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* ConspicuousConsumption: The ten-pack of condoms, which cost $50,000.
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* EyeScream: The "Shiva's Heat weapon". [[spoiler:It consists of a laser, which scans the landscape for reflecting surfaces like binoculars or glasses, and in case of a discovery is tuned to full power to burn out the eyes of anyone in range.]]
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* TheCrocIsTicking: Once Meisterbrau swallows a cellphone.
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* MultinationalTeam: The crew of Philo Dufresne's u-boat.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Not quite. Queen Elizabeth II. and many other real-life persons that were still alive at the time of the book appear undisguised. Some are not portrayed especially pleasantly, and others are eventually killed off.
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* [[spoiler:AIIsACrapshoot: G. A. S. and the Eye of Africa.]]
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''Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy'' opens up with a crazy businessman building the tower of Babel in New York City, and a hapeless new hire to the Department of Sewers being eaten by a sewer-dwelling mutant great white shark. It's 2023, and New York is on the brink of a giant earthquake, and that's the least of the city's problems. Penned by MattRuff, it's a novel of ecoterrorism, mad [=AIs=], {{absurdly spacious sewer}}s and an AI construct of AynRand spouting objectivist philosophy and generally having melting down arguments with the rest of the cast.
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!!!This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Under New York City. The sewers even have their own ecosystem.
* AIIsACrapshoot
* BigApplesauce
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Mutant sharks especially.
* GeneralRipper: Troubadour Penzias, in an unusually cruel and racist way.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Elizabeth II, still ruling Great Britain in 2023, is moody, arrogant, and tends to poison recalcitrant subordinates.
* HarsherInHindsight: The destruction of the Empire State Building by a crashed airplane.
* KnockKnockJoke
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial
* MethuselahSyndrome: Kite
* NewMeat: Eddie Wilder.
* PsychoForHire: Troubadour Penzias.
* SharkPool: Meisterbrau is kept in an outside pool by the aquarium employees Frankie and Salvatore. [[spoiler:It does not end well.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Maxwell and Troubadour Penzias. Both are rather insane, in different ways.
* TakeThat: ''AtlasShrugged'' is acerbically dissected by Joan.
* WarIsHell
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!!!This book provides examples of the following tropes:
* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Under New York City. The sewers even have their own ecosystem.
* AIIsACrapshoot
* BigApplesauce
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: Mutant sharks especially.
* GeneralRipper: Troubadour Penzias, in an unusually cruel and racist way.
* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Queen Elizabeth II, still ruling Great Britain in 2023, is moody, arrogant, and tends to poison recalcitrant subordinates.
* HarsherInHindsight: The destruction of the Empire State Building by a crashed airplane.
* KnockKnockJoke
* FlyingSeafoodSpecial
* MethuselahSyndrome: Kite
* NewMeat: Eddie Wilder.
* PsychoForHire: Troubadour Penzias.
* SharkPool: Meisterbrau is kept in an outside pool by the aquarium employees Frankie and Salvatore. [[spoiler:It does not end well.]]
* ShellShockedVeteran: Maxwell and Troubadour Penzias. Both are rather insane, in different ways.
* TakeThat: ''AtlasShrugged'' is acerbically dissected by Joan.
* WarIsHell
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