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* PlotHole: There's a notable continuity error that directly ties into the climax. [[spoiler:Vita Severn's]] assassin is said to have immediately disintegrated himself after carrying out the hit, but the climax hinges on [[spoiler:Mary]] taking a photograph of him some time afterward. [[spoiler:Mary]] also didn't receive the camera used for this until well ''after'' the assassination had already happened.
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* TheHorseshoeEffect: There's a one-page story of a RaceWar in the slums of the City that became infamous; infamous enough that tourists pay top dollar to be given tours of the war zones. In a CapitalismIsBad variant, the tour guides dress up like the factions they were a part of and give sanitised versions to the tourists, even though they were at each other's throats during the conflict.
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* TheHorseshoeEffect: There's a one-page story of a RaceWar local war in the slums of the City that became infamous; infamous enough that tourists pay top dollar to be given tours of the war zones. In a CapitalismIsBad variant, the tour guides dress up like the factions they were a part of and give sanitised versions to the tourists, even though they were at each other's throats during the conflict.
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* MalcolmXerox: There's a short story about a RaceWar in the City that was infamous enough that tourists want a walking tour of the war zones; the former combatants all oblige for cold hard cash. Front-and-center of the tour guides featured is a Black Nationalist dressed like an old-school Black Panther Party.
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* MalcolmXerox: There's a short story about a RaceWar conflict-torn slum in the City that was infamous enough that tourists want a walking tour of the war zones; the former combatants all oblige for cold hard cash. Front-and-center of the tour guides featured is a Black Nationalist dressed like an old-school Black Panther Party.
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* TheHorseshoeEffect: There's a one-page story of a RaceWar in the slums of the City that became infamous; infamous enough that tourists pay top dollar to be given tours of the war zones. In a CapitalismIsBad variant, the tour guides dress up like the factions they were a part of and give sanitised versions to the tourists, even though they were at each other's throats during the conflict.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: Subverted. [[spoiler:A French revenge weapon with no head claims it's Spider's son.]]
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: Subverted. [[spoiler:A French revenge weapon with no head claims it's Spider's son.son to fool Royce into getting close enough to Spider to try and kill him.]]
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** "I Hate it Here" contains a parody of Superman that Spider Jerusalem comes after being given "RPG Drugs", and the virtual reality high turns him into a superhuman reporter whose [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane two-dimensional wife is "supposedly" an ace reporter but can't see through his paper-thin disguise.]]
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* {{Eagleland}}: America is portrayed in both an extremely unflattering ''and'' idealistic light.
** On one hand, crime, drugs, and social decay is out of control and the cops let it happen, if not encourage it while beating minorities to a pulp, the previous President was only interested in doing the bare minimum. Filthy slums compete with high-rises for real estate. Organised religion works overtime to fund a ''literal sociopath'' and commiting crimes against children while an ignorant populace gorges itself on low-effort trash that pollutes the airwaves. Those in need of help, like the mentally ill, get dumped out on the street. It gets to the point the aforementioned sociopath winds up killing thousands of people with an engineered natural disaster to try and censure Spider's evidence of his crimes.
** On the other, it's a place filled with people trying to do good in their own way; journalists and ordinary citizens across the political spectrum band together to protect Spider, volunteer citizens mindwipe themselves and recreate entire communities to teach history, communities from all over the world mix and mingle, and at the end of the day, Spider believes things always get better in the future.
** Some background events further imply American influence on the rest of the world, and not for the better; for example, it's implied America was the reason why the United Nations forced France to make English their official language and triggered a civil war, which [[RippedFromTheHeadlines is based on concerns in France that English, especially American English, is influencing French to the point of extinction]] thanks to how widespread its pop culture is.
** On one hand, crime, drugs, and social decay is out of control and the cops let it happen, if not encourage it while beating minorities to a pulp, the previous President was only interested in doing the bare minimum. Filthy slums compete with high-rises for real estate. Organised religion works overtime to fund a ''literal sociopath'' and commiting crimes against children while an ignorant populace gorges itself on low-effort trash that pollutes the airwaves. Those in need of help, like the mentally ill, get dumped out on the street. It gets to the point the aforementioned sociopath winds up killing thousands of people with an engineered natural disaster to try and censure Spider's evidence of his crimes.
** On the other, it's a place filled with people trying to do good in their own way; journalists and ordinary citizens across the political spectrum band together to protect Spider, volunteer citizens mindwipe themselves and recreate entire communities to teach history, communities from all over the world mix and mingle, and at the end of the day, Spider believes things always get better in the future.
** Some background events further imply American influence on the rest of the world, and not for the better; for example, it's implied America was the reason why the United Nations forced France to make English their official language and triggered a civil war, which [[RippedFromTheHeadlines is based on concerns in France that English, especially American English, is influencing French to the point of extinction]] thanks to how widespread its pop culture is.
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* UrineTrouble: The story featured in issue two of ''Vertigo: Winter's Edge'' has a cat piss on Spider's feet.
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* UrineTrouble: The story featured in issue two of ''Vertigo: Winter's Edge'' has a cat piss on Spider's feet. One of Spider's favourite pastimes when he's feeling like an asshole is to piss on traffic and pedestrians from his high rise.
* VillainHasAPoint:
** While it's clear that The Beast is partially justifying and rationalising his laziness and refusal to improve conditions, his last interview with Spider makes it clear that, with a society as corrupt and stupid as America's, sometimes the bare minimum is the least he can do.
** During the War of the Verbals, a French intelligence agent passes on proof of the United Nations' crimes in France against a country trying to resist imperialism; it's implied that if it weren't for the war, a snobby conservative like the agent would have been Spider's worst enemy.
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** While it's clear that The Beast is partially justifying and rationalising his laziness and refusal to improve conditions, his last interview with Spider makes it clear that, with a society as corrupt and stupid as America's, sometimes the bare minimum is the least he can do.
** During the War of the Verbals, a French intelligence agent passes on proof of the United Nations' crimes in France against a country trying to resist imperialism; it's implied that if it weren't for the war, a snobby conservative like the agent would have been Spider's worst enemy.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: The Smiler.Smiler, whose campaign is built around being a friendly, do-gooder alternative to The Beast's cynical apathy and bare-minimum of maintaining America; he later deliberately [[spoiler:has his actually progressive and populist VP murdered]] to ratchet up voter sympathy enough to vote him in, and maintains a facade of reform by cutting social programs and dressing it up in 'community and citizen' spirit.]]
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* WontDoYourDirtyWork: Near the comic's end, the Smiler orders his Secret Service agents to kill Spider Jerusalem. The agents tell him to get bent. The Smiler decides to kill Spider himself... [[EngineeredPublicConfession only for Spider to reveal he has a live microphone]].
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* WontDoYourDirtyWork: Near the comic's end, the Smiler orders his Secret Service agents to kill Spider Jerusalem. The agents tell him to get bent. The Smiler decides to kill Spider himself... [[EngineeredPublicConfession only for Spider to reveal he has a live microphone]].microphone]], [[spoiler:which finally gives the police enough evidence to arrest the Smiler.]]
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** The series accurately predicted the rise of livestreaming, but it's implied the people who do it the most need cybernetic implants.
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* BreadAndCircuses: It's implied that this is one reason why The City is such a CrapsackWorld, and also why the Beast is President; the abundance of luxuries and entertainment provided by future tech make it easier than ever to ignore the less fortunate. The Beast tells Spider straight out that he feels his job isn't to fix all the problems in society but simply to make sure the average citizen has a few creature comforts to get them through the day.
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* BreadAndCircuses: It's implied that this is one reason why The City is such a CrapsackWorld, and also why the Beast is President; the abundance of luxuries and entertainment provided by future tech make it easier than ever to ignore the less fortunate. As a later issue states, Earth ''technically'' breaches the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale Kardashev scale]] to the point that the only thing aliens could offer was some body modifications because Earth's tech far outstripped them, but doesn't because all that tech is instead about entertaining the masses. The Beast tells Spider straight out that he feels his job isn't to fix all the problems in society but simply to make sure the average citizen has a few creature comforts to get them through the day.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Bill Rose, the man who runs the orphanage most of the child prostitutes come from in "Business". Spider thinks he's responsible for their actions... only to learn Rose, while not at fault for it, is perfectly aware of what they're doing, but has ''no'' ability to stop them, as hard as he - and the government, several religious organizations, the public, and charities try. He tries to protect them (even as they spiral into self-abuse anyway) and gives one of the most intelligent monologues in the series on human nature.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Bill Rose, the man who runs the orphanage most of the child prostitutes come from in "Business". Spider thinks he's responsible for their actions... only to learn Rose, while not at fault for it, is perfectly aware of what they're doing, but has ''no'' ability to stop them, as hard as he - and the government, several religious organizations, the public, and charities try. He tries to protect them (even as they spiral into self-abuse anyway) and gives one of the most intelligent monologues in the series on human nature. It's also noted that, in a setting where [[SinisterMinister organised religion]] and [[PoliceBrutality the cops]] are vile enough to support an actual sociopath for President, this is one of the few times where they both earnestly work to try and get these kids off the street.
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* NoNameGiven: Spider's editor at Driven Books, to whom he owes two books as of the beginning of the story. Spider only refers to the editor as "the Whorehopper," and he's the only character who interacts with the editor in the comic. There's a common fan theory that "the Whorehopper" might not actually ''exist'' outside of Spider's drug-fueled fantasies.
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* UrineTrouble: The story featured in issue two of ''Vertigo: Winter's Edge'' has a cat piss on Spider's feet.
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* EccentricAI: Spider's home AI has a personality based on Film/TheGodfather's Don Corleone and takes the electronic equivalent of hard drugs.
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* BatterUp: The Chair Leg of Truth. It is wise and terrible.
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* BatterUp: The At one point Spider beats a story out of Fred Christ using a broken chair leg, which he dubs "The Chair Leg of Truth. It is wise and terrible.Truth."
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* EverythingIs3DPrintedInTheFuture: The "Makers" installed in any decent kitchen can make nearly anything you like (they have lockouts on some things). Either they'll have a "base block" to draw matter from or you have to fill them with trash.
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* MatterReplicator: The "Makers" installed in any decent kitchen can make nearly anything you like (they have lockouts on some things). Either they'll have a "base block" to draw matter from or you have to fill them with trash.
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* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler:After Vita Severn is murdered, a group of devotees set up a shrine to her in a back alley in the City. Over time, it gradually evolves into a full-on place of worship. Spider pays multiple visits to it throughout the story.]]
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* NoNameGiven: Spider's editor at Driven Books, to whom he owes two books as of the beginning of the story. Spider only refers to the editor as "the Whorehopper," and he's the only character who interacts with the editor in the comic. There's a common fan theory that "the Whorehopper" might not actually ''exist'' outside of Spider's drug-fueled fantasies.
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* HurtingHero: The person Spider has become, the things he does, they are all because he cares about the people of the City, cares ''so much'' that seeing them being stamped on by their elected rulers and then just going on with life makes him rage and weep.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Senator Longstreet, the last presidential candidate from the opposition party who ran against The Beast. His name is brought up several times during the election arc and he inspired Vita Severn, Kirsten was his former campaign manager, and was bankrolled by Oscar Rossini. Spider even broke one of his rules and gave him a (relatively) positive write-up, a move he describes as being willing to do practically ''anything'' to get The Beast out of office. When The Beast won re-election anyway, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere it ultimately led to Spider abandoning the city]] and setting the comic in motion.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Senator Longstreet, the last presidential candidate from the opposition party who ran against The Beast. His name is brought up several times during the election arc and he inspired Vita Severn, Kirsten was his former campaign manager, and was bankrolled by Oscar Rossini. Spider even broke one of his rules and gave him a (relatively) positive write-up, a move he describes as being willing to do practically ''anything'' to get The Beast out of office. When The Beast won re-election anyway, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere it ultimately led to Spider abandoning the city]] and setting the comic in motion. Longstreet died shortly afterwards; it's implied he might have comitted suicide.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Senator Longstreet, the last presidential candidate from the opposition party who ran against The Beast. His name is brought up several times during the election arc and he inspired Vita Severn, Kirsten was his former campaign manager, and was bankrolled by Oscar Rossini. Spider even broke one of his rules and gave him a (relatively) positive write-up, a move he describes as being willing to do practically ''anything'' to get The Beast out of office. When The Beast won re-election anyway, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere it ultimately led to Spider abandoning the city]] and setting the comic in motion.
