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* ContemptableCover: Despite the novel stating that suits have inergrated weapons (a laser gun in each bracer and a ShoulderCannon), covers invariably have someone with a {{BFG}} in their hands.
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* ArmCannon: Power armor carries an intergrated "blazer" rifle in each forearm. They're fired by going limp-wristed at whatever a marine's aiming at.
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* InspirationNod: This novel is a response to Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''. Felix is asked at one point if he joined the army because bugs blew up his home in South America, which is the inciting incident in Heinlein's novel.
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* ShoutOut: In addition to the above, Felix is asked at one point if he joined the army because bugs blew up his home in South America... which means that ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' is apparently a work of fiction within the universe of ''Armor''.
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* ActionBomb: See "TakingYouWithMe" below.Flipping every switch on an armor's control panel to "on" overloads its safety features, triggering its power core [[GoingCritical to go Prompt Supercritical]]. It's used when a nuke is called for, but they can't get one.
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* TheAce: Played with in the case of Nathan Kent, who is awesomely skilled with a suit of powered armor, not to mention handsome and extremely charismatic -- and has never been anywhere near actual combat, except for brief and carefully stage-managed publicity exercises, because he's far too useful as a propaganda icon to let him go and get killed. [[spoiler:For a while it seems like he's a FakeUltimateHero, but it turns out he's really as good as his image suggests, which just makes it worse that the high command have made such poor use of him.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"That's the problem with armor. It can't protect you from who you are.
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* LoyalPhlebotinum: Powered armor kills anyone except its designated user. [[spoiler: Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable]].
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* LoyalPhlebotinum: Because it's custom-designed to fit with incredibly close tolerances, Powered armor kills anyone that tries to put it on except its designated user. [[spoiler: Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable]].
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* AlienBlood: Ant blood is black.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Allie]] dies in [[spoiler:Felix]]'s arms after [[spoiler:his suit is punctured on Banshee]].
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* LapPillow: During a mental breakdown prompted by [[spoiler: Allie reminding him of his HeroicBSOD, past]], [[spoiler: Felix]] attempts to commit suicide on Banshee by unsealing his armor, and [[spoiler:Allie]] pins him down to stop him. [[spoiler: Felix]] then eventually falls asleep and they end up like this.
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* BlingOfWar: The Masao wears gold armor.
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* DeathWorld: Banshee, the planet Felix is posted to, would be lethally unpleasant even without the Ants.
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* DeathWorld: Banshee, the planet Felix is posted to, would be lethally unpleasant even without the Ants. It's a desert that's so cold that the smallest hole in one's armor would result in rapidly freezing to death.
* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai: The Masao's culture is clearly based on ancient Japan.
* GenderBlenderName: Allie is short for Alejandro.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: [[spoiler: Felix]] and [[spoiler: Allie]] have been very close since infancy and shared most of the major events in their lives. [[spoiler: Allie came to Banshee to try and bring Felix back to his people.]]
* LapPillow: During his HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler: Felix]] attempts to commit suicide on Banshee by unsealing his armor, and [[spoiler:Allie]] pins him down to stop him. [[spoiler: Felix]] then eventually falls asleep and they end up like this.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Powered armor kills anyone except its designated user. [[spoiler: Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable]].
* MeltingPotNomenclature: Alejandro Jorges Umemoto.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Powered armor kills anyone except its designated user. [[spoiler: Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable]].
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* LoyalPhlebotinum: Powered armor kills anyone except its designated user. [[spoiler: Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable]].OnlyOneName: "Just Felix."
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* ShroudedInMyth: Jack CrowCrow is a legendary space pirate.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Flipping every switch on an armor's control panel to "on" overloads its safety features, triggering its power core [[GoingCritical to go Contact Supercritical]]. It's used when a nuke is called for, but they can't get one.
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* TimeSkip: To after the war, [[spoiler: and Felix is drowning his sorrows on a backwater feudal world.]]
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* ShoutOut: In addition to the above, Felix is asked at one point if he joined the army because bugs blew up his home in South America... which means that ''StarshipTroopers'' ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' is apparently a work of fiction within the universe of ''Armor''. ''Armor''.
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* PoweredArmor: Standard issue for the soldiers in a few varieties. This may be a minor ShoutOut to Heinlein's ''StarshipTroopers'' ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'' as well.
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* OhCrap: Felix's first step onto the planet Banshee. [[spoiler: Into twelve marching rows of ants.]]
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* OhCrap: Felix's first step onto the planet Banshee. [[spoiler: Into twelve marching rows of ants.]]
]] Then too many more to recount. So much so that the Antwar is a running stream of OhCrap.
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* DefiledForever: This is what Karen believes about herself, leading her to seek a DestructiveRomance with Jack.
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** [[spoiler: He's also hiding a secret identity, but that would be the spoiler of all spoilers. Read the book.]]
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**[[spoiler: He's also hiding a secret identity, but that would be the spoiler of all spoilers. Read the book.]]
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The second, set some years later, follows mercenary Jack Crow as he infiltrates a remote space colony to help steal something from the research base there. Shortly before arriving, he encounters a derelict spaceship containing a suit of PoweredArmor, and takes the armor with him as a memento; the research base's head historian, Hollis Ware, finds the suit's recorder pod and becomes obsessed with the armor's former owner (Felix, of course), trying to find out who he was, and what ended up happening to him.
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Yes, I know that, but I\'d like to leave some surprises for people who haven\'t read it. Also, you should avoid Conversation In The Main Page.
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** actully [[spoiler:Lewis is Felix, the power-suit he use is Felix old suit and requires DNA verification to be used,also explained in a conversion where Felix\Lewis tell Jack that that what they thought was his death blow just knocked him out of his suit to help him escape.]]
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** actully [[spoiler:Lewis is Felix, the power-suit he use is Felix old suit and requires DNA verification to be used,also explained in a conversion where Felix\Lewis tell Jack that that what they thought was his death blow just knocked him out of his suit to help him escape.]]
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* HeroicSafeMode: "The Engine", the altered mindset that keeps Felix alive in battle. As Felix puts it, the Engine "is a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine is not me. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside".
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''Armor'' is a science fiction novel by Creator/JohnSteakley. It's the distant future, and humanity is embroiled in a BugWar with the implacable, incomprehensible Ants. There's an epic SpaceOpera backdrop, but the story takes place among the little people at ground level, for whom their own high command also seem distant and incomprehensible.
The story alternates between two plot strands.
The first follows new recruit Felix, who joins up in the hope of finding a meaningful death and an escape from his traumatic past, but discovers himself to be [[{{Determinator}} constitutionally incapable of giving up and letting himself get killed]], no matter how hopeless the situation appears to be. He not only survives more battles than any soldier in history, but winds up collecting a whole bunch of new traumas as well.
The second, set some years later, follows mercenary Jack Crow as he infiltrates a remote space colony to help steal something from the research base there. Shortly before arriving, he encounters a derelict spaceship containing a suit of PoweredArmor, and takes the armor with him as a memento; the research base's head historian, Hollis Ware, finds the suit's recorder pod and becomes obsessed with the armor's former owner (Felix, of course), trying to find out who he was, and what ended up happening to him.
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!!''Armor'' provides examples of:
* AbsentmindedProfessor: Hollis Ware
* ArmchairMilitary: Fleet high command
* BlessedWithSuck: Felix
* BugWar: The Antwar
* CannonFodder: A large proportion of the characters
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler:Lewis, the founder of the space colony, ''appears'' to be a harmless drunk. He's actually ex-military, using alcohol to deal with all the trauma Felix had and then some, and once he's decided he has no other option than to come out of retirement and take on the space pirates it's pretty much all over but the shouting.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Felix
* DeathSeeker: Felix
* {{Determinator}}: Felix
* DrowningMySorrows: Lewis
* DuringTheWar
* FeudalFuture: Some of the planets in the backdrop have absolute monarchies with feudal trappings; it's explicitly mentioned, though, that rather than being a natural social development they were each deliberately founded by somebody with a large ego and too much money.
* HeelFaceTurn: Jack Crow, after he discovers what Borglyn is really planning to steal.
* HurtingHero: Felix
* InsectoidAliens: The Ants
* IronicName: Felix ("happy, fortunate")
* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Felix is the hereditary ruler of his home planet. As far as he's concerned, he's done with all that, but his people haven't given up on finding him and persuading him to come back.]]
* NobleFugitive: see King Incognito
* PoweredArmor: Standard issue for the soldiers
* ShroudedInMyth: Jack Crow
* SpacePirates: Borglyn's crew
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Karen
* SpaceOpera
* TheUnfettered: The Engine, what Felix calls his drive to survive, will not let Felix die. Ever.
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The story alternates between two plot strands.
The first follows new recruit Felix, who joins up in the hope of finding a meaningful death and an escape from his traumatic past, but discovers himself to be [[{{Determinator}} constitutionally incapable of giving up and letting himself get killed]], no matter how hopeless the situation appears to be. He not only survives more battles than any soldier in history, but winds up collecting a whole bunch of new traumas as well.
The second, set some years later, follows mercenary Jack Crow as he infiltrates a remote space colony to help steal something from the research base there. Shortly before arriving, he encounters a derelict spaceship containing a suit of PoweredArmor, and takes the armor with him as a memento; the research base's head historian, Hollis Ware, finds the suit's recorder pod and becomes obsessed with the armor's former owner (Felix, of course), trying to find out who he was, and what ended up happening to him.
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!!''Armor'' provides examples of:
* AbsentmindedProfessor: Hollis Ware
* ArmchairMilitary: Fleet high command
* BlessedWithSuck: Felix
* BugWar: The Antwar
* CannonFodder: A large proportion of the characters
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler:Lewis, the founder of the space colony, ''appears'' to be a harmless drunk. He's actually ex-military, using alcohol to deal with all the trauma Felix had and then some, and once he's decided he has no other option than to come out of retirement and take on the space pirates it's pretty much all over but the shouting.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Felix
* DeathSeeker: Felix
* {{Determinator}}: Felix
* DrowningMySorrows: Lewis
* DuringTheWar
* FeudalFuture: Some of the planets in the backdrop have absolute monarchies with feudal trappings; it's explicitly mentioned, though, that rather than being a natural social development they were each deliberately founded by somebody with a large ego and too much money.
* HeelFaceTurn: Jack Crow, after he discovers what Borglyn is really planning to steal.
* HurtingHero: Felix
* InsectoidAliens: The Ants
* IronicName: Felix ("happy, fortunate")
* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Felix is the hereditary ruler of his home planet. As far as he's concerned, he's done with all that, but his people haven't given up on finding him and persuading him to come back.]]
* NobleFugitive: see King Incognito
* PoweredArmor: Standard issue for the soldiers
* ShroudedInMyth: Jack Crow
* SpacePirates: Borglyn's crew
* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Karen
* SpaceOpera
* TheUnfettered: The Engine, what Felix calls his drive to survive, will not let Felix die. Ever.
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