.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Contrary to most modern people's preconceptions, the show accurately portrays the fact that the North of the United States could be just as virulently racist and dangerous for African Americans as the Jim Crow South, as the protagonists make their way from Chicago to Massachusetts and at one point get chased out of a 'sundown town'. The "Safe Negro Travel Guide" is a fictionalized version of the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Motorist_Green_Book "Negro Motorist Green Book"]].
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* BigotWithABadge:
** True to its 1950s setting, the show gives us Captain Seamus Lancaster, who asks Leti if she's with the "Monkey Urban League" or the "National Association for the Advancement of Cockroaches".
** Episode 3 sees Leti buy a house in a white neighborhood. In response to this, the residents park their cars outside her house and tie bricks to their horns so that they are honking continuously. However, the cops ignore her complaints and only intervene three days later, arresting her when she smashes the windows to remove the bricks in response to a cross being burnt on her lawn. Leti's conversation with a cop in the police van afterwards indicates that she knew that this trope was the case.
** True to its 1950s setting, the show gives us Captain Seamus Lancaster, who asks Leti if she's with the "Monkey Urban League" or the "National Association for the Advancement of Cockroaches".
** Episode 3 sees Leti buy a house in a white neighborhood. In response to this, the residents park their cars outside her house and tie bricks to their horns so that they are honking continuously. However, the cops ignore her complaints and only intervene three days later, arresting her when she smashes the windows to remove the bricks in response to a cross being burnt on her lawn. Leti's conversation with a cop in the police van afterwards indicates that she knew that this trope was the case.
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* {{Transgender}}:[[spoiler:Christina]] may be a lesbian or bi woman, though a straight trans man is another possibility, given the frequent transformations into a male form she or he does to be with Ruby.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Diana kills Christina, who at this point is pinned under a boulder and stripped of her magic.]]
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** Kumiho are fox spirits.
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* BrickJoke: Bobo asks the Ouijia board if he'll have a good time on his vacation. [[spoiler: Come Jig-A-Bobo, it's clear Bobo is the nickname of Emmett Till, and he gets tortured and murdered on his vacation.]]