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* CoolGuns: The Spearpoint mooks carry custom made pistols. Also, the 19th century flintlock. No while the books is called The Gun Machine, there are no machine guns.
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Boobs Of Steel is a disambiguation
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* AmazonianBeauty: Scarly's wife Talia, described by Bat as a "Scandinavian Amazon who can [[BoobsOfSteel crush rocks with her boobs.]]"
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* AmazonianBeauty: Scarly's wife Talia, described by Bat as a "Scandinavian Amazon who can [[BoobsOfSteel crush rocks with her boobs.]]""
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* KnifeNut: Although the hunter prefers guns, he won't shy away from using his knives.
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* DeathOfAChild: Some of the hunter's victims.
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* InfantImmortality: Horrifically averted.
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-->'''Bat''': I don’t even tell people I’m a cop. I tell people I’m a CSU.\\
'''Tallow''': Same thing.\\
'''Bat''': You know what? No offense, but I don’t want them to be the same thing. I’m a CSU. I solve things. I hunt and build and solve things with science. You know what a New York City cop does? Beats protesters. Rapes women.\\
'''Tallow''': Hey.\\
'''Bat''': You can’t argue that, John. Remember that detective who raped that woman in the doorway of her apartment building in the Bronx? Remember what she said he said to her? ‘I’m not as bad as those other cops who raped that other girl.’ Remember how bad Occupy Wall Street got? Penning women up and then pepper-spraying them? Beating journalists with batons? Cracking the skull of a councilman? Dragging women out of wheelchairs? That’s what a New York City cop is. We’re not fucking heroes. So, yeah, I don’t tell people I’m a cop. I don’t like going out into the field. I like it on my floor of One PP, where we do science and just solve stuff without ever having to go outside and punch someone in the face for being in an inconvenient place and talking the shit that we so richly deserve—
'''Tallow''': Same thing.\\
'''Bat''': You know what? No offense, but I don’t want them to be the same thing. I’m a CSU. I solve things. I hunt and build and solve things with science. You know what a New York City cop does? Beats protesters. Rapes women.\\
'''Tallow''': Hey.\\
'''Bat''': You can’t argue that, John. Remember that detective who raped that woman in the doorway of her apartment building in the Bronx? Remember what she said he said to her? ‘I’m not as bad as those other cops who raped that other girl.’ Remember how bad Occupy Wall Street got? Penning women up and then pepper-spraying them? Beating journalists with batons? Cracking the skull of a councilman? Dragging women out of wheelchairs? That’s what a New York City cop is. We’re not fucking heroes. So, yeah, I don’t tell people I’m a cop. I don’t like going out into the field. I like it on my floor of One PP, where we do science and just solve stuff without ever having to go outside and punch someone in the face for being in an inconvenient place and talking the shit that we so richly deserve—
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--->'''D WESTO 911''': clean phone? what am i stringer fucking bell?
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'''D WESTO 911''': clean phone? what am i stringer fucking bell?
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->The Tao of cop shows, man. All those cop shows I grew up with, especially those in the aughties, say the same thing. If you are smart enough, and your Science, with a capital S, is good enough, and if you refuse to give up and just keep using Science on the problem, it’ll crack and you can solve it. And the problem is always the same: the world has stopped making sense, and the cops have to use Science to force it to make sense. That’s the heart of every cop show. Give yourself to a cop show for an hour, and it’ll show you a breakdown in the ethical compact, and the process by which that breakdown occurred, and how it is fixed and made to never happen again. That’s why everyone loves them. They speak to our sense that everything’s fucked and then show you how to work to find out what really happened—simplify the world—and then deal with it.
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* ShoutOut: To ''TheWire'', during an online chat between Machen and Westover.
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* ShoutOut: To ''TheWire'', ''Series/TheWire'', during an online chat between Machen and Westover.
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* [[spoiler:RealAfterAll: The chapters from The Hunter's POW makes it ambiguous exactly who or what he is and giving the book a distinct UrbanFantasy edge, until Tallow's investigations catch up and reveal him as a delusional psychotic who is simply imagining old Manhattan.]]
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* [[spoiler:RealAfterAll: The RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:The chapters from The Hunter's POW makes it ambiguous exactly who or what he is and giving the book a distinct UrbanFantasy edge, until Tallow's investigations catch up and reveal him as a delusional psychotic who is simply imagining old Manhattan.]]
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WarrenEllis' second novel, a PoliceProcedural involving a MegaCorp, a private security organization and a good amount of Native American mythology. It is told from the perspective of NYPD Detective John Tallow, who, after losing his partner, discovers a ritualistically decorated room full of guns, each of which can be connected to an unsolved murder -- over two hundred of them, some dating more than twenty years back.
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Per TRS, The Hunter has been renamed to Hunter Of Monsters. Misuse and zero context examples will be cut or moved to subtropes.
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* TheHunter: The main antagonist's only alias.
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* SympathyForTheDevil: In one of his last POV chapters, the Hunter becomes incredibly depressed (and cries histerically) over the fact he's an outcast from modern age and a self-destructive madman. The chapter shows how he seems regretful of what he became to some extent, though he quickly brushes these thoughts off and returns to the killing. It's probably the only humanizing moment he has in the entire book.
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* FireForgedFriends: Tallow, Scarly and Bat become friends through the crisis.
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* TheHunterTheHunter: The main antagonist's only alias.
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* CompleteMonster: The hunter really doesn't have one redeeming value or even a single PetTheDog moment to humanize him.
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* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Bat
--->'''Bat''': Hey. Parents in the eighties. What're you going to do?
--->'''Bat''': Hey. Parents in the eighties. What're you going to do?
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* CoolGuns: The Spearpoint mooks carry custom made pistols. Also, the 19th century flintlock. No while the books is called The Gun Machine, there are no machine guns.
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* PunchClockVillain: The two Spearpoint employees who come to process the weapons in the apartment would probably be quite upset if they knew they were actually being used to get rid of the evidence. [[spoiler: and that their boss viewed them as expendable.]]
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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Scarly shouts that she's autistic whenever she abuses Bat. She's not and they both know it.
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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Scarly shouts that she's autistic whenever she abuses Bat. She's not and they both know it. Also counts as a RunningGag.
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* DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery: Scarly shouts that she's autistic whenever she abuses Bat. She's not and they both know it.
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* TheHermit: Tallow was the more benevolent type. Up until the start of the story, he apparently spent the vast majority of his free-time by himself. He considered his former partner of years to be his best friend, yet never tried to meet his wife or family. Eating dinner at Scarly's was part of his CharacterDevelopment when he realized his shunning of the world might actually indicate he is somewhat crazy.
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* KnifeNut: Although the hunter prefers guns, he won't shy away from using his knives.
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* PetTheDog: After his partner was killed, Tallow tries to do these a few times to come out of his shell when he realized exactly how withdrawn from the world he's been.
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* CompleteMonster: The hunter really doesn't have one redeeming value or even a single PetTheDog moment to humanize him.
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** Most of the downtime in the story has Tallow either witnessing horrific, if incidental, acts or hearing about them on the police radio.
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* KickTheDog: While the hunter isn't trying to specifically cause as much pain as possible when he kills, he doesn't go out of his way to end their agony quickly either.
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* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler: Although in his eyes, the hunter would dispute that he was the one that was hired]]
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* InfantImmortality: Horrifically averted.
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* WouldHurtAChild: The hunter just isn't a nice person.
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* EyeScream: The hunter kills one mook by stabbing him in the eye with a large knife. Disturbingly it takes 15 seconds for him to die.
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* [[spoiler:RealAfterAll: The chapters from The Hunter's POW makes it ambiguous exactly who or what he is and giving the book a distinct UrbanFantasy edge, until Tallow's investigations catch up and reveal him as a delusional psychotic who is simply imagining old Manhattan.]]
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* YourHeadAsplode: Tallow's partner.partner.
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