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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Zoey goes undercover as a Halloween party by dressing as "Torture Victim Zoey" from the final act of ''Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits''. The heavy wound make-up obscures her face and allows her to effortlessly blend in among several other "Zoeys".
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Zoey goes undercover as at a Halloween party by dressing as "Torture Victim Zoey" from the final act of ''Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits''. The heavy wound make-up obscures her face and allows her to effortlessly blend in among several other "Zoeys".
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Zoey goes undercover as a Halloween party by dressing as "Torture Victim Zoey" from the final act of ''Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits''. The heavy wound make-up obscures her face and allows her to effortlessly blend in among several other "Zoeys".
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Less than a year after the events of the first book, Zoey finds herself still dealing with the fallout from her biological father's death and the will that left his billion dollar crime empire to her. While trying to balance using her immeasurable wealth for good, and her vast criminal empire for also good, Zoey finds herself targeted by an online group known as "The Blowback" who mail her a corpse right before Halloween. Said corpse then proceeds to animate, going on a rampage through her house and blaming Zoey for it's death. With only a few days before a Halloween fundraiser she has scheduled and a massive bounty on her head for a confession to the alleged crime, Zoey and her team "The Suits" have to solve the murder and prove their innocence before an out and out war breaks out between them and a private security firm known as the "Vanguard of Peace" and turns the city into a smoking crater.
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Less than a year after the events of the first book, Zoey finds herself still dealing with the fallout from her biological father's death and the will that left his billion dollar crime empire to her. While trying to balance using her immeasurable wealth for good, and her vast criminal empire for also good, Zoey finds herself targeted by an online group known as "The Blowback" who mail her a corpse right before Halloween. Said corpse then proceeds to animate, going on a rampage through her house and blaming Zoey for it's its death. With only a few days before a Halloween fundraiser she has scheduled and a massive bounty on her head for a confession to the alleged crime, Zoey and her team "The Suits" have to solve the murder and prove their innocence before an out and out war breaks out between them and a private security firm known as the "Vanguard of Peace" and turns the city into a smoking crater.
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* CassandraTruth: Zoey repeatedly tells The Suits to try and infiltrate The Hub, as she suspects it might be key to figuring out The Blowback's plan, but none of them take it seriously enough to actually bother past a single half-hearted attempt by Andre, as they're more worried about what The Blowback has planned for the real world. [[spoiler: It turns out both Zoey and Will were right. The Hub is in fact just a meaningless MMORPG, but The Blowback's revenge plan was based *entirely* inside The Hub, as in they were just going to kill a Zoey avatar they made to try and humiliate her. If they had just listened to her and investigated they would have realized that they didn't really pose a threat, and could have avoided a bunch of running around in the last quarter of the book.]]
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* CassandraTruth: Zoey repeatedly tells The Suits to try and infiltrate The Hub, as she suspects it might be key to figuring out The Blowback's plan, but none of them take it seriously enough to actually bother past a single half-hearted attempt by Andre, as they're more worried about what The Blowback has planned for the real world. [[spoiler: It turns out both Zoey and Will were right. The Hub is in fact just a meaningless MMORPG, but The Blowback's revenge plan was based *entirely* ''entirely'' inside The Hub, as in they were just going to kill a Zoey avatar they made to try and humiliate her. If they had just listened to her and investigated they would have realized that they didn't really pose a threat, and could have avoided a bunch of running around in the last quarter of the book.]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: One of the many rumors spread about Zoey and The Suits is that they apparently devoured Dexter Tilley's organs after killing him, which in turn get's morphed into multiple rumors about organ trafficking and murderous cannibal sex cults. Budd counters by spreading rumors that Titus Chobb is the real cannibal, which eerily seems much more likely... [[spoiler: until it turns out he's not, nobody is eating anybody.]]
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* ImAHumanitarian: One of the many rumors spread about Zoey and The Suits is that they apparently devoured Dexter Tilley's organs after killing him, which in turn get's gets morphed into multiple rumors about organ trafficking and murderous cannibal sex cults. Budd counters by spreading rumors that Titus Chobb is the real cannibal, which eerily seems much more likely... [[spoiler: until it turns out he's not, nobody is eating anybody.]]
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* HumansAreGood: [[spoiler:After a solid 300 pages of Zoey being convinced that literally everyone outside of her immediate circle is part of the Troll movement against her, a group of random civilians save her from being murdered by Dirk Vikerness, revealing themselves to be huge fans of hers. This leads Zoey to inspect the footage from the Night Inn incident, revealing that what seemed to be an entire mob of people out for her blood was in reality less than 20 very loud trolls scattered through a crowd of people who had no idea what was happening. This helps restore Zoey's faith in humanity, even if just a little.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: Titus Chobb heavily implies that the meal he's having with Zoey [[spoiler: is her mother, until Melinda walks in from the other room to join them,]] ''and then'' implies that it's actually [[spoiler: his son Marti, at which point Marti walks in to ask what they want,]] Zoey at this point is more irritated than scared.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Titus Chobb heavily implies that the meal he's having with Zoey [[spoiler: is her mother, until Melinda walks in from the other room to join them,]] ''and then'' implies that it's actually [[spoiler: his son Marti, at which point Marti walks in to ask what they want,]] want. When Titus tries to bait her a third time with the same implication, Zoey at this point is more irritated than scared.scared and refuses to take the bait.]]
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* GreaterScopeBigBad: [[spoiler:Titus Chobb is revealed to be the ManBehindTheMan for Molech from the previous book, having orchestrated Arthur Livingston's death. At this point, Zoey isn't terribly torn up about it.]]
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* GreaterScopeBigBad: GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:Titus Chobb is revealed to be the ManBehindTheMan for Molech from the previous book, having orchestrated Arthur Livingston's death. At this point, Zoey isn't terribly torn up about it.]]
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* GreaterScopeBigBad: [[spoiler:Titus Chobb is revealed to be the ManBehindTheMan for Molech from the previous book, having orchestrated Arthur Livingston's death. At this point, Zoey isn't terribly torn up about it.]]
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Released in October 2020, the fifth book by David Wong (Creator/JasonPargin), and the second in his "Zoey Ashe" series, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the sequel to the 2015 novel Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits.
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Released in October 2020, the fifth book by David Wong (Creator/JasonPargin), and the second in his "Zoey Ashe" series, Zoey ''Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick Dick'' is the sequel to the 2015 novel Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: One of Zoey's biggest obstacles, Tabula Ra$a's criminal element thinks she's weak compared to her much more ruthless father and mock her charitable efforts, and Tabula Ra$a's non-criminal element think she's a bratty heiress slumlord who's just as bad as her father. She can't win. [[spoiler: Subverted near the end, when Zoey finds out she actually has a pretty sizeable fanbase who rely on her infrastructure projects, it turns out her trolls are pretty small in number, they're just [[VocalMinority way louder.]]]]
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Released in October 2020, the fifth book by David Wong, Wong (Creator/JasonPargin), and the second in his "Zoey Ashe" series, Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the sequel to the 2015 novel Literature/FuturisticViolenceAndFancySuits.
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Less than a year after the events of the first book, Zoey finds herself still dealing with the fallout from her biological father's death and the will that left his billion dollar crime empire to her. While trying to balance using her immeasurable wealth for good, and her vast criminal empire for also good, Zoey finds herself targeted by an online group known as "The Blowback" who mail her a corpse right before Halloween. Said corpse then proceeds to animate, going on a rampage through her house and blaming Zoey for it's death. With only a few days before a Halloween fundraiser she has scheduled and a massive bounty on her head for a confession to the alleged crime, Zoey and her team "The Suits" have to solve the murder and prove their innocence before an out and out war breaks out between them and a private security firm known as the "Vanguard of Peace" and turns the city into a smoking crater.
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* AnimalMotifs: As in the first book Zoey if heavily associated with cats, but her internet trolls have also taken to calling her a cow, both as a jab to her weight and as a reference to "lolcows", internet users who are fun to mock ("milk") for drama.
* BaitAndSwitch: Titus Chobb heavily implies that the meal he's having with Zoey [[spoiler: is her mother, until Melinda walks in from the other room to join them,]] ''and then'' implies that it's actually [[spoiler: his son Marti, at which point Marti walks in to ask what they want,]] Zoey at this point is more irritated than scared.
* CassandraTruth: Zoey repeatedly tells The Suits to try and infiltrate The Hub, as she suspects it might be key to figuring out The Blowback's plan, but none of them take it seriously enough to actually bother past a single half-hearted attempt by Andre, as they're more worried about what The Blowback has planned for the real world. [[spoiler: It turns out both Zoey and Will were right. The Hub is in fact just a meaningless MMORPG, but The Blowback's revenge plan was based *entirely* inside The Hub, as in they were just going to kill a Zoey avatar they made to try and humiliate her. If they had just listened to her and investigated they would have realized that they didn't really pose a threat, and could have avoided a bunch of running around in the last quarter of the book.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Dirk Vikerness has his own set of goals, and [[spoiler: is the actual leader and organizer of The Blowback. While the final confrontation is with Chobb, it could be argued that Dirk is the real BigBad.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Aside from the prologue which takes place a month earlier and the epilogue which takes place on Halloween, the entire book happens over the course of the two days leading up to the 31st.
* GiantMecha: [[spoiler: Zoey's Halloween costume, which while not actually dangerous is still functional enough to serve as a distraction.]]
* GunsAreWorthless: Justified, no one in Tabula Ra$a uses guns because there exist common Raiden tech that sends out a radio wave that cooks the cordite in bullets, causing them to explode, meaning walking around with bullets or magazines means you have a live bomb in your pocket.
* HandicappedBadass: Wu breaks his arm early in the story, and proceeds to be exactly as cool and awesome as always with one hand.
* ImAHumanitarian: One of the many rumors spread about Zoey and The Suits is that they apparently devoured Dexter Tilley's organs after killing him, which in turn get's morphed into multiple rumors about organ trafficking and murderous cannibal sex cults. Budd counters by spreading rumors that Titus Chobb is the real cannibal, which eerily seems much more likely... [[spoiler: until it turns out he's not, nobody is eating anybody.]]
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: The book's title was actually a placeholder, until an internet poll convinced Wong to go with it because it's hilarious.
* MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame: "The Hub", a virtual reality MMO that The Blowback uses to organize.
* NonIndicativeName: The Raiden-enhanced bounty hunter with a giant pair of jet wings is named "The Human Tank", which is apparently the name he chose before he got the wings.
* OlderThanTheyLook: It turns out Wu is actually in his 40s with three teenage kids.
* SeriousBusiness: The players of The Hub take it very seriously, and consider what happens in there more important than the real world.
* TookALevelInBadass: Compared to the first book, while definitely still out of her element Zoey is a much more shrewd negotiator and planner, able to improvise on the fly, talk her way out of situations, and come up with and pitch the deal that saves the day entirely on her own.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Parodied: The Blowback's Hub avatar is controlled by multiple users, but they're not coordinated and they all have push-to-talk on, so The Blowback is constantly contradicting itself.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: One of Zoey's biggest obstacles, Tabula Ra$a's criminal element thinks she's weak compared to her much more ruthless father and mock her charitable efforts, and Tabula Ra$a's non-criminal element think she's a bratty heiress slumlord who's just as bad as her father. She can't win. [[spoiler: Subverted near the end, when Zoey finds out she actually has a pretty sizeable fanbase who rely on her infrastructure projects, it turns out her trolls are pretty small in number, they're just [[VocalMinority way louder.]]]]
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Less than a year after the events of the first book, Zoey finds herself still dealing with the fallout from her biological father's death and the will that left his billion dollar crime empire to her. While trying to balance using her immeasurable wealth for good, and her vast criminal empire for also good, Zoey finds herself targeted by an online group known as "The Blowback" who mail her a corpse right before Halloween. Said corpse then proceeds to animate, going on a rampage through her house and blaming Zoey for it's death. With only a few days before a Halloween fundraiser she has scheduled and a massive bounty on her head for a confession to the alleged crime, Zoey and her team "The Suits" have to solve the murder and prove their innocence before an out and out war breaks out between them and a private security firm known as the "Vanguard of Peace" and turns the city into a smoking crater.
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!!Provides examples of:
* AnimalMotifs: As in the first book Zoey if heavily associated with cats, but her internet trolls have also taken to calling her a cow, both as a jab to her weight and as a reference to "lolcows", internet users who are fun to mock ("milk") for drama.
* BaitAndSwitch: Titus Chobb heavily implies that the meal he's having with Zoey [[spoiler: is her mother, until Melinda walks in from the other room to join them,]] ''and then'' implies that it's actually [[spoiler: his son Marti, at which point Marti walks in to ask what they want,]] Zoey at this point is more irritated than scared.
* CassandraTruth: Zoey repeatedly tells The Suits to try and infiltrate The Hub, as she suspects it might be key to figuring out The Blowback's plan, but none of them take it seriously enough to actually bother past a single half-hearted attempt by Andre, as they're more worried about what The Blowback has planned for the real world. [[spoiler: It turns out both Zoey and Will were right. The Hub is in fact just a meaningless MMORPG, but The Blowback's revenge plan was based *entirely* inside The Hub, as in they were just going to kill a Zoey avatar they made to try and humiliate her. If they had just listened to her and investigated they would have realized that they didn't really pose a threat, and could have avoided a bunch of running around in the last quarter of the book.]]
* DragonWithAnAgenda: Dirk Vikerness has his own set of goals, and [[spoiler: is the actual leader and organizer of The Blowback. While the final confrontation is with Chobb, it could be argued that Dirk is the real BigBad.]]
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Aside from the prologue which takes place a month earlier and the epilogue which takes place on Halloween, the entire book happens over the course of the two days leading up to the 31st.
* GiantMecha: [[spoiler: Zoey's Halloween costume, which while not actually dangerous is still functional enough to serve as a distraction.]]
* GunsAreWorthless: Justified, no one in Tabula Ra$a uses guns because there exist common Raiden tech that sends out a radio wave that cooks the cordite in bullets, causing them to explode, meaning walking around with bullets or magazines means you have a live bomb in your pocket.
* HandicappedBadass: Wu breaks his arm early in the story, and proceeds to be exactly as cool and awesome as always with one hand.
* ImAHumanitarian: One of the many rumors spread about Zoey and The Suits is that they apparently devoured Dexter Tilley's organs after killing him, which in turn get's morphed into multiple rumors about organ trafficking and murderous cannibal sex cults. Budd counters by spreading rumors that Titus Chobb is the real cannibal, which eerily seems much more likely... [[spoiler: until it turns out he's not, nobody is eating anybody.]]
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: The book's title was actually a placeholder, until an internet poll convinced Wong to go with it because it's hilarious.
* MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame: "The Hub", a virtual reality MMO that The Blowback uses to organize.
* NonIndicativeName: The Raiden-enhanced bounty hunter with a giant pair of jet wings is named "The Human Tank", which is apparently the name he chose before he got the wings.
* OlderThanTheyLook: It turns out Wu is actually in his 40s with three teenage kids.
* SeriousBusiness: The players of The Hub take it very seriously, and consider what happens in there more important than the real world.
* TookALevelInBadass: Compared to the first book, while definitely still out of her element Zoey is a much more shrewd negotiator and planner, able to improvise on the fly, talk her way out of situations, and come up with and pitch the deal that saves the day entirely on her own.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: Parodied: The Blowback's Hub avatar is controlled by multiple users, but they're not coordinated and they all have push-to-talk on, so The Blowback is constantly contradicting itself.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: One of Zoey's biggest obstacles, Tabula Ra$a's criminal element thinks she's weak compared to her much more ruthless father and mock her charitable efforts, and Tabula Ra$a's non-criminal element think she's a bratty heiress slumlord who's just as bad as her father. She can't win. [[spoiler: Subverted near the end, when Zoey finds out she actually has a pretty sizeable fanbase who rely on her infrastructure projects, it turns out her trolls are pretty small in number, they're just [[VocalMinority way louder.]]]]
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