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* PostMortemPossessions: As part of the Day of the Dead celebrations, it's traditional to burn paper replicas of objects (such as money or cars) to send them to those in the afterlife. [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01944.htm One robot burns a paper replica of himself]], under the belief that it will get him into the afterlife just in case he doesn't have a soul.
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* NotIllegalJustification: A man attempts to commit genocide just so that he could claim the victim's assets and he can't be charged with it because the victims, who were sapient robots, were not legally recognized as people at the time of the crime. He instead is convicted of attempting to enrich himself at his company's expense and the judge [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment strips him of his money and forces him to get a bottom-level restaurant job]]. And that judge was being restrained. The other possible judge wanted to sentence him to a job working with extremely dangerous chemicals.
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** Combined with BilingualBonus: A fairly rare kind of robot part, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01805.htm seen and identified here]], is a foot with embedded cameras:
--->'''Blunt:''' Used to be. Eye pods. Were quite common.


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** Instructing Florence to disable her communications, Edge [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2000/fc01908.htm mentions]] her "blueteeth" if she has a "smart mouth"
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-->'''Helix:''' A pressure cooker works by applying pressure and heat for a long time. [[OvenLogic My way does the same in an instant]].
-->'''Florence:''' That sounds almost as you're trying to [[LogicalExtreme cook using explosives]].[[note]]He is.[[/note]]

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-->'''Helix:''' A pressure cooker works by applying pressure and heat for a long time. [[OvenLogic My way does the same in an instant]].
-->'''Florence:'''
instant]].\\
'''Florence:'''
That sounds almost as you're trying to [[LogicalExtreme cook using explosives]].[[note]]He is.[[/note]]
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-->'''Helix:''' A pressure cooker works by applying pressure and heat for a long time. [[OvenLogic My way does the same in an instant]]. \\
'''Florence:''' That sounds almost as you're trying to [[LogicalExtreme cook using explosives]].[[note]]He is.[[/note]]

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-->'''Helix:''' A pressure cooker works by applying pressure and heat for a long time. [[OvenLogic My way does the same in an instant]]. \\
'''Florence:'''
instant]].
-->'''Florence:'''
That sounds almost as you're trying to [[LogicalExtreme cook using explosives]].[[note]]He is.[[/note]]

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* OrchestralBombing: Sawtooth gives us a ''[[LiteralMetaphor literal]]'' Orchestral Bombing. [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1200/fv01190.htm Orbital Bombardment in D Minor]].



* OverlyLongScream: Happened at least a couple of times, in accordance with Cap'n Sam Starfall's philosophy, "When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" Helix is usually eager to join in. In one noteable incident near the beginning, the two of them are running in circles and screaming for long enough that they have to stop to take a deep breath (synchronized, even) before continuing. Florence comments on how inexplicable it is that Helix, who is a ROBOT, needs to stop for breath... Then she tears out his voicebox to shut him up, and offers to do the same to Sam if he doesn't quiet down.
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fv01204.htm Sam's coffee mug]] proclaims him to be the "World's Best Squid Captain". He's also the ''only'' Squid Captain on Jean.
* OwMyBodyPart: [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01051.htm A tackled robot]] screams "Ow! My algorithms!"

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* OverlyLongScream: Happened at least a couple of times, in accordance with Cap'n Sam Starfall's philosophy, "When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" Helix is usually eager to join in. In one noteable notable incident near the beginning, the two of them are running in circles and screaming for long enough that they have to stop to take a deep breath (synchronized, even) before continuing. Florence comments on how inexplicable it is that Helix, who is a ROBOT, needs to stop for breath... Then she tears out his voicebox voice box to shut him up, and offers to do the same to Sam if he doesn't quiet down.
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1300/fv01204.htm Sam's coffee mug]] proclaims him to be the "World's Best Squid Captain". He's also the ''only'' Squid Captain on Jean.
Planet Jean.
* OwMyBodyPart: [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01051.htm A tackled robot]] screams "Ow! My algorithms!"algorithms!"
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* ObsoleteOccupation: The CorruptCorporateExecutive Kornada was KickedUpstairs to Vice President of Paper Clip Allocation... for a paperless company, on a partly-{{Terraform}}ed planet where organic materials like paper are extremely rare. It ''still'' results in a disastrous ReassignmentBackfire.
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%%* KickTheSonOfABitch: The only way most AIs will harm humans.
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* LyingByOmission: {{Invoked|Trope}} when Clippy makes a highly illicit flight to a secret base as part of a criminal conspiracy. Being a Robot, he's a BadLiar and can just be [[IncapableOfDisobeying ordered to tell the truth]], so his hirelings [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2400/fc02390.htm ask him]] to hide in a closet -- if he's questioned, he can say that he was hiding there during the flight, omitting that it was ''his flight''.
-->'''Mr. Parka:''' Just because something is true doesn't mean it's not a lie.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Some robots build desalinization facilities to clean a river despite not having orders to. The reason why they didn't have orders to do that is because the area would be completely submerged soon, only no one told them that was going to happen.

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Some robots build desalinization facilities to clean a river despite not having orders to. The reason why they didn't have orders to do that is because the area would be completely submerged soon, only no one told them that was going to happen.



--> '''Chief:''' I'm confused. Are missed communications a good thing or a bad thing here?

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--> '''Chief:''' --->'''Chief:''' I'm confused. Are missed communications a good thing or a bad thing here?here?
** And [[DefiedTrope Defied]] when Sam arranges a meeting between a floundering space station's management and union representative, with a neutral third-party acting as TheWatson. The point was that rather than continuing to argue with each other, making each side have to explain their position to the third-party would get the other to listen in a way they hadn't been doing.
--->'''Sam:''' If there's one thing watching sitcoms has taught me, many complications can be avoided if people would take five minutes and talk to each other.
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* TheMall: Distinctive because Jean has a single major city, so there's really no need for more than one. Florence applies her engineered intellect to shopping and discovers ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow - at least as far as the [[WomensMysteries woman]] escorting Flo [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00699.htm deems]] [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00700.htm them]].

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* TheMall: Distinctive because Jean has a single major city, so there's really no need for more than one. Florence applies her engineered intellect to shopping and discovers ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow - at least as far as the [[WomensMysteries woman]] woman]], a.k.a Niomi, escorting Flo [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00699.htm deems]] [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff700/fv00700.htm them]].
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* LateToThePunchline: Sam didn't understand which rail the city council was talking [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff900/fv00877.htm until this strip]].

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* LateToThePunchline: Sam didn't understand which rail the city council was talking about [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff900/fv00877.htm until this strip]].

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