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* ArtificialZombie: The victims of Nano-Tek's BioMods. They're heavily mutated, intelligent enough to use weapons [[spoiler:and under the control of Nano-Tek Corporation's [[MasterComputer Greensource Mainframe]]. Having them go on a brain-eating rampage was beta-testing to weed out the weak and determine which variety of mutation would make the best soldiers.]]

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* ArtificialZombie: The victims of Nano-Tek's BioMods.[=BioMods=]. They're heavily mutated, intelligent enough to use weapons [[spoiler:and under the control of Nano-Tek Corporation's [[MasterComputer Greensource Mainframe]]. Having them go on a brain-eating rampage was beta-testing to weed out the weak and determine which variety of mutation would make the best soldiers.]]
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* Expy: The Junks are basically a scifi version of Creator/JRRTolkien's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], having [[OurOrcsAreDifferent originally been a civilized and sophisticated species called the Junkala]] originally been a civilized and sophisticated species captured by a malevolent superbeing and tortuously mutilated into an army of hateful killing machines with [[PlanetOfHats hats]] of [[WalkingWasteland environmental destruction]] and [[NightmarishFactory industrialization]].

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* Expy: The Junks are basically a scifi version of Creator/JRRTolkien's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], having [[OurOrcsAreDifferent [[EnslavedElves originally been a civilized and sophisticated species called the Junkala]] originally been a civilized and sophisticated species captured by a malevolent superbeing and tortuously mutilated into an army of hateful killing machines with [[PlanetOfHats hats]] of [[WalkingWasteland environmental destruction]] and [[NightmarishFactory industrialization]].
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* Determinator: Batezh, Franco's doctor at the [[BedlamHouse Mount Pleasant Hilltop Institution]] will not tolerate escapees, even if he

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* Determinator: Batezh, Franco's doctor at the [[BedlamHouse Mount Pleasant Hilltop Institution]] will not tolerate escapees, even if he
it means having to singlehandedly hunt a trained team of elite soldiers across multiple planets. [[spoiler:Becomes much more understandable when it turned out he wasn't actually a doctor but a spy assigned to keep an eye on Franco even in the depths of an insane asylum.]]

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* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet and its population into a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent [[GodEmperor living deity]].]]



* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet and its population into a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent [[GodEmperor living deity]].]]

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* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become CatchPhrase: "They don't call me Franco '[[MetaphorIsMyMiddleName descriptive term]]' Haggis for nothing."

* Determinator: Batezh, Franco's doctor at
the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet [[BedlamHouse Mount Pleasant Hilltop Institution]] will not tolerate escapees, even if he

* EldritchAbomination: Leviathan
and its population into to a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent [[GodEmperor living deity]].]]
lesser extent, VOLOS.



* LodgedBladeRecycling: [[spoiler:Doctor Oz, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [[MegaCorp Nano-Tek]] after being stabbed by Pippa, since he's used his own product to become a become a human-shaped glob of [[Nanomachines nanites]] with [[HealingFactor hypereffective regeneration]].]]

* RecruitingTheCriminal: Combat-K's standard recruitment method. Keenan was a police detective who killed a pedophile he'd caught [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll whose wealth and political connections had gotten him an insufficient sentence]], Pippa [[spoiler:stabbed her alcoholic father to death with scissors after he killed her mother]] and after Franco's mother died and the mining megacorporation employing him as an explosives expert refused to give him time off, he blew up their entire mine.

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* LodgedBladeRecycling: [[spoiler:Doctor Oz, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [[MegaCorp Nano-Tek]] after being stabbed by Pippa, since he's used his own product to become a become a human-shaped glob of [[Nanomachines nanites]] nanites with [[HealingFactor hypereffective regeneration]].]]

* RecruitingTheCriminal: Combat-K's standard recruitment method. Keenan was a police detective who killed a pedophile he'd caught [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll whose wealth and political connections had gotten him an insufficient sentence]], Pippa [[spoiler:stabbed her alcoholic father to death with scissors after he killed her mother]] and after Franco's mother died and the mining megacorporation employing him as an explosives expert refused to give him time off, he blew up their entire mine.mine.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Franco likes really terrible [[FutureFoodIsArtificial synthetic sausages]]. Also horseradish.

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* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet and its population into a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent god.]]

* Expy: The Junks are basically a scifi version of Creator/JRRTolkien's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], having originally been a civilized and sophisticated species captured by a malevolent superbeing and tortuously mutilated into

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* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet and its population into a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent god.[[GodEmperor living deity]].]]

* Expy: The Junks are basically a scifi version of Creator/JRRTolkien's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], having [[OurOrcsAreDifferent originally been a civilized and sophisticated species called the Junkala]] originally been a civilized and sophisticated species captured by a malevolent superbeing and tortuously mutilated into
into an army of hateful killing machines with [[PlanetOfHats hats]] of [[WalkingWasteland environmental destruction]] and [[NightmarishFactory industrialization]].

* LodgedBladeRecycling: [[spoiler:Doctor Oz, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [[MegaCorp Nano-Tek]] after being stabbed by Pippa, since he's used his own product to become a become a human-shaped glob of [[Nanomachines nanites]] with [[HealingFactor hypereffective regeneration]].]]

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* BodyHorror: Everywhere. The nano-tek zombie plague in Biohell,

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* ArtificialZombie: The victims of Nano-Tek's BioMods. They're heavily mutated, intelligent enough to use weapons [[spoiler:and under the control of Nano-Tek Corporation's [[MasterComputer Greensource Mainframe]]. Having them go on a brain-eating rampage was beta-testing to weed out the weak and determine which variety of mutation would make the best soldiers.]]

* BodyHorror: Everywhere. The nano-tek zombie plague in Biohell,
Biohell, Melanie following exposure to an extremely flawed nanotechnological supersoldier serum, the entire planetary population of Krakken IV, aka, Sick World, etc.

* AbandonedHospital: Krakken IV, aka, Sick World has this as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]]. It was originally colonized to become the dedicated hospital world of a multi-galactic civilization, but due to multiple [[TheVirus mutagenic contagions]] spreading between imported patients [[spoiler:and the influence of VOLOS, a planetwide GeniusLoci undiscovered by the original colonists until showed itself by turning the entire planet and its population into a MedicalHorror themed DeathWorld which it ruled over the mutated survivors of as a malevolent god.]]

* Expy: The Junks are basically a scifi version of Creator/JRRTolkien's [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], having originally been a civilized and sophisticated species captured by a malevolent superbeing and tortuously mutilated into
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The Combat-K Series are a quartet of [[MilitaryScienceFiction military scifi novels]], ''War Machine'', ''Biohell'', ''Hardcore'' and ''Cloneworld'' by Andy Remic, starring the titular Combat-K squad, Keenan, Pippa and Franco.

!!''The Combat-K Series'' provides examples of:

* ArtificialIntelligence: [[RobotBuddy Cam]], [[RobotDog Sax]], and [[MechaMooks Battle SIMs]].

* BodyHorror: Everywhere. The nano-tek zombie plague in Biohell,

* RecruitingTheCriminal: Combat-K's standard recruitment method. Keenan was a police detective who killed a pedophile he'd caught [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll whose wealth and political connections had gotten him an insufficient sentence]], Pippa [[spoiler:stabbed her alcoholic father to death with scissors after he killed her mother]] and after Franco's mother died and the mining megacorporation employing him as an explosives expert refused to give him time off, he blew up their entire mine.

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