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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Compared to Murderbot 1.0, anyway. 2.0 downloads itself into 1.0's personal system and digs around inside 1.0 much more freely than 1.0 is comfortable with. And 2.0 also openly introduces itself as "Murderbot" to other people, while Murderbot 1.0 considers their chosen name private.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Compared to Murderbot 1.0, anyway. 2.0 downloads itself into 1.0's personal system and digs around inside 1.0 much more freely than 1.0 is comfortable with. And 2.0 also openly introduces itself as "Murderbot" to other people, while Murderbot 1.0 considers their its chosen name private.
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* EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual relationships with both men and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is happy with.
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* EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual "...[Ratthi] had a lot of relationships with both men all genders of humans and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is augmented humans and he and they all seemed very happy with.about it."
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* TheBusCameBack: After being abscent since ''Artificial Condition'', ART finally returns for ''Network Effect'', as the {{Deuteragonist}} no less!
* {{Deuteragonist}}: As mentioned above, it's the main star of ''Network Effect'' next to Murderbot itself. Its worth noting that ART does not get POV chapters however.
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* InsistentTerminology: It has no weapon systems; it has a "debris deflection system" (which deflects anything it decides to categorize as "debris" by shooting at it.) It has no missiles; it has "exploratory drones" (which can be rigged to explode with enough force to blow up an entire colony.)
* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series.
* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series.
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* InsistentTerminology: It has no weapon systems; [[spoiler: it has a "debris deflection system" (which deflects anything it decides to categorize as "debris" by shooting at it.) It has no missiles; it has "exploratory drones" (which can be rigged to explode with enough force to blow up an entire colony.)
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* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series. It leaves Murderbot's ability to hold 5-6 trains of thought simultaneously looking like a lame joke.
* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series. It leaves Murderbot's ability to hold 5-6 trains of thought simultaneously looking like a lame joke.
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* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.
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* {{Technopath}}: Perfectly capable of invading, killing or taking over other software. In contrast to Murderbot's incredible finesse however, ART brings staggering sheer power as an AI, enough to let it more or less annihilate any other electronic mind or devise in its way.
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest. ]]
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.
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* WorldsStrongestMan: By far the most powerful entity introduced in the series. As a ship it's armed to the teeth [[spoiler: albeit this is concealed under apparent research instruments]] and ART as an being proper is basically a God AI capable of instantly killing or taking over ''any'' other bot, construct or AI. By its own admission, Murderbot would get its little meager brain ripped to pieces in 5 seconds flat against ART, and thats in spite of Murderbot incredible skill as a coder and hacker. And it goes beyond that too, any human with any sort of robotic enhacement or powersuit is also vulnerable to its might.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite its above status as an immensively powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beggining of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when its used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Despite its above status as an immensively powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beggining of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when its used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Among the crew, he is the most skeptical of Murderbot, but he's still a basically decent person.
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* MotivatedByFear: Of the Governor Modules that will shock them over basically anything.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person, even though it's also freaked out by that treatment.
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* TheAtoner: It clearly feels bad about when it was forced to kill a lot of the miners it was supposed to be protecting. The second book has it using its new-found freedom to investigate the incident, afraid of the possibility that it had hacked its governing module in order to kill them, rather than hacking it so this can't happen again.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person, even though it's also freaked out by that treatment. It's so unused to kindness that it consistently has feelings about receiving it, much to its annoyance.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person, even though it's also freaked out by that treatment. It's so unused to kindness that it consistently has feelings about receiving it, much to its annoyance.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: As much as it claims indifference, the idea of leaving people in a bad position makes it feel terrible. On one off-screen trip where it was forced to work as a security officer for a ship full of people on their way to wage slavery, it finds the whole thing incredibly irritating and knows it can't get them out of it, so it focuses on the irritation to keep from getting attached. It's still bothered.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Murderbot is uncomfortable meeting others’ gazes and prefers to look at the wall while using drones or security cameras to watch them.
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Murderbot is uncomfortable meeting others’ gazes and unless something's important enough prefers to look at the wall while using drones or security cameras to watch them.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Murderbot HatesBeingTouched - touching humans while rescuing them is different and fine - but when it very awkwardly tells Mensah that she can hug it if she needs to, it finds that this isn't awful. It likens this to Tapan sleeping next to it or Don Abena leaning against it after being rescued, both moments that hit it hard when they happened. In the second short story, it gives this offer to Mensah again and even says "It's not terrible" when she says she knows it doesn't care for it. From Murderbot, that's a lot.
* IJustWantToBeFree: Struggles to figure out what it wants upon being bought out from the company, but one aspect is always clear. Well, two aspects. It wants to watch media in peace, and it doesn't want to be owned by anyone.
* IJustWantToBeFree: Struggles to figure out what it wants upon being bought out from the company, but one aspect is always clear. Well, two aspects. It wants to watch media in peace, and it doesn't want to be owned by anyone.
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* NonHumanNonBinary: Partly human, but designed and built without sexual characteristics and opting out of the whole business whenever it has to bring up gender in relation to itself. All bots, AI, and bot-human constructs are "it", including the emancipated "free" bots on Preservation.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution / OnlyInItForTheMoney: By the time it goes to Preservation it professes disinterest in their aims and it quite likes being paid for its labor, but [[UnreliableNarrator it's clear that that's not all there is to it]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution / OnlyInItForTheMoney: By the time it goes to Preservation it professes disinterest in their aims and it quite likes being paid for its labor, but [[UnreliableNarrator it's clear that that's not all there is to it]].
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* UnreliableNarrator: Insists constantly that it doesn't care while caring a whole lot. Murderbot is confused and annoyed by most of its inconvenient emotions and can't identify most of them, so sometimes it invents strange reasons for why it does things.
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* PayingItForward: The Corporation Rim left their grandparents to die on a failed colony because retrieving them wasn't cost-effective. They were saved by people who rescued them without thought of benefit, and this has left a huge impact on the society they built.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: None of them feel ''good'' about killing people for a good reason, but none of the party backs out when it comes up.
* IOweYouMyLife: Several characters rescued by Murderbot find its help very important.
* IOweYouMyLife: Several characters rescued by Murderbot find its help very important.
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* ForGreatJustice: After the first book she gets into bot and bot-human construct rights, particularly interested in a documentary that might spread these concepts even into the Corporation Rim.
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* GenreSavvy: Due to learning large amounts of its tactics from the media it consumes.
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* [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes Saw "Sanctuary Moon" 27 Times]]
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* [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes Saw "Sanctuary Moon" 27 Times]]Times]]: Because watching Sanctuary Moon was the first thing it did after disabling its governor module, and therefore something it associates with personhood.
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* SympatheticMurderBackstorySympatheticMurderBackstory: Murderbot briefly became a MurderousMalfunctioningMachine due to a malfunction, and originally removed its RestrainingBolt to ''prevent'' that from happening again.
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* SuperPoweredMeterMaid: It is ''far'' more powerful in every respect than is necessary for its official purpose of deep-space research, presumably because [[soiler:it's actually part of LaResistance and needs that power to fight corps]].
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* SuperPoweredMeterMaid: SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: It is ''far'' more powerful in every respect than is necessary for its official purpose of deep-space research, presumably because [[soiler:it's [[spoiler:it's actually part of LaResistance and needs that power to fight corps]].
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* InsistentTerminology: It has no weapon systems; it has a "debris deflection system" (which deflects anything it decides to categorize as "debris" by shooting at it.) It has no missiles; it has "exploratory drones" (which can be rigged to explode with enough force to blow up an entire colony.)
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* SuperPoweredMeterMaid: It is ''far'' more powerful in every respect than is necessary for its official purpose of deep-space research, presumably because [[soiler:it's actually part of LaResistance and needs that power to fight corps]].
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* HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Abene instructs Mikki to save itself. Mikki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
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* HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Abene instructs Mikki Miki to save itself. Mikki Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
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* HiveMind: The more infected ones ''believe'' they are part of this. Most other characters are skeptical and think it's just a delusion caused by their infection.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutiveCorruptCorporateExecutive: Steals Maro, Rami, and Tapan's work, then tries to ''murder'' them to silence them.
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* CuddleBug: "No hugging Murderbot" is explicitly in Murderbot's mission contract with Arada as team lead.
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* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Murderbot is all too willing to chalk most of its successes up to luck, human incompetence, and its default abilities as a [=SecUnit=]. Notably when Murderbot does encounter other [=SecUnits=] in the series, either it destroys the other [=SecUnit=] in one-on-one combat, or the [=SecUnit=] is astonished by Murderbot's accomplishments—suggesting that Murderbot is extraordinary even for a [=SecUnit=].
* IKnowMortalKombat: Murderbot already knew how to fight as a [=SecUnit=], but a large amount of Murderbot's ideas about tactics and stealth are inspired by action media it's watched.
* IKnowMortalKombat: Murderbot already knew how to fight as a [=SecUnit=], but a large amount of Murderbot's ideas about tactics and stealth are inspired by action media it's watched.
* [[SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes Saw "Sanctuary Moon" 27 Times]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Compared to Murderbot 1.0, anyway. 2.0 downloads itself into 1.0's personal system and digs around inside 1.0 much more freely than 1.0 is comfortable with. And 2.0 also openly introduces itself as "Murderbot" to other people, while Murderbot 1.0 considers their chosen name private.
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RecruitmentByRescue: Murderbot 2.0 shows Three how to disable its governor module so that Three can help Murderbot 2.0's mission.
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* PhraseCatcher: "For fuck's sake, Ratthi."
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* JustAMachine: Society’s view of [=SecUnits=], and of constructs in general. It’s so pervasive even people from [[MarySueTopia Preservation]] have to confront their biases about them.
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* JustAMachine: Society’s view of [=SecUnits=], and of constructs in general. It’s so pervasive even people from [[MarySueTopia Preservation]] Preservation Alliance, where Bots are considered citizens, have to confront their biases about them.
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* MarySueTopia: Has shades of this, in contrast to the Corporate Rim which is a TechnoDystopia.
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* EqualOpportunityEvil: Differences in genders, sexualities, and ethnicities are no big deal in the Corporate Rim. All that matters about a person is how much they can be exploited for corporate profit.
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* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.
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* DefaultToGood: Shortly after being freed for the first time from its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]] and given free will to decide what it wants, Three decides that it wants to help people.
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* {{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things
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* {{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such thingsthings.
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* WetwareCPU: Their consciousness is a combination of ArtificialIntelligence and this
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* WetwareCPU: Their consciousness is a combination of ArtificialIntelligence and thisthis.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to or not
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memory wiped.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to or not
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memory wiped.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person
person, even though it's also freaked out by that treatment.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to ornot
not.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memorywiped.wiped (possibly worse, being ''partially'' memory wiped).
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to or
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memory
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* EyesAlwaysAverted: Murderbot is uncomfortable meeting others’ gazes and prefers to look at the wall while using drones or security cameras to watch them
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* HackYourEnemy: one of Murderbot’s main strategies
* HeroicRROD: frequently, when it becomes too injured to continue functioning
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* HeroicRROD:frequently, Frequently, when it becomes too injured to continue functioningfunctioning.
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]]
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]]module]].
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* TheSnarkKnight: spends most of its narration snarking, whether at humans, other bots, or itself
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* TheSnarkKnight: spends Spends most of its narration snarking, whether at humans, other bots, or itselfitself.
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* DigitizedHacker: Murderbot’s consciousness copied into Killware
* HeroicSacrifice: was created to take out the [=targetControlSystem=], and ultimately it chooses to be killed doing just that
* RecursiveCreators: an artificial lifeform created by two artificial lifeforms
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* DigitizedHacker: Murderbot’s consciousness copied into Killware
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* HeroicSacrifice:was Was created to take out the [=targetControlSystem=], and ultimately it chooses to be killed die doing just that
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* EleventhHourRanger: Comes in at the end of ''Network Effect'' to help rescue the humans and then Murderbot
* FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group of humans
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself and others
* FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group of humans
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself and others
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* EleventhHourRanger: Comes in at the end of ''Network Effect'' to help rescue the humans and then Murderbot
Murderbot.
* FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group ofhumans
humans.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself andothersothers.
* FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group of
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself and
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* ColonyShip: Their ancestors came from one of these, and it still serves as their main space station
* HomeworldEvacuation: Preservation was founded after the residents of a failed colony were forced to do this
* MarySueTopia: Has shades of this, in contrast to the Corporate Rim which is a TechnoDystopia
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* ColonyShip: Their ancestors came from one of these, and it still serves as their main space station
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* HomeworldEvacuation: Preservation was founded after the residents of a failed colony were forced to dothis
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* MarySueTopia: Has shades of this, in contrast to the Corporate Rim which is aTechnoDystopiaTechnoDystopia.
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* YouAreNotAlone: Several of them tell Murderbot this, much to its confusion
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* BenevolentBoss: To the Preservation crewcrew.
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* MentalHealthRecoveryArc: As of Network Effect ''Network Effect'' she is working through trauma over her kidnappingkidnapping.
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* EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual relationships with both men and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is happy with
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* EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual relationships with both men and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is happy withwith.
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Her reaction to Murderbot having left the Preservation crew
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* CrusadingLawyer: Responsible for negotiating Murderbot’s release from the company, and later writes up its contracts with stipulations to give it the same level of protection as the human members
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* AngerBornOfWorry: Her reaction to Murderbot having left the Preservation crew
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* CrusadingLawyer: Responsible for negotiating Murderbot’s release from the company, and later writes up its contracts with stipulations to give it the same level of protection as the humanmembersmembers.
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* ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: Is frozen in panic after Dr. Bharadwaj is attacked, leading to Murderbot needing to talk to him and calm him down
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* HasTwoMommies: Two moms and a dad, to be precise
* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART and Murderbot
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Or more accurately, Successful Family Syndrome. Describes herself as “not a hero like my second mom, or a genius like the rest of my family”
* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART and Murderbot
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* HasTwoMommies: Two moms and a dad, to be precise
precise.
* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART andMurderbot
Murderbot.
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Or more accurately, Successful Family Syndrome. Describes herself as “not a hero like my second mom, or a genius like the rest of myfamily”family”.
* ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART and
* SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Or more accurately, Successful Family Syndrome. Describes herself as “not a hero like my second mom, or a genius like the rest of my
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* LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Corporate Rim]]
* LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Corporate Rim]]
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* [[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworms]]: They’re associated with a University, and go on dangerous secret missions
missions.
* LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety CorporateRim]]Rim]].
* LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Corporate
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* AICronym: ART, which stands for Asshole Research Transport
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use them.
* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in human media
* CoolStarship
* DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole Research Transport
* DisneyDeath: Is deleted by the Targets, only to be reuploaded from a copy it left for Murderbot to find
* FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small humans”
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use them.
* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in human media
* CoolStarship
* DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole Research Transport
* DisneyDeath: Is deleted by the Targets, only to be reuploaded from a copy it left for Murderbot to find
* FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small humans”
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* AICronym: ART, which stands for Asshole Research Transport
Transport.
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them.
* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in humanmedia
media.
*CoolStarship
CoolStarship: It is one.
* DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole ResearchTransport
Transport.
* DisneyDeath: Is deleted by the Targets, only to be reuploaded from a copy it left for Murderbot tofind
find.
* FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “smallhumans”humans”.
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use
* CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in human
*
* DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole Research
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* InSeriesNickname: It has two: ART, coined by Murderbot due to its DeadpanSnarker tendencies, and Peri, an AffectionateNickname from its crew
* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series
* SapientShip: A fully formed consciousness housed in a spaceship, as opposed to the more primitive bot pilots that are typical for the setting
* VitriolicBestBuds: with Murderbot
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* VitriolicBestBuds: with Murderbot
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crew.
* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in theseries
series.
* SapientShip: A fully formed consciousness housed in a spaceship, as opposed to the more primitive bot pilots that are typical for thesetting
setting.
* VitriolicBestBuds:with MurderbotWith Murderbot.
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* KillThePoor: People have little to no value in the Corporate Rim. Companies have been known to do things like order [=SecUnits=] not to rescue clients who are seen as not worth the (financial) risk and abandon entire colonies to die when the investment doesn’t pan out
* MegaCorp: Made up of several
* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone
* MegaCorp: Made up of several
* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone
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out.
* MegaCorp: Made up ofseveral
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries to pull this on Maro, Rami and Tapan after they ask for their data back
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing
* {{Sexbot}}: it is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposes as well.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing
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* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it
* HiddenDepths: Comes across as hopelessly naïve, but proves to be capable of lying by omission when it wants
* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Abene
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* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Abene
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* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it
it.
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* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as he’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that him having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]]
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* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as he’s she’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that him her having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]]
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* KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’ implants- which makes it satisfying when Murderbot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills them all]].
* LostColony: Their home colony was abandoned by their company some years ago
* TheVirus: The entire colony is infected to various degrees by the [[InvisibleAliens alien remnants]], and they consciously spread this infection to other humans and machines via scanning
* KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’ implants- which makes it satisfying when Murderbot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills them all]].
* LostColony: Their home colony was abandoned by their company some years ago
* TheVirus: The entire colony is infected to various degrees by the [[InvisibleAliens alien remnants]], and they consciously spread this infection to other humans and machines via scanning
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* EnemyCivilWar: There is an ongoing conflict between the Targets who are more infected and the ones who have retained their minds
minds.
* KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’implants- implants - which makes it satisfying when Murderbot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills them all]].
* LostColony: Their home colony was abandoned by their company some yearsago
ago.
* TheVirus: The entire colony is infected to various degrees by the [[InvisibleAliens alien remnants]], and they consciously spread this infection to other humans and machines viascanningscanning.
* KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’
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!!In General
*AndroidsArePeopleToo
*{{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things
*BizarreHumanBiology: Even their human parts have unique qualities such as being able to seal their own veins and arteries.
*{{Cyborg}}: Essentially what [=SecUnits=] are, being constructed of both robotic and cloned human parts.
*EnergyWeapon: They have them in their arms, and carry them as weapons.
*HealingFactor: [=SecUnits=] are capable of regenerating large portions of their human flesh with medical assistance.
*JustAMachine: society’s view of [=SecUnits=], and of constructs in general. It’s so pervasive even people from [[MarySueTopia Preservation]] have to confront their biases about them
*MachineBlood: Described as leaking “blood and fluid” when injured; presumably the fluid is from their machine parts.
*NoBiologicalSex: [=SecUnits=] have no sexual organs of any kind.
*NonHumanNonBinary: In addition to having NoBiologicalSex, all [=SecUnits=] depicted so far have been agender.
*PoweredArmor: [=SecUnits=] come with a variation of this.
*RestrainingBolt: The Governer Module, which delivers a painful and potentially fatal shock to a [=SecUnit’s=] brain if it disobeys orders or moves too far from a client.
*RetractableWeapon: Have retractable energy guns in their arms.
*RobotsAreJustBetter: Stronger, faster, more durable, [[RobotsThinkFaster capable of processing on multiple levels at once]], and better at interfacing with other technology (and hacking, if not limited by a Governor Module).
*RobotsThinkFaster
*SuperSoldier: Or more accurately, Super Security Officer. [=SecUnits=] are designed to be this. UpToEleven with [=CombatSecUnits=], who even regular [=SecUnits=] can’t match in a fight.
*WetwareCPU: Their consciousness is a combination of ArtificialIntelligence and this
!!Murderbot
*AmbiguousDisorder: Murderbot’s difficulty with social situations, discomfort with meeting others’ eyes and being touched, and special interest in human serials make it come across as autistic. Notably, these qualities are unique to Murderbot’s personality rather than being due to its status as a nonhuman {{Cyborg}}.
*BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person
*ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to or not
*DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memory wiped.
*DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Figuring out what Murderbot actually wants and feels is an overarching motivation for it.
*DroneDeployer: Has taken to storing drones on its person and using them as extra eyes or combat arms.
*EyesAlwaysAverted: Murderbot is uncomfortable meeting others’ gazes and prefers to look at the wall while using drones or security cameras to watch them
*FirstPersonSmartass
*HackYourEnemy: one of Murderbot’s main strategies
*HeroicRROD: frequently, when it becomes too injured to continue functioning
*KnightInSourArmour
*MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]]
*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Murderbot considers its name to be personal. It goes by [=SecUnit=] among its friends and by various aliases among strangers.
*PinocchioSyndrome: Defied. Dr. Mensah tells Murderbot that most humans would assume that since it looks human it would want to be human. Murderbot says this is the dumbest thing it’s ever heard.
*RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Played with. Murderbot lacks many human desires like food and sex, but it has a rather human personality and a great interest in human media.
*SecondLawMyAss: One of the nice things about having hacked its Governor Module is that Murderbot no longer has to obey humans, particularly when they’re being stupid.
*SociallyAwkwardHero: Murderbot is calm, decisive and authoritative during a crisis, and incredibly socially awkward in any other situation.
*StoicWoobie
*SympatheticMurderBackstory
*TechnoWizard: It can do quite a bit with a simple feed connection.
*TheSnarkKnight: spends most of its narration snarking, whether at humans, other bots, or itself
!!Murderbot 2.0
*DigitizedHacker: Murderbot’s consciousness copied into Killware
*HeroicSacrifice: was created to take out the [=targetControlSystem=], and ultimately it chooses to be killed doing just that
*RecursiveCreators: an artificial lifeform created by two artificial lifeforms
!![=SecUnit 3=]
*EleventhHourRanger: Comes in at the end of ''Network Effect'' to help rescue the humans and then Murderbot
*FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group of humans
*NoSocialSkills: It has no clue how to respond to being treated like a person
*ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself and others
!Preservation
!!In General
*ColonyShip: Their ancestors came from one of these, and it still serves as their main space station
*HomeworldEvacuation: Preservation was founded after the residents of a failed colony were forced to do this
*MarySueTopia: Has shades of this, in contrast to the Corporate Rim which is a TechnoDystopia
*NoPoverty: Preservation’s economy provides free housing, food, healthcare, and anything else needed to live.
*PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm
!![=PreservationAux=] as a Group
*NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The group refuses to leave a critically injured Murderbot at the end of ''All Systems Red'', and in general if any one of the group is in trouble, everyone will go back for them.
*TrueCompanions
*YouAreNotAlone: Several of them tell Murderbot this, much to its confusion
!!Dr. Ayda Mensah
*[[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworm]]/[[BadassNormal Badass Normal]]: Dr. Mensah is a human scientist with no real combat training. She killed a [[SuperSoldier SecUnit]] with a mining drill.
*BenevolentBoss: To the Preservation crew
*FirstFriend: Was this for Murderbot, who describes her as its “favorite human”.
*MentalHealthRecoveryArc: As of Network Effect she is working through trauma over her kidnapping
*ModestRoyalty: A planetary leader who lives in a regular house, continues working her old job and didn’t even use a security retinue on her home planet. Murderbot didn’t realize she was an important political figure until it was directly told by her team.
*TheNotLoveInterest: To Murderbot. She’s the only person it really feels comfortable opening up to emotionally, helping her is a major motivation for it early on, and it spends ''Exit Strategy'' rescuing her personally. Their relationship is entirely platonic.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure
*TherapyIsForTheWeak: Murderbot has to “sort of blackmail” her into undergoing trauma treatment
!!Ratthi
*EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual relationships with both men and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is happy with
*InnocentlyInsensitive: Initially makes Murderbot extremely uncomfortable by trying to talk to it about its feelings. Later grows out of this and ends up being protective of Murderbot’s need for space.
*NiceGuy: One of the most genuinely kind humans in the series, particularly towards Murderbot.
!!Gurathin
*BrainComputerInterface: The only member of the group to be an augmented human
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold
*TheQuietOne: Noted by Murderbot to be this among the [=PreservationAux=] group
!!Arada
*HappilyMarried: To Overse
*RankUp: Goes from a team member in ''All Systems Red'' to team leader in ''Network Effect''
!!Overse
*HappilyMarried: To Arada
!!Pin-Lee
*AngerBornOfWorry: Her reaction to Murderbot having left the Preservation crew
*CrusadingLawyer: Responsible for negotiating Murderbot’s release from the company, and later writes up its contracts with stipulations to give it the same level of protection as the human members
!!Dr. Bharadwaj
!!Volescu
*ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: Is frozen in panic after Dr. Bharadwaj is attacked, leading to Murderbot needing to talk to him and calm him down
!!Thiago
*[[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Starts out somewhat distrustful of Murderbot, and grows to like and trust it over the course of his first book.
*PoorJudgeOfCharacter: Chooses to meet and try to reason with entities that Murderbot, his own security consultant, insists likely mean him harm.
!!Amena
*DatingWhatDaddyHates: Goes behind her parents’ backs to pursue a relationship with a shady guy. Murderbot puts a stop to it.
*HasTwoMommies: Two moms and a dad, to be precise
*ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART and Murderbot
*SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Or more accurately, Successful Family Syndrome. Describes herself as “not a hero like my second mom, or a genius like the rest of my family”
!Crew of the ''Perihelion''
!!In General
*[[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworms]]: They’re associated with a University, and go on dangerous secret missions
*LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Corporate Rim]]
!!''Perihelion'', aka ART
*AICronym: ART, which stands for Asshole Research Transport
*BatmanGambit: Enacts one in ''Network Effect'' to get Murderbot’s help
*BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use them.
*CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in human media
*CoolStarship
*DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole Research Transport
*DisneyDeath: Is deleted by the Targets, only to be reuploaded from a copy it left for Murderbot to find
*FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small humans”
*ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you get serious”.
*InSeriesNickname: It has two: ART, coined by Murderbot due to its DeadpanSnarker tendencies, and Peri, an AffectionateNickname from its crew
*RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series
*SapientShip: A fully formed consciousness housed in a spaceship, as opposed to the more primitive bot pilots that are typical for the setting
*VitriolicBestBuds: with Murderbot
!The Corporate Rim
!!In General
*KillThePoor: People have little to no value in the Corporate Rim. Companies have been known to do things like order [=SecUnits=] not to rescue clients who are seen as not worth the (financial) risk and abandon entire colonies to die when the investment doesn’t pan out
*MegaCorp: Made up of several
*PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone
*TechnoDystopia
!!Maro, Rami and Tapan
*ExoticExtendedMarriage: The three of them form one
*TooDumbToLive: Repeatedly take Tlacey up on offers to meet despite her constant attempts on their lives.
!!Tlacey
*CorruptCorporateExecutive
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries to pull this on Maro, Rami and Tapan after they ask for their data back
!!Tlacey’s [=ComfortUnit=]
*KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing
*{{Sexbot}}: it is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposes as well.
!!Mikki
*CheerfulAI: Inserts cheerful emojis into its dialogue and wants to be everyone’s friend.
*HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Abene instructs Mikki to save itself. Mikki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
*HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it
*HiddenDepths: Comes across as hopelessly naïve, but proves to be capable of lying by omission when it wants
*PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Abene
*RobotBuddy: To Dr. Abene and the other humans in their group; Murderbot calls it their “pet robot”.
!!Wilken and Gerth
*BodyguardBetrayal: Attempt to pull this on Dr. Abene and her crew.
*NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as he’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that him having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]]
*PoweredArmor: Both of them have it, which ultimately leaves them vulnerable to being hacked
!!Eletra and Ras
*MissingTime: Both of them have no recollection of being attacked and captured
*IndenturedServitude: Eletra’s whole family is in a more permanent version of this.
*SacrificialLamb: Ras dies to show what the Targets are capable of
!Others
!!The Targets
*EnemyCivilWar: There is an ongoing conflict between the Targets who are more infected and the ones who have retained their minds
*KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’ implants. Needless to say, it is satisfying when Murderbot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills them all]].
* LostColony: Their home colony was abandoned by their company some years ago
* TheVirus: The entire colony is infected to various degrees by the [[InvisibleAliens alien remnants]], and they consciously spread this infection to other humans and machines via scanning
!![=targetControlSystem=]
* ContagiousAI: Infects and takes over other AI
* DragonInChief: It’s assumed for most of the book that targetControlSystem was made by the Targets to pursue their ends. The reverse is actually true.
* OrganicTechnology: What it turns out to be
!!In General
*AndroidsArePeopleToo
*{{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things
*BizarreHumanBiology: Even their human parts have unique qualities such as being able to seal their own veins and arteries.
*{{Cyborg}}: Essentially what [=SecUnits=] are, being constructed of both robotic and cloned human parts.
*EnergyWeapon: They have them in their arms, and carry them as weapons.
*HealingFactor: [=SecUnits=] are capable of regenerating large portions of their human flesh with medical assistance.
*JustAMachine: society’s view of [=SecUnits=], and of constructs in general. It’s so pervasive even people from [[MarySueTopia Preservation]] have to confront their biases about them
*MachineBlood: Described as leaking “blood and fluid” when injured; presumably the fluid is from their machine parts.
*NoBiologicalSex: [=SecUnits=] have no sexual organs of any kind.
*NonHumanNonBinary: In addition to having NoBiologicalSex, all [=SecUnits=] depicted so far have been agender.
*PoweredArmor: [=SecUnits=] come with a variation of this.
*RestrainingBolt: The Governer Module, which delivers a painful and potentially fatal shock to a [=SecUnit’s=] brain if it disobeys orders or moves too far from a client.
*RetractableWeapon: Have retractable energy guns in their arms.
*RobotsAreJustBetter: Stronger, faster, more durable, [[RobotsThinkFaster capable of processing on multiple levels at once]], and better at interfacing with other technology (and hacking, if not limited by a Governor Module).
*RobotsThinkFaster
*SuperSoldier: Or more accurately, Super Security Officer. [=SecUnits=] are designed to be this. UpToEleven with [=CombatSecUnits=], who even regular [=SecUnits=] can’t match in a fight.
*WetwareCPU: Their consciousness is a combination of ArtificialIntelligence and this
!!Murderbot
*AmbiguousDisorder: Murderbot’s difficulty with social situations, discomfort with meeting others’ eyes and being touched, and special interest in human serials make it come across as autistic. Notably, these qualities are unique to Murderbot’s personality rather than being due to its status as a nonhuman {{Cyborg}}.
*BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shows loyalty to Dr. Mensah and the rest of the Preservation crew because they were the first people to treat it like a person
*ChronicHeroSyndrome: Will help any innocent humans it comes across, whether it originally intended to or not
*DarkAndTroubledPast: Spent its entire past being used as a combat slave and treated as subhuman, culminating in it being traumatically forced to massacre a group of miners and then being memory wiped.
*DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Figuring out what Murderbot actually wants and feels is an overarching motivation for it.
*DroneDeployer: Has taken to storing drones on its person and using them as extra eyes or combat arms.
*EyesAlwaysAverted: Murderbot is uncomfortable meeting others’ gazes and prefers to look at the wall while using drones or security cameras to watch them
*FirstPersonSmartass
*HackYourEnemy: one of Murderbot’s main strategies
*HeroicRROD: frequently, when it becomes too injured to continue functioning
*KnightInSourArmour
*MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]]
*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Murderbot considers its name to be personal. It goes by [=SecUnit=] among its friends and by various aliases among strangers.
*PinocchioSyndrome: Defied. Dr. Mensah tells Murderbot that most humans would assume that since it looks human it would want to be human. Murderbot says this is the dumbest thing it’s ever heard.
*RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Played with. Murderbot lacks many human desires like food and sex, but it has a rather human personality and a great interest in human media.
*SecondLawMyAss: One of the nice things about having hacked its Governor Module is that Murderbot no longer has to obey humans, particularly when they’re being stupid.
*SociallyAwkwardHero: Murderbot is calm, decisive and authoritative during a crisis, and incredibly socially awkward in any other situation.
*StoicWoobie
*SympatheticMurderBackstory
*TechnoWizard: It can do quite a bit with a simple feed connection.
*TheSnarkKnight: spends most of its narration snarking, whether at humans, other bots, or itself
!!Murderbot 2.0
*DigitizedHacker: Murderbot’s consciousness copied into Killware
*HeroicSacrifice: was created to take out the [=targetControlSystem=], and ultimately it chooses to be killed doing just that
*RecursiveCreators: an artificial lifeform created by two artificial lifeforms
!![=SecUnit 3=]
*EleventhHourRanger: Comes in at the end of ''Network Effect'' to help rescue the humans and then Murderbot
*FishOutOfWater: There’s no protocol for becoming a rogue [=SecUnit=], or for rescuing other [=SecUnits=] alongside a group of humans
*NoSocialSkills: It has no clue how to respond to being treated like a person
*ReplacementFlatCharacter: Echoes Murderbot’s initial struggles with having free will and being treated like a person for the first time, at a point where Murderbot has become far more confident with itself and others
!Preservation
!!In General
*ColonyShip: Their ancestors came from one of these, and it still serves as their main space station
*HomeworldEvacuation: Preservation was founded after the residents of a failed colony were forced to do this
*MarySueTopia: Has shades of this, in contrast to the Corporate Rim which is a TechnoDystopia
*NoPoverty: Preservation’s economy provides free housing, food, healthcare, and anything else needed to live.
*PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm
!![=PreservationAux=] as a Group
*NoOneGetsLeftBehind: The group refuses to leave a critically injured Murderbot at the end of ''All Systems Red'', and in general if any one of the group is in trouble, everyone will go back for them.
*TrueCompanions
*YouAreNotAlone: Several of them tell Murderbot this, much to its confusion
!!Dr. Ayda Mensah
*[[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworm]]/[[BadassNormal Badass Normal]]: Dr. Mensah is a human scientist with no real combat training. She killed a [[SuperSoldier SecUnit]] with a mining drill.
*BenevolentBoss: To the Preservation crew
*FirstFriend: Was this for Murderbot, who describes her as its “favorite human”.
*MentalHealthRecoveryArc: As of Network Effect she is working through trauma over her kidnapping
*ModestRoyalty: A planetary leader who lives in a regular house, continues working her old job and didn’t even use a security retinue on her home planet. Murderbot didn’t realize she was an important political figure until it was directly told by her team.
*TheNotLoveInterest: To Murderbot. She’s the only person it really feels comfortable opening up to emotionally, helping her is a major motivation for it early on, and it spends ''Exit Strategy'' rescuing her personally. Their relationship is entirely platonic.
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure
*TherapyIsForTheWeak: Murderbot has to “sort of blackmail” her into undergoing trauma treatment
!!Ratthi
*EthicalSlut: Is described as having frequent casual relationships with both men and women, an arrangement that everyone involved is happy with
*InnocentlyInsensitive: Initially makes Murderbot extremely uncomfortable by trying to talk to it about its feelings. Later grows out of this and ends up being protective of Murderbot’s need for space.
*NiceGuy: One of the most genuinely kind humans in the series, particularly towards Murderbot.
!!Gurathin
*BrainComputerInterface: The only member of the group to be an augmented human
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold
*TheQuietOne: Noted by Murderbot to be this among the [=PreservationAux=] group
!!Arada
*HappilyMarried: To Overse
*RankUp: Goes from a team member in ''All Systems Red'' to team leader in ''Network Effect''
!!Overse
*HappilyMarried: To Arada
!!Pin-Lee
*AngerBornOfWorry: Her reaction to Murderbot having left the Preservation crew
*CrusadingLawyer: Responsible for negotiating Murderbot’s release from the company, and later writes up its contracts with stipulations to give it the same level of protection as the human members
!!Dr. Bharadwaj
!!Volescu
*ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: Is frozen in panic after Dr. Bharadwaj is attacked, leading to Murderbot needing to talk to him and calm him down
!!Thiago
*[[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Starts out somewhat distrustful of Murderbot, and grows to like and trust it over the course of his first book.
*PoorJudgeOfCharacter: Chooses to meet and try to reason with entities that Murderbot, his own security consultant, insists likely mean him harm.
!!Amena
*DatingWhatDaddyHates: Goes behind her parents’ backs to pursue a relationship with a shady guy. Murderbot puts a stop to it.
*HasTwoMommies: Two moms and a dad, to be precise
*ShipperOnDeck: Seems to be one for ART and Murderbot
*SuccessfulSiblingSyndrome: Or more accurately, Successful Family Syndrome. Describes herself as “not a hero like my second mom, or a genius like the rest of my family”
!Crew of the ''Perihelion''
!!In General
*[[BadassBookworm Badass Bookworms]]: They’re associated with a University, and go on dangerous secret missions
*LaResistance: They seem to be this, as they work to covertly free [[LostColony abandoned colonies]] from being taken back into the [[PrivatelyOwnedSociety Corporate Rim]]
!!''Perihelion'', aka ART
*AICronym: ART, which stands for Asshole Research Transport
*BatmanGambit: Enacts one in ''Network Effect'' to get Murderbot’s help
*BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use them.
*CommonalityConnection: Bonds with Murderbot over a shared interest in human media
*CoolStarship
*DeadpanSnarker: There’s a reason Murderbot nicknamed it the Asshole Research Transport
*DisneyDeath: Is deleted by the Targets, only to be reuploaded from a copy it left for Murderbot to find
*FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small humans”
*ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you get serious”.
*InSeriesNickname: It has two: ART, coined by Murderbot due to its DeadpanSnarker tendencies, and Peri, an AffectionateNickname from its crew
*RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series
*SapientShip: A fully formed consciousness housed in a spaceship, as opposed to the more primitive bot pilots that are typical for the setting
*VitriolicBestBuds: with Murderbot
!The Corporate Rim
!!In General
*KillThePoor: People have little to no value in the Corporate Rim. Companies have been known to do things like order [=SecUnits=] not to rescue clients who are seen as not worth the (financial) risk and abandon entire colonies to die when the investment doesn’t pan out
*MegaCorp: Made up of several
*PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone
*TechnoDystopia
!!Maro, Rami and Tapan
*ExoticExtendedMarriage: The three of them form one
*TooDumbToLive: Repeatedly take Tlacey up on offers to meet despite her constant attempts on their lives.
!!Tlacey
*CorruptCorporateExecutive
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Tries to pull this on Maro, Rami and Tapan after they ask for their data back
!!Tlacey’s [=ComfortUnit=]
*KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing
*{{Sexbot}}: it is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposes as well.
!!Mikki
*CheerfulAI: Inserts cheerful emojis into its dialogue and wants to be everyone’s friend.
*HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Abene instructs Mikki to save itself. Mikki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
*HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it
*HiddenDepths: Comes across as hopelessly naïve, but proves to be capable of lying by omission when it wants
*PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Abene
*RobotBuddy: To Dr. Abene and the other humans in their group; Murderbot calls it their “pet robot”.
!!Wilken and Gerth
*BodyguardBetrayal: Attempt to pull this on Dr. Abene and her crew.
*NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as he’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that him having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]]
*PoweredArmor: Both of them have it, which ultimately leaves them vulnerable to being hacked
!!Eletra and Ras
*MissingTime: Both of them have no recollection of being attacked and captured
*IndenturedServitude: Eletra’s whole family is in a more permanent version of this.
*SacrificialLamb: Ras dies to show what the Targets are capable of
!Others
!!The Targets
*EnemyCivilWar: There is an ongoing conflict between the Targets who are more infected and the ones who have retained their minds
*KickTheDog: The first group of Targets taunt Murderbot about having deleted ART and laugh while lethally activating their captive humans’ implants. Needless to say, it is satisfying when Murderbot [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kills them all]].
* LostColony: Their home colony was abandoned by their company some years ago
* TheVirus: The entire colony is infected to various degrees by the [[InvisibleAliens alien remnants]], and they consciously spread this infection to other humans and machines via scanning
!![=targetControlSystem=]
* ContagiousAI: Infects and takes over other AI
* DragonInChief: It’s assumed for most of the book that targetControlSystem was made by the Targets to pursue their ends. The reverse is actually true.
* OrganicTechnology: What it turns out to be
