Epileptic Flashing Lights: The lights that go off in Wildfire lab after the Self-Destruct Mechanism activate end up giving light-sensitive Dr.Elaborate Underground Base: Team Wildfire assembles in a high-tech, underground facility to identify and defeat the titular The Plague before it is too late, and it is located underground in order for them to experiment on it safely without fear of it leaking out.He's introduced coming out of rehab, but soon finds himself falling back into old habits under the pressure. Drugs Are Bad: Nash is a cocaine addict who got his life and career ruined by it.Later, even the birds that were infected by a mutated strain of Andromeda start suiciding themselves into a river in order to spread the virus further. Driven to Suicide: People infected by Andromeda tend to off themselves in many grotesque ways.Dream Sequence: Angela has a dream where she's roaming Piedmont and talking to its past victims, and it's while talking to The Alcoholic old man that she has a "Eureka!" Moment and figures out how he and the baby managed to survive.The old man was an alcoholic who drunk denatured alcohol and the baby had infantile colic, and had cried himself into oxygen alkalosis. Disability Immunity: The Sole Survivors of Piedmont managed to live due to Andromeda being sensitive to abnormal pH levels.