![]() ![]() 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.(Some of the listed examples show exactly that. Unfortunately, if a victim is rescued, he may well have been driven insane from the experience. In fact, this is a very common sci-fi trope involving artificial intelligences who are potentially immortal due to being made of software. For instance, a robot with a 100-year battery life getting buried underground. Usually, when this arises, it is eternal unless he's freed by outside forces, but a "mere" years-long or centuries-long fate is possible. This is often a variation of Taken for Granite in which the victim remains conscious, and the worst-case scenario for tropes such as Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere, Baleful Polymorph, Phantom Zone Picture, and Who Wants to Live Forever?. They are immobilized or otherwise contained, unable to communicate with anyone, and unlikely to be removed from this situation - not even by death - anytime in the foreseeable future. Suicide is not an option even death never comes to free them from it. A character suffers from an extremely horrifying Fate Worse than Death.
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