As Johnny's father puts it, Roger is 'doing penance the only way he knows how'.

Despite this, he mentions that the money can't restore the lives lost or stop the nightmares he now suffers from. He aggressively tries to track Johnny down to give him a financial reward, and even pays off his massive amounts of medical debt.

The Atoner: Roger becomes this after not heeding Johnny's warning about the restaurant fire.

Anonymous Killer Narrator: Frank Dodd's first murder is told from his point of view, without revealing his name the narration refers to him as 'the killer'.

Meanwhile, Stillson's security team avert the trope, as they riddle him with bullets pretty quickly. And he misses Stillson with every one of his shots.

A-Team Firing: Johnny has a perfect vantage point, a clear view and a brand new, high-quality rifle.

90% of Your Brain: The accident left Johnny with a 'dead zone' in the brain, related to names of places and certain objects which he cannot evoke anymore, and an inactive part of the brain was activated to take its place this part is responsible for his visions.

The Dead Zone provides examples of the following tropes: Not to be confused with the Dragon Ball Z movie Dead Zone.

In 2002, a television series based loosely on the novel aired on the USA Network, starring Anthony Michael Hall as Smith.

The 1983 film stars Christopher Walken as Johnny and Martin Sheen as Stillson and was directed by David Cronenberg. The story has been adapted twice into visual media. As he comes to terms with all that has happened in the missing five years of his life and the notoriety he gains with his abilities, he finds himself trying to stop the election of Greg Stillson, an up-and-coming politician whom Johnny foresees will cause a nuclear apocalypse. Now, whenever he touches something or someone, Johnny may have a psychic vision of the past, present or a possible future. It has the distinction of being entirely planned from the start unlike his usual Writing by the Seat of Your Pants, and is the only time he tried this and ended up liking the result.Ī high school teacher named Johnny Smith is left in a coma for four and a half years following a car accident - only to discover when he wakes up that, while he has suffered slight brain damage creating a 'dead zone' where certain concepts are inaccessible, he has also gone from having occasional flashes of precognition, to having a powerful form of psychometry. The Dead Zone is a 1979 sci-fi/thriller novel by Stephen King.

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