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* LawEnforcementInc: Police are widely seen as incompetent and useless compared to "paralegals" — a cross between special forces and lawyers who show up at a crime scene well before the police, to gather evidence for their clients by any means possible.
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* LawEnforcementInc: Police are widely seen as incompetent and useless compared to "paralegals" — a cross between special forces and lawyers who show up at a crime scene well before the police, to gather evidence for their clients by any means possible. Not to mention silence potential witnesses by forcing them to sign waivers that demand their silence so that their clients can avoid costly lawsuits
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** example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to capture and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.
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** example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to capture try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.
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* EvilLawyerJoke: Colfer seems to be going for this; the heavily militarized police in Satellite City are referred to as "lawyers", and they work for the bad guys. There is an Elite version of them called "Paralegals" who are more armored, armed, and more ruthless than the regular 'lawyers', and are sent out as a last resort whenever the business that employs them stands to lose lots of money.
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* EvilLawyerJoke: Colfer seems to be going for this; the heavily militarized police in Satellite City are referred to as "lawyers", and they work for the bad guys.guys to silence witnesses to incidents and accidents involving them, to ensure that they can avoid potentially costly lawsuits. There is an Elite version of them called "Paralegals" who are more armored, armed, and more ruthless than the regular 'lawyers', and are sent out as a last resort whenever the business that employs them stands to lose lots of money.
** Two examples of this: the first is when they ambush the drag race in the Krom Factory when the Myishi Z-12 nitrocharger race car Stefan gave to one of the gangs to buy Mona's freedom from their ranks. According to Stefan, the car cost them billions of dollars (or 'dinars') for them to develop and they took it as a giant kick in the teeth.
** example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to capture and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.
** Two examples of this: the first is when they ambush the drag race in the Krom Factory when the Myishi Z-12 nitrocharger race car Stefan gave to one of the gangs to buy Mona's freedom from their ranks. According to Stefan, the car cost them billions of dollars (or 'dinars') for them to develop and they took it as a giant kick in the teeth.
** example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to capture and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.
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* EvilLawyerJoke: Colfer seems to be going for this; the heavily militarized police in Satellite City are referred to as "lawyers", and they work for the bad guys. There is an Elite version of them called "Paralegals" who are more armored, armed, and more ruthless than the regular 'lawyers', and are sent out as a last resort whenever the business that employs them stands to lose lots of money.
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* {{Pun}}: Satellite cities [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_city are a real concept]], but in that case 'satellite' refers to municipal adjacency rather than an actual orbiting platform.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The only thing we know about Satellite City's location is that it's in the northern hemisphere but for a geosynchronous satellite to be feasible, it would have to be on the equator. Given that Cosmo and Stefan are specified to be Irish and Russian respectively when nobody else is, the city is unlikely to be in Ireland or Russia.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: The only thing we know about Satellite City's location is that it's in the northern hemisphere hemisphere, but for a geosynchronous satellite to be feasible, feasible it would have to be on the equator. Given that Cosmo and Stefan are specified to be Irish and Russian respectively when nobody else is, the city is unlikely to be in Ireland or Russia.
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** The main currency used is the Dinar, a currency used in several Middle-Eastern and North African nations, which may narrow things down further.
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** The Satellite City's main currency used is the Dinar, a currency which is used in several Middle-Eastern and North African nations, which nations. This may narrow things down further.the possible locations, but not by much.
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** The main currency used is the Dinar, a currency used in several Middle-Eastern and North African nations, which may narrow things down further.
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* JokeAndReceive: When Stefan gets the results for the location of [[spoiler:the Parasite nest]], Cosmo tries to lighten the mood by saying "It's not as if [[spoiler: the Parasite nest]] is under Clarissa Frayne?" only to be met with dead silence. Sure enough...
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* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Exploited. [[spoiler:Faustino engineered the accident that killed Stefan's mother to make him able to see Parasites.]]
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* AutomatedAutomobiles: Most non-racing cars are controlled by the satellite.
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* AutomatedAutomobiles: Most non-racing cars are controlled by the satellite. This causes problems when the satellite abruptly loses connection, since no one knows how to drive manually.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** Being raised as a product-tester has brought Cosmo into contact with a wide variety of questionably ethical or safe substances--including the biological agent that likely would have killed Mona if Cosmo hadn't remembered the antidote the orphans accidentally discovered after it was tested on them.
** Shrink-wrap bullets include a sedative that puts the unfortunate victim to sleep. By the end of the book, Cosmo has been shrink-wrapped three times and is developing a resistance to the sedative. This allows him to stay conscious just long enough to [[spoiler:head-butt his way out of the acid tank]].
** Being raised as a product-tester has brought Cosmo into contact with a wide variety of questionably ethical or safe substances--including the biological agent that likely would have killed Mona if Cosmo hadn't remembered the antidote the orphans accidentally discovered after it was tested on them.
** Shrink-wrap bullets include a sedative that puts the unfortunate victim to sleep. By the end of the book, Cosmo has been shrink-wrapped three times and is developing a resistance to the sedative. This allows him to stay conscious just long enough to [[spoiler:head-butt his way out of the acid tank]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Both Stefan and Cosmo have one of these moments after seeing the real reason Faustino helped them [[spoiler:locate and take out a Parasite nest: she wanted to use the Parasites as [[PoweredByAForesakenChild the medium in a nuclear reactor]]. The imprisoned Parasites are clearly in pain, and there are ''thousands'' of them]]. This isn't helped when Faustino taunts them with the knowledge that [[spoiler:Ditto was right, and the Parasites consume pain instead of life force]].
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Downplayed. After realizing [[spoiler:that the Parasites are benevolent and feed on pain, not life force, Stefan's]] final act is to trick the sniper who shot him into [[spoiler:shattering the glass on Faustino's Parasite-fueled reactor. This drops both Stefan and Faustino into the reactor itself, where the Parasites can absorb their pain and use it to escape]].
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* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Any time someone points a gun at Cosmo, he takes a deep breath and holds it. This is because the guns fire bullets that encase the target in a tight coating of cellophane, and inflating his chest before being shot makes it easier to breathe. It's briefly mentioned that Cosmo learned this the hard way, as his [[NoodleIncident first experience with being shrink-wrapped]] ended with him in a body cast.
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''The Supernaturalist'' is a CyberPunk novel by Creator/EoinColfer. [[{{Dystopia}} In the future,]] fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from the abusive [[OrphanageOfFear Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys]] in an product-testing accident that nearly takes his life. He is He's saved from his injuries and a pack of strange alien-creatures invisible to all but those dying or survivors of a near-death experience, by a group of teenagers calling themselves "The Supernaturalists" because they seek to rid Supernaturalists." The Supernaturalists believe the world of strange, alien-like creatures that creatures, which they call "Parasites" and believe are sucking "Parasites," suck the life out of the wounded or dying. dying and are set on destroying them.
However, they soon discover a horrifying secret that turns their world upside-down and gets them caught in a web far more complicated than anything they've ever imagined before.
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* NewcomerSavesTheDay: Cosmo saves the rest of the team no less than three times over the course of the story.[[spoiler: He saves Mona when she gets poisoned, he manages to get Ditto and Mona away from Myishi security, then he breaks out the whole team from the acidic tank.
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** Stefan Bashkir is one of Literature/ArtemisFowl's aliases. And Phonetix, a company that has a rivalry with Myishi, had a rivalry with Jon Spiro's Fission Chips in ''The Eternity Code''.
** Myishi is a scientist working for the demons in ''Literature/TheWishList''
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