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* BroughtDownToNormal: As Hive's anti-Thinker influence spreads, at least some Thinkers find themselves unable to use their powers at all. Numbers Man had to teach himself math after decades of relying solely on his power.
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* DefeatingTheUndefeatable: [[spoiler:The world is stunned when Hive's creatures hit Leviathan's core with a warp lance and he falls down dead.]]
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** Kidnap one of Hive's Runners to examine and hope to duplicate it's anti-Thinker ability? The Runner escapes and lets Taylor know who stole it.
** [[spoiler:Birdcage Hive for learning about the previous scheme? She's a HiveMind so, once she gets over her initial breakdown, the whole affair is just a minor inconvenience]].
** [[spoiler:Decades of plotting to one day kill Scion? Hive does it by connecting Scion with the Tyranid Hive Mind]].
* AlmightyIdiot: [[spoiler:The Tyranid Hive Mind. When Taylor makes accidental contact a second time, both minds instinctively scan each other. Taylor's fails almost immediately due to the sheer number of entities connected, but the Tyranid Mind copies her mental structures associated with creativity. After some recovery time, Taylor realized the Tyranids' Mind is unspeakably vast and clever, but lacks the spark of imagination. It's implied absorbing those bits will begin changing the Tyranids, since the Hive Mind now has an identity beyond a simple awareness of itself.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: Scramjet cut off his own arm in order to be free of the explosive wristband once he ran out of time to escape the Simurgh.
** [[spoiler:Birdcage Hive for learning about the previous scheme? She's a HiveMind so, once she gets over her initial breakdown, the whole affair is just a minor inconvenience]].
** [[spoiler:Decades of plotting to one day kill Scion? Hive does it by connecting Scion with the Tyranid Hive Mind]].
* AlmightyIdiot: [[spoiler:The Tyranid Hive Mind. When Taylor makes accidental contact a second time, both minds instinctively scan each other. Taylor's fails almost immediately due to the sheer number of entities connected, but the Tyranid Mind copies her mental structures associated with creativity. After some recovery time, Taylor realized the Tyranids' Mind is unspeakably vast and clever, but lacks the spark of imagination. It's implied absorbing those bits will begin changing the Tyranids, since the Hive Mind now has an identity beyond a simple awareness of itself.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: Scramjet cut off his own arm in order to be free of the explosive wristband once he ran out of time to escape the Simurgh. He later builds himself a prosthetic.
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* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:When Scion finally catches wind of the effects of the Shadow in the Warp, he begins pursuing its origin to the Birdcage, and tries to catch Taylor. Having no options, she uses her limited time to travel to the Warhammer 40K reality and beg for the help of the full might of the Hive Mind, even though the only brief contact they had before ended up leaving her nearly braindead.]]
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Legend is famously kind and even-tempered. Alexandria knows that he's properly furious when he swears at her during a Cauldron meeting.
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* {{Transhumanism}}: [[spoiler:Taylor, with Panacea's input, has worked out a way to convert humans into Tyranids. She hasn't used it yet, though.]]
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* TakingYouWithMe: Armsmaster suspects that he's been targeted [[spoiler:since Director Piggot is going down anyway; she's lashing out at others, and his explosives were used to kill Hive's creatures]].
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* LightningBruiser: Taylor's chosen creature to fight an Endbringer is a Titan the size of an office building, with correspondingly large swords on each limb, yet capable of keeping up with Leviathan moving at a hundred miles an hour.
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* TemptingFate: While developing the trauma spray, Taylor thinks to herself that it'd make for great insurance against being sent to prison because "it'd be a particularly stupid bureaucrat who tried to birdcage someone who created such a thing". [[spoiler:Piggot, with Alexandria's help, does indeed get Taylor sent to the Birdcage]].
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* SureLetsGoWithThat: Marquis assumes that [[spoiler:Taylor used her internet tap to learn about Amy's current activities. Taylor lets him think so rather than revealing her [[HiveMind distributed mind]].]]
* TemptingFate: While developing the trauma spray, Taylor thinks to herself that it'd make for great insurance against being sent to prison because "it'd be a particularly stupid bureaucrat who tried to birdcage someone who created such a thing". [[spoiler:Piggot, with Alexandria's help, does indeed get Taylor sent to theBirdcage]].Birdcage. On the other hand, Taylor is right that the backlash is considerable.]]
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* DeadlyDodging: Lung's swing misses Taylor and hits [[spoiler:the wall of her cell, exposing them both to vacuum. She can survive without air for a while, though it's unpleasant and burns calories. He can't.]]
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* TheGlovesComeOff: Taylor figures she has nothing to lose after [[spoiler:her human body is sent to the Birdcage, so she starts openly using biotinkering to help in Canberra, producing medical sprays and food and communications]].
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* MoralMyopia: Simurgh victims who form mobs and start beating people to death will usually say that they suspect their targets of being Simurgh bombs. {{Justified|Trope}} since they're by definition not thinking straight due to the Scream.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Taylor finds it distasteful to feed human corpses into her creatures, but it's the logical approach [[spoiler:in Canberra, where they're a disease risk if they stay, and the energy-rich biomass will help her build up quickly]].
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* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:Scion, obsessed with finding ''something'' that will convince others of his race to expend the necessary resources to restore its partner, finds the errors generated by the Shadow in the Warp.]]
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** Taylor's creatures don't know the meaning of giving up. [[spoiler:Her kidnapped runner gets dropped into the Indian Ocean from a mile up. It uses its capture nets as a parachute to survive the landing (though damaged), holds a lungful of air for buoyancy, lives off water for days until its carapace has healed, reconfigures its body for faster swimming, swims toward the Brockton Bay beacon for two weeks, ''turns around'' when the closer Canberra beacon comes online, then runs all the way across Australia. All to follow Taylor's instructions to return to her, and also to report on what happened to it.]]
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** [[spoiler:Scion, obsessed with finding ''something'' that will convince others of his race to expend the necessary resources to restore its partner, finds the errors generated by the Shadow in the Warp.]]
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* PlausibleDeniability: When Taylor is ordered to install a SelfDestructMechanism in all of her creations in case one escapes, she's not happy about it, knowing that her creations have instincts that should mean they're not truly dangerous, but she isn't going to outright defy the order. However, Armsmaster is sympathetic, and makes sure to carefully instruct her about how the explosives have to be installed with the arrow facing the correct way if they're going to work. And then he leaves it to her to perform the installation.
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** When Taylor is ordered to install a SelfDestructMechanism in all of her creations in case one escapes, she's not happy about it, knowing that her creations have instincts that should mean they're not truly dangerous, but she isn't going to outright defy the order. However, Armsmaster is sympathetic, and makes sure to carefully instruct her about how the explosives have to be installed with the arrow facing the correct way if they're going to work. And then he leaves it to her to perform theinstallation.installation.
** Taylor isn't sure whether or not Deputy Director Renick figured out that 'independent, non PRT associated, subject matter expert consultation for Tinker tech' means she's visiting Newter to try recreating his hallucinogens, but if Renick did guess then he's apparently decided not to ''officially'' know.
** When Taylor is ordered to install a SelfDestructMechanism in all of her creations in case one escapes, she's not happy about it, knowing that her creations have instincts that should mean they're not truly dangerous, but she isn't going to outright defy the order. However, Armsmaster is sympathetic, and makes sure to carefully instruct her about how the explosives have to be installed with the arrow facing the correct way if they're going to work. And then he leaves it to her to perform the
** Taylor isn't sure whether or not Deputy Director Renick figured out that 'independent, non PRT associated, subject matter expert consultation for Tinker tech' means she's visiting Newter to try recreating his hallucinogens, but if Renick did guess then he's apparently decided not to ''officially'' know.
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Alexandria disposes of a captured runner by opening a Door to a point one mile above the Indian Ocean and letting it escape through that.
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* HealingFactor: Taylor's altered biology barely bleeds, can knit itself back together very quickly, and her biological manipulation means that she can rapidly repair or even regrow anything damaged. [[spoiler:She gets a plastic ruler phased into her chest by Shadow Stalker, and simply pulls it out with a sucking sound, essentially unaffected.]]
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* TooMuchInformation: Asking about Officer Johnson's job was just supposed to be small talk. Taylor didn't expect to hear about Hookwolf stabbing him in the kidney and how he's off patrols until he no longer has blood in his urine.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Taylor's main body can shrug off small-arms fire. The planters she spreads under the bay, covered in water and silt and stone, would survive a decently sized nuclear strike.
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* OpenSaysMe: Taylor opens the locked back entrance to a Merchant lair by simply punching it, breaking off the deadbolt.
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* BioArmor: Taylor's costume is a type of chitin tough enough to "shrug off bullets, electricity, and some lasers." It also augments her strength, has a full-strength stealth package, and can move around independently at her direction.
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* FeelsNoPain: While performing surgery on a conscious runner, Taylor notes that pain is optional for any of her bodies.
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* MuggingTheMonster: A Merchant with a knife is so completely outclassed by Taylor's runner that she mostly ignores him in favour of pondering what direction she'll upgrade it next. While the mugger throws out frantic threats, she's tossing up between infrasonic mapping vs containment tools like glue and nets. Eventually she gets tired of him ranting and drags him into an alley by his ankle, then lets him run away screaming.
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* InnateNightVision: It's trivial for Taylor to give her main body improved low light vision, able to see at night as if it were midday.
