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* CurbStompBattle: To build his legal defense of possessing a recklessness gene, Brad Gordon travels the States to do various high-risk activities. Along the way, he starts a brawl in a Wyoming saloon after insulting what he thought was a gay couple ... who turned out to be brothers instead, one of whom was a martial arts champion. Brad goes down in thirty seconds, and spends the night in a hospital with a jaw full of loosened teeth and Novocaine.
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* CurbStompBattle: To build his legal defense of possessing a recklessness gene, Brad Gordon travels the States to do various high-risk activities. Along the way, he starts a brawl in a Wyoming saloon after insulting what he thought was a gay couple ... [[MistakenForGay who turned out to be brothers instead, instead]], one of whom was a martial arts champion. Between that and the man's steel-toed boots, Brad goes down in thirty seconds, and spends the night in a hospital with a jaw full of loosened teeth and Novocaine.
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* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for [=BioGen=] ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He ends up in massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.
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* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for [=BioGen=] ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He His storyline ends up in with the implication of massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.sue.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Burnetts' storyline ends with Alex, after chasing off the bounty hunter who kidnapped her son in order to extract her father's cells from his blood, managing to overturn the ruling that had initially designated those cells the property of [=BioGen=]. This, and the failure of their maturity gene, leads Rick Diehl and his senior staff to resign from [=BioGen=] under legal pressure, and clearing the way for [[spoiler:Jack Watson to take over its operation as he'd planned.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Burnetts' storyline ends with Alex, after chasing off the bounty hunter who kidnapped her son in order to extract her father's cells from his blood, managing to overturn the ruling that had initially designated those cells the property of [=BioGen=]. This, and the failure of their maturity gene, leads Rick Diehl and his senior staff to resign from [=BioGen=] under legal pressure, and clearing the way for [[spoiler:Jack Watson to take over its operation as he'd planned.]]
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** [[spoiler:Brad Gordon, while building a flimsy defense for a recklessness gene, dies after fatally shooting Bellarmino at an amusement park--while he'd been filming a special on ''60 Minutes'' for the specific purpose of promoting the research on the same exact gene.]]
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** [[spoiler:Brad Gordon, while building a flimsy defense for a recklessness gene, dies after fatally shooting Bellarmino at an amusement park--while he'd the latter had been filming a special on ''60 Minutes'' for the specific purpose of promoting the research on the same exact gene.]]
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** While Rob Bellarmino is on a flight to Ohio, his wife Georgia discovers strange bruises on their daughter. It turns out that she's been shooting up fertility drugs and selling her own eggs. Georgia decides to table what's sure to be a fiery talk until Rob comes back from his trip. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
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** While Rob Bellarmino is on a flight to Ohio, his wife Georgia discovers strange bruises on their teenage daughter. It turns out that she's been shooting up fertility drugs and selling her own eggs. Georgia Georgia, frustrated after learning that doctor-patient privilege keeps her from putting a stop to this, decides to table what's sure to be a fiery talk until Rob comes back from his trip. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Henry Kendall's plan to test the novelty gene by visiting several amusement parks is hijacked by Bellarmino, his boss at the NIH, much to Kendall's displeasure. Though he ultimately does nothing about it, this bites Bellarmino in the ass when [[spoiler:he and Brad Gordon cross paths at one such park, and Gordon--panicked out of a mistaken fear he'd been caught ogling a pair of preteens--fatally shoots Bellarmino in the middle of his own TV special.]]
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* AbortedArc: The resolution as to whether bodybuilding heart attack victim John Weller was a Chimera (someone with two sets of DNA) and therefore whether or not Lisa was actually his daughter, never occurs in favor of [[spoiler:implying that he was poisoned by his wife and an intern's twin mixing up samples while stealing leg bones.]]
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* AbortedArc: The resolution as to whether bodybuilding heart attack victim John Weller was a Chimera (someone with two sets of DNA) and therefore whether or not Lisa was actually his daughter, never occurs in favor of [[spoiler:implying that he was poisoned by his wife and that an intern's twin mixing had mixed up samples while stealing leg bones.bones. The arc culminates in the intern becoming a whistleblower, and his boss is arrested for organ theft.]]
** While Rob Bellarmino is on a flight to Ohio, his wife Georgia discovers strange bruises on their daughter. It turns out that she's been shooting up fertility drugs and selling her own eggs. Georgia decides to table what's sure to be a fiery talk until Rob comes back from his trip. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
** While Rob Bellarmino is on a flight to Ohio, his wife Georgia discovers strange bruises on their daughter. It turns out that she's been shooting up fertility drugs and selling her own eggs. Georgia decides to table what's sure to be a fiery talk until Rob comes back from his trip. [[spoiler:He doesn't.]]
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* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for BioGen ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He ends up in massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.
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* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for BioGen [=BioGen=] ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He ends up in massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.
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* RightThroughTheWall: Part of the reason Gerard the parrot changes hands so many times over the course of the book is his penchant for replicating [[TheImmodestOrgasm the noises of passionate lovemaking]]. This is how his creator learns that her husband was cheating on her. When that husband gifts him to a billionaire investor with marital strife of his own, Gerard wastes no time in doing the same thing to ''him'', and ends up getting dropped off at a pet store before he can wreck another marriage.
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* CurbStompBattle: To build his legal defense of possessing a recklessness gene, Brad Gordon travels the States to do various high-risk activities. Along the way, he starts a brawl in a Wyoming saloon after insulting what he thought was a gay couple ... who turned out to be brothers instead, one of whom was a martial arts champion. Brad goes down in thirty seconds, and spends the night in a hospital with a jaw full of loosened teeth and Novocaine.
* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for BioGen ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He ends up in massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.
* DownerEnding: Poor Josh Winkler. The maturity gene he was testing for BioGen ends disastrously, when the rats he tested it on--and eventually, the humans that get a trial version--all die of massively accelerated old age. Among them is his brother Adam, a former addict who'd unwittingly exposed himself to the gene and cleaned himself up along the way. He ends up in massive legal trouble after a friend of his mother's, who'd been given a placebo, ends up developing Alzheimer's and her lawyer sons seize the chance to sue.
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* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: Watson is implied to have supported the Burnet's the whole time, since he sent someone that helped Frank go into hiding.]]
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:To get rid of Brad Gordon, Watson's nephew (and nepotism-appointed head of security) for both being a poor employee and sleeping with Rick's secretary/mistress Lisa, Rick Diehl, knowing of his paedophillic tendencies, frames him for statutory rape. This backfires ''spectacularly'' - setting off a chain of events that leads to Watson successfully outing him]].
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* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:To get rid of Brad Gordon, Watson's nephew (and nepotism-appointed head of security) for both being a poor employee and sleeping with Rick's secretary/mistress Lisa, Rick Diehl, knowing of his paedophillic tendencies, frames him for statutory rape. This backfires ''spectacularly'' - setting off a chain of events that leads to Watson successfully outing ousting him]].
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* BittersweetEnding: The Kendalls' storyline ends with the family intact, with both Dave and Gerard joining them. But Henry notices that Dave is getting some gray hairs around his muzzle, and suspects he will die young because of it.
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''[=NeXT=]'' is a 2006 novel, Creator/MichaelCrichton's final published novel in his lifetime. The plot intertwines several different stories. There are two main story arcs: that of a family trying to raise a transgenic HalfHumanHybrid in secret and that of a family who're being hunted down for "illegal theft" of their cancer-resistant genes. Sub-plots include an incredibly intelligent parrot, a pedophile working security for a genetics firm who is promptly framed for rape and is convinced by his lawyer to use genetics to excuse his behavior, a delusional hippie, a foul-mouthed orangutan, and the media hype surrounding it, a baby rapist with a small penis (who just happens to have the same name as Crichton's real-life critic) and a pair of bounty hunters hunting down said family.
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''[=NeXT=]'' is a 2006 novel, Creator/MichaelCrichton's final published novel in his lifetime. The plot intertwines several different stories. There are two main story arcs: that of a family trying to raise a transgenic HalfHumanHybrid in secret and that of a family who're being hunted down for "illegal theft" of their cancer-resistant genes. Sub-plots include an incredibly intelligent parrot, a pedophile working security for a genetics firm who is promptly framed for rape and is convinced by his lawyer to use genetics to excuse his behavior, a delusional hippie, a foul-mouthed orangutan, orangutan and the media hype surrounding it, a baby rapist with a small penis (who just happens to have the same name as Crichton's real-life critic) and a pair of bounty hunters hunting down said family.
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The TV series is completely unrelated to the novel
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Not to be confused with the 2007 Creator/NicolasCage movie of the same name.
In 2020 it was made into a TV series airing on {{Creator/Fox}}.
In 2020 it was made into a TV series airing on {{Creator/Fox}}.
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Not to be confused with the 2007 Creator/NicolasCage movie of the same name.
Inname, nor the 2020 it was made into a TV series airing that aired on {{Creator/Fox}}.Fox.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Dr. Robert Bellarmino.]]
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Dave and Gerard.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: Dave and Gerard.Gerard are a chimp and a parrot had part of human DNA injected into their embryos. As a result both exhibit a considerable level of human intelligence.
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This confused the heck out of me at first.
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* AcquiredErrorAtThePrinter: At one point Dave, a transgenic higher primate, is accidentally called a ''transgender'' higher primate by the narration.
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* MediaScaremongering: Many of the "news report" chapters exist to criticize this kind of news reporting.
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* YouCanPanicNow: Many of the "news report" chapters exist to criticize this kind of news reporting.
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Two of the female main characters have sons named Jamie. So when bounty hunters attempt to abduct one of them, they wind up taking the wrong Jamie, which results in them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere giving up on the entire bounty]].
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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Two of the The two main female main characters characters, who are close friends, both have eight-year-old sons named Jamie. So when bounty hunters attempt to abduct one of them, they wind up taking the wrong Jamie, which results in them [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere giving up on the entire bounty]]. bounty]].
* OutGambitted: [[spoiler:To get rid of Brad Gordon, Watson's nephew (and nepotism-appointed head of security) for both being a poor employee and sleeping with Rick's secretary/mistress Lisa, Rick Diehl, knowing of his paedophillic tendencies, frames him for statutory rape. This backfires ''spectacularly'' - setting off a chain of events that leads to Watson successfully outing him]].
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* [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Better To Die than Be Arrested]]: The Bounty Hunter's first target.
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* [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Better To Die than Be Arrested]]: The Bounty Hunter's first target.in-story target opts to suffocate himself with nitrogen before allowing himself to be taken in.
