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* CryForTheDevil: Deconstructed, or maybe subverted, in "Color Scheme": we find out that King Connacher grew up in completely miserable circumstances-- dirt poor, with a tubercular father and a possibly mentally ill mother, and ''nine'' of his eleven siblings not surviving past childhood-- but as we find this out ''after'' he's given his horrible racist speech and stirred up a white mob, there's no way to pity him.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things BlackAndGrayMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Miss Menlo or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things BlackAndGrayMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Miss Menlo or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things GrayAndBlackMorality BlackAndGrayMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Miss Menlo or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* DespairEventHorizon: If the minister in "Color Scheme" wasn't over it [[spoiler: when his daughter was burned alive by a white mob stirred up by Connacher,]], he's far over it after [[spoiler: his brief transformation into a white man gives him the power to throw the now-black Connacher to the same mob.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: If the minister in "Color Scheme" wasn't over it [[spoiler: when his daughter was burned alive by a white mob stirred up by Connacher,]], Connacher]], he's far over it after [[spoiler: his brief transformation into a white man gives him the power to throw the now-black Connacher to the same mob.]]
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things GrayAndBlackMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Miss Menlo, Gus, Menlo or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some readers may find themselves less sympathetic to Indian Charlie ("Eyes") when they find out about his [[spoiler: conviction for statutory rape-- the trauma stemming from said conviction is used to terrorize him into signing over his eyes]], but the narration suggests that Charlie may honestly have not known the girl's age (or was desperate enough for companionship not to care). The reader is also led to infer that the cops may have [[PoliceBrutality roughed Charlie up]] because he was a non-white man arrested for the rape of a white girl.
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* ValuesDissonance: Some readers may find themselves less sympathetic to Indian Charlie ("Eyes") when they find out about his [[spoiler: conviction for statutory rape-- the trauma stemming from said conviction is used to terrorize him into signing over his eyes]], eyes, but the narration suggests that Charlie may honestly have not known the girl's age (or was desperate enough for companionship not to care). The reader is also led to infer that the cops may have [[PoliceBrutality roughed Charlie up]] because he was a non-white man arrested for the rape of a white girl.girl]].
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* DespairEventHorizon: If the minister in "Color Scheme" wasn't over it [[spoiler: when his daughter was burned alive by a white mob stirred up by Connacher,]], he's far over it after [[spoiler: his brief transformation into a white man gives him the power to throw the now-black Connacher to the same mob. He comes out of it certain GodIsEvil and HumansAreBastards.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: If the minister in "Color Scheme" wasn't over it [[spoiler: when his daughter was burned alive by a white mob stirred up by Connacher,]], he's far over it after [[spoiler: his brief transformation into a white man gives him the power to throw the now-black Connacher to the same mob. He comes ]]
-->[[spoiler: ... for one hour out ofit certain GodIsEvil his eternity, he had been allowed to join the white world as a privileged member. But, he thought further-- that one hour had been quite sufficient. It had been sufficient for him to [[GodIsEvil renounce his God,]] to [[HumansAreBastards disqualify himself from ever again feeling a part of the race of men,]] and HumansAreBastards.to doom himself to whatever was the afterlife debt one paid in hell or in limbo or in whatever perdition there existed.]]
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things GrayAndBlackMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Ms. Beale, Gus, or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things GrayAndBlackMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Ms. Beale, Miss Menlo, Gus, or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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* MoralEventHorizon: ("Eyes"): Petrozella glides right over it when he sets up Indian Charlie to be forced to sign over his eyes to Ms. Beale.Miss Menlo.
* ValuesDissonance: Some readers may find themselves less sympathetic to Indian Charlie ("Eyes") when they find out about his [[spoiler: conviction for statutory rape-- the trauma stemming from said conviction is used to terrorize him into signing over his eyes]], but the narration suggests that Charlie may honestly have not known the girl's age (or was desperate enough for companionship not to care). The reader is also led to infer that the cops may have [[PoliceBrutality roughed Charlie up]] because he was a non-white man arrested for the rape of a white girl.
* ValuesDissonance: Some readers may find themselves less sympathetic to Indian Charlie ("Eyes") when they find out about his [[spoiler: conviction for statutory rape-- the trauma stemming from said conviction is used to terrorize him into signing over his eyes]], but the narration suggests that Charlie may honestly have not known the girl's age (or was desperate enough for companionship not to care). The reader is also led to infer that the cops may have [[PoliceBrutality roughed Charlie up]] because he was a non-white man arrested for the rape of a white girl.
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* Anvilicious: AdaptationDisplacement: Since the book was out of print from 1968 to 2014, most people will only know of two of the stories, and only through the ''Night Gallery'' pilot.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Let's face it, Rod Serling was prone to this (see the YMMV page for ''Series/TheTwilightZone''). But SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
* {{Anvilicious}}: Let's face it, Rod Serling was prone to this (see the YMMV page for ''Series/TheTwilightZone''). But SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.
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CryForTheDevil: Deconstructed, or maybe subverted, in "Color Scheme": we find out that King Connacher grew up in completely miserable circumstances-- dirt poor, with a tubercular father and a possibly mentally ill mother, and ''nine'' of his eleven siblings not surviving past childhood-- but as we find this out ''after'' he's given his horrible racist speech and stirred up a white mob, there's no way to pity him.
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DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: While evil is thoroughly punished in all three stories, the good characters are either broken before the story starts (Zamorski in "The Escape Route", Indian Charlie in "Eyes"), broken over the course of the story (the minister in "Color Scheme"), are fairly useless (the white Unitarian minister in "Color Scheme"), or tainted enough to make things GrayAndBlackMorality at best (pretty much everyone in "Eyes" who isn't Ms. Beale, Gus, or Petrozella). It's bitter stuff to be sure.
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DespairEventHorizon: If the minister in "Color Scheme" wasn't over it [[spoiler: when his daughter was burned alive by a white mob stirred up by Connacher,]], he's far over it after [[spoiler: his brief transformation into a white man gives him the power to throw the now-black Connacher to the same mob. He comes out of it certain GodIsEvil and HumansAreBastards.]]
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