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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Several occasions: Janet attracts the attention of a cop for jogging, and the bookstore she worked in is torched because she let black people in and treated them decently.
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* GirlsBehindBars: Lampshaded, then again deconstructed and played for realisim and believability.

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* GirlsBehindBars: Lampshaded, then again deconstructed and played for realisim realism and believability.believability. [[spoiler:Allison Mack, as of 2012/13 in the TL, is serving time in maximum security and it is decided unlike many OTL exploitation movies involving women in prison.]]
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* SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female african-American character shown in the work,but in particular, President Oprah Winfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult proffesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist charectatures.

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* SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female african-American African-American character shown in the work,but work, but in particular, President Oprah Winfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult proffesionals profesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist charectatures.caricatures.
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* [[HideYourLesbians Hide Your Queers]]: Averted quite hard. The more liberal American and Canadians societies of the 1970s and 1980s create more conducive environments for gays, lesbians and bisexuals to at least be quietly "out" at school or at work. By the 1980s and 1990s it's legal for them to marry and adopt children.

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* [[HideYourLesbians Hide Your Queers]]: Averted quite hard. The more liberal American and Canadians Canadian societies of the 1970s and 1980s create more conducive environments for gays, lesbians and bisexuals to at least be quietly "out" at school or at work. By the 1980s and 1990s it's legal for them to marry and adopt children.



* TheBechdelTest: This TL passes the test as when two female charecters are together talking, they rarely, if ever, talk about men.

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* TheBechdelTest: This TL passes the test as when two female charecters characters are together talking, they rarely, if ever, talk about men.



* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on]]

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* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on]]



* SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female african-American charecter shown in the work,but in particular, President Oprah WInfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult proffesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist charectatures.

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* SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female african-American charecter character shown in the work,but in particular, President Oprah WInfrey Winfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult proffesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist charectatures.

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* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Eventually Michael and Janet]]

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* HappilyMarried: HappilyMarried:
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** [[spoiler: In the Venus arc, two women consider themselves all but actually married; they will be once it becomes legal.]]


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* [[HideYourLesbians Hide Your Queers]]: Averted quite hard. The more liberal American and Canadians societies of the 1970s and 1980s create more conducive environments for gays, lesbians and bisexuals to at least be quietly "out" at school or at work. By the 1980s and 1990s it's legal for them to marry and adopt children.
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** SquadNickname: Originally, they were called by their enemy "The Green Witches", then by the civilians and occasionally military personnel they rescued "The Green Angels."

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** SquadNickname: **SquadNickname: Originally, they were called by their enemy "The Green Witches", then by the civilians and occasionally military personnel they rescued "The Green Angels."
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**SquadNickname: Originally, they were called by their enemy "The Green Witches", then by the civilians and occasionally military personnel they rescued "The Green Angels."

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* GirlsBehindBars: Lampshaded, then again deconstructed and played for realisim and believability.



* WomenInPrison: Lampashaded and once more deconstructed. Rather than being fetish fuel this trope is play for realism and believability.
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WomenInPrison: Lampashaded and once more deconstructed. Rather than being fetish fuel this trope is play for realism and believability.

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* WomenInPrison: Lampashaded and once more deconstructed. Rather than being fetish fuel this trope is play for realism and believability.
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WomenInPrison: Lampashaded and once more deconstructed. Rather than being fetish fuel this trope is play for realism and believability.
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*SassyBlackWoman: Fully averted and deconstructed with every female african-American charecter shown in the work,but in particular, President Oprah WInfrey and Beatrice Knowles-Forrester are shown to be competent, cool, adult proffesionals and three-dimensional people, not racist charectatures.
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* PsychoticMan-Children: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II

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* PsychoticMan-Children: PsychoticManChild: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II
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* PsychoticManChildren: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II

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* PsychoticManChildren: PsychoticMan-Children: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II
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* PsychoticManChildren: The so-called "Nightsider" personalities created by the CRIME virus MK II
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* InsistantTerminology: The personalities that have taken over the bodies of various CRIME virus MK II's bodies aren't Spit personallities, they're "Nightsiders".

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* InsistantTerminology: InsistentTerminology: The personalities that have taken over the bodies of various CRIME virus MK II's bodies aren't Spit personallities, they're "Nightsiders".

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Ayn Rand herself displays a lot of this in an interview with Janet Clifton on "Meet The Press" in 1962

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* InsaneTrollLogic: Ayn Rand herself displays a lot of this in an interview with Janet Clifton on "Meet The Press" in 19621962.
* InsistantTerminology: The personalities that have taken over the bodies of various CRIME virus MK II's bodies aren't Spit personallities, they're "Nightsiders".
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** EnsignNewbie: 2ND Lieutenent Angelina Jolie at the start of the tour of duty.
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* AlwaysABigerFIsh: Invoked by Janet toward her son when warning him not to be a bully in the late 1960's.

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* AlwaysABigerFIsh: AlwaysABiggerFish: Invoked by Janet toward her son when warning him not to be a bully in the late 1960's.

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* AlternateHistory: With a point of divergence starting in December of 1952

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* AlternateHistory: With a point of divergence starting in December of 19521952.
* AlwaysABigerFIsh: Invoked by Janet toward her son when warning him not to be a bully in the late 1960's.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Scott Roeder is kicked out of West Point, The Army, and serves five years in military prison for sexual assault, rape and violation of gender quarrantine.
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* MeaningfulName: "Cassandra Verivocas". Her last name is dog Latin for "truth-speaker".
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* AWorldHalfFull: Thanks to Janet's foreknowledge, the US avoids the death and destriction of the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar and much of the foreign policy actions that it is criticized for during the real UsefulNotes/ColdWar, and becomes a nation with much better wealth equality and technological, economic and social progress. However, as TheButterflyEffect kicks in and she becomes less reliable with her foresight, the unpredictable effects lead to [[spoiler: WorldWarIII]], [[spoiler: through it ended quickly and will significantly less loss of life than WWI and WWII, along with ushering in the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and giving women a greater role in society]]. However according to [[WordOfGod the author]], things WILL get progressively worse [[spoiler: Now that the USA has intervened in Africa the African Adventure has bogged down into a quagmire war that seems as if it might be fundamentally unwinnable., even if it WAS genuinely acting on altruistic instead of imperialistic or ulterior motives]].

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* AWorldHalfFull: Thanks to Janet's foreknowledge, the US avoids the death and destriction of the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar and much of the foreign policy actions that it is criticized for during the real UsefulNotes/ColdWar, and becomes a nation with much better wealth equality and technological, economic and social progress. However, as TheButterflyEffect [[ButterflyOfDoom the Butterfly Effect]] kicks in and she becomes less reliable with her foresight, the unpredictable effects lead to [[spoiler: WorldWarIII]], [[spoiler: through it ended quickly and will significantly less loss of life than WWI and WWII, along with ushering in the end of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar and giving women a greater role in society]]. However according to [[WordOfGod the author]], things WILL get progressively worse [[spoiler: Now that the USA has intervened in Africa the African Adventure has bogged down into a quagmire war that seems as if it might be fundamentally unwinnable., even if it WAS genuinely acting on altruistic instead of imperialistic or ulterior motives]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the SyntheticPlauge CRIME virus Mark Two creates the Nightsiders they are criminal masterimeds who shun rape, brutality, and other crimes of assault and violation in favor or racketeering, black market trades and othe XantatosGambits to gain power.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When the SyntheticPlauge CRIME SyntheticPlague [=CRIME=] virus Mark Two creates the Nightsiders they Nightsiders, who are criminal masterimeds masterminds who shun rape, brutality, and other crimes of assault and violation in favor or racketeering, black market trades and othe XantatosGambits other [[XanatosGambit Xanatos Gambits]] to gain power.
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* ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater.

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* ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater. Later i nthe timeline as Gender righs and Gender equality zoon ahead this concept falls very much out of favor as women are no more expected to marry young than men are leading to the turn of the milleium.
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* ChristmassCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater.

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* ChristmassCake: ChristmasCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater.
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* ChristmassCake: In the early 1950's Janet Forrester is viewed as this being over 25 and still unmarried. Not everyone views her thus but many remark upon it, causing MIchael Clifton to be viewed as a CakeEater.
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* LoveInterest: Michael Clifton for Janet. [[spoiler: [[HappilyMarried They get married, later in Janet's second life she will have a same-sex relationship with Beatrice Knowles.]]]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F
* PlanetOfHats: Played with regarding the inner solar system. Venerean tribals are all hunter gathers combinded with ProudWarriorRaceGirls. the Martian Saurians are all LotusEater Philosophers. transman Buddy Schackter is raped considerable detail is devoted to the effect it has on him and how traumatic the event was for him.
* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on]]

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* LoveInterest: Michael Clifton for Janet. [[spoiler: [[HappilyMarried They get married, later in Janet's second life she will have a same-sex relationship with Beatrice Knowles.]]]]
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F
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* PlanetOfHats: Played with regarding the inner solar system. Venerean tribals are all hunter gathers combinded with ProudWarriorRaceGirls. ProudWarriorRaceGuy female warriors. the Martian Saurians are all LotusEater Philosophers. Philosophers.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F
transman Buddy Schackter is raped considerable detail is devoted to the effect it has on him and how traumatic the event was for him.
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* RedScare: Averted, with [[spoiler: Joseph [=McCarthy=] thoroughly discredited early on]]

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F transman Buddy Schackter is raped considerable detail is devoted to the effect it has on him and how traumatic the event was for him.

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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: When M to F F
* PlanetOfHats: Played with regarding the inner solar system. Venerean tribals are all hunter gathers combinded with ProudWarriorRaceGirls. the Martian Saurians are all LotusEater Philosophers.
transman Buddy Schackter is raped considerable detail is devoted to the effect it has on him and how traumatic the event was for him.
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* [[Spoiler:StarfishAliens: The jellyfish-like Lattice builders who live i nthe atmosphere of Saturn are very much this. they have never even communicated with humans and they seem to have no desire to.]]

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* [[Spoiler:StarfishAliens: The StarfishAliens: [[spoiler:The jellyfish-like Lattice lattice builders who live i nthe in the atmosphere of Saturn are very much this. they They have never even communicated with humans and they seem to have no desire to.to, even after repeated attempts on the part of humanity.]]

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