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* TheSociopath: A high-functioning one. During the opening, he demonstrates sadistic tendencies, a grandiose sense of self-worth, skill at manipulating people and his lack of empathy is a recurring theme. [[spoiler: Even his taking up a more benevolent and likable online persona (Locke) is intended to moderate his worst traits. Becoming a benevolent ruler of Earth just happens to be the convenient outcome]]. On their own, they may not make a sociopath, but the traits do appear to add up.
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* TheSociopath: A high-functioning one. During the opening, he demonstrates sadistic tendencies, a grandiose sense of self-worth, skill at manipulating people and his lack of empathy is a recurring theme. [[spoiler: Even his taking up a more benevolent and likable online persona (Locke) is intended to moderate his worst traits. Becoming a benevolent ruler of Earth just happens to be the convenient outcome]]. On their own, they may not make a sociopath, but the traits do appear to add up. Then again...
* TheNarcissist: Peter does also display some traits that point away from sociopathy and more towards Narcissism, such as his flagrantly huge ego, the fact that he does genuinely care about what others think of him deep down, (creating the Locke persona specifically to try and make himself more personable to the masses) as well as breaking down in a private moment and admitting that he does love his brother, and only lashes out in anger about how his life ended up. Him asking Ender to [[spoiler:write his life story at the end of his life seems to be as much for him to somewhat make up for his earlier behavior as much as it is a way for him to finally tell the public all about himself and his own story in life.]] Meanwhile, it's unlikely that a sociopath would particularly care much about how others view them, and even more unlikely that they would have any sort of regret for their actions.
* TheNarcissist: Peter does also display some traits that point away from sociopathy and more towards Narcissism, such as his flagrantly huge ego, the fact that he does genuinely care about what others think of him deep down, (creating the Locke persona specifically to try and make himself more personable to the masses) as well as breaking down in a private moment and admitting that he does love his brother, and only lashes out in anger about how his life ended up. Him asking Ender to [[spoiler:write his life story at the end of his life seems to be as much for him to somewhat make up for his earlier behavior as much as it is a way for him to finally tell the public all about himself and his own story in life.]] Meanwhile, it's unlikely that a sociopath would particularly care much about how others view them, and even more unlikely that they would have any sort of regret for their actions.
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*AllLovingHero: Becomes this in the later books, and is even trending toward it in the first book, as he finds his intelligence makes it very easy to have compassion for even his enemies.
*AmateurSleuth: In the later books. Since his job as Speaker for the Dead involves investigating someone's life so he can accurately summarize it, flaws and all. The second book is essentially a detective story as he investigates and deduces the mystery of the Pequeninos and the mystery of Novinha's family.
*AmateurSleuth: In the later books. Since his job as Speaker for the Dead involves investigating someone's life so he can accurately summarize it, flaws and all. The second book is essentially a detective story as he investigates and deduces the mystery of the Pequeninos and the mystery of Novinha's family.
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*MessianicArchetype: After the first book in his self-appointed role as Speaker for the Dead, unfailingly selfless and helpful to everyone around him.
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*SherlockScan: Becomes very good at this and employs it throughout all the books. In one instance, he visits Novinha's unruly family of teenage to toddler-age kids and figures out what will make them all like and trust him within five minutes.
*TrainingFromHell: Battle School is already this, and then Graff increases the pressure on him specifically to see if he has what it takes, including giving his team less prep time between fights and making them fight two teams at once.
*TrainingFromHell: Battle School is already this, and then Graff increases the pressure on him specifically to see if he has what it takes, including giving his team less prep time between fights and making them fight two teams at once.
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*TheAce: In a field where everyone is a genius and the more of a genius you are, the more dangerous you are, Bean reigns supreme. He's smarter than Ender, but is even better at playing the long game. He realizes things it takes Ender months to figure out. He's considered the most dangerous Battle School graduate and spends years playing geo-political games with the other grads and comes out on top. However, he's unhappy and up against the odds enough that he never comes across as a MartyStu.
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*TheLancer: Fulfills this role for Ender, not being charismatic enough to lead the team, but skilled enough that he's his NumberTwo and trusted to cover the things Ender can't himself.
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*ArchEnemy: Most certainly Bean's, serving as his nemesis from the time they were orphans to Battle School and beyond, always maintaining a deep enmity and yet grudging respect.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He will kill anyone who, in his mind, disrespects or humiliates him. Anyone who takes any kind of control from him or sees him in a helpless state counts as humiliating him. When fellow urchin Poke set a trap and had him at her mercy but spared him, he decided to kill her. But when Bean told Poke that Achilles was too dangerous and urged her to kill him right then and there, he took that as a sign of respect and decided to spare Bean.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He will kill anyone who, in his mind, disrespects or humiliates him. [[DisproportionateRetribution Anyone who takes any kind of control from him or sees him in a helpless state counts as humiliating him. When him.]]
**When fellow urchin Poke set a trap and had him at her mercy but spared him, he decided to kill her. But when Bean told Poke that Achilles was too dangerous and urged her to kill him right then and there, he took that as a sign of respect and decided to spareBean.Bean.
**Later at Battle School, Bean traps him and deliberately has witnesses watching with their faces hidden. Achilles concludes that since he can't tell who they are, he'll eventually have to kill [[AxCrazy everyone in the school]] to be absolutely sure they're eliminated.
**When fellow urchin Poke set a trap and had him at her mercy but spared him, he decided to kill her. But when Bean told Poke that Achilles was too dangerous and urged her to kill him right then and there, he took that as a sign of respect and decided to spare
**Later at Battle School, Bean traps him and deliberately has witnesses watching with their faces hidden. Achilles concludes that since he can't tell who they are, he'll eventually have to kill [[AxCrazy everyone in the school]] to be absolutely sure they're eliminated.
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*EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ultimately dies because he thinks Bean is too much of a "good guy" to [[spoiler: execute him in cold blood]], and that Suriyawong's [[spoiler: loyalty really was so fickle.]]
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*NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: Named after the warrior of legend, but it's noted often that it's pronounced in the French pronunciation of "Ah-sheel," despite how it's written.
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* XanatosSpeedChess: He turns out to be very good at this. Bean describes anticipating him as taking the first six things he thinks Achilles will do and then discarding them, then going through the six LEAST likely things he would do and still having to narrow those down.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: She isn't wearing shoes [[BarefootPoverty when having gone into hiding]] and seemingly doesn't wear any again after that.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler: The Formics' understanding of intelligence is so different from that of the humans, they genuinely didn't realize they were killing things that could think and feel pain when invading Earth. Once they realized the truth they retreated and vowed to leave Earth alone. Unfortunately the humans were able to reverse-engineer their technology and launch a counter-attack that nearly wiped out the entire Formic species.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler: The Formics' understanding of intelligence is so different from that of the humans, they genuinely didn't realize they were killing things that could think and feel pain when invading Earth. Once they realized the truth they retreated and vowed to leave Earth alone. Unfortunately the humans humans, who didn't know about any of the above, were able to reverse-engineer their technology and launch a counter-attack that nearly wiped out the entire Formic species.species in what they saw as self-defense against a senselessly genocidal enemy.]]
* FantasticSlur: During the war, despite their formal name being "Formics," humans almost exclusively refer to them as "Buggers."
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* StarfishAliens: Described in the novels as four-foot tall, red, green-eyed ants.
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* StarfishAliens: Described in the novels as four-foot tall, red, green-eyed ants.ants, and their psychology and communications are utterly alien to humanity. [[spoiler: This is ultimately played for tragedy, since they didn't understand what they were doing to humanity until it was too late, and then humans didn't understand ''that'' until it was too late.]]
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* ThePeterPrinciple: In the original novel, Ender describes Bean as incapable of commanding large numbers but able to use a handful of elites like a scalpel. The retelling from his point of view retcons this as pressure from the adults hoping to keep him on the backbench so that he can replace Ender if necessary.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse. Achilles thinks that UsefulNotes/JosefStalin was promoted by UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin then imprisoned and killed him, when in reality Lenin died of a stroke while urging his followers to not put Stalin in charge. It may be due to his own lack of schooling coupled with his desire to become a dictator twisting his memory of history.
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* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Achilles thinks that UsefulNotes/JosefStalin was promoted by UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin then imprisoned and killed him, when in reality Lenin died of a stroke while urging his followers to not put Stalin in charge. It may be due to his own lack of schooling coupled with his desire to become a dictator twisting his memory of history.
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* NotNowKiddo: Bean is the youngest student by far, so his peers and teachers can take awhile to fully grasp how accurate his calculations are.
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* BullyTurnedBuddy: Alai starts out as a crony of the bully Bernard before he and Ender find common ground during their first visit to the battle room.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Dink incorrectly speculates that the Battle School is secretly training the students to fight enemies on Earth rather than continue the Formic Wars.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: A "mazer" is a drinking bowl or cup, (which sounds an awful lot like "laser") and "Rackham" evokes pirate "Calico Jack" Rackham, who popularized the skull and crossbones.
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* EvilFeelsGood: She's the kindest and most empathic of the three siblings. However, much to her shame, she turns out to be ''really'' good at playing an aggressive and racist demagogue. For her, the worst part of it is that she actually finds it fun to turn people in raving fanatics.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Despite being a prodigal genius, Peter was kicked out of Battle School for being too aggressive. [[spoiler: Then again, it is somewhat implied that this was an ''invoked trope'' - that Peter didn't so much "fail" out, but his teachers realized that if they kept heaping praise on him he'd turn into an arrogant tyrant, so they kicked him out in order to give him a lesson in humility.]]
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* BreakTheHaughty: Despite being a prodigal genius, Peter was kicked out of Battle School for being too aggressive. [[spoiler: Then again, it is somewhat implied that this was an ''invoked trope'' - the real reason he was kicked out was because he lacked the charisma to lead people. He would never gain that Peter didn't in an environment like Battle School, so much "fail" out, but his teachers realized that if they kept heaping praise on him he'd turn into an arrogant tyrant, so they kicked him out in order to give him a lesson in humility.so he could use his talents elsewhere.]]
* HumblePie: It's indicated that the real reason he didn't grow up in Battle School was because he was too arrogant and too lacking in charisma. He was ''told'' it was due to excess aggression, which was a related issue. With this in mind, he worked to cultivate his charm.
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* LackOfEmpathy: He only has a superficial level of charm and doesn't gain much loyalty because even at his best he rarely cares about what others think or want. Oddly, it's also what kept his vivisection of squirrels from being the act of a proto serial killer: He didn't care about their pain, but that also meant he derived no real pleasure from it. Peter was feared to be a sadist, but it's more that he's ruthlessly pragmatic, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals - but he doesn't ''enjoy'' wanton violence and cruelty. Even so, he never had the likable leadership qualities Ender did. By the time he's twelve, however, he adopts the Locke persona to become a more moderate and likable figure.
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* LackOfEmpathy: He only has a superficial level of charm and doesn't gain much loyalty because even at his best he rarely cares about what others think or want. Oddly, it's also what kept his vivisection of squirrels from being the act of a proto serial killer: He didn't care about their pain, but that also meant he derived no real pleasure from it. To him it was basically just a science experiment. Peter was feared to be a sadist, but it's more that he's ruthlessly pragmatic, and will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals - but he doesn't ''enjoy'' wanton violence and cruelty. Even so, he never had the likable leadership qualities Ender did. By the time he's twelve, however, he adopts the Locke persona to become a more moderate and likable figure. Much to his annoyance, while people respect Locke they don't really become invested in him. Instead, the hate spewing Demosthenes (played by Valentine) appeals solely to emotions and has rabid fans.
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* TheSociopath: A high-functioning one. During the opening, he demonstrates sadistic tendencies, a grandiose sense of self-worth, skill at manipulating people and his lack of empathy is a recurring theme. [[spoiler: Even his taking up a more benevolent and likable online persona (Locke) and becoming is intended to moderate his worst traits. Becoming a benevolent ruler of Earth as an adult could just happens to be a case of PragmaticVillainy]].the convenient outcome]]. On their own, they may not make a sociopath, but the traits do appear to add up.
