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The 100 (pronounced "The Hundred") is a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on The CW. The series, developed by Jason Rothenberg, is loosely based on the novel series of the same name by Kass Morgan. Six seasons have aired as of Summer 2019, with the seventh confirmed to be the final season.

The show starts in 2149, 97 years after nuclear war has left Earth seemingly uninhabitable. On The Ark, a space station where some of humanity still survives, 100 juvenile delinquents are sent down to Earth to determine if it’s become survivable again and to conserve precious resources on the Ark.

What starts as a post-apocalyptic Lord of the Flies quickly becomes something else as the kids realize that they’re not alone and things up on the Ark just keep getting worse.

Tropes used in The 100 include:

Action Girl: There are a lot of them. Octavia and Echo are the best examples from the main cast.
Adaptation Displacement: The book series is mostly a footnote to the TV series at this point.
Artifact Title: Happens really quickly. It’s named after the 100 juvenile delinquents send to the ground, but two of them die on the way to the ground, about ten minutes into the episode.
Bittersweet Ending: A few of the seasons end with this:
- Season 2 has most of the Sky People survive the fight against Mount Weather, at the cost of Clarke, Bellamy, and Monty helping to commit genocide.
- Season 3 ends with ALIE defeated, but a wave of fire and radiation on its way that will kill everyone within 6 months.
- Season 5 ends with Earth completely destroyed and uninhabitable. Monty and Harper die finding a new planet for everyone to start over on and do better this time.
Break the Cutie: Anyone who starts as a more hopeful, naive character will go through this eventually.
- Jasper was an upbeat, goofy stoner who really seemed to enjoy being on Earth. He doesn’t even get through one episode before being speared in the chest and strung up on a tree. He really goes through the ringer in season 2, at first trusting Mount Weather and finding a girlfriend/ally in Maya. {{spoiler|Then he discovers that the Mountain Men plan to kill the 47 Sky People for their bone marrow, has to become the leader of the resistance, and is about to kill Cage Wallace when Clarke and Bellamy flood the place with radiation, killing all of the Mountain Men, Maya included.]] From that point, he becomes a Death Seeker and Straw Nihilist.
- Octavia starts off already having been somewhat broken, since she spent her entire life up to that point in her family’s small room on The Ark, then a prison cell. She spends most of seasons 1 and 2 trying to find somewhere to fit in, mostly with the Grounders more than the ark people. Then she gets abandoned and disowned by the Grounders when she refuses to retreat from Mount Weather. She’s almost okay, but then season 3 happens. Her brother turns against her and the Grounders, her Love Interest Lincoln is executed, and she breaks. She later kills Pike for revenge, but never feels better about it, spending most of season 4 spiraling. When she wins the conclave and allows everyone to share the bunker, she’s about to find a place... until we see what happened between seasons 4 and 5, where being ruler of the bunker turns her into a vicious tyrant and one of the Big Bad Ensemble. Unlike other examples in the show, she does at live long enough to start getting a redemption arc in season 6.
Cliff Hanger: After resolving the main story, each season finale ends with one to set up the main conflict of the next season:
- Season 1 ends with many of the main characters knocked out with gas grenades by what look like special ops troops. When Clarke wakes up, she’s in an all white quarantine room inside Mount Weather, revealing that they’re the Mountain Men the Grounders have been afraid of.
- Season 2 ends with Jaha and Murphy having made their way to an oddly intact mansion on an island. Murphy sees a video telling how an AI got nuclear launch codes nearly a century ago, while Jaha meets the AI itself.
- Season 3 has the revelation that ALIE was uploading human minds to the City of Light in order to make sure they would survive Praimfaya, a wave of fire and radiation that would likely kill everyone within six months.
- Season 4 ends with a time jump. Even though Earth was supposed to be survivable again after 5 years, it's been a bit more than 6 years later and no one has come down from space or out of the bunker. What Clarke thinks is her friends coming down from space turns out to be a prisoner transport ship coming back to Earth.
- Season 5 ends with the destruction of Earth, for good this time. Rather than waking up from cryosleep after ten years, it's been 125 years, Monty and Harper died but left a son, and he shows Clarke and Bellamy the new planet that Monty found, which might be somewhere they can survive and do better.
- Season 6 ends with two big ones:
  - Sheidheda has been removed from the flame, saving Madi, but escapes, presumably to take over the Eligius IV ship.
  - Diyoza's previously unborn daughter, Hope, comes out of the anomaly as an adult. She talks to Octavia, who recognizes her even though she remembered nothing from her time in the anomaly just minutes before. Hope stabs Octavia in the stomach then passes out. Bellamy tries to hold Octavia up as she's bleeding out, until the anomaly comes in to the room and she disappears in a flash of green.
Crapsack World: It’s decades after a nuclear apocalypse, so it’d be surprising if this wasn’t the case.
From Bad to Worse: Many, many people don’t think through their actions. In the first season, it’s mostly a case of characters (justifiably) holding the Idiot Ball. In later seasons, the characters are smarter, but the circumstances are much worse.
Grey and Gray Morality: With a couple notable exceptions, everyone falls somewhere in the grey middle of morality. Frequently stated by the characters as “Maybe there are no good guys”.
Killed Off For Real: They don’t play around with death on this show. When someone dies, you’re going to see it and it’s going to stick.
- Played with in Season 6 with the Primes. They avoid death by downloading their brains to Mind Drives and uploading them to new bodies. Even then, wiping or smashing the Drive can lead to their actual death.
Love Triangle: Averted more than you’d expect from the teen drama show that it starts off as. When Clarke discovers that Finn already was in a relationship with Raven, she immediately cuts off the relationship that had just started to develop.

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 ** Season 3 {{spoiler|ends with ALIE defeated, but a wave of fire and radiation on its way that will kill everyone within 6 months.}}
 ** Season 5 {{spoiler|ends with Earth completely destroyed and uninhabitable. Monty and Harper die finding a new planet for everyone to start over on and do better this time.}}
+* [[Break the Cutie]]: Anyone who starts as a more hopeful, naive character will go through this eventually.
+** Jasper was an upbeat, goofy stoner who really seemed to enjoy being on Earth. He doesn’t even get through one episode before being speared in the chest and strung up on a tree. He really goes through the ringer in season 2, at first trusting Mount Weather and finding a girlfriend/ally in Maya. {{spoiler|Then he discovers that the Mountain Men plan to kill the 47 Sky People for their bone marrow, has to become the leader of [[La Resistance|the resistance]], and is about to kill Cage Wallace when Clarke and Bellamy flood the place with radiation, killing all of the Mountain Men, Maya included.]] From that point, he becomes a [[Death Seeker]] and [[Straw Nihilist]].
+** Octavia starts off already having been somewhat broken, since she spent her entire life up to that point in her family’s small room on The Ark, then a prison cell. She spends most of seasons 1 and 2 trying to find somewhere to fit in, mostly with the Grounders more than the ark people. Then she gets abandoned and disowned by the Grounders when she refuses to retreat from Mount Weather. She’s almost okay, but then season 3 happens. {{Spoiler|Her brother turns against her and the Grounders, her [[Love Interest]] Lincoln is executed, and she breaks. She later kills Pike for revenge, but never feels better about it, spending most of season 4 spiraling. When she wins the conclave and allows everyone to share the bunker, she’s about to find a place... until we see what happened between seasons 4 and 5, where being ruler of the bunker turns her into a vicious tyrant and one of the [[Big Bad Ensemble]]. Unlike other examples in the show, she does at live long enough to start getting a redemption arc in season 6.}}
 * [[Cliff Hanger]]: After resolving the main story, each season finale ends with one to set up the main conflict of the next season:
 ** Season 1 {{spoiler|ends with many of the main characters knocked out with gas grenades by what look like special ops troops. When Clarke wakes up, she’s in an all white quarantine room inside Mount Weather, revealing that they’re the Mountain Men the Grounders have been afraid of.}}
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 *** {{spoiler|Sheidheda has been removed from the flame, saving Madi, but escapes, presumably to take over the Eligius IV ship.}}
 *** {{spoiler|Diyoza's previously unborn daughter, Hope, comes out of the anomaly as an adult. She talks to Octavia, who recognizes her even though she remembered nothing from her time in the anomaly just minutes before. Hope stabs Octavia in the stomach then passes out. Bellamy tries to hold Octavia up as she's bleeding out, until the anomaly comes in to the room and she disappears in a flash of green.}}
-* [[Crapsack World]]: It’s decades after a nuclear apocalypse, so it’d be surprising if this ‘’wasn’t’’ the case.
+* [[Crapsack World]]: It’s decades after a nuclear apocalypse, so it’d be surprising if this ''wasn’t'' the case.
 * [[From Bad to Worse]]: Many, many people don’t think through their actions. In the first season, it’s mostly a case of characters (justifiably) holding the [[Idiot Ball]]. In later seasons, the characters are smarter, but the circumstances are much worse.
 * [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: With a couple notable exceptions, everyone falls somewhere in the grey middle of morality. Frequently stated by the characters as “Maybe there are no good guys”.