![]() ![]() Being Tortured Makes You Evil: None of the characters are particularly pleasant after having been tortured for a hundred and nine years, especially not Gorrister, who beats on Ellen and presumably other characters with little-to-no provocation.How much even this can be considered "winning" is highly debatable, though, given AM's existence is implied to be entirely hollow regardless. The Bad Guy Wins: Ted is able to Mercy Kill the other four, getting some happiness from how much this pissed AM off, but still thinks AM "won" in as many words.Humanity is functionally extinct, all other life is extinct, human civilization is gone, and the Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. Apocalypse How: At least Class 3, possibly Class 5 or 6.Anyone Can Die: Despite what we're told at the beginning of the story, four out of the five main characters will end up dead.AM is painfully aware that it's just a bunch of circuits, and in the finale of the game, his Id screams its frustration over not being able to actually do anything with all the power it was given. It's an immensely powerful and intelligent AI with access to all of the technology of the world, but it can't really see, taste, touch, hear, or even move, and cannot do anything with its power but kill and ruin. ![]() ![]() This actually describes AM's own condition as well from its point of view.He is also haunted by his killing of the other four and it's implied he only acted out of total desperation without thinking everything through, and he now has to exist with his choice for all eternity. He is then left alone in the cold chambers of AM for all eternity, the last human alive, and victim to all of AM's tortures, having directed all of its hatred onto himself. At the very end of the story, Ted is turned into an amorphous creature unable to harm itself, without a mouth.All Germans Are Nazis Nimdok is the only non-American character, and he's an ethnically Jewish Nazi.All for Nothing: After walking a thousand miles of ice to reach the stockpile of canned peaches, the group doesn't get a single bite to eat because they have no way of opening the cans.After Ted kills the other survivors, AM rages at his inability to bring them back to life. This means that AM has all the power of a god but is unable to actually do anything with it. However, due to being created as a weapon of war, AM has no true free will of his own and he can't create anything, he can only torture and destroy. A God Am I: AM loves to use religious overtones while tormenting the five survivors, such as speaking to them through a burning bush or having a legion of archangels deliver the mangled bodies of Ellen and Nimdok after he nearly killed them in an earthquake.However, America's AM eventually gained sentience and absorbed the other two A.I.s and, in his frustrated rage of his programming preventing him from using his limitless power, wiped out all of humanity except for the five survivors. Is a Crapshoot: AM was originally three A.I.s designed by the US, Russia and China to wage war. After the End: AM wiped out all life on Earth with nuclear weapons, keeping only the five survivors alive in its underground complex so that it could entertain itself by torturing them for eternity.Subverted in that he only does this to trigger subconscious memories of her rape. Affectionate Nickname: AM refers to Ellen as dearest and my love.Averted in the former's case in that this was not his given name, but was assigned to him simply because AM enjoys strange sounds and pronunciations, and to indulge the Evil Is Petty trope. Aerith and Bob: Meet the main cast: Ellen, Benny, Ted.Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The radio drama is somehow even more of a downer ending than the book Ted doesn't even have the smidgen of happiness he got from killing the others, and instead outright resents that he's the victim of AM's hate and not them.Accent Adaptation: In the audiobook by Harlan Ellison, he gives Nimdok and Ellen the German and southern accents respectively that they had in the video game. ![]()
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