D Tropes

This page lists tropes of literary work Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre) by Russian author Vitaly Ivolginsky, starting with the letter D.

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^{Warning: detailed listing and analysis of tropes may partially or completely reveal the plot or other nuances. In addition, their number may be supplemented from time to time.}

^{Denial of responsibility: possible strange language constructs are caused by translation from the author’s native language into English.}

List of tropes

• Daddy’s Girl: Lampshade Hanging. On the one hand, Delia does not consider her father to be completely bad, but in fact she is only afraid to argue with him.
• Driven to Suicide: As in the film, Delia’s mother kills herself with a pistol.
• Did I Mention It’s Christmas?: The final chapters of the third act take place on December 27, 1991.
• Damsel in Distress: In some ways, Delia has these traits in her, at least according to Galbraith.
• Developing Doomed Characters: Delia and Jordan Thurlow have a lot of screen time, but they ultimately die. And that’s not counting the four deaths that inspector Pharqraut (who also dies) was investigating.
• Death of a Child: Delia dies in Randall Children’s Hospital.
• Death by Adaptation: Delia herself dies, and it is also implied that her father also did not survive the accident.
• Body Horror: Inside Delia’s womb was what an eyewitness describes as a sea urchin. It is implied that this is either a parasite or some kind of congenital disease.
• Dead All Along: Delia and Jo both die, while in the original film the former remained alive.
• Driving Question: Almost all the characters ask similar questions, especially Galbraith.
• The Everyman: It plays out curiously with Delia’s family. Just as the girl herself is essentially an ordinary child, so her father, instead of a congressman, is reduced to a simple medicine seller.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Essentially, doctor Baselard removes Delia’s uterus. In some ways, this can be interpreted as meaning that he actually raped her.
• Demoted to Extra: Delia’s mother is a minor character here, and the author writes very superficially about her death, as if he did not care about this character.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: This is precisely the fate that Delia’s mother undergoes, who dies, just like in the film, but not at the end, but in the middle of the story. A similar thing also happens to Pharqraut, Galbraith’s friend, who is suddenly killed by strange people from a black car.
• Deadpan Snarker: Mister chief inspector Schaeymoure, who not only is not surprised by what happened to his subordinate Galbraith, but on the contrary himself contributed to the fuel of paranoia.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the film, a character named Jo falls out of a window, and this was clearly Delia’s fault. In “Always Visible”, Jordan Thurlow dies of throat cancer in prison after learning of the death of a girl with that name.
• Doomed by Canon: If we consider this work to be a novelization of Omen IV: The Awakening, then it will be obvious that the character named Jo and the mother of the girl named Delia will inevitably die during the plot. In the second case, even the method of death is exactly the same.
• Dumb Struck: Jordan Thurlow goes to prison after meeting Delia. Since his mother dies before this, in the end this person no longer cares what he wants from life.