History Literature / ForTheWin

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The Webblies organize a massive pyramid scheme.

* SociopathicHero: Justbob is implied to be one, brought into the Webblies because of her loyalty to Big Sister Nor and a love of fighting

** A minor character is described as being not really a gamer because the last game he played was ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', in a way that implies that WOW is now thought of like Pac Man or Pong

An undefined period into the future, ''{{World of Warcraft}}'' is ancient history. Eight of the 20 largest economies in the world are virtual, including three run by Coca-Cola. Nine million people -- Chinese, Indian, Malay, Vietnamese, even some Americans -- make their livings through them, including uncountable gold farmers. Whenever it's more fun to have virtual gold than to not have it, there'll be money to make by gathering it.

** A minor character is described as being not really a gamer because the last game he played was WorldOfWarcraft, in a way that implies that WOW is now thought of like Pac Man or Pong

** A minor character is described as being not really a gamer because the last game he played was WorldOfWarcraft, in a way that implies that WOW is now thought of like Pac Man or Pong

* BigGood: Big Sister Nor, with The Might Krang and Justbob as her [[TheDragon Dragons]]

* MultinationalTeam: The Webblies have a prescence in 12 countries, including China, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia, with [[spoiler: Wei-Dong's recruitment of Mechanical Turks]] even spreading the union to the US. The main characters are American (Wei-Dong, Connor Prikkel), Indian (Mala, Ashok, Yasmin), Chinese (Matthew, Lu, Jie), and Singaporean (Justbob, The Mighty Krang--although his accent is described as Taiwanese at one point, Big Sister Nor--although her backstory indicates that she's Malaysian and at one point she claims to be Indonesian).

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Pinning down a timeframe is even trickier than with ''Literature/LittleBrother''. One of the most concrete clues is that Big Sister Nor has played ''Theater of War VII'' "since she was a little girl."

( ActionGirl: Mala, Yasmin, Big Sister Nor, and especially Justbob all prove that they are badasses both in-game and out. Apparently before meeting Big Sister Nor, Justbob ran one of the most successful female gangs in Southeast Asia

* HeroicSociopath: Justbob is implied to be one

* BadassEyepatch: Justbob gains one after being beaten up by thugs early on in the book

** The same can be said of Justbob after her eye is ruined by an attack by hired thugs, causing her to wear a BadassEyepatch. She starts removing it to scratch the scars around her eye when she wants to win an argument with The Mighty Krang.

* BigGood: Big Sister Nor

CoryDoctorow's ''For the Win'' differs from his previous young adult novel, ''Literature/LittleBrother'', in the lack of a single protagonist providing the sole perspective. Instead, there are several viewpoint characters, including:

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Pinning down a timeframe is even trickier than with ''Literature/LittleBrother''. One of the most concrete clues is that Big Sister Nor has played ''Theater of War VII'' "since she was a little girl."

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Pinning down a timeframe is even trickier than with ''LittleBrother''. One of the most concrete clues is that Big Sister Nor has played ''Theater of War VII'' "since she was a little girl."

CoryDoctorow's ''For the Win'' differs from his previous young adult novel, ''LittleBrother'', in the lack of a single protagonist providing the sole perspective. Instead, there are several viewpoint characters, including:

* FridgeBrilliance: As the above summary explains, there's no actual main character or [[TheHero hero.]] Many different peoples' varrying ideals and ways of life come together and sometimes into conflict with each other. Now, take note of how Big Sister Nor's idea of earning rights for the gold farmers works: bringing together many different people, each with equally important roles, being fully aware of how their goals bring them into conflict with many people, both powerful and weak. The narrative doesn't just tell the story through one central perspective, but illustrates it in a manner that's realistic in the scope of the story.