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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Sundancer's powers first awakened when she was 14 and first discovered masturbation. Unfortunately, she ended up burning her sheets.
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* OrgasmicCombat: Sunday associates her powers with sex due to the fact that they first manifested during ADateWithRosiePalms.
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* OrgasmicCombat: Sunday associates her powers with sex due to the fact that they first manifested during ADateWithRosiePalms.masturbation.
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* PowerPerversionPotential: After stealing a cab ride with a pair of flight attendants and accompanying them to their hotel room, Richard engages in a bit of voyeurism as he shares a shower with one of them.
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** After stealing a cab ride with a pair of flight attendants and accompanying them to their hotel room, Richard engages in a bit of voyeurism as he shares a shower with one of them.
** After stealing a cab ride with a pair of flight attendants and accompanying them to their hotel room, Richard engages in a bit of voyeurism as he shares a shower with one of them.
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* CryForTheDevil: Pit Geek is a disgusting murderous creature in the first book, but is presented much more sympathetically in the second as we learn about his mental state and background. Sundancer also becomes more sympathetic, especially when she [[spoiler:finally accepts that the war between Rex Monday and Dr. Know is over]].
** The death-row inmates Dr. Know uses for his WetwareCPU while Richard didn’t believe in the death penalty he stressed that death was preferable even if they were AssholeVictim.
*** Making this worse one of the inmates was a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who welcomed his death sentence.
** The death-row inmates Dr. Know uses for his WetwareCPU while Richard didn’t believe in the death penalty he stressed that death was preferable even if they were AssholeVictim.
*** Making this worse one of the inmates was a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who welcomed his death sentence.
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* {{Squick}}: As Richard was utilizing PowerPerversionPotential the woman used the the toilet, oblivious to the fact that he was sitting on it. He found himself sharing her body.
** When Sarah was seventeen and met a man at a concert just as they were about to get it on Amelia ripped off the roof of his Van, Dr. Know had been inside the guy’s head the entire time. Him not being able to read Richard’s mind is one of the primary reasons she became attracted to him.
** When Sarah was seventeen and met a man at a concert just as they were about to get it on Amelia ripped off the roof of his Van, Dr. Know had been inside the guy’s head the entire time. Him not being able to read Richard’s mind is one of the primary reasons she became attracted to him.
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Cloning Blues renamed to Clone Angst as per TRS
, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone (Also ZCE)
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* HiveMind: This is how Dr. Know plans to prevent CloningBlues so he can live forever.
** Sister Ami also created one between her and fellow death-row inmates, with her acting as the HiveQueen.
** Sister Ami also created one between her and fellow death-row inmates, with her acting as the HiveQueen.
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* Sundancer sees herself as a revolutionary fighting for a cause to the point where she got offended when an amnesiac Pit Geek said they should just robbed banks.
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::'''Sarah''': ''We can’t leave the city here. Sister Amy didn’t need to control any nuclear weapons to trigger a global firestorm. You think the players over here are going to stand by passively and let a city built by Americans sit on sacred ground? We know there are nations in the mix that have nukes. We also know they have a history of spreading the pain around.''
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::'''Chimpion''': ''What? No acid mode? No eel mode? You’re just going to shoot me?''
::'''App''': ''Yeah, I’m going to fucking shoot you.''
::'''App''': ''Yeah, I’m going to fucking shoot you.''
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::'''Pastor Ami''': ''I have the ultimate marching orders. I’m tasked by the Lord to bring about the end of days. I have been given my gifts to see His prophecy fulfilled. Why else would a sham death sentence have given me telepathy? Why else would the Lord have given me a volunteer army of thirteen genius scientists, their talents hidden beneath the false programming of the mind butchers of the Knowbokov Foundation? These geniuses awaited the touch of my mind to waken and nurture them. These things cannot have happened by chance.''
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** ** Servant’s father was a supervillain who raped his mother.
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* TheReveal: Servant’s father is Rex Monday.
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* SerialRapist: As of the third novel, Rex Monday has two children, each of which is a ChildByRape.
* ShaggyDogStory: Katrina Knowbokov freed the inmates from her husband’s WetwareCPU. The experience left each a BlankSlate, allowing her to give them all a fresh start by imprinting new identities over their existing memories, only for them to be brainwashed by Delilah [=McPherson=] into joining her ApocalypseCult.
* ShaggyDogStory: Katrina Knowbokov freed the inmates from her husband’s WetwareCPU. The experience left each a BlankSlate, allowing her to give them all a fresh start by imprinting new identities over their existing memories, only for them to be brainwashed by Delilah [=McPherson=] into joining her ApocalypseCult.
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** It is not App’s belt that keeps him alive, but the computers that house the code for the belt. His line of work is extremely dangerous, and as he himself stated, the belt gets destroyed all the time.
** This is why Dr Know was amused by the President’s attempts at blocking his telepathy. Though it worked the second the president and his team left the bunker they would meet in to figure out how to deal with Dr Know, he’d know what they’d discussed. He said the only way for it would have really worked would be if they never left the room.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Pastor Amy believes that it is God’s will for her to bring forth the apocalypse.
::'''Pastor Ami''': ''I have the ultimate marching orders. I’m tasked by the Lord to bring about the end of days. I have been given my gifts to see His prophecy fulfilled. Why else would a sham death sentence have given me telepathy? Why else would the Lord have given me a volunteer army of thirteen genius scientists, their talents hidden beneath the false programming of the mind butchers of the Knowbokov Foundation? These geniuses awaited the touch of my mind to waken and nurture them. These things cannot have happened by chance.''
** This is why Dr Know was amused by the President’s attempts at blocking his telepathy. Though it worked the second the president and his team left the bunker they would meet in to figure out how to deal with Dr Know, he’d know what they’d discussed. He said the only way for it would have really worked would be if they never left the room.
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Pastor Amy believes that it is God’s will for her to bring forth the apocalypse.
::'''Pastor Ami''': ''I have the ultimate marching orders. I’m tasked by the Lord to bring about the end of days. I have been given my gifts to see His prophecy fulfilled. Why else would a sham death sentence have given me telepathy? Why else would the Lord have given me a volunteer army of thirteen genius scientists, their talents hidden beneath the false programming of the mind butchers of the Knowbokov Foundation? These geniuses awaited the touch of my mind to waken and nurture them. These things cannot have happened by chance.''
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* VictoryByEndurance: Most of the inmates that Dr Know had kidnapped had gone into death row in their twenties, but due to appeals, had faced execution in their thirties. Then, some had spent over a decade in a goo tube, and another six years had passed since they’d been freed. Judgement had to be at least 50 and maybe close to sixty. So even with his armor supplying all the real muscle, Sarah had far more stamina and endurance than him. She was even worried that he might keel over from a heart attack while chasing her.
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* HeroicSacrifice: After Sister Ami was defeated, Servant refused to be set free of the Space Machine despite the fact that it was killing him, because they still needed to transport New Jerusalem back to Texas and he’s the only power source that can move the city back into place.
** Sister Ami also created one between her and fellow death-row inmates, with her acting as the HiveQueen.
* InsaneTrollLogic: According to Judgment it is blasphemous to have superpowers, as only God has the power to create something from nothing.
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** Cliff blamed himself for falling for Sister Ami’s manipulation, but Sarah assured him that it wasn’t his fault.
** Cliff blamed himself for falling for Sister Ami’s manipulation, but Sarah assured him that it wasn’t his fault.
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* MoreThanMindControl: This is the crux of Sister Amy’s EvilPlan to send New Jerusalem to old Jerusalem.
::'''Sarah''': ''We can’t leave the city here. Sister Amy didn’t need to control any nuclear weapons to trigger a global firestorm. You think the players over here are going to stand by passively and let a city built by Americans sit on sacred ground? We know there are nations in the mix that have nukes. We also know they have a history of spreading the pain around.''
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Katrina Knowbokov took it upon herself to take responsibility for the actions of Rex Monday and her late husband. Sadly, she was unaware that the inmates’ time in the WetwareCPU had transformed them into [[PowerParasite Power Parasites]] when she freed them. This made her endeavor of giving them a chance [[StartingANewLife at a new life]] doomed to fail, and is ultimately what led to her death. The {{Irony}} is that Sister Ami killed her in revenge for what happened at Jerusalem, something she had absolutely nothing to do with.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: After realizing that she was TheMole, App came a across a feverish, mutilated, and half immobilized Chimpion. Instead of using his apps, he just took a rifle from one of the guards she killed and shot her.
::'''Chimpion''': ''What? No acid mode? No eel mode? You’re just going to shoot me?''
::'''App''': ''Yeah, I’m going to fucking shoot you.''
* NoNonsenseNemesis: After realizing that she was TheMole, App came a across a feverish, mutilated, and half immobilized Chimpion. Instead of using his apps, he just took a rifle from one of the guards she killed and shot her.
::'''Chimpion''': ''What? No acid mode? No eel mode? You’re just going to shoot me?''
::'''App''': ''Yeah, I’m going to fucking shoot you.''
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Chimpion failed in her attempt to kill App due to not knowing that he could reboot even if the belt was destroyed. This caused her to express her frustration at typical human verbal looseness, as he’d said several times the belt was the source of his powers, barely ever mentioning the servers that truly housed him.
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* PoweredArmor: Judgement, one of the inmates freed by Mrs. Know and later brainwashed by Amy [=McPherson=], wears one based off Steam-Dragon’s armor, designed to look like an angle.
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** The Dervishes are the result of the death-row inmates using the knowledge they gained from Dr. Know’s WetwareCPU to create [[SuperSoldier Super Soldiers]]. Specifically, UninhibitedMusclePower, Rail Blades’ ExtraOreDinary, and TemporalDuplication.
* PsychicLink: This was Delilah [=McPherson’s=] job in the WetwareCPU. While the other inmates were tasked with solving exotic scientific challenges like cloning, time travel, energy harvesting, and unraveling the secrets of his daughters’ powers, her mind was used as a sort of telepathic bridge, a hub through which the thoughts in all the various minds might meet and cooperate with one another. When they were set free of the PeopleJars she still possessed this telepathic connection, not only with her fellow prisoners, but with anyone she focused on.
* PsychicLink: This was Delilah [=McPherson’s=] job in the WetwareCPU. While the other inmates were tasked with solving exotic scientific challenges like cloning, time travel, energy harvesting, and unraveling the secrets of his daughters’ powers, her mind was used as a sort of telepathic bridge, a hub through which the thoughts in all the various minds might meet and cooperate with one another. When they were set free of the PeopleJars she still possessed this telepathic connection, not only with her fellow prisoners, but with anyone she focused on.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: App can either Reset, which is a command used to return to normal after using a power, or Reboot, which is triggered remotely when the server realizes he’s been mortally injured
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* AbilityMixing: By combining PsychicLink and CompellingVoice into MindManipulation, Sister Amy was able to build Brain Trust into the world-shaking force it became.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Pangeans are a race of [[IntelligentPrimate super-intelligent chimps]] created by Rex Monday using an evolution ray. In both the second and third novel of the series, they attempt an ApocalypseHow. In ''Burn Baby Burn'' it was out of resentment at being the minority compared to humans, while in ''Covenant'' they were merely acting as mercenaries for the BigBad. In both cases, the underlining cause of their actions is their belief in TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies.
* AmbiguousCloneEnding: App has a clone app. Unfortunately, he ended up falling under Sister Amy’s control. While App manages to take him out, he couldn’t get rid of the clone with the servers down. When Sarah asked him how he knew whether he was the clone or the original, App didn’t answer. It turns out she was right and the two eventually gave up on trying to figure out which one of them was the original.
* AmbiguousCloneEnding: App has a clone app. Unfortunately, he ended up falling under Sister Amy’s control. While App manages to take him out, he couldn’t get rid of the clone with the servers down. When Sarah asked him how he knew whether he was the clone or the original, App didn’t answer. It turns out she was right and the two eventually gave up on trying to figure out which one of them was the original.
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** Servant’s powers fall under BlessedWithSuck, as while his force fields are incredibly powerful since he can never turn them off, he can’t actually touch or feel anything.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Since Servant is immune to Sister Ami’s telepathy, she didn’t let him in on the fact that Brain Trust was an ApocalypseCult until it was time to enact her plan.
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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Dervishes were just ordinary people that Sister Ami brainwashed into being terrorists. In fact, the majority of Brain Trust is under her control.
* BroughtDownToBadass: A lot of the hardware for the server that houses App’s data was Rex Monday’s own design, and it is doubtful that the Knowbokov Foundation could fix it. So by the end of "Covanant", the twin App’s have lost their immortality and the only power they have is the apps that were already programmed into their belt when the server was destroyed.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Played with. While Servant ended up surviving his HeroicSacrifice, the Space Machine ended up absorbing all of the vacuum energy that allowed him to create his force fields, essentially tearing his power from his body while he was no longer super powered. His true form is still the shape of the man who’d been known as Ogre.
* BroughtDownToBadass: A lot of the hardware for the server that houses App’s data was Rex Monday’s own design, and it is doubtful that the Knowbokov Foundation could fix it. So by the end of "Covanant", the twin App’s have lost their immortality and the only power they have is the apps that were already programmed into their belt when the server was destroyed.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Played with. While Servant ended up surviving his HeroicSacrifice, the Space Machine ended up absorbing all of the vacuum energy that allowed him to create his force fields, essentially tearing his power from his body while he was no longer super powered. His true form is still the shape of the man who’d been known as Ogre.
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** Rex Monday created technology that makes him ImmuneToMindControl. Mrs. Knowbokov started using it after his death.
** The White House wasn’t happy about dealing with Dr. Know when he used his telepathy to get his way, so they built a bunker beneath the White House with psionic baffles that are shielded from all telepathic access. There is even a security code that can be used to ward the President against possible psionic incursion.
** The Russian military is so corrupt that Mrs Know was able to cripple their nuclear capabilities just by throwing money around. They have a lot of missiles sitting in silos that won’t go anywhere because the rocket fuel has been sold on the black market. Lots of other missiles are essentially empty shells because terrorists have paid top dollar for the fissionable material.
** Rex Monday created technology that makes him ImmuneToMindControl. Mrs. Knowbokov started using it after his death.
** The White House wasn’t happy about dealing with Dr. Know when he used his telepathy to get his way, so they built a bunker beneath the White House with psionic baffles that are shielded from all telepathic access. There is even a security code that can be used to ward the President against possible psionic incursion.
** The Russian military is so corrupt that Mrs Know was able to cripple their nuclear capabilities just by throwing money around. They have a lot of missiles sitting in silos that won’t go anywhere because the rocket fuel has been sold on the black market. Lots of other missiles are essentially empty shells because terrorists have paid top dollar for the fissionable material.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The third novel has one for AugmentedReality. After surviving a cacophony of tiny explosions, her helmet warning her of the smoke, the flame, the dangerous proximity of trees overhead if she took flight and her opponent being not only far more distracting then helpful but something she could see with her own eyes, she was forced to cut its power.
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* EvilPlan: Amy [=McPherson’s=] plan is to have her Dervishes perform terrorist acts on American soil, increasing political pressure to send more troops to fight overseas, then use her MindManipulation to get the President to reinstate the draft and send the youth of America off to put an end to this terrible, terrible threat. Then, once she’s started WorldWarIII, she plans on transporting New Jerusalem to Old Jerusalem, exacerbating things until the NuclearOption is the only choice the leaders of the world have.
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* FacialScruff: One of the Johnnys grew this as a way to distinguish himself from the other; the fact that App is normally better groomed makes it even more noticeable. It could also double as a BeardOfSorrow.
* FailedASpotCheck: Sister Amy may have {{Telepathy}}, but she’s not omniscient. She tried to kill Skyrider by teleporting her into outer space because she wasn’t aware that her suit was pressurized and didn’t know that App is ImmuneToMindControl while in ghost mode.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: It was simply impossible for Sarah to rescue her mother after Sister Ami shot her. Either the pullet reached her first or the shockwave created from Sarah’s attempt at reaching her in time would.
* FailedASpotCheck: Sister Amy may have {{Telepathy}}, but she’s not omniscient. She tried to kill Skyrider by teleporting her into outer space because she wasn’t aware that her suit was pressurized and didn’t know that App is ImmuneToMindControl while in ghost mode.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: It was simply impossible for Sarah to rescue her mother after Sister Ami shot her. Either the pullet reached her first or the shockwave created from Sarah’s attempt at reaching her in time would.
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* FromNobodyToNightmare: Delilah [=McPherson=] went from a deranged if standard ChurchMilitant to someone with enough knowledge and power to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* ImmortalsFearDeath: Averted. After Chimpion destroyed his servers, App felt as if an invisible weight had been removed from his shoulders. His mind had squirmed away from any attempt to grapple with the ramifications of his potential immortality. Knowing that his current life might be his last made him feel as if it had some value.
* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Inverted. Delilah [=McPherson=] was one of the death-row inmates who were a part of Dr. Know’s WetwareCPU. After his death, Mrs Know wanted to give them a second chance and set them free, unaware that since he had used portions of her mind as a telepathic amplifier, Delilah was immune to the attempts at turning her into a BlankSlate. When she was released, she kidnapped her sister Amy, drugged her, and turned her loose on a highway in a car with a stuck accelerator and the brake lines slowly bleeding out. And since she had already stolen all of Amy’s memories, it was easy for Delilah to step into her life.
* ImpersonatingTheEvilTwin: Inverted. Delilah [=McPherson=] was one of the death-row inmates who were a part of Dr. Know’s WetwareCPU. After his death, Mrs Know wanted to give them a second chance and set them free, unaware that since he had used portions of her mind as a telepathic amplifier, Delilah was immune to the attempts at turning her into a BlankSlate. When she was released, she kidnapped her sister Amy, drugged her, and turned her loose on a highway in a car with a stuck accelerator and the brake lines slowly bleeding out. And since she had already stolen all of Amy’s memories, it was easy for Delilah to step into her life.
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* {{Steampunk}}: Rebecca is a huge fan of this genre and went to a half dozen conventions a year with her boyfriend.
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** Even though Servant doesn’t need to eat food, he still enjoys meals. This was how his DNA was extracted, since what goes in must come out.
* TimeMaster: Servant can alter time inside his field, allowing him to mimic the effects of SuperSpeed. However, he can’t project it onto other people.
* TimeMaster: Servant can alter time inside his field, allowing him to mimic the effects of SuperSpeed. However, he can’t project it onto other people.
