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[Theoboldi]

Antagonist In Mourning: 'Silent Echoes' starts with Doctor Grey and Elizabeth burrying

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David

with the rest of the episode being a flashback.

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He turns out to be only mostly dead.

Alas, Poor Villian:

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Doctor Grey, especially considering that he was just about to recover from the aftermath of the second season finale.

Billions of Buttoms: The Stranger's House. It is never revealed what they do.

Well Intentioned Extremist: Doctor Grey.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Nothing Is Scarier: Everything about The Stranger. We never find out anything meaningful about him/her, but s/he is easily the creepiest character, despite the presence of vampires and at least one intelligent zombie.

[Digital Hellhound]

((Hey now, you already got to start one idea in your reboot of the game. That said, I have nothing against a steampunk animation series. We'll decide when the time comes, I guess.))

Tonight Someone Kisses: Used repeatedly in advertising, nearly always out-of-context and misleadingly. Very little of the show's UST is ever actually resolved.

Hell Is That Noise: Played oh-so-straight with the noises from the Stranger's bathroom closet. Hell is that noise indeed (or something from there is).

Cosmic Horror Story: Averted. There are Lovecraftian elements, but they're only relevant in a few episodes (though Word of God says they would've become more important later on) and as the second season tagline goes, 'hope remains'.

Reasonable Authority Figure: Lewis in Season 1, until he's ingloriously killed off and basically removed from existence in the Season 1 finale, apparently a result of the actor's behavior on set.

[Fniff]

Coat, Hat, Mask: The Stranger's trenchcoat, grinning theater mask and fedora is the most striking thing about the Stranger at first. The creators confirm that the trenchcoat is the same one that Lewis had. Which implies an even worse fate for Lewis...
Wham Line: One to wrap up each season!

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"Lewis who?" (S1E12, "Ashes To Ashes"), "The Colonel has found the last nuclear arsenal. Long live the Colonel!" (S2E12 "Red Horizon") and "Where's Elizabeth?" (S3E13 "Flying North").

Good Scars, Evil Scars: The Colonel has a nasty Glasglow Grin (Well, half of one, so it's technically a Glasglow Smirk) and is absolutely covered in scars on his torso. Lewis has white phosperous burns on his right arm.
Young Gun: Alistar is a serious case of this. He gets better in Season 2.
The Unmasqued World: Apparently the vampires, the zombies and everything else existed before the apocalypse without the humans knowing; it's just that they have become just as apathetic as everyone else and don't think hiding matters anymore. Then again, this is Frank the Bloodsucker we're talking about here, so he may be lying.
Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Elizabeth is fairly friendly, and

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David becomes this in Silent Echoes, though as an intelligent zombie instead.

Our Zombies Are Different: The Stenches are running, dumb cannibals who can use melee weapons but can't use tactics, who spread by being bitten who need to eat flesh or they will die. The Risers are smart zombies who like flesh but don't need to have it constantly, regenerate lost limbs but will be put down by fire as they "Regenerate themselves to death", and are created by burying them in places infected by the "Rising Plague".
Swamps Are Evil: The swamps of Orkney were created by the carpet bombings of World War III deforming the terrain and causing rivers to flow down into the plains, and they are infested with Stenches and Risers.
Crowning Music Of Awesome: The Opening Theme is really really good. Sweeping, fits the show's atmosphere well, and it's just fun to listen to.
Dramatic Shattering: The Captain does this often when everyone is talking at the same time.
_{David: "Surely you can only have so many glasses?"
Captain: "... Oh, yeah. Looks like we may have to drink from the bottle tonight."
Bound And Gagged: David wakes up in the Stranger's House tied up with ropes made out of flesh, and upside down. He gets out eventually after a lot of screaming.
Broken Treasure: The Captain's diamond studded seashell in "Memories In The Waves", broken accidentally by . The saddest part of the episode was Siyv's confusion as to why the Captain was so upset over the loss of such a useless item.}

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_{Siyv: "It's just fake diamonds on a plastic seashell, it's just--"
The Captain grabs and throws Siyv across the room.
Captain: "Shut the fuck up! That was my home, that was my life, that was everything before now! Don't you understand? That was the only thing... The only thing I had left...}

Flashback Episode: Memories In The Waves is one of the best done examples of combining this trope with Hidden Depths and How We Got Here, at least with how the apocalypse was..
Nightmare Fuel: Memories In The Waves. Even the Stranger and Red Horizon can't stand up to the sheer horror of the situation: You've been drafted into a war you don't know the reason of, your beautiful village is being shelled and everyone you love in there is going to die. The best thing?

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Your best friend is standing on a building that is loaded with C4. If you do not press the button, thousands will die and you will be executed. If you do, then he will most certainly die.

Then the world ends, making your entire struggle pointless in the long run.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I have to say, I rather disagree with the undead stuff, and find it rather out of place in a live action series about what happens after the apocalypse. Also, Slyv's name is spelled with an L, not an I.

[Digital Hellhound]

@Johnfalcon: Just think of them as mutants. Eeeevery post-apocalyptic setting has mutants.

Anyway, I'm gathering together episodes for consistency. Do add stuff that I missed.

Season 1

12. Ashes to Ashes - Lewis is Internal Retconned with Colonel McArthur implied to be taking over his vaguely defined position.

Season 2
1. The Captain is introduced.
6. The Stranger stalks David through the woods while being at Slyv's house at the same time. And is, no doubt, generally supercreepy.
12. Red Horizon - Nightmare Fuel aplenty, red skies, implied distant nuclear detonation. The Colonel finds a surviving nuclear arsenal. Doctor Grey goes Omnicidial Maniac/I Can Rule Alone.

Season 3
?. The Blizzard - David has dreams about vikings. Go figure.
13. Flying North - One of Colonel McArthur's robot's turns into a huge tank. Then they betray him, and atleast one of them wants to make peace with the humans. There's a Stinger about Norwegians.

Undefined
?. Drifters - Elizabeth gets Broken Bird-ed.
?. Silent Echoes - Elizabeth and Doctor Grey mourn and bury David, the rest of the episode is a flashback. David actually becomes an intelligent zombie, though.
?. Memories in the Waves - The Captain's treasure gets broken, flashbackin' goes on and hidden depths are revealed. There's a healthy bit of adult fear to spice things up, too.

[Fniff]

Time to define dat position and more! Also, I was just going along with the flow, and I can edit out the undead stuff if need be.

The Brigadier: Lewis. Even if he's technically a postman, he's a former SAS officer and seems to be the only authority figure left in England apart from the Colonel, organizing Orkney and trying to start production again. It's implied that he was also involved in "Operation Shepherd's Warning", which seems to be the cause of the apocalypse, so he might be not as benevolent as one may think.
From Nobody To Nightmare: Gee, who'd have thought Dr Grey, the mild-mannered Red Cross medic (Who happens to be the only Red Cross still operating) would eventually

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nuke the City, the last epicenter of civilization, assassinate Lewis and then try and take over Orkney?

Five Rounds Rapid: Lewis loves this trope. He once shot at the Stranger with a flare gun and then fired an assault rifle clip into it's chest.

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Subverted, because it worked. At least for five minutes, and it got the Stranger really pissed at him.

River Of Insanity: In the premier of the second season (S2E1, "The Swamps of Madness"), this trope was played straight to a tee. After fleeing Orkney, the team has a month's worth of food, a canoe and as many bullets as they can carry. They also have some friends in the swamp, and they have an amulet that they are pretty sure will ward off the Stranger. The swamps will fry the Colonel's robots from the water, and if they move fast his human troops can't keep up. How can that go wrong?

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Right, let's see. First they have to leave the food and the canoe when they get assaulted by bandits, they lose all their bullets in the swamp water, the reinforcements have been butchered and ritualistically crucified on trees, and the Stranger simply just arranges a trap to make Slyv trip up and lose the amulet in the swamp water, then attack with full force. It's only thanks to the Captain and liberal use of molotov cocktails that the three survived in the first place.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I have to say, I rather disagree with the undead stuff, and find it rather out of place in a live action series about what happens after the apocalypse. Also, Slyv's name is spelled with an L, not an I.

Zombie Apocalypse: Implied to be part of the apocalypse. Zombies include Stenches, Risers, and

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David, who becomes a Riser-like zombie with greater intelligence, lesser regeneration, some sort of ability to control other zombies, and less hunger for flesh. He is implied to be some sort of "evolved" version of a zombie, and he infects Ruth with the same... although she reacts somewhat differently...

[Johnfalcon99977]

Big Fancy House: Colonel McArthur's home after the events of session 1.

Leave No Witnesses: Quoted word for word during the session one finale by the Colonel.

[Gamerboy4life]

"Lovable Traitor: the character, Susan, that is introduced in season three has a lot of these tendencies, first by betraying David to Slyv, after Slyv learns about the visions, but has several redeeming qualities despite.

[Theoboldi]

Think we have enough characters yet?

Hero Of Another Story: Alistair, Karen and Ruth are busy fighting the ever growing vampire troops during season 2 and 3, but still show up from time to time.

The Berserker:

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Ruth, after she is infected by David.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Loads and Loads of Characters

[Johnfalcon99977]

The Faceless: Ever since he was introduced, Slyv has never taken off his old City Military uniform. This quite obviously causes some trouble after session 1.

The Unreveal: Invoked by Slyv in a conversation with Eriksson in Session 2, episode 5 "Darker Waters"

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Eriksson: ... and what is behind your mask anyway?
*Slyv shrugs, and motions to take off his helmet before he is interrupted by the captain.*

[Fniff]

Cool Hovercraft The Captain's hoverboat has a top speed of 160 KM/H, goes on land and water, seats 6 but can hold 10, has enough remote controlled guns to start a small war mounted on it, and it comes equipped with radar, sonar, a full sound system and a mini-bar.
Badass Biker: Eriksson. His bike is a classic Harley, no modifications. And if you try to attack him when he's on the bike, you are going to die.
The Big Board: T The Stranger has one in his bedroom that tracks every single person in England (And possibly the world), including the protagonists. And there are too many buttons to count. David pressed one, causing a city on the map to suddenly disappear. What would the others do?
KillSat: The Icarus Satellite slowly gathers huge amounts of solar energy, then gathers it all up to fire at specific targets. The good news is that the only way to activate it is under a mile of radioactive rubble.

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Or so thought Doctor Grey.

Generic Graffiti: A lot of the graffiti is actually fairly detailed, offering background information, references to future plot points or simply just being hilarious.

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_{Fuck the Colonel! Long Live the Colonel!
Shoot the risers in the head! It's the only way they stay dead! Sing it loud, sing it proud!
YOU CAN'T HIDE FOREVER.
If you are looking for a good time knock on the door of the burnt out library and ask for Larry.
IF YOU ARE SO INNOCENT WHAT ABOUT THE SHEPHERD'S WARNING?
No running water, no lights... But a fuckton of booze.
Kilroy *picture of Killroy* is dying of radiation poisoning and was here!
The Colonel wants us under him! He wants us to be his serfs while he lives it up! We must reb *bloodstain*}

[Digital Hellhound]

((I don't think we should have too much organized high-tech stuff for the Colonel. This is after the end, anyway. I don't mean that he shouldn't have this stuff, but being able to call down strike teams, drones and a kill sat at any time across Orkney? The logistics for that are a bit too much for a post-apocalyptic army.))

((Also, I had the wonderful mental image of light peeking through the everpresent clouds... sunlight? Nope, KILLSAT, WHOOOSH.))