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%% * OedipusComplex: Happens to Nicholas and Alec [[spoiler: for good reason, when your girlfriend becomes your mother, and your romantic rival is the one responsible for that particular wacky happening. And the guys remember from the getgo what Mendoza was to them before they got reborn.]]
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Dr. Zeus requires immortals to.have permanent contraceptive symbiote implants.[[Mendoza's implant is removed as part of the plan to allow Alec, Edward and Nicholas to have separate bodies again.]]
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* ImmortalProcreationClause: Dr. Zeus requires immortals to.have permanent contraceptive symbiote implants.[[Mendoza's [[spoiler:Mendoza's implant is removed as part of the plan to allow Alec, Edward and Nicholas to have separate bodies again.]]
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%% * ImmortalProcreationClause: [[spoiler: subverted later on with Mendoza in a very strange way.]]
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%% * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Lewis and Victor.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Alec Checkerfield maintains a facade of being an UpperClassTwit to avoid suspicion that he is both a VenturousSmuggler and a genetically modified organism.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Alec Checkerfield maintains a facade of being an UpperClassTwit to avoid suspicion that he is both a VenturousSmuggler and a genetically modified organism.
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** 8 ''Combine'' the two, and you can loot the past very profitably thanks to immortal slaves taking TheSlowPath back.
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%% Low-context example: what language is the gondolier speaking? What is he saying? * BilingualBackfire: Mendoza knows exactly what the gondolier is saying about her, and tells him what he can do with his pole.
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%% * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Mendoza.
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** The Immortality Process only works on a tiny percentage of humans, and even then only if the subject receives it in infancy(one account says the Company has never even ''attempted'' to immortalize a subject who had lost even one milk tooth), which is why it's only used on Company employees. A less effective (but more widely applicable) variation is marketed as geriatric medicine.
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** The Immortality Process only works on a tiny percentage of humans, and even then only if the subject receives it in infancy(one account says the Company has never even ''attempted'' to immortalize a subject who had lost even one milk tooth), tooth; another details how the immortalization of a ten-year-old [[GoneHorriblyRight Went Horribly Right]]), which is why it's only used on Company employees. A less effective (but more widely applicable) variation is marketed as geriatric medicine.
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* PoisonousPerson: Hendrick Karremans, the first [[spoiler:publicly-known]] genetically-engineered child is widely believed to have the uncontrollable power to create and spread novel diseases after an unknown illness kills many of his classmates immediately following his first day of school. This belief leads to the murder of Hendrick and his adoptive parents (who are also the scientists who engineered him) and a ban on genetic engineering. [[spoiler: The Company deliberately caused this in order to maintain their monopoly on genetic engineering. Victor, embedded as Hendrick's bodyguard, actually does involuntarily create and spread novel diseases at the Company's command, unbeknownst even to himself, and the incident gives him the information to finally figure that fact out, to his utter horror.]]
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%% * TheCaligula: Labienus became one when he was put in charge of organizing the tribes of Mesopotamia into a nation.
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* ChildlessDystopia: England of the 24th century had its population greatly reduced by plagues and earthquakes. Despite this, the government maintains eugenicist controls over reproduction and encourages Puritanical attitudes towards sex with predictable effects on the birthrate.
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* TheDitherer: In ''The Graveyard Game'', Joseph explicitly compares himself to Hamlet for taking so long to do anything about the Company's betrayal of his FamilyOfChoice.
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* TheDitherer: In ''The Graveyard Game'', Joseph explicitly compares himself to Hamlet Theatre/{{Hamlet}} for taking so long to do anything about the Company's betrayal of his FamilyOfChoice.
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* TheDitherer: In ''The Graveyard Game'', Joseph explicitly compares himself to Hamlet for taking so long to do anything about the Company's betrayal of his FamilyOfChoice.
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* TheSlowPath: Back Way Back is a project where Immortals who are moderately inconvenient to Dr. Zeus's plans are sent 150 thousand years back in time to do manual labor while they return to the present the hard way.
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* TheSlowPath: Back Way Back is a project where Immortals who are moderately inconvenient to Dr. Zeus's plans are sent 150 thousand years back in time to do manual labor while they return to the present the hard way. [[spoiler: Mendoza is sent to a Back Way Back site after the events of ''Mendoza in Hollywood''.]]
* StealItToProtectIt: This is Dr. Zeus's initial justification for their use of time travel to collect mysteriously disappeared treasures from history. In the course of the stories, it becomes increasingly apparent that the original cause of many historical disappearances was theft (and in the case of people, kidnapping or murder) by Company operatives.
* StealItToProtectIt: This is Dr. Zeus's initial justification for their use of time travel to collect mysteriously disappeared treasures from history. In the course of the stories, it becomes increasingly apparent that the original cause of many historical disappearances was theft (and in the case of people, kidnapping or murder) by Company operatives.
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* MandatoryMotherhood: Roger Checkerfield got a vasectomy, and his wife was similarly inclined to not have children. This didn't stop the Company from forcing them to adopt a kid, which they [[ParentalAbandonment hated and avoided as much as possible.]]
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* MandatoryMotherhood: Roger Checkerfield got a vasectomy, and his wife was similarly inclined to not have children. This didn't stop the Company from forcing them to adopt a kid, which they [[ParentalAbandonment hated and avoided as much as possible.]] [[spoiler: Part of the aversion is eventually revealed to be guilt over their complicity in Alec's kidnapping.]]
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%% * CloakAndDagger: Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax
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* ShipperOnDeck: Lewis ships Mendoza/Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy He Wants His Beloved To Be Happy]].
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%% * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Several of the cyborgs.
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* TheHeretic: Nicholas Harpole was a devout Protestant in Bloody Mary I's England and was accordingly [[KillItWithFire burnt at the stake.]]
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* TheHeretic: Nicholas Harpole was a devout Protestant in the extremely Catholic Bloody Mary I's England and was accordingly [[KillItWithFire burnt at the stake.]]
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* OriginalPositionFallacy: Dr. Zeus scientists Rutherford, Chatterji, and Ellsworth-Howard consider the fates of historical people to be predetermined and thus think that it's all right to cause some of them to suffer and die to further their projects. None of the three scientists think about the fact that Dr. Zeus's historical record extends into their own future until after [[spoiler: Dr. Zeus facilitates a terrorist attack for profit in their time.]]
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%% * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Any Company employee with a rank higher than Facilitator. And some of the Facilitators are pretty sleazy, too.
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