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* A fantasy/horror piece that's heavy on Telepathy and MindManipulation? Try FakeMemories, GrandTheftMe, AmnesiaDanger, JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, and SomethingHeWouldNeverSay.
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* A fantasy/horror piece that's heavy on Telepathy and MindManipulation? Try FakeMemories, GrandTheftMe, AmnesiaDanger, JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, and SomethingHeWouldNeverSay.
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* ''Film/TheMatrix'': While straying from its cyberpunk roots, it brings up numerous interesting cyberpunk themes if you can spot them.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
* ''AScannerDarkly'', a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'', a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to ''{{Neuromancer}}'', contrast with ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* ''{{Videodrome}}'' and ''[[{{existenz}} eXistenZ]]': Combining the CyberPunk with heavy doses of BioPunk, these films question the ScienceIsBad assumptions common to the genre, the fear of mass culture, and the very nature of ideology.
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* ''Film/TheMatrix'': While straying from its cyberpunk roots, it brings up numerous interesting cyberpunk themes if you can spot them.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
* ''AScannerDarkly'', a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'', a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to ''{{Neuromancer}}'', contrast with ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* ''{{Videodrome}}'' and ''[[{{existenz}} eXistenZ]]': Combining the CyberPunk with heavy doses of BioPunk, these films question the ScienceIsBad assumptions common to the genre, the fear of mass culture, and the very nature of ideology.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
* ''AScannerDarkly'', a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'', a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to ''{{Neuromancer}}'', contrast with ''Film/TheMatrix''.
* ''{{Videodrome}}'' and ''[[{{existenz}} eXistenZ]]': Combining the CyberPunk with heavy doses of BioPunk, these films question the ScienceIsBad assumptions common to the genre, the fear of mass culture, and the very nature of ideology.
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* ''{{Videodrome}}'' and ''[[{{existenz}} eXistenZ]]': Combining the CyberPunk with heavy doses of BioPunk, these films question the ScienceIsBad assumptions common to the genre, the fear of mass culture, and the very nature of ideology.
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* ''{{Transmetropolitan}}''
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* BreadAndCircuses: The potential for human apathy and hedonism as key to the success of evil.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: Read this first.
* FilmNoir: A primary inspiration for the genre.
* {{Dystopia}}: Of course.
* PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
* AntiHero: Cyberpunk is heavily inspired by FilmNoir, and the rough, dark, brooding hero is no exception.
* FilmNoir: A primary inspiration for the genre.
* {{Dystopia}}: Of course.
* PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
* AntiHero: Cyberpunk is heavily inspired by FilmNoir, and the rough, dark, brooding hero is no exception.
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* {{Dystopia}}: Of course.
* PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Use with moderation and realism in mind.
* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[MundaneMadeAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[MundaneMadeAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
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* {{Cyberpunk}}: Mandatory, of course.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Use with moderation and realism in mind. Oversaturating this can make a story look cheesy or filled with more drama than the audience can handle.
* {{Dystopia}}: A cyberpunk setting is usually a gritty, depressing world with crime and despair running rampant. [[CaptainObvious It's not a nice place to live.]]
* FilmNoir: A primary inspiration for the genre. Lots of its visuals and sounds come from noir.
* PostCyberpunk: A more realistic look at cyberpunk, making corporations more merciful and having society being about the same as ours. Only there's cool gadgets and cutting edge technology.
* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[MundaneMadeAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Use with moderation and realism in mind. Oversaturating this can make a story look cheesy or filled with more drama than the audience can handle.
* {{Dystopia}}: A cyberpunk setting is usually a gritty, depressing world with crime and despair running rampant. [[CaptainObvious It's not a nice place to live.]]
* FilmNoir: A primary inspiration for the genre. Lots of its visuals and sounds come from noir.
* PostCyberpunk: A more realistic look at cyberpunk, making corporations more merciful and having society being about the same as ours. Only there's cool gadgets and cutting edge technology.
* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[MundaneMadeAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
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* DoAndroidsDream?: If your story centers around the existence of [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]], how are they treated? Are they on par with humans, or are they treated as slaves? What makes it possible to discern an android or an AI from a human? Do android have emotions, desires, feelings?
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* DoAndroidsDream?: DoAndroidsDream: If your story centers around the existence of [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]], how are they treated? Are they on par with humans, or are they treated as slaves? What makes it possible to discern an android or an AI from a human? Do android have emotions, desires, feelings?
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Nothing'' is what it seems like in a cyberpunk world.
* ClusterFBomb: People swear, it happens. However, having a character constantly swear will not make them look cool or gritty.
* ClusterFBomb: People swear, it happens. However, having a character constantly swear will not make them look cool or gritty.
* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''Film/BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Nothing'' is what it seems like in a cyberpunk world.
* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''Film/BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''Film/BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''Film/BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
* BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' and ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' and ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[note]] Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc[[/note]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[note]] Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc[[/note]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
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* ''{{Inception}}'', a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to ''{{Neuromancer}}'', contrast with ''Film/TheMatrix''.
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!!'''The Greats'''
!!'''Big Hits or Classics'''
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''All examples here are, well, examples. Do not try to wrap your head around a story using all of the examples.''
''All examples here are, well, examples. Do not try to wrap your head around a story using all of the examples.''
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
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* BittersweetEnding: Usually, a cyberpunk story, with its dark and depressing themes, rarely has an ending where the hero wins. Or maybe he does but something is left awry. In ''BladeRunner'', Deckard gets the girl and defeats the "villain" but has to run for his life.
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* BittersweetEnding: Usually, a cyberpunk story, with its dark and depressing themes, rarely has an ending where the hero wins. Or maybe he does but something is left awry. In ''BladeRunner'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', Deckard gets the girl and defeats the "villain" but has to run for his life.
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* RecycledScript: ''BladeRunner'' plots have been done [[BubblegumCrisis millions]] [[ArmitageIII of]] [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep times]] before. This is not to say it can't be done again, but you should make sure you story is not a cliché ''BladeRunner'' knockoff. If your trenchcoat-clad hero fights runaway robots and doubts his own humanity... you'd better be a damn fine writer, son!
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* RecycledScript: ''BladeRunner'' ''Film/BladeRunner'' plots have been done [[BubblegumCrisis millions]] [[ArmitageIII of]] [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep times]] before. This is not to say it can't be done again, but you should make sure you story is not a cliché ''BladeRunner'' ''Film/BladeRunner'' knockoff. If your trenchcoat-clad hero fights runaway robots and doubts his own humanity... you'd better be a damn fine writer, son!
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* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this: In the entirety of ''BladeRunner'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. ''BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[hottip:*: Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[hottip:*: Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
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* BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. ''BladeRunner'', ''Film/BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics[[hottip:*: [[note]] Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc]].etc[[/note]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics
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* ''TheMatrix'': While straying from its cyberpunk roots, it brings up numerous interesting cyberpunk themes if you can spot them.
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* ''{{Inception}}'', a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to ''{{Neuromancer}}'', contrast with ''TheMatrix''.
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''Film/TheMatrix''.
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* ''BladeRunner'' ''Film/BladeRunner'' (Also check out its progenitor: ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' by Philip K. Dick.) Ironically lacks most of the features, but the TropeCodifier in terms of scenery and atmosphere.
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* IsaacAsimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
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* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
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* RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome [[MundaneMadeAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
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* ''AClockworkOrange'' for a Pre-Cyberpunk movie/book.
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* ''AClockworkOrange'' ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' for a Pre-Cyberpunk movie/book.
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* ''BladeRunner'' (Also check out its progenitor: ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' by Philip K. Dick)
* ''{{Neuromancer}}''
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* ''BladeRunner'' (Also check out its progenitor: ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' by Philip K. Dick)
Dick.) Ironically lacks most of the features, but the TropeCodifier in terms of scenery and atmosphere.
*''{{Neuromancer}}''''{{Neuromancer}}'': The ''other'' trope codifier.
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* CyberPunk vs PostCyberPunk: Is technology a tool of dystopian oppression or something that allows the people to fix problems?
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* Your High School SitCom could include such plots as TwoTimerDate, InWithTheInCrowd, FarewellMyFriend, and even HorribleCampingTrip.
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* Your High School SitCom could include such plots as TwoTimerDate, InWithTheInCrowd, FarewellMyFriend, FeudEpisode, and even HorribleCampingTrip.
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The very nature of the genre dictates that your material ''will'' fall under any of these tropes. Learn to use them well.
well. See also CyberpunkTropes for additional tropes.
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The very nature of the genre dictates that your material ''will'' fall under any of these tropes. Learn to use them well.
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* {{Dystopia}}{{Dystopia}}: Of course.
* {{Dystopia}}
* AntiHero: Cyberpunk is heavily inspired by FilmNoir, and the rough, dark, brooding hero is no exception.
* AwesomeButPractical: See RuleOfCool below.
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* AwesomeButPractical: See RuleOfCool below.
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* Cities. Big cities. Loads of neon lights and dull surfaces. Glass, urbanism, downtrodden undergrounds and shady pubs. Small apartments. Everywhere looks like central Tokyo. Maybe a space station or an abandoned genetic factory.
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* Trenchcoats, sunglasses, [[BadassLongcoat Trenchcoats]], [[CoolShades sunglasses]], leather jackets, and the alike. Everything is in black or other dull colours, with small amounts of bright colours for emphasis, especially neon-green, neon-blue, neon-red, fluorescent orange and neon-purple.
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* ''DeusEx''''VideoGame/DeusEx''
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[hottip:*: Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, etc]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[hottip:*: Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, bionic hearts, etc]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: This was less of a problem before people had cybernetics [[hottip:*: Yes, we do. ArtificialLimbs, pacemakers, bionic ear implants, etc]]. Nowadays, we know that any implants short of rewiring your brains doesn't cause personality damage.
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* PoliceState vs. Anarchy: Is the government an all powerful organization that enforces the law through SWAT teams, Main/SecretPolice and SinisterSurveillance, or is the lack of government and control that leads to the state of the world?
* TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[TheMessiah it's]] [[TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[ThePowerOfLove going]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[MoreDakka not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
* TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[TheMessiah it's]] [[TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[ThePowerOfLove going]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[MoreDakka not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
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* PoliceState vs. Anarchy: Is the government an all powerful all-powerful organization that enforces the law through SWAT teams, Main/SecretPolice and SinisterSurveillance, or is the lack ''lack'' of government and control that leads to [[CrapsackWorld the state of the world?
world?]]
* TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[TheMessiah it's]] [[TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[ThePowerOfLove going]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[MoreDakka or not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
* TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[TheMessiah it's]] [[TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[ThePowerOfLove going]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[MoreDakka or not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
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* SummerBlockbuster: Consider this--In the entirety of ''BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: These are usually {{Big Bad}}s, because of their access to money, secret research labs and the like, but do they have to be? Maybe they're perfectly ordinary people, or even heroes?
* CorruptPolice: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make.
''BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
* CorruptPolice: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make.
''BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: These are usually {{Big Bad}}s, because of their access to money, secret research labs and the like, but do they have to be? Maybe [[PunchClockVillain they're perfectly ordinary people, people]], or even heroes?
*CorruptPolice: BadCopIncompetentCop: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. \n ''BladeRunner'', ''{{Snatcher}}'' and ''GhostInTheShell'' were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
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* Authoritism vs. Liberalism: Should people be [[SinisterSurveillance seen by CCTV cameras at all times]], have their phone lines tapped and their daily lives monitored for safety, or should they have privacy, even if that interferes with police work?
* Transhumanism vs. Humans Conservatism: Should people be allowed to augment themselves, or will that bring about social downfall?
* Transhumanism vs. Humans Conservatism: Should people be allowed to augment themselves, or will that bring about social downfall?
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* Authoritism Authoritarianism vs. Liberalism: Should people be [[SinisterSurveillance seen by CCTV cameras at all times]], [[BigBrotherIsWatching have their phone lines tapped and their daily lives monitored for safety, safety]], or should they have privacy, even if that interferes with police work?
* Transhumanism vs.Humans Human Conservatism: [[NoTranshumanismAllowed Should people be allowed to augment themselves, themselves]], or will that bring about social downfall?
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* Main/AwesomeButPractical: See RuleOfCool below.
* Main/{{Cyberpunk}}: Read this first.
* Main/DarkerAndEdgier: But of course!
* Main/PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
* Main/RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* Main/ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* Main/SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
* Main/BittersweetEnding: Usually, a cyberpunk story, with its dark and depressing themes, rarely has an ending where the hero wins. Or maybe he does but something is left awry. In ''BladeRunner'', Deckard gets the girl and defeats the "villain" but has to run for his life.
* Main/{{Cyberpunk}}: Read this first.
* Main/DarkerAndEdgier: But of course!
* Main/PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
* Main/RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
* Main/ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
* Main/SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
* Main/BittersweetEnding: Usually, a cyberpunk story, with its dark and depressing themes, rarely has an ending where the hero wins. Or maybe he does but something is left awry. In ''BladeRunner'', Deckard gets the girl and defeats the "villain" but has to run for his life.
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* Main/AwesomeButPractical: AwesomeButPractical: See RuleOfCool below.
*Main/{{Cyberpunk}}: {{Cyberpunk}}: Read this first.
*Main/DarkerAndEdgier: DarkerAndEdgier: But of course!
*Main/PostCyberpunk: PostCyberpunk: Mandatory reading.
*Main/RuleOfCool: RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
*Main/ScienceIsBad: ScienceIsBad: To a certain degree. The negative effects of technology feature heavily in cyberpunk fiction, but it is often not technology itself that is explored, but rather the possibilities for abuse.
*Main/SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: SlidingScaleOfCynicismVersusIdealism: Cynical, or at least Main/EarnYourHappyEnding. The world is dark and horrible, filled with injustice and crime. Bullets are the best way to solve problems, and people, good and bad, if those terms are applicable, die. Painfully.
*Main/BittersweetEnding: BittersweetEnding: Usually, a cyberpunk story, with its dark and depressing themes, rarely has an ending where the hero wins. Or maybe he does but something is left awry. In ''BladeRunner'', Deckard gets the girl and defeats the "villain" but has to run for his life.
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* Main/PoliceState vs. Anarchy: Is the government an all powerful organization that enforces the law through SWAT teams, Main/SecretPolice and SinisterSurveillance, or is the lack of government and control that leads to the state of the world?
* Main/TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[Main/TheMessiah its]] [[Main/TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[Main/ThePowerOfLove going]] [[Main/ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[Main/MoreDakka not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
* [[Main/MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness Hard Sci-Fi]] vs. Main/{{Cyberspace}}: Is everything in your world explained through plausible technology, or are you writing this on a typewriter?
* Main/CyberneticsEatYourSoul: How do people who have cybernetic implants act? Do they run around and kill everyone because their implants makes them go crazy, or are they perfectly well adjusted beings?
* Main/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep?: If your story centers around the existence of [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]], how are they treated? Are they on par with humans, or are they treated as slaves? What makes it possible to discern an android or an AI from a human? Do android have emotions, desires, feelings?
* Main/TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[Main/TheMessiah its]] [[Main/TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[Main/ThePowerOfLove going]] [[Main/ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[Main/MoreDakka not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
* [[Main/MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness Hard Sci-Fi]] vs. Main/{{Cyberspace}}: Is everything in your world explained through plausible technology, or are you writing this on a typewriter?
* Main/CyberneticsEatYourSoul: How do people who have cybernetic implants act? Do they run around and kill everyone because their implants makes them go crazy, or are they perfectly well adjusted beings?
* Main/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep?: If your story centers around the existence of [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]], how are they treated? Are they on par with humans, or are they treated as slaves? What makes it possible to discern an android or an AI from a human? Do android have emotions, desires, feelings?
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* Main/PoliceState PoliceState vs. Anarchy: Is the government an all powerful organization that enforces the law through SWAT teams, Main/SecretPolice and SinisterSurveillance, or is the lack of government and control that leads to the state of the world?
*Main/TheGunslinger TheGunslinger vs. PlayfulHacker: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[Main/TheMessiah its]] [[Main/TalkingYourWayOut [[TheMessiah it's]] [[TalkingYourWayOut not]] [[Main/ThePowerOfLove [[ThePowerOfLove going]] [[Main/ThePowerOfFriendship [[ThePowerOfFriendship to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[Main/MoreDakka ([[MoreDakka not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
*[[Main/MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness Hard Sci-Fi]] vs. Main/{{Cyberspace}}: {{Cyberspace}}: Is everything in your world explained through plausible technology, or are you writing this on a typewriter?
*Main/CyberneticsEatYourSoul: CyberneticsEatYourSoul: How do people who have cybernetic implants act? Do they run around and kill everyone because their implants makes them go crazy, or are they perfectly well adjusted beings?
*Main/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep?: DoAndroidsDream?: If your story centers around the existence of [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans]], how are they treated? Are they on par with humans, or are they treated as slaves? What makes it possible to discern an android or an AI from a human? Do android have emotions, desires, feelings?
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* Main/RecycledScript: Main/BladeRunner plots have been done [[Main/BubblegumCrisis millions]] [[Main/ArmitageIII of]] [[Main/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep times]] before. This is not to say it can't be done again, but you should make sure you story is not a cliché BladeRunner knockoff. If your trenchcoat-clad hero fights runnaway robots and doubts his own humanity... you'd better be a damn fine writer son!
* Main/TomatoInTheMirror: People who are interested in cyberpunk are [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses usually not the least]] Main/GenreSavvy [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses in the world,]] and will usually spot this from miles away. That is not to say it can be done, but you readers will expect your main character to be an Main/ArtificialHuman, or at least a [[Main/CloningBlues clone]] even before they've read the first paragraph. [[Main/SubvertedTrope Surprise them.]]
* Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Nothing'' is what it seems like in a cyberpunk world.
* Main/SummerBlockbuster: Consider this--In the entirety of Main/BladeRunner, only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
* Main/TomatoInTheMirror: People who are interested in cyberpunk are [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses usually not the least]] Main/GenreSavvy [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses in the world,]] and will usually spot this from miles away. That is not to say it can be done, but you readers will expect your main character to be an Main/ArtificialHuman, or at least a [[Main/CloningBlues clone]] even before they've read the first paragraph. [[Main/SubvertedTrope Surprise them.]]
* Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Nothing'' is what it seems like in a cyberpunk world.
* Main/SummerBlockbuster: Consider this--In the entirety of Main/BladeRunner, only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* Main/RecycledScript: Main/BladeRunner RecycledScript: ''BladeRunner'' plots have been done [[Main/BubblegumCrisis [[BubblegumCrisis millions]] [[Main/ArmitageIII [[ArmitageIII of]] [[Main/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep [[DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep times]] before. This is not to say it can't be done again, but you should make sure you story is not a cliché BladeRunner cliché ''BladeRunner'' knockoff. If your trenchcoat-clad hero fights runnaway runaway robots and doubts his own humanity... you'd better be a damn fine writer writer, son!
*Main/TomatoInTheMirror: TomatoInTheMirror: People who are interested in cyberpunk are [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses [[ViewersAreGeniuses usually not the least]] Main/GenreSavvy [[Main/ViewersAreGeniuses GenreSavvy [[ViewersAreGeniuses in the world,]] and will usually spot this from miles away. That is not to say it can be done, but you readers will expect your main character to be an Main/ArtificialHuman, ArtificialHuman, or at least a [[Main/CloningBlues [[CloningBlues clone]] even before they've read the first paragraph. [[Main/SubvertedTrope [[SubvertedTrope Surprise them.]]
*Main/BlackAndWhiteMorality: BlackAndWhiteMorality: ''Nothing'' is what it seems like in a cyberpunk world.
*Main/SummerBlockbuster: SummerBlockbuster: Consider this--In the entirety of Main/BladeRunner, ''BladeRunner'', only about a dozen shots were fired. ActionAdventure tales these ain't.
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* Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive: These are usually {{Big Bad}}s, because of their access to money, secret research labs and the like, but do they have to be? Maybe they're perfectly ordinary people, or even heroes?
* Main/CorruptPolice: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the Main/SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. Main/BladeRunner, Main/{{Snatcher}} and Main/GhostInTheShell were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
* Main/CorruptPolice: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the Main/SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. Main/BladeRunner, Main/{{Snatcher}} and Main/GhostInTheShell were all about government-employed heroes fighting off the DesignatedVillain.
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* Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive: CorruptCorporateExecutive: These are usually {{Big Bad}}s, because of their access to money, secret research labs and the like, but do they have to be? Maybe they're perfectly ordinary people, or even heroes?
*Main/CorruptPolice: CorruptPolice: Remember that not all cyberpunk stories has authority as the enemy. Sometimes the police, or even the Main/SecretPolice, SecretPolice, are the heroes tasked with cleaning up the mess of the anarchists and hackers and criminals make. Main/BladeRunner, Main/{{Snatcher}} make.
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* [[Main/WhatMeasureIsANonHuman How do people treat non-Homo Sapiens Sapiens?]] Racism, treatment of robots, androids, clones, etc.
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* [[Main/DoAndroidsDream [[DoAndroidsDream What makes us human?]] Feeling, understanding, comprehension, self-awareness, etc.
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* Authoritism vs. Liberalism: Should people be [[Main/SinisterSurveillance seen by CCTV cameras at all times]], have their phone lines tapped and their daily lives monitored for safety, or should they have privacy, even if that interferes with police work?
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* Authoritism vs. Liberalism: Should people be [[Main/SinisterSurveillance [[SinisterSurveillance seen by CCTV cameras at all times]], have their phone lines tapped and their daily lives monitored for safety, or should they have privacy, even if that interferes with police work?
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* TheMatrix: While straying from its cyberpunk roots, it brings up numerous interesting cyberpunk themes if you can spot them.
* Isaac Asimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
* AScannerDarkly, a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
* {{Inception}}, a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to {{Neuromancer}}, contrast with TheMatrix.
* Isaac Asimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
* AScannerDarkly, a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
* {{Inception}}, a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to {{Neuromancer}}, contrast with TheMatrix.
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* TheMatrix: ''TheMatrix'': While straying from its cyberpunk roots, it brings up numerous interesting cyberpunk themes if you can spot them.
*Isaac Asimov's IsaacAsimov's robot series, for additional reading on robot behavior.
*AScannerDarkly, ''AScannerDarkly'', a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
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* ''Main/GhostInTheShell''
* ''Main/DeusEx''
* ''Main/SnowCrash''
* ''Main/AClockworkOrange'' for a Pre-Cyberpunk movie/book.
* ''Main/{{Neuromancer}}''
* ''Main/GhostInTheShell''
* ''Main/DeusEx''
* ''Main/SnowCrash''
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* ''Main/BladeRunner'' ''BladeRunner'' (Also check out its progenitor: ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep'' by Philip K. Dick)
*''Main/{{Neuromancer}}''
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* JohnnyMnemonic: Main/TheMovie (though YourMileageMayVary on the actual degree of failure).
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* Main/AwesomeButPractical: See RuleOfCool below.
* Main/RuleOfCool: Style is everything. If the hero can't do it with panache, it's not worth doing ([[SubvertedTrope Unless]] [[BoringButPractical it is]]). [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome Use in extreme moderation.]]
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* AScannerDarkly, a very dark book/movie on people and the negative effects.effects of drug use and ubiquitous surveillance.
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* {{Inception}}, a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to {{Neuromancer}}, contrast with TheMatrix.
* {{Inception}}, a much more subtle take on cyberpunk. Compare to {{Neuromancer}}, contrast with TheMatrix.