History Manga / Cyborg009

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Horribly twisted during the Gods' War arc when the cyborgs go through a collective MindRape meant to draw out the fear that, underneath it all, they really ''are'' just horrible monsters, [[HumansAreBastards along with the rest of humanity]].

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unfortunately.) Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]] meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of Hey, It's That Voice!in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually, due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed ''and'' keep his wits moe or less cool while using them. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 are all but stated die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out; 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins.[[spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Surprisingly {{Averted}}. Every cyborg has their own advanced powers. Despite that 009 is the most advanced make of the cyborgs, he actually ''doesn't'' render them useless, even 002 despite that he is an ObviousBeta for 009's accelerator cause he can still fly. If anything, 001 can overshadow ''everyone'' with how he seems to have near unlimited PsychicPowers... when he's awake, that is.

* PsychoElectro: 0010.

* [[RussianGuySuffersMost Russian (and German) Guys Suffer Most]]: The 'Russian Guy' is a ''baby'' who never knew life outside of constant experimentation prior to the team's escape. The German...hard to know where to '''start''' with him.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, all but the last five episodes of the 2001 series aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork. The first twenty-five got rerun in the {{Toonami}} block several times, while the rest were eventually aired during the Midnight Run. Once. They stopped right before the end of the Pu'Awak arc, deciding not to air the finale or the Gods War arc. This meant the scene viewers were left with was [[spoiler: 004 screaming Viina's name after seeing her and her sisters shot by Von Bogoot]]. Rather curious, considering that other Cartoon Networks (like CN-Latin America) exhibited the WHOLE series, Gods War Arc included, [[ShortRunInPeru around a year before this happened]].

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* HeyItsThatVoice: The 2001 Dub has many of these, even some in the exact same voice. For example: Ivan as Gomamon. 009 as Tai (or Ken in a pair of episodes), a minor henchman in the Cyborg 0013 pair has the same voice as Henry from ''DigimonTamers''. Take any voice and look it up on Wikipedia and there will be a full list of roles that the voice actor has performed. Some will be more familiar than others.

* KnifeThrowingAct:

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, all but the last five episodes of the 2001 series aired on CartoonNetwork. The first twenty-five got rerun in the {{Toonami}} block several times, while the rest were eventually aired during the Midnight Run. Once. They stopped right before the end of the Pu'Awak arc, deciding not to air the finale or the Gods War arc. This meant the scene viewers were left with was [[spoiler: 004 screaming Viina's name after seeing her and her sisters shot by Von Bogoot]]. Rather curious, considering that other Cartoon Networks (like CN-Latin America) exhibited the WHOLE series, Gods War Arc included, [[ShortRunInPeru around a year before this happened]].

* CharacterDevelopment: All of the Cyborgs escaped the EthnicScrappy label thanks to their pretty good backstories, specially in the 2001 anime. Like... [[spoiler: 002, the ex-Delinquent who bemoaned his inability to save street children from becoming rotten like he almost did; 003, the ex-ballerina who wishes she was an genuine ActionGirl but her [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway enhancements and powers]] don't let her; 004, the thoughtful German who's forcefully given a body chock-full of weapons and is traumatised by [[StuffedIntoTheFridge the death of his fiancée]]; 007, the ex theater star who abandoned his girlfriend when he reached stardom and later became an alcoholic; 008, the ex-guerrilla warrior/ex-slave; etc.]]

** While Jet/002 started out as part of a street gang (and spent part of his original manga introduction performing the dance from ''Theatre/WestSideStory''), he was quickly established as an easygoing, agreeable BigBrotherMentor to Joe. In the '79 series, he even had to remind Joe that he ''didn't'' have to be TheHero taking on the world alone and that his friends were more than just 'something to protect'. The 2001 series, on the other hand, starts him off as a HotBlooded {{Jerkass}} desperately searching for targets to lash out at and wary of the other cyborgs, [[CharacterDevelopment then having him grow from there]] into a loyal and BoisterousBruiser who is revealed to carry the pain of [[spoiler: ''not'' having been able to be the BigBrotherMentor to the New York kids from the sixties]].
*** There ''were'' hints of his original personality in the 2001 flashback episode, though, as [[spoiler: he rescues a confused and panicking 003 from the battlefield she's been thrown into and manages to calm her down before they met up with 004 and 001 and develop a strategy to save their lives.]]
** Albert, on the flip side, mixed a bit of BloodKnight with a hint of DeathSeeker and a lot of BlackHumor about his situation. He had no illusions about the fact they were meant to be weapons, was cold and pragmatic... and also willing to activate the nuke inside his body if he felt [[HeroicSacrifice it would save the others]]. The 2001 version, meanwhile, was more of a [[TheSmartGuy thoughtful]] SugarAndIcePersonality who openly grappled with the question of whether or not [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul his enhancements made him less human]], also taking up the BigBrotherMentor role towards 002, 003 ''and'' 009.

* CrapsackWorld: The Black Ghost group wants to create this via WarForFunAndProfit [[spoiler: And they ''succeed'', in at least one continuity. In the 2001 series Joe is sent forward in time, lands into this apocalyptic Alternate Future, and when he finds out the truth he goes into an HeroicBSOD.]]
* CurbStompBattle: During the final battle between [[spoiler:009 and Scarl, Scarl spends most of the battle beating the crap out of 009, but then he stupidly taunts the professor about how he'll "make him watch as I burn them in the furnace", causing the professor to break free and turn the anti cyborg weapon on him. Scarl becomes distracted by the pain, allowing 009 to tackle him and knock him into the reactor, where the explosives kill him]]

* GayParee: A whole episode happens in Paris.

* GoodBadTranslation: The Swedish dub of the '79 show is absolutely ''legendary''. Not for the translation, but due to the fact that ''one single guy'' dubs ''[[TalkingToHimself every character]]'' in the show. [[CrossdressingVoices Including the females.]] Also, he was Danish.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy - LoveMakesYouEvil: 0012 has the memories of a lonely lady who lost her husband several years ago. Carl Eckermann [[spoiler: aka Sphinx attempts to kidnap Francoise because he's love-starved and lonely.]] Also, [[spoiler: MadScientist Gamo started as a not very stable but still sorta kindly surgeon who went nuts searching for a cure for his sick child Ivan, who'd become Cyborg 001]].

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.) Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]] meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of Hey, It's That Voice!in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually, due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed ''and'' keep his wits moe or less cool while using them. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 are all but stated die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins.[[spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Surprisingly {{Averted}}. Every cyborg has their own advanced powers. Despite that 009 is the most advanced make of the cyborgs, he actually ''doesn't'' render them useless, even 002 despite that he is an ObviousBeta for 009's accelerator cause he can still fly. If anything, 001 can overshadow ''everyone'' with how he seems to have near unlimited PsychicPowers...when he's awake, that is.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, all but the last five episodes of the 2001 series aired on CartoonNetwork. The first twenty-five got rerun in the {{Toonami}} block several times, while the rest were eventually aired during the Midnight Run. Once. They stopped right before the end of the Pu'Awak arc, deciding not to air the finale or the Gods War arc. This meant the scene viewers were left with was [[spoiler: 004 screaming Viina's name after seeing her and her sisters shot by Von Bogoot]]. Rather curious, considering that other Cartoon Networks (like CN-Latin America) [[ShortRunInPeru exhibited the WHOLE series, Gods War Arc included.]]
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: Gilmore sees his proteges as his adoptive children, and they often live together like a real family. Specially in the 2001 series where Gilmore's beach house is also the home of Ivan/001, Francoise/003, Chang/006, G.B./007 and Joe/009. Lampshaded in one of the earlier episodes of the same series by Gilmore's friend Dr. Koizumi.

** Jet/002's first scene in the manga parodies ''Theatre/WestSideStory''. Yes, even the dancing. [[{{Narm}} Bad thing? It doesn't work AS well for modern readers.]]

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, all but the last five episodes of the 2001 series aired on CartoonNetwork. The first twenty-five got rerun in the {{Toonami}} block several times, while the rest were eventually aired during the Midnight Run. Once. They stopped right before the end of the Pu'Awak arc, deciding not to air the finale or the Gods War arc. This meant the scene viewers were left with was [[spoiler: 004 screaming Viina's name after seeing her and her sisters shot by Von Bogoot]]. Rather curious, considering that other Cartoon Networks (like CN-Latin America) exchibites the ''whole'' series, Gods War Arc included.

** While Jet/002 started out as part of a street gang (and spent part of his original manga introduction performing the dance from ''WestSideStory''), he was quickly established as an easygoing, agreeable BigBrotherMentor to Joe. In the '79 series, he even had to remind Joe that he ''didn't'' have to be TheHero taking on the world alone and that his friends were more than just 'something to protect'. The 2001 series, on the other hand, starts him off as a HotBlooded {{Jerkass}} desperately searching for targets to lash out at and wary of the other cyborgs, [[CharacterDevelopment then having him grow from there]] into a loyal and BoisterousBruiser who is revealed to carry the pain of [[spoiler: ''not'' having been able to be the BigBrotherMentor to the New York kids from the sixties]].

** Jet/002's first scene in the manga parodies ''WestSideStory''. Yes, even the dancing. [[{{Narm}} Bad thing? It doesn't work AS well for modern readers.]]

* ScarfOfAsskicking: This is the [[ShotaroIshinomori same guy who created]] ''KamenRider'', after all...

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmbrbQ6c40 A movie is in the works]], to be directed by Kenji Kamiyama of GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex. A manga adaptation of this film is in the works as well, currently being published in Monthly Big Gangan magazine. But wait--there's more! In addition to this, a [[http://www.archaia.com/archaia-titles/cyborg-009/ A western graphic novel reimagination]] is being published as well, written by F.J. DeSanto and Bradley Cramp and illustrated by Marcus To. Don't quit reading now! There is also a live-action movie being planned.

[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrmbrbQ6c40 A movie is in the works]], to be directed by Kenji Kamiyama of GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex.

* LoveMaesYouCrazy - LoveMakesYouEvil: 0012 has the memories of a lonely lady who lost her husband several years ago. Carl Eckermann [[spoiler: aka Sphinx attempts to kidnap Francoise because he's love-starved and lonely.]] Also, [[spoiler: MadScientist Gamo started as a not very stable but still sorta kindly surgeon who went nuts searching for a cure for his sick child Ivan, who'd become Cyborg 001]].

* KnifeThrowingAct: 0012 has the memories of a lonely lady who lost her husband several years ago. Carl Eckermann [[spoiler: aka Sphinx attempts to kidnap Francoise because he's love-starved and lonely.]] Also, [[spoiler: MadScientist Gamo started as a not very stable but still sorta kindly surgeon who went nuts searching for a cure for his sick child Ivan, who'd become Cyborg 001]].

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.)Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]]meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of Hey, It's That Voice!in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually. Due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins.[[spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: As mentioned above, all but the last five episodes of the 2001 series aired on CartoonNetwork. The first twenty-five got rerun in the {{Toonami}} block several times, while the rest were eventually aired during the Midnight Run. Once. They stopped right before the end of the Pu'Awak arc, deciding not to air the finale or the Gods War arc. This meant the scene viewers were left with was [[spoiler: 004 screaming Viina's name after seeing her and her sisters shot by Von Bogoot]].

** Jet/002's first scene in the manga parodies ''WestSideStory''. Yes, even the dancing.

* SuperSpeed: 002 and 009.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Sometimes, poor 003 could only sit and watch as things went boom, causing her genuine psychological problems and, at some point, almost sending her into an HeroicBSOD... until 004 asked if she'd rather be a war machine like him.

* CorruptChurch: Averted heavily. As with all ShotaroIshinomori works, extreme reverance towards Christianity is shown.

** The translation is every bit as bad as you would think though. This troper highly doubts that the characters in the original series "let themselves be fooled by a flying fertilizer ufo".

* DeadpanSnarker: 002 usually, although a preticular great example occurs in the first episode between Joe and Ivan.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The 2001 Dub has many of these, even some in the exact same voice. For example: Ivan as Gomamon. 009 as Tai (or Ken in a pair of episodes), a minor henchman in the Cyborg 0013 pair has the same voice as Henry from [[DigimonTamers]]. Take any voice and look it up on Wikipedia and there will be a full list of roles that the voice actor has performed. Some will be more familar than others.

* KnifeThrowingAct: 0012 has the memories of a lonely lady who lost her husband several years ago. Carl Eckermann [[spoiler: aka Sphynx attempts to kidnap Francoise because he's love-starved and lonely.]] Also, [[spoiler: MadScientist Gamo started as a not very stable but still sorta kindly surgeon who went nuts searching for a cure for his sick child Ivan, who'd become Cyborg 001]].

* MultinationalTeam: Pioneer in this, preceeding even the X-Men.
* NumberTwo: 004, usually. Due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conciscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins.[[spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.

* SapientCetaceans: The main heroes of Cyborg 009 named their ship 'The Dolphin.' In the manga, genetically and cybernectically enhanced dolphins were a pretty common enemy, used by Black Ghost as underwater scouts, soldiers and assassins.

* HeyIt'sThatVoice!: The 2001 Dub has many of these, even some in the exact same voice. For example: Ivan as Gomamon. 009 as Tai (or Ken in a pair of episodes), a minor henchman in the Cyborg 0013 pair has the same voice as Henry from [[DigimonTamers]]. Take any voice and look it up on Wikipedia and there will be a full list of roles that the voice actor has performed. Some will be more familar than others.

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.)Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]]meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of {{Hey,It'sThatVoice!}} in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually. Due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conciscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins. [spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.)Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]]meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of {{Hey, It's That Voice!}} in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually. Due to always being able to bring out some big guns when needed. The rest of the cyborgs have yet to be shown functioning as a full-fledged team without him. [[ spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains as high as Black Ghost tend to notice (far more than some viewers) about the role 004 plays. The [[ spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[ spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009), 003 is barely conciscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 (not the mouthy 002) BEFORE the supercharged attack even begins. [ spoiler: 009's staying in the hospital due to the first fight and makes the usual dramatic entrance.]] He has several character-enhancing discussions with other entities; machines, cyborgs, people.

* MissingEpisode: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[ spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.)Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]]meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of {{Hey, It's That Voice!}} in this series.])

* NumberTwo: 004, usually. The team has yet to be shown functioning without him. [[ spoiler: Black Ghost halted the entire program for the guy for 40 years. Not to mention 002 and 009 die in the final dubbed episode.]] Even villains tend to have a reaction to 004. The [[ spoiler: 1st]] fight with 0010[[ spoiler: -]] leaves only 004 in a functioning state (despite being hit with a two blasts instead of one like everyone else save for 009], 003 is barely conciscious, and everyone else including 009 is knocked out. 0010 must have noticed as he left because about midway through the next fight 0010 strikes 004 down first. [[

* KnifeThrowingAct
* LethalChef: 002. That's what happens when you don't take the lessons offered by the local PluckyComicRelief who happened to be a professional chef.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: 0012 has the memories of a lonely lady who lost her husband several years ago. Carl Eckermann [[spoiler: aka Sphynx attempts to kidnap Francoise because he's love-starved and lonely.]] Also, [[spoiler: MadScientist Gamo started as a not very stable but still sorta kindly surgeon who went nuts searching for a cure for his sick child Ivan, who'd become Cyborg 001]].

* MissingEpisodes: Usually twelve, but has gotten down to three.[[Spoiler:(Two of the three are the two middle episodes of the Pyschic Assasins arc unforunately.)Only one person, so far, has ever been able to upload a significant account of the series in English past the episode 34 mark (including the last dubbed episode of the series), but the account has been deleted,]]meaning all episodes afterwards are currently lost to the general public. Fans of the series would greatly appreciate if anyone with dubbed versions of Episodes 35, 40, and 41 would make them available. (Heck, scripts of the three missing episodes and an audio track of how of each of the one time characters that appears in Episode 36 would sound would work. [Because there are many instances of {{Hey, It's That Voice!}} in this series.])

* HurricaneOfPuns: The English dub of the 2001 TV remake is notorious for this.

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