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* UnreliableNarrator: Bud admits to the reader right in the prologue that he may have "embellished" certain details, and outright fabricated others for events that he wasn't present for.
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** The final "prank" in Ephriam and Fennick's "war" definitely counts as well. That one is so jarring, that for some readers it might not even be clear that [[spoiler: Fennick is actually dead]] until Bud confirms so in passing several chapters later.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Ephriam Klein, at least in the "on-screen" narrative. He gets away with murder, or at least manslaughter, after electrocuting his roommate John Fennick with his own fan. CoolOldGuy Bert Nix even helps Ephraim destroy the Big U at the end!]] Bud does imply that the truth eventually came out, so it's possible that [[spoiler: Ephraim]] ended up behind bars. But as of the story Bud is telling us, [[spoiler: Ephraim]] effectively gest the last laugh.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: A key element of the SUB's platform.
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* ThisIsMySide: Part of Klein and Fenrick's EscalatingWar.
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The Physics Club, which has decided to build a railgun as their project for the year [[spoiler: fires it through the light barrier that protects the nuclear waste.]]
** Also when [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin Casimir is given the keys by the former Master of the Keys]] when [[spoiler: the all-out war has consumed the campus.]]
** Also when [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin Casimir is given the keys by the former Master of the Keys]] when [[spoiler: the all-out war has consumed the campus.]]
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Poor Spike, the kitten who is killed from eating rat poison.]]
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* MindScrew: Is this really a campus? Or is it the mystical Plexus? Does magic truly exist here?
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''The Big U'', NealStephenson's Creator/NealStephenson's first novel, is a satire of American college life focusing on the fictitious American Megaversity, somewhere in a stretch of quasi-urban sprawl, and its gradual slide towards apocalyptic destruction.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Fred Fine to Sarah
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* CargoCult: The Terrorists' acid-induced worship of the Big Wheel and its avatar, Fenrick's Go Big Red Fan.
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* StrawmanU: The novel manages to avoid either extreme version of Strawman U, but the SUB and the unionized professors would fit in well at a Berserkeley, and the administration and Temple of Unlimited Godhead (a fundamentalist Mormon offshoot) are close to a Jim Jonestown.
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* Chekhov'sGun: The building's aforementioned resonating frequency, which ultimately allows [[spoiler:Klein and Bert Nix to destroy the Plex once and for all by playing the organ]].
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* Chekhov'sGun: ChekhovsGun: The building's aforementioned resonating frequency, which ultimately allows [[spoiler:Klein and Bert Nix to destroy the Plex once and for all by playing the organ]].
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* Chekhov'sGun: The building's aforementioned resonating frequency, which ultimately allows [[spoiler:Klein and Bert Nix to destroy the Plex once and for all by playing the organ]].
