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Phoners

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Phoners are people turned into violent killers by a signal carried on mobile phones in Stephen King's 2006 novel. They move from attacking everyone in sight to flocking and acting as a single telepathic mind. The novel follows an artist searching for his young son after the signal hits Boston.1

⚔️ L'affronter
Première apparition
2006
Released 2006
Œuvre d'origine
Cell (2006)
Stephen King
Fabriqué en
États-Unis
Ce qui le provoque
Autre
The Pulse, a signal sent out over the mobile phone network.
Comment on en devient un
Hearing the Pulse on a mobile phone; the change takes seconds.
Intelligence
Un peu d'intelligence
Points faibles
  • fire
  • explosives
  • winter cold (expected to kill those without shelter)

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
2006

Released 2006

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

At first they attack anyone in sight1

2

Later they gather in flocks, for example on a football pitch, and switch off together overnight1

3

A flock behaves as a single mind and develops psychic powers, including the power to compel people to kill themselves1

4

A character theorises that later phoners received a corrupted version of the signal, like a computer worm1

5

Filmed in 2016 with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson; King rewrote the ending for the screenplay1

Sources

  1. Cell (novel) - Wikipedia

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