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* AsYouKnow: After defeating Plague, Michael lists off him and all of his known accomplices and their fates to John. Meta-wise, this is to recap what's gone down in the series so far but InUniverse, even John tells Michael that he already knows all of this and that he wants to know about those who are still at large.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Phil O'Malley sounds very similar to Creator/BillOReilly. Both are television personalities with controversial news reportings.
* NoSell: John eventually figures out how to be unaffected by Phil's EMP augmentation, allowing him to overpower and drown him.
* NoSell: John eventually figures out how to be unaffected by Phil's EMP augmentation, allowing him to overpower and drown him.
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* BodyHorror: The parasite is described as burrowing into the back of its victim's skull, injecting them with neurotoxins that fill them with euphoria to prevent them from removing it while it drains them of life. The blood-red armor its hosts receive is also explained to be expelled through the body's pores.
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* DyingAsYourself: If Michael's description of what the parasite does to its victims is accurate, then its previous host before John must've come to his senses as it completely finished draining him of his life.
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* HappyEndingOverride: The Plague arc ends with John and Michael overwhelmed with hope at finally saving the city from crime. The next arc, beginning with the parasite, completely dashes those hopes as John accidentally kills a kid, loses any and all good will during his rampage under the parasite's influence, and has to deal with the reappearance of [[spoiler:Patrick Owen as he helps lead an alien invasion.]]
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A ''VideoGame/Halo3'' {{Capepunk}} {{Machinima}} by Creator/JonGraham.
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A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oo2zFeUyI four-part remake]] remake was produced by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/xDigitalVirusx/featured Retro Digital]] in 2014, with a different version of the story, but nonetheless retains its major beats. This series has since been put on private on Website/YouTube.
* AuthorTract: John goes on a noticeable lengthy rant about Christmas and its commercialism.
* CouldntFindAPen: Leonard Phillips draws Deus Ex Machina to his island by scribing a taunting message using the blood of one of the Decapitator's victims.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Not as whacky or comedic as ''WebVideo/ArbyNTheChief''.
* DistressedDude: Michael is regularly kidnapped or held hostage by the villains to torment John. Surprisingly enough, he also regularly goes out on his own to save John himself.
* IronicEcho: Plague co-opts Deus's "'Beep.' [x] isn't here right now" PreAssKickingOneLiner.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** There's a lot of homages to ComicBook/SpiderMan, right down to an alien symbiotic parasite taking over the hero and increasing his aggressiveemotions.emotions.
** The JitterCam and aggressive panting and grunting of some of the fight scenes seem to be inspired by ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.
** There's a lot of homages to ComicBook/SpiderMan, right down to an alien symbiotic parasite taking over the hero and increasing his aggressive
** The JitterCam and aggressive panting and grunting of some of the fight scenes seem to be inspired by ''Film/TheBourneSeries''.
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* SpitefulSpit: Phil insultingly spits on John's face when he demands to know where Michael is. And yes, he's still wearing his helmet.
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* BringIt: John attempts to face the Decapitator... only to flee as soon as the monster charges him.
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* FlashStep: Plague is able to run right up next to Deus in a less than a second.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Leonard Phillip is killed by his own creation after attempting to kill John with it.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Leonard Phillip Phillips is killed by his own creation after attempting to kill John with it.
* ILied: Upon learning of how John could conceivably escape from his prison, Derick orders his coffin be filled with wet concrete, casually breaking his promise to spare John if Michael does what he's told a few minutes ago.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Peter calls Michael a faggot and insinuates that he and John are gay.
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* VillainBall: It turns out that neither Peter nor Phil bothered to confiscate any equipment or weaponry that John might be able to use to escape from being BuriedAlive like say, a grenade that he can use to explode his way out and protecting himself with his temporary invulnerability.
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* WeCanRuleTogether: Derick twice offers John the chance to rule Salvation City by his side, with John refusing both times.
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* BringIt: John attempts to face the Decapitator... only to flee as soon as the monster charges him.
* DoubleTake: John takes a moment to realize that he just walked past a guy carrying a sniper rifle.
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* IdiotBall: John Brent seems to carry and collect them. Mainly not using his temporary invulnderability outside of one instance.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Leonard Phillip is killed by his own creation after attempting to kill John with it.
* IdiotBall: John Brent seems to carry and collect them. Mainly not using his temporaryinvulnderability invulnerability outside of one instance.instance.
* KnightOfCerebus: Despite being arguably only the second "supervillain" that John faces, Derick Owen aka Plague irreversibly damages John to his core, having physically injured him, buried him alive, and almost killed Michael. Even after his death, the effect he has on John is very noticeable, leading the more aggressive and reckless Deus to accidentally kill a child. Overall, NothingIsTheSameAnymore after he appeared.
* IdiotBall: John Brent seems to carry and collect them. Mainly not using his temporary
* KnightOfCerebus: Despite being arguably only the second "supervillain" that John faces, Derick Owen aka Plague irreversibly damages John to his core, having physically injured him, buried him alive, and almost killed Michael. Even after his death, the effect he has on John is very noticeable, leading the more aggressive and reckless Deus to accidentally kill a child. Overall, NothingIsTheSameAnymore after he appeared.
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* PoweredArmor: Due to the low quality of the standard armor everyone is fitted with, John explained that it wasn't hard to apply modifications to them and give yourself whatever superpower you desire. As a result the Deus Ex Machina suit has the power of temporary invulnerability (though John doesn't use it as much as he should).
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: John casually gives a homeless man some cash, cash that he forgot he was going to use to pay for equipment that Michael needed to work on the Deus Ex Machina suit.
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Derick's son Patrick takes over as the BigBad in the finale]]
* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by [[spoiler:Owen and his men]] so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulnerability.
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* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Derick's son Patrick takes over as the BigBad in the finale]]
finale.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Michael on occasion has to go out into the field to rescue John.
* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by[[spoiler:Owen Owen and his men]] men so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulnerability.invulnerability.
* {{Capepunk}}: A superhero machinima about a vigilante who is put through hell by MaliciousSlander, horrible mistakes, and systemic attacks on his mental well-being. By the series' last episode, you're likely to forget that this began as an attempt at a superhero show.
* BigDamnHeroes: Michael on occasion has to go out into the field to rescue John.
* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by
* {{Capepunk}}: A superhero machinima about a vigilante who is put through hell by MaliciousSlander, horrible mistakes, and systemic attacks on his mental well-being. By the series' last episode, you're likely to forget that this began as an attempt at a superhero show.
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* HeroicBSOD: After accidentally killing a youth, John goes through one of these.
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* MaliciousSlander: John suffers from this by television personality Phil O'Malley [[spoiler:under orders from Derick Owen]].
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* MaliciousSlander: John suffers from this by television personality Phil O'Malley [[spoiler:under under orders from Derick Owen]].Owen.
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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Michael. Slowly.]]
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** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Decapitator]].
**[[spoiler:Michael. Slowly.]]
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Decapitator]].
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* TheSpeechless: The Behemoth is a mute. John's attack on him reveals that he genuinely might not be able to talk at all.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Derick Owen speaks in this in his Plague persona with a small robotic touch]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Derick Owen]].
* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Exaggerated and justified at the same time.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Derick Owen]].
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Derick Derick Owen speaks in this in his Plague persona with a small robotic touch]].
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity:[[spoiler:Derick Owen]].Derick Owen.
* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Exaggerated and justified at the same time. Due to the lack of police in Salvation City, citizens were given standard-issue but low-grade MJOLNIR Mark VI armor to protect themselves.
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* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Exaggerated and justified at the same time. Due to the lack of police in Salvation City, citizens were given standard-issue but low-grade MJOLNIR Mark VI armor to protect themselves.
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->"The definition [for Deus Ex Machina] is: A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty."
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->''"The definition [for Deus Ex Machina] is: A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.
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* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by [[spoiler:Owen and his men]] so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulernability.
* ChekhovsGun: It happens a lot, to say the least. The most prominent one is [[spoiler:the pheromones used to control the Decapitators, which John uses to prevent himself from being killed by them and get free of his predicament.]]
* ChekhovsGun: It happens a lot, to say the least. The most prominent one is [[spoiler:the pheromones used to control the Decapitators, which John uses to prevent himself from being killed by them and get free of his predicament.]]
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* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by [[spoiler:Owen and his men]] so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulernability.
invulnerability.
* ChekhovsGun:It happens a lot, to say the least. The most prominent one is [[spoiler:the pheromones used to control the Decapitators, which John uses to prevent himself from being killed by them and get free of his predicament.]]
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* CrapsackWorldCrapsackWorld: The series takes place in Salvation City, the last remaining city on Earth which John describes as the "asshole of the world". The police force is nonexistent due to the UNSC needing all the soldiers they could recruit, leaving citizens to fend for themselves with standard issue plasma pistols and MJOLNIR armor (the latter is to explain why the hell ''everybody'' is wearing armor).
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: John's armor in the opening scene has an orange secondary color which disappears for the rest of the series.
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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Michael. [[NightmareFuel Slowly.]]]]
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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Michael. [[NightmareFuel Slowly.]]]]]]
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* PreMortemOneLiner: "Thank you for flying Air Deus! Enjoy your flight!"
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* PreMortemOneLiner: John to Plague: "Thank you for flying Air Deus! Enjoy your flight!"
* RedIsViolent: When John is infected with the parasite, his armor is turned red, as is anybody else that gets infected.
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* StarterVillain: Leonard Phillip
* StormingTheCastle: Deus ex pulls this when he escapes from being BuriedAlive. It didn't last.
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* StarterVillain: Leonard Phillip
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* StealthHiBye: John disappears from sight before the citizen in the opening scene can thank him. Michael teases him for being cliche.
* StormingTheCastle: Deusex pulls this when he escapes from being BuriedAlive. It didn't last.
* StealthHiBye: John disappears from sight before the citizen in the opening scene can thank him. Michael teases him for being cliche.
* StormingTheCastle: Deus
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* HeroWithBadPublicity: After bonding with a symbiote in a homage to Franchise/SpiderMan, though he was already the victim of slander by television personality Phil O'Malley beforehand.
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->"The definition [for Deus Ex Machina] is: A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty."
Recent graduate John Brent and Michael Jacobs have grown tired of seeing their graduating class dying. The year is 2552, the last surviving city on Earth is Salvation City, a city plagued with crime and augmentation drugs. There are no cops as the UNSC needs every soldier up in space to guard against Covenant attack, so thus they equipped everybody with Mark VI powered armor, and let the city police itself.
Does this sound like a really, really bad idea? Well, that's because it is, the city has gone to hell, and it's so dangerous that everybody has to carry around tasers (plasma pistols). The backstory may sound silly, but the whole thing is to HandWave the required character models that ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' provides, given that it is a machinima.
Moving on, the aforementioned Michael Jacobs modifies John Brent's suit to have super human strength, temporary invulnerability, invisibility, and thermal/night vision. John decides he must have a nickname, so after hearing the page's quote at the top, decides on Deus Ex Machina.
Surprisingly good cinematography for a machinima series, the camera angles and lighting effects make for a very theatrical experience. Sadly, the writing isn't quite so good. John hardly ever uses his suit's abilities when they would actually be helpful. See IdiotBall for details.
The series has since been discontinued by its creator. It ran from 2007 to 2008.
A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oo2zFeUyI four-part remake]] was produced by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/xDigitalVirusx/featured Retro Digital]] in 2014, with a different version of the story, but nonetheless retains its major beats. This series has since been put on private on Website/YouTube.
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!!Tropes used in Deus Ex Machina:
* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Derick's son Patrick takes over as the BigBad in the finale]]
* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by [[spoiler:Owen and his men]] so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulernability.
* ChekhovsGun: It happens a lot, to say the least. The most prominent one is [[spoiler:the pheromones used to control the Decapitators, which John uses to prevent himself from being killed by them and get free of his predicament.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: Subverted. Episode 3 takes place during Christmas, but the story has little to do with the holiday itself.
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkestHour: Happens about twice in the entirety of the series.
* DeusExMachina: Naturally, if a sudden resolution to a crisis isn't a ChekhovsGun.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: According to John Brent: "I guess you could call me a superhero, but that makes it sound kinda retarded".
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Plague seemingly falls to his death.]]
* TheDragon: The Behemoth is this to Plague.
* HandWave: [[WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture All Salvation City citizens were given mandatory MJOLNIR armor and stun guns due to the high crime rate, even the homeless people]]. Now stop asking about why everyone is wearing armor and holding a gun.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: After bonding with a symbiote in a homage to Franchise/SpiderMan, though he was already the victim of slander by television personality Phil O'Malley beforehand.
* HeroicBSOD: After accidentally killing a youth, John goes through one of these.
* IdiotBall: John Brent seems to carry and collect them. Mainly not using his temporary invulnderability outside of one instance.
* MaliciousSlander: John suffers from this by television personality Phil O'Malley [[spoiler:under orders from Derick Owen]].
* NotQuiteDead
* NotWearingTights: Not that the game engine would allow tights, but...
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Michael. [[NightmareFuel Slowly.]]]]
* OhCrap: John when he realizes that [[spoiler:Patrick]] had trapped him with a whole herd of Decapitators.
* OrphanedSeries: Jon has no plans to finish it. Or even acknowledge it.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Thank you for flying Air Deus! Enjoy your flight!"
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The assistant seen at the end of the first arc turns out to be a minor character who dies in the same episode he has involvement in]].
* ShoutOut: There's a lot of homages to Franchise/SpiderMan, right down to an alien symbiotic parasite taking over the hero and increasing his aggressive emotions.
* TheSpeechless: The Behemoth is a mute.
* StarterVillain: Leonard Phillip
* StormingTheCastle: Deus ex pulls this when he escapes from being BuriedAlive. It didn't last.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Derick Owen speaks in this in his Plague persona with a small robotic touch]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Derick Owen]].
* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Exaggerated and justified at the same time.
* WholePlotReference: The Parasite arc is basically a Machinima version of ''Film/SpiderMan3'', right down to having Christopher Young's score as the soundtrack.
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Recent graduate John Brent and Michael Jacobs have grown tired of seeing their graduating class dying. The year is 2552, the last surviving city on Earth is Salvation City, a city plagued with crime and augmentation drugs. There are no cops as the UNSC needs every soldier up in space to guard against Covenant attack, so thus they equipped everybody with Mark VI powered armor, and let the city police itself.
Does this sound like a really, really bad idea? Well, that's because it is, the city has gone to hell, and it's so dangerous that everybody has to carry around tasers (plasma pistols). The backstory may sound silly, but the whole thing is to HandWave the required character models that ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' provides, given that it is a machinima.
Moving on, the aforementioned Michael Jacobs modifies John Brent's suit to have super human strength, temporary invulnerability, invisibility, and thermal/night vision. John decides he must have a nickname, so after hearing the page's quote at the top, decides on Deus Ex Machina.
Surprisingly good cinematography for a machinima series, the camera angles and lighting effects make for a very theatrical experience. Sadly, the writing isn't quite so good. John hardly ever uses his suit's abilities when they would actually be helpful. See IdiotBall for details.
The series has since been discontinued by its creator. It ran from 2007 to 2008.
A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oo2zFeUyI four-part remake]] was produced by [[https://www.youtube.com/user/xDigitalVirusx/featured Retro Digital]] in 2014, with a different version of the story, but nonetheless retains its major beats. This series has since been put on private on Website/YouTube.
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!!Tropes used in Deus Ex Machina:
* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:Derick's son Patrick takes over as the BigBad in the finale]]
* BuriedAlive: John is buried alive by [[spoiler:Owen and his men]] so as to force Michael to build a suit with the Deus ex Machina armor's temporary invulernability.
* ChekhovsGun: It happens a lot, to say the least. The most prominent one is [[spoiler:the pheromones used to control the Decapitators, which John uses to prevent himself from being killed by them and get free of his predicament.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: Subverted. Episode 3 takes place during Christmas, but the story has little to do with the holiday itself.
* CrapsackWorld
* DarkestHour: Happens about twice in the entirety of the series.
* DeusExMachina: Naturally, if a sudden resolution to a crisis isn't a ChekhovsGun.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: According to John Brent: "I guess you could call me a superhero, but that makes it sound kinda retarded".
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Plague seemingly falls to his death.]]
* TheDragon: The Behemoth is this to Plague.
* HandWave: [[WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture All Salvation City citizens were given mandatory MJOLNIR armor and stun guns due to the high crime rate, even the homeless people]]. Now stop asking about why everyone is wearing armor and holding a gun.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: After bonding with a symbiote in a homage to Franchise/SpiderMan, though he was already the victim of slander by television personality Phil O'Malley beforehand.
* HeroicBSOD: After accidentally killing a youth, John goes through one of these.
* IdiotBall: John Brent seems to carry and collect them. Mainly not using his temporary invulnderability outside of one instance.
* MaliciousSlander: John suffers from this by television personality Phil O'Malley [[spoiler:under orders from Derick Owen]].
* NotQuiteDead
* NotWearingTights: Not that the game engine would allow tights, but...
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Michael. [[NightmareFuel Slowly.]]]]
* OhCrap: John when he realizes that [[spoiler:Patrick]] had trapped him with a whole herd of Decapitators.
* OrphanedSeries: Jon has no plans to finish it. Or even acknowledge it.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "Thank you for flying Air Deus! Enjoy your flight!"
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The assistant seen at the end of the first arc turns out to be a minor character who dies in the same episode he has involvement in]].
* ShoutOut: There's a lot of homages to Franchise/SpiderMan, right down to an alien symbiotic parasite taking over the hero and increasing his aggressive emotions.
* TheSpeechless: The Behemoth is a mute.
* StarterVillain: Leonard Phillip
* StormingTheCastle: Deus ex pulls this when he escapes from being BuriedAlive. It didn't last.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Derick Owen speaks in this in his Plague persona with a small robotic touch]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:Derick Owen]].
* WeWillWearArmorInTheFuture: Exaggerated and justified at the same time.
* WholePlotReference: The Parasite arc is basically a Machinima version of ''Film/SpiderMan3'', right down to having Christopher Young's score as the soundtrack.
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