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Zero Context Example and probably not a straight example of the trope.


* ABoyAndHisX: It's in the title, after all.

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* OneOfUs: An in-universe example, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has spent most of the last two decades on the internet, and in particular, loves TV Tropes, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1425.html posting under the name Abe-1809.]] Based on her reaction to that revelation (particularly including the AltText), Mare also is one. Later, he describes the concept of tropes to an elderly Japanese woman. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1464.html She responds with another common internet meme . . . .]]
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* EveryoneKnewAlready: When Ben thought Speedy told everyone about [[spoiler: how his research into the nature of ghost energy was stolen and used to start the Pocket President program.]], Hope tells them they'd figured it out long ago (thanks mostly to Ben acting guilty and changing the subject any time one of them brought it up). They let Speedy blackmail him to keep his tendency to [[DidNotThinkThisThrough go off follow his own whims]] in check.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hope is pretty thrilled to have a pretty bird land on her finger... [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1102.html until Mike is shown with a whole flock attracted to him]]. This a BrickJoke, as he previously mentioned that his partner collects birds, who then complains that it's cheating to use powers to attract birds for bird-watching..

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hope is pretty thrilled to have a pretty bird land on her finger... [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1102.html until Mike is shown with a whole flock attracted to him]]. This a BrickJoke, as he previously mentioned that his partner collects birds, who then complains that it's cheating to use powers to attract birds for bird-watching..bird-watching.
* FunWithAcronyms: A rare aversion. The Fed works for [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.49.html OACET]]: the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies. It doesn't spell anything, it's nigh-impossible to pronounce, and it isn't even mentioned that often.
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A journalism intern haunted by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin finds she is on a terrorist watchlist. When she confronts the unnamed Fed who is set to watch her, things get seriously, fantastically weird. There's [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]], a talking super-genius koala, and, oh yeah, forty billion undead pixies. Thanks to a tightly-plotted story and a good dash of humor, [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds it actually works]].

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A journalism intern haunted by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin finds she is on a terrorist watchlist. When she confronts the unnamed Fed who is set to watch her, things get seriously, fantastically weird. There's [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]], a talking super-genius koala, and, oh yeah, forty billion undead pixies. Thanks to a tightly-plotted story and a good dash of humor, [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds it actually works]].\n

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badass is no longer a trope. Part of the reason is the violation of example indentaiton. Badass Grandma is also being dewicked. Also, other corrections.


* Badass: Almost everyone in the comic, up to and including ''Ben Franklin.''
** BadassBureaucrat: [[spoiler: After the Pocket President is revealed to the world, the surviving members of the program eventually become this.]]
** BadassGrandma: Rose Myers, the woman who taught the Fed everything he knows about espionage. Though officially retired, she hasn't forgotten how to hand out a bit of pain when the occasion calls for it.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Several agents in the Pocket President community made the mistake of thinking that the Girl was just a spoiled rich girl working an internship for a tiny newspaper. They were ''wrong.''

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* Badass: Almost everyone in the comic, up to and including ''Ben Franklin.''
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BadassBureaucrat: [[spoiler: After the Pocket President is revealed to the world, the surviving members of the program eventually become this.]]
** BadassGrandma: Rose Myers, the woman who taught the Fed everything he knows about espionage. Though officially retired, she hasn't forgotten how to hand out a bit of pain when the occasion calls for it.
** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Several agents in the Pocket President community made the mistake of thinking that the Girl was just a spoiled rich girl working an internship for a tiny newspaper. They were ''wrong.''
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Several agents in the Pocket President community made the mistake of thinking that the Girl was just a spoiled rich girl working an internship for a tiny newspaper. They were ''wrong.''



** SmallAnnoyingCreature: The Fed is ''so happy'' once Ben manages to make the Bitty Bush go away.



** ILetYouWin: ...But then again, it's revealed that he held back in their sparring matches.
*** He states outright that he knows its stupid, because she is still much, much better than him.
* IGaveMyWord[=/=]HonorBeforeReason: Why Lincoln allows the rogue ghosts to draw on his strength, even though he knows they're trying to start a civil war and it causes him actual pain.

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** ILetYouWin: ...But then again, it's revealed that he held back in their sparring matches.
*** He states outright that he knows its stupid, because she is still much, much better than him.
* IGaveMyWord[=/=]HonorBeforeReason: IGaveMyWord: Why Lincoln allows the rogue ghosts to draw on his strength, even though he knows they're trying to start a civil war and it causes him actual pain.



* ILetYouWin The Fed revealed that he held back in his sparring matches with the Girl. However, he states outright that he knows its stupid, because she is still much, much better than him.



*** NamesTheSame: As [[spoiler: the priest in Series/{{Mash}}.]]



*OldMaster: Rose Myers, the woman who taught the Fed everything he knows about espionage. Though officially retired, she hasn't forgotten how to hand out a bit of pain when the occasion calls for it.



* RapunzelHair: Mare's long red hair.

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* %%%%* RapunzelHair: Mare's long red hair.



* StrawmanPolitical: Surprisingly averted (most of the time). While the comic is heavily steeped in the politics surrounding government surveillance, especially electronic surveillance, it generally tries to present all sides fairly.
** The major exception is the Bitty Bush, which is one long TakeThat at UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.

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* StrawmanPolitical: Surprisingly averted (most of the time). While the comic is heavily steeped in the politics surrounding government surveillance, especially electronic surveillance, it generally tries to present all sides fairly.
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fairly. The major exception is the Bitty Bush, which is one long TakeThat at UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Clarice [[http://agirlandherfed.com/1.1264.html needs someone famous]], but not "15-minutes" famous. Upon having UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump come up as a suggestion, she responds "'''Please'''. I have '''[[TakeThat standards]]'''."
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Dewicking the Donald Trump page to make it Donald Trump instead.


* EvenEvilHasStandards: Clarice [[http://agirlandherfed.com/1.1264.html needs someone famous]], but not "15-minutes" famous. Upon having Creator/DonaldTrump come up as a suggestion, she responds "'''Please'''. I have '''[[TakeThat standards]]'''."

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Clarice [[http://agirlandherfed.com/1.1264.html needs someone famous]], but not "15-minutes" famous. Upon having Creator/DonaldTrump UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump come up as a suggestion, she responds "'''Please'''. I have '''[[TakeThat standards]]'''."

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hope is pretty thrilled to have a pretty bird land on her finger... [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1102.html until Mike is shown with a whole flock attracted to him]]. Possibly a BrickJoke, as he previously mentioned that his partner collects birds.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hope is pretty thrilled to have a pretty bird land on her finger... [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1102.html until Mike is shown with a whole flock attracted to him]]. Possibly This a BrickJoke, as he previously mentioned that his partner collects birds.birds, who then complains that it's cheating to use powers to attract birds for bird-watching..



* OhCrap: Hope's reaction when a ghost pops in next to her but it isn't Benjamin Franklin like she was expecting, but [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln]].
* OneOfUs: An in-universe example, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has spent most of the last two decades on the internet, and in particular, loves TV Tropes, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1425.html posting under the name Abe-1809.]] Later, he describes the concept of tropes to an elderly Japanese woman. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1464.html She responds with another common internet meme . . . .]]

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Hope's reaction when a ghost pops in next to her but it isn't Benjamin Franklin like she was expecting, but [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln]].
** Early on, Hope's reaction when she realizes that Pat can see Ben - which means he's a NotSoImaginaryFriend after all.
* OneOfUs: An in-universe example, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has spent most of the last two decades on the internet, and in particular, loves TV Tropes, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1425.html posting under the name Abe-1809.]] Based on her reaction to that revelation (particularly including the AltText), Mare also is one. Later, he describes the concept of tropes to an elderly Japanese woman. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1464.html She responds with another common internet meme . . . .]]
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** From ''Greek Key''; Picking a fight with Hope = Bad Idea. Picking a fight with Hope and Mike = Worse Idea. Picking a fight with Hope, Mike and ''Speedy'' = Worst. Idea. Ever.
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* [[https://www.amazon.com.au/Brute-Force-Rachel-Peng-Book-ebook/dp/B01MXRMY34 Brute Force]]
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* EmotionSupression: At the beginning, almost all of the people in the Pocket President program have some level of this to deal with it. [[spoiler: This was intentional by the people behind the program, to make them easier to control.]] Pat is still able to enter this mindset if he feels he needs to, although he even admits how damaging it can be.

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* EmotionSupression: EmotionSuppression: At the beginning, almost all of the people in the Pocket President program have some level of this to deal with it. [[spoiler: This was intentional by the people behind the program, to make them easier to control.]] Pat is still able to enter this mindset if he feels he needs to, although he even admits how damaging it can be.
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* OneOfUs: An in-universe example, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln has spent most of the last two decades on the internet, and in particular, loves TV Tropes, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1425.html posting under the name Abe-1809.]] Later, he describes the concept of tropes to an elderly Japanese woman. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1464.html She responds with another common internet meme . . . .]]
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* WhiteMansBurden: {{Invoked}} when [[http://agirlandherfed.com/1.1464.html Lincoln offers his aid to Grandmother Ishi in Japan]], as he's concerned that he's playing into the trope with good intentions.
-->'''Grandmother Ishi''': <Kid, you seem to spend a lot of time online. I bet you've heard the phrase, "''[[MemeticMutation Out of fucks to give]]''".
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* MightyWhitey: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] by Lincoln with Grandmother Ishi when Lincoln offers his services in dealing with her ghost problem.
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* BilingualBackfire: Not only does Lincoln [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/woodpulp/1.1456.html speak Japanese]], he speaks ''ancient'' [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/woodpulp/1.1462.html Japanese.]]
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A journalism intern haunted by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin finds she is on a terrorist watchlist. When she confronts the unnamed Fed who is set to watch her, things get seriously, fantastically weird. There's [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]], a talking super-genius koala, and, oh yeah, forty billion undead pixies. Thanks to a tightly-plotted story and a good dash of humor, [[BetterThanItSounds it actually works]].

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A journalism intern haunted by the ghost of Benjamin Franklin finds she is on a terrorist watchlist. When she confronts the unnamed Fed who is set to watch her, things get seriously, fantastically weird. There's [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]], a talking super-genius koala, and, oh yeah, forty billion undead pixies. Thanks to a tightly-plotted story and a good dash of humor, [[BetterThanItSounds [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds it actually works]].

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* EmbarrassingTattoo: The Fed has one.

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* EmbarrassingTattoo: The Fed has one.one - a barbed wire/Celtic knot combination on his upper arm. His excuse was "college."
* EmotionSupression: At the beginning, almost all of the people in the Pocket President program have some level of this to deal with it. [[spoiler: This was intentional by the people behind the program, to make them easier to control.]] Pat is still able to enter this mindset if he feels he needs to, although he even admits how damaging it can be.



* GrievousHarmWithABody

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* GrievousHarmWithABodyGrievousHarmWithABody: Hope is excellent at judo, and Pat is very much a CombatPragmatist, so both will calmly throw one foe into another to make their lives easier in a fight.



* HealingHands: [[spoiler: Smithback]] has this ability, which turns out to be a huge reveal - [[spoiler: he's Mike's uncle]]. Said character offers to teach Hope as well, but she doesn't take to it - apparently, it doesn't mix well with her medical training.
* HeroicBSOD: Ghosts can teleport living people if given enough power, but it has the side effect of making them nigh catatonic for some time. It apparently lasts for around a day, but allies can talk them out of catatonia quicker.



* ISeeDeadPeople: But only if they want you to.

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* ISeeDeadPeople: But only if they want you to.to for the most part. Those born with the ability to see them without being explicitly revealed are said to be extremely rare - Hope is one of them.



* LaserGuidedAmnesia: One of the more potent applications of the ghosts' ability to mess with surveillance is the ability to apply this on an individual. [[spoiler: Clarice]] attempts to weaponize this, although it turns out that there are limitations to it - [[spoiler: psychically aware people like Hope]] can potentially get around it.



* PopularityPower: InUniverse, the power an individual ghost can exert without borrowing from or teaming up with another is largely dependent on how much fame they've acquired in the living world. Presidents with less lasting impact like Calvin Coolidge can do little more than light lifting, while a Founding Father like Benjamin Franklin is capable of [[TheProphecy limited views of the future]]. [[spoiler: Having psychic powers also can affect this - there's some cause for concern when one agent commits suicide, and Abraham Lincoln combines both incredible psychic potential and this to be a full-on RealityWarper.]]



* SenseFreak: What happens when Benjamin Franklin is given temporary control over Mulcahy's body - while Ben did promise that he wouldn't do anything Pat wouldn't do, that does mean that Ben spent nine straight hours seeing just what an incredibly in-shape body could do exercise-wise and enjoying all the endorphin rush from that level of exercise.

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What happens when Benjamin Franklin is given temporary control over Mulcahy's body - while Ben did promise that he wouldn't do anything Pat wouldn't do, that does mean that Ben spent nine straight hours seeing just what an incredibly in-shape body could do exercise-wise and enjoying all the endorphin rush from that level of exercise.exercise.
** Earlier, what happens when Pat has Ben free all of the agents trapped in the program. Suddenly, the base desires of everyone in the office come to the fore, and the agents as a whole remember both their appetites and their libidos.
-->'''Josh:''' We could remake '''''Film/{{Caligula}}!''''


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* SpiderSense: Upon seeing how quickly Hope takes to firearm training, she and Pat have a discussion on it. Hope conjectures that developing a sense for where an attack comes from might be the first sign of psychic powers, as she compared notes with Mike and both found that they suddenly jumped in skill in judo [[PubertySuperpower around when puberty first kicked in]].


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* ToiletHumor: None of the major characters are afraid to get raunchy or rude, but the best of it has to be Mike, in part because nobody expects it out of the non-violent Zen practitioner.
-->'''Mike:''' I have become one with the dick joke.

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* AltText: The author started including it roughly around when the first fight with Clarice happened. Frequently used for a further joke, and at least once as a BrickJoke about how "Sparky" sounds like a dog's name.



* BatmanGambit: When Hope decides that she needs to travel more to find experienced psychics, she initially proposes to Pat that she go to China, knowing that he'll quickly suggest Japan (where she actually wants to go) instead. He just as quickly picks up that she was doing this and seems remarkably calm about the ploy.



** [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.937.html The Girl discovers that Ben was involved with Abraham Lincoln]] and says they'll start a club and make matching hats. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1146.html 150 or so strips later, he seems awfully disappointed the Girl didn't come.]]

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** [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.937.html The Girl discovers that Ben was involved with Abraham Lincoln]] and says they'll start a club and make matching hats. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1146.html 150 or so strips later, he seems awfully disappointed the Girl didn't come.]] [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1259.html Another 100 strips later, he finally gives it to her.]]


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* OhCrap: Hope's reaction when a ghost pops in next to her but it isn't Benjamin Franklin like she was expecting, but [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln]].


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* PaintingTheMedium: [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln]] is repeatedly said to be both extremely powerful and unstable by everyone who has met [[spoiler: someone who was both an incredibly powerful innate psychic as well as one of the most famous people in American history]]. This is reflected in their speech bubbles: the strokes are thicker (even moreso when bold is used to show emphasis), the kerning is uneven, and the alignment of the letters on the same line is ''just'' uneven enough that it's noticeably unsettling without being impossible to read clearly. Best shown [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1154.html here]], where a standard character's regular and bolded-for-emphasis text can be compared immediately after to the text in question.


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* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Abraham Lincoln]] is revealed to have the power to create objects ''ex nihilo'' in the real world. [[spoiler: George Washington]], who by all accounts is one of the few who potentially could come close (not even equal) to that level of power, is shocked by this and recognizes that, for all intents and purposes, there is no limit to what that power could potentially do.


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* SenseFreak: What happens when Benjamin Franklin is given temporary control over Mulcahy's body - while Ben did promise that he wouldn't do anything Pat wouldn't do, that does mean that Ben spent nine straight hours seeing just what an incredibly in-shape body could do exercise-wise and enjoying all the endorphin rush from that level of exercise.

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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Hope is pretty thrilled to have a pretty bird land on her finger... [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.1102.html until Mike is shown with a whole flock attracted to him]]. Possibly a BrickJoke, as he previously mentioned that his partner collects birds.



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* [[spoiler:{{Technopath}}]]{{Technopath}}: [[spoiler: The default abilities of the unlocked chip, once the agents learn to take control of it. It's said that each person develops their own specialty, but all of them have a strong degree of control over pretty much any networked device.]]


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* UnwantedAssistance: The Bitty Bush is universally seen as an annoyance that makes it impossible to do anything productive. [[spoiler: Which was its whole purpose, making this an InvokedTrope.]] Mulcahy is shown taking what is called an unhealthy quantity of psychiatric drugs just to get it to shut up (with strong implications that he's not an outlier on that count), and Dixon is shown in flashback to have used massive amounts of alcohol for the same purpose.


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* VitriolicBestBuds: Much to the former's surprise, [[spoiler: Pat Mulcahy and George Washington]] develop into this, despite the fact that the latter point-blank admits that he actively dislikes the former. The former is incredulous that the latter would describe their relationship as anything resembling "friendship." The heart of it is that the two do recognize that each of them want what's best for everyone... and disagree on just how to accomplish that to the point of room-destroying violence.


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* YearsTooEarly: George Washington's most frequent go-to insult for Mulcahy is "boy," showing that he doesn't think Mulcahy has the years or the maturity to be in the position he's in.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: The Fed's punishment for allowing [[spoiler: Lincoln to teach Mako's daughter's aikido lesson?]] He needs to help explain slavery and Jim Crow when Avery's old enough.
-->'''The Fed:''' Oh '''God!''' Can't I give her the sex talk instead?
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* DontExplainTheJoke: During a showdown with Clarice, the Girl makes a joke about juggling MacGuffins, and how they are high calorie. She then explains "muffin? macguffin? geddit?"

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* DontExplainTheJoke: During a showdown with Clarice, the Girl makes a joke about juggling MacGuffins, [[MacGuffin Mac Guffins]], and how they are high calorie. She then explains "muffin? macguffin? geddit?"
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* Greek Key, coming October 2015

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* [[http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Key-ebook/dp/B0176JYLXO Greek Key, coming October 2015
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* HasTwoThumbsAnd: [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.468.html Speedy tries this]], but is foiled by [[TalkingAnimal not having thumbs]]. (This is unintentionally hilarious for a completely different reason: real Koalas actually have ''four'' thumbs.)
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Hmm - now that I think on it, I wouldn\'t call it \"invoked\", either.


* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler: Invoked.]]

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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler: Invoked.]]Among the problems faced in the first major plot arc is [[spoiler:the Bitty Bush, which was ''designed'' to have this effect on the Agents]].
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I haven\'t read the comic, but I bet it\'s invoked rather thatn enforced, especially for Cybernetics Eat Your Soul


* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler: Enforced.]]

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* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: [[spoiler: Enforced.Invoked.]]

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* DigitalAvatar: The Agents can go out of body with an avatar that looks exactly like themselves, but sometimes also use non-human avatars. The Fed has a clownfish named Bubbles; although it hasn't appeared in the webcomic yet, Rachel has an owl named Madeline.



** After? How about this qoute from the beggining of the strip.

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** After? How about this qoute quote from the beggining of the strip.

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* ISeeThemToo: Originally [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/2.747.html Twice simultaneously]], since {{RetCon}}ned to once, nonverbally, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.748.html when the Girl meets the Fed.]]

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* ISeeDeadPeople: Used to be just psychics like Hope. Then along came the implant, and now all the Agents can see them if they know what to look for.
* ISeeThemToo: Originally [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/2.747.html Twice twice simultaneously]], since {{RetCon}}ned to once, nonverbally, [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.748.html when the Girl meets the Fed.]]
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'''[[Literature/RachelPengNovels]]:'''

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'''[[Literature/RachelPengNovels]]:''''''Literature/RachelPengNovels:'''
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'''[[Literature/Rachel Peng Novels]]:'''

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'''[[Literature/Rachel Peng Novels]]:''''''[[Literature/RachelPengNovels]]:'''

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