Dark Days/Tropes

The following page contains a list of tropes found in Dark Days. Be wary of spoilers.

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B

 * Badass:
 * Gina Lestrade, for her sheer tough girl behavior and fighting spirit attitude.
 * Blaine Parker is recognized as one in the community for surviving two separate assassination attempts and still managing to insult his attempted killer.
 * Bait the Dog: The first half of the first season presents Dahlia Dwelton as a supporting protagonist, only for the mid-season finale to give her a Face-Heel Turn and murder one of her closest friends.
 * Big Bad:
 * Kate Gardens in the first season, until she is killed halfway through
 * Dahlia Dwelton becomes this in the second half of the first season.
 * Big Good: Blaine Parker is the most likely candidate for this.

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D

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E

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F

 * Faux Affably Evil: Kate Gardens embodies this.

G

 * Gambit Pileup: Warren, Dahlia, Kate, and Daniel all march to the best of their own drums with different goals for the future of the university and how to get there.
 * Of these agendas, the most complex own Dahlia’s, of which the reader has little to no information on.

H

 * Hope Spot: Despite the walkers trapping them in he university, the first season’s halfway point features Raye and Alex sharing one touching goodbye as Pam prepares to amputate Alex’s bitten arm. Tragically, shortly after, it becomes impossible for Raye to reunite with his boyfriend.

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K

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L

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M

 * Moral Event Horizon: Dahlia's murder of Raye.

N

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O

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P

 * Perpetual Smiler: Kate Gardens, up until her death, which is the first time she stops smiling.
 * Punny Name: Victor Timmons, whose name is a pun on the word "victim". How depressingly fitting.

Q

 * Quirky Curls: Oliver and Virgil. Makes their relationship all the more fitting in hindsight.

R

 * The Reveal: The mid-season finale of the first season dropped two major bombshells, in that the basement is filled with a bunch of strangers and their leader is one of the protagonists.

S

 * The Speechless: Though not in universe, Sandra is this, as she had no lines at all during any of her appearances. This is often played for laughs in the community, with a running gag being her being a mute.
 * Now averted with Clark, who had no onscreen lines until his last words.
 * Stepford Smiler: Subverted with Kate Gardens; she doesn’t smile to manipulate people into thinking she’s nice, she smiles because she believes what she’s doing is good. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a very evil smile.
 * Surprisingly Sudden Death: A trope used excessively by the creator, with numerous characters falling under this trope:
 * Caroline and her group. Subverted with Kylie Washington.
 * Mike's accidental murder by Melanie, whose suicide is an equally surprising death, despite obvious foreshadowing.
 * Kate Gardens, moreso with her cult. Most shocking deaths include Alain and Abbie.
 * Raye Pence's murder, made even more surprising by who exactly killed him.

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U

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Y

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Z

 * Zombie Stories: Literally.