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* BloodBrothers: Yagami and Okegawa. [[spoiler: When Yagami was a kid, rival yakuza gang members broke into his limo and chased him down to kidnap him as leverage against his father, Makoto, who was in bed with the Yamaguchi-gumi. Okegawa intervened and saved Yagami's life, so Makoto had him inducted into the Yamaguchi-gumi and the two were raised together as brothers. Unfortunately, Yagami finds out it was all a lie: Okegawa was recruited by the Inagawa-kai to infiltrate the Yamaguchi-gumi as a sleeper agent by way of becoming Yagami's nakama.]]
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* SwampsAreEvil: Averted. The swamp is a bit unnerving due to how silent it is when they’re hunting the siren wyvern, but it’s made clear it’s no worse than other environments where they have captured dragons.
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* SwampsAreEvil: Averted. The swamp is SwornBrothers: Yagami and Okegawa. [[spoiler: When Yagami was a bit unnerving due kid, rival yakuza gang members broke into his limo and chased him down to how silent it is when they’re hunting kidnap him as leverage against his father, Makoto, who was in bed with the siren wyvern, but it’s made clear it’s no worse than other environments where they have captured dragons. Yamaguchi-gumi. Okegawa intervened and saved Yagami's life, so Makoto had him inducted into the Yamaguchi-gumi and the two were raised together as brothers. Unfortunately, Yagami finds out it was all a lie: Okegawa was recruited by the Inagawa-kai to infiltrate the Yamaguchi-gumi as a sleeper agent by way of becoming Yagami's nakama.]]
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* GeneticAbomination: In addition to the other spliced dragons, Okegawa took it upon himself to crossbreed a diablo dragon with Baba Yaga, creating a spliced dragon out of the two deadliest dragon species on Earth. It is appropriately named Shikei, which is Japanese for "death sentence."
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* IdentityImpersonator: Shannon manages to catch one of the people intending to attend an illegal huma dragon auction and has Kamala go in her place, as she's around the same height and skin/eye color as the woman she's impersonating and the woman wears a niqab. Kamala infiltrates the auction in the niqab and using the woman's real ID that Shannon confiscated when they arrested her.
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* ScienceIsBad: Defied. The book makes a point to state that what Jack and Kamala are doing is for the purpose of education and restoring balance to ecosystems thrown out of whack after people destroyed all the dragons. What ''is'' bad is exploiting science for profit, which the book is very clear about, and it also takes shots at animal cruelty. The former is where it departs from its inspiration, ''Film/JurassicPark''.
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* AndThisIsFor: Jack manages to briefly get his hands on Okegawa, tackling him, pinning him to the floor, and punching him repeatedly for what he's done to him, Kamala, Fujioka, and of course most importantly, [[TheAtoner Detective Colin Stubbs.]]
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* BigGood: Granted, the way they began isn't very benevolent--the US government basically stormed into [=MIT=] and ''forced'' Jack and Kamala to stop their research project and stole their dragons away to study them--but ultimately, this is what the Knight Division is against what's later known as the Apophis Society. They deploy dragon retrievers when there are reports of marauding dragons and safely (and humanely) capture them. The dragons are then taken back to headquarters, examined, and then studied to determine if they can be returned to the wild somewhere that they won't encroach on a human population or they are kept and trained to be used for the team.
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* TranquilizerDart: Among the dragon hunters' tools are of course a tranquilizer gun. It can both shoot the darts or be pressed to a dragon's skin and injected up close depending on the gun's settings. The Knight Division only does non-lethal capture methods and avoid loss of life at all costs.
