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* WhamLine: When the results of Mars’ interstellar search for alien life resulted in: [[spoiler: they found nothing alive. Oh, there are ''remains'', but there are none left ''alive''. The only civilization left is humanity.]]
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* TalkingYourWayOut: When [[spoiler:Caprice]] is captured, [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos344.html she pulls this off]] by convincing [[spoiler:Dryden]] that [[spoiler:[[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos359.html the only way to stop Mars from attacking is to get her access to a telephone]]]].
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* TalkingYourWayOut: When [[spoiler:Caprice]] is captured, [[spoiler:Caprice]], after waking up in captivity, [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos344.html she pulls this off]] [[spoiler: by convincing [[spoiler:Dryden]] Dryden that [[spoiler:[[http://project-apollo.[[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos359.html the only way to stop Mars from attacking coming after Haas is to get her access to a telephone]]]].
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Haas says the trope name out loud while attempting to pull this on the Venusian mobsters, but Benjamin and Caprice throw a SpannerInTheWorks.
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* AndMissionControlRejoiced: When Mars found out that [[spoiler: Caprice is still alive]].
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* AndMissionControlRejoiced: When Mars found finds out that [[spoiler: Caprice is still alive]].
** In the climax, when Haas asks IsThatTheBestYouCanDo, Benjamin explains how he and Mars ''will'' [[ImplacableMan chase Haas to the ends of the universe]] for [[spoiler: hurting Caprice]].
* GunshipRescue: The Martian fleet in the finale.
* ICanStillFight:
** After he gets shot on Venus and Caprice is [[spoiler: presumed dead by everyone but Benjamin]], chef Nyerere wants to take Benjamin off the case, but he makes a good argument for being allowed to bring in Haas.
** In the climax, Benjamin [[spoiler: knows he really can't, but still invokes this trope to let Haas's [=SRMD=] burn out harmlessly]].
** After he gets shot on Venus and Caprice is [[spoiler: presumed dead by everyone but Benjamin]], chef Nyerere wants to take Benjamin off the case, but he makes a good argument for being allowed to bring in Haas.
** In the climax, Benjamin [[spoiler: knows he really can't, but still invokes this trope to let Haas's [=SRMD=] burn out harmlessly]].
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* InsistentTerminology: It is a thing mad scientists do. Special mention, though, goes to Beatriz "That's ''Doctor''" Juruna.
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* InsistentTerminology: It is a thing mad Mad scientists do.tend to insist on being named in a specific way, or their inventions being named in a specific way. Special mention, though, goes to Beatriz "That's ''Doctor''" Juruna.
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* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Benjamin is a snarky member of an agency that apprehends and controls {{Mad Scientist}}s, a man with DarkAndTroubledPast who doesn't smile for half of the story. Caprice is a bubbly, friendly, optimistic psychological profiler with functional superpowers.
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* SkeletonGovernment: Mars doesn't really need a government, so the president's job is mostly making speeches in Solar Parliament and looking presidential.
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* SubspaceAnsible: The basis of Martian HiveMind (which works throughout the Solar System). Haas is also developing something along these lines. [[spoiler: He doesn't have FasterThanLightTravel, though, and the Martians do]].
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: In the flashbacks, this is ultimately how [[spoiler: Ben's group]] failed. They neglected to plan for the eventuality of going outside. On the Moon.
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* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Downplayed, but nevertheless [[spoiler: part of the experimental [=SRMD=] treatment Benjamin underwent was blocking specific memories, mostly those that had to do with his life as a MadScientist. After the blocks break, he gets the memories back]].
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* SuddenlyShouting: Bouts of hammy, take-over-the-world speechifying seem to be a symptom od [=SRMD=]. The last panel of these tends to have DramaticThunder in the background, as the speaker commences their EvilLaugh.
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: After the big reveal, the story is interspersed with Benjamin's flashbacks to [[spoiler: his time as a MadScientist trying to take over the world, his subsequent capture and becoming a BoxedCrook]]. He's somewhat spaced out when he gets them.
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* BadassBoast: Delivered to an apathetic police officer: "Sergeant, I've just been to the outer solar system and back to track down a mad scientist. I've been shot at with secret weapons, destroyed robots that could take down tanks, and fallen from orbit without benefit of a re-entry vehicle. ''[beat]'' I don't need your rudeness added to my troubles, okay?"
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* BadassBoast: Delivered to an apathetic When a Venusian police officer: "Sergeant, officer is being obstructive:
-->'''Benjamin''':Sergeant, I've just been to the outer solar system and back to track down a mad scientist. I've been shot at with secret weapons, destroyed robots that could take down tanks, and fallen from orbit without benefit of a re-entry vehicle. ''[beat]'' I don't need your rudeness added to my troubles,okay?"okay?
-->'''Benjamin''':Sergeant, I've just been to the outer solar system and back to track down a mad scientist. I've been shot at with secret weapons, destroyed robots that could take down tanks, and fallen from orbit without benefit of a re-entry vehicle. ''[beat]'' I don't need your rudeness added to my troubles,
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Minus the "evil" part. See the VoiceOfTheLegion entry below.
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Minus the "evil" part. See the VoiceOfTheLegion entry below.Not "evil", but when Mars takes over one of its members, their eyes go all black.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Caprice Quevillion gets disconnected from Mars]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], though - see BadassBoast above.
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* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Caprice Quevillion gets disconnected from Mars]]. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], though - see BadassBoast above.This doesn't really stop her.
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* DaChief: Chief Nyerere, Benjamin's direct superior.
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* DaChief: Chief Nyerere, Benjamin's direct superior.
superior, is a downplayed example as an unflappable ReasonableAuthorityFigure, but definitely has the looks.
* {{Denouement}}:Another A vital part of [=SRMD=] treatment.
* {{Denouement}}:
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** What makes it unique among other fictional Hive Minds is that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession when appropriate, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
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** What makes it unique among other fictional Hive Minds is that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession over their bodies when appropriate, needed, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
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* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wearing one all of the time seems to be a symptom of SRMD.
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* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Wearing one all of the time seems to be a symptom of SRMD. [[spoiler: Benjamin gets one as soon as he can as he relapses.]]
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* MissionControl: Mars plays this role on occasion.
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* MissionControl: Mars plays this role on occasion.occasion, doing research or buying things remotely on our heroes behalf.
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* PlanetSpaceship: One turns up in the finale - [[spoiler: Mars' moon Deimos is now mobile, and Mars demonstrates it by moving it to orbit Venus. As to why they demonstrate this, see above under ExactWords.]]
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* PlanetSpaceship: One turns up in the finale - [[spoiler: Mars' moon Deimos is now mobile, and Mars demonstrates it by moving it to orbit Venus. As to why they demonstrate this, see above under ExactWords.]]
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: The only time Dr. Haas doesn't have these is in the prologue, just before he catches SRMD.
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* ScaryShinyGlasses: The only time Dr. Haas doesn't have these is wearing a perfectly normal, transparent pair of glasses in the prologue, just before while reading "The Crank Theories of Robotics". Then he catches SRMD.[[DramaticDrop drops the book]], [[EvilLaugh laughs]] and his glasses become opaque as he says "I'll show them all!" with a DramaticThunder in the background. They remain that way for the rest of the story.
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* SexByProxy: A romantic example: everyone on Mars ''loves'' Prester.
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* SexByProxy: A romantic example: everyone on Mars ''loves'' Prester. [[spoiler: Not just Caprice.]]
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* {{Synchronization}}: When [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- since Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin about it.
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* {{Synchronization}}: When [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- since Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin about it.it on the phone.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's said in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank Theories of Robotics'' is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a MadScientist simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with it in the prologue.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's It's said in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank "The Crank Theories of Robotics'' Robotics" is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a MadScientist simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with reading it in the prologue.prologue, and sure enough...
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* WhatTheHellHero: Caprice immediately calls Benjamin out on his plan to escape Haas' attack on their ship by blasting up five civilian ships and killing a few hundred people. [[spoiler:This may or may not have been foreshadowing.]]
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* WhatTheHellHero: Caprice immediately calls Benjamin out on his plan to escape Haas' attack on their ship by blasting up five civilian ships and killing a few hundred people. [[spoiler:This may or may not have been be foreshadowing.]]
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* AGodIAmNot: Mars is quick to [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos023.html point out]] that it isn't omnipotent; merely extremely powerful.
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* AGodIAmNot: Mars is quick to [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos023.html point out]] that it isn't omnipotent; merely extremely powerful.powerful, but not infinitely so.
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* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: When Haas describes his {{Plan}} to Beatriz, [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos145.html she approves thoroughly]], but he reacts so quickly to her assumed disapproval that it takes him a second to notice what she really said.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: As early as [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos013.html page 13]]; Benjamin is speculating about all the different high-tech ways a Martian could probably scan the station to find him, and [[spoiler:he's ''alarmingly'' good at coming up with these ideas off the top of his head...]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Benjamin being a mad scientist]] is hinted ''very'' often before the formal reveal:
** As early as [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos013.html page13]]; 13]], Benjamin is speculating about all the different high-tech ways a Martian could probably scan the station to find him, and [[spoiler:he's ''alarmingly'' good at coming up with these ideas off the top of his head...]]]]
** [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos141.html Caprice jokes]] that there are no mad scientists in the vicinity, unless Benjamin thinks she's one, or her {{Robot Budd|y}}ies, [[spoiler:or Benjamin himself, which gets a suspicious "er" out of him]].
** As early as [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos013.html page
** [[https://project-apollo.net/mos/mos141.html Caprice jokes]] that there are no mad scientists in the vicinity, unless Benjamin thinks she's one, or her {{Robot Budd|y}}ies, [[spoiler:or Benjamin himself, which gets a suspicious "er" out of him]].
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* {Denouement}}: {{Denouement}}: Another vital part of [=SRMD=] treatment.
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* LightningBruiser: The Pindars.
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* LightningBruiser: The Pindars.Pindars, giant, nearly-indestructible war machines created by a MadScientist.
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* MagicalGirl: Caprice arguably qualifies as a super-science version of this, of the CuteWitch variety.
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* MagicalGirl: Caprice arguably qualifies as a super-science version of this, Caprice, of the CuteWitch variety.variety, although this is MagicFromTechnology (nanites, namely).
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The People's Republic of the Moon, a drab-looking lunar colony that's heavily implied to be a Communist state (USSR imitation), at least at the time of flashback.
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* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: The People's Republic of the Moon, a drab-looking lunar colony that's heavily implied to be a Communist state (USSR imitation), imitation - they even have cyryllic lettering), at least at the time of flashback.
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* RunningGag: Benjamin is, unnervingly often, the victim of BlastingItOutOfTheirHands.
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* MentalFusion: See HiveMind, above.
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* MentalFusion: See HiveMind, above.
%% * MindHive: While referred to as a hive mind, Mars is more strictly this: aTechnologically achieved. Martian metapersonality based on is the gestalt of all networked Martians as mediated by their data network.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: The main source of the Martians' advanced technology.
* NoMedicationForMe: One SRMD sufferer, Manny Delger, notes that he can't perform even ''non''-mad science when he takes his treatment under the recommended daily regimen -- he claims it makes his head feel "stuffed full of felt." He takes it on alternating days, which leaves him able to work on robotics and networking... but also makes him increasingly paranoid and has Benjamin worry about the potential for a relapse into SRMD.
* NoMedicationForMe: One SRMD sufferer, Manny Delger, notes that he can't perform even ''non''-mad science when he takes his treatment under the recommended daily regimen -- he claims it makes his head feel "stuffed full of felt." He takes it on alternating days, which leaves him able to work on robotics and networking... but also makes him increasingly paranoid and has Benjamin worry about the potential for a relapse into SRMD.
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* {{Nanomachines}}: The main source of the Martians' advanced technology.
technology is mostly these, including large objects like ships, which are made out of lots and lots of nanites.
* NoMedicationForMe: One SRMD sufferer, Manny Delger, notes that he can't perform even ''non''-mad science when he takes his treatment under the recommended daily regimen -- he claims it makes his head feel "stuffed full of felt." He takes it on alternating days, which leaves him able to work on robotics and networking... but also makes him increasingly paranoid and has Benjamin worry aboutthe a potential for a relapse into SRMD.
* NoMedicationForMe: One SRMD sufferer, Manny Delger, notes that he can't perform even ''non''-mad science when he takes his treatment under the recommended daily regimen -- he claims it makes his head feel "stuffed full of felt." He takes it on alternating days, which leaves him able to work on robotics and networking... but also makes him increasingly paranoid and has Benjamin worry about
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* {{Animesque}}: The art is incredibly reminiscent of some lower-quality manga. It is mostly noticeable on female character design.
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* {{Animesque}}: The art is incredibly reminiscent of some lower-quality manga. It is mostly noticeable on in female character design.
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* ChaseScene[=/=]{{Denouement}}, as mentioned. The ChaseScene is actually a vital part of proper treatment of SRMD; if the MadScientist is not given the psychological fulfillment of a direct confrontation with authority, he'll go even ''more'' crazy.
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* ChaseScene[=/=]{{Denouement}}, as mentioned. ChaseScene: The ChaseScene is actually a vital part of proper treatment of SRMD; if the MadScientist is not given the psychological fulfillment of a direct confrontation with authority, he'll go even ''more'' crazy.
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* DaChief: Chief Nyerere.
* {{Determinator}}: Benjamin is a very stubborn man; he is more than willing to push through any kind of obstacle to achieve his goal. Best shown in the final face-off against Haas, with his response to YouCanBarelyStand. [[spoiler:Of course, once Haas surrenders and Benjamin has reached his goal, he promptly [[PostVictoryCollapse collapses]]]].
* {{Determinator}}: Benjamin is a very stubborn man; he is more than willing to push through any kind of obstacle to achieve his goal. Best shown in the final face-off against Haas, with his response to YouCanBarelyStand. [[spoiler:Of course, once Haas surrenders and Benjamin has reached his goal, he promptly [[PostVictoryCollapse collapses]]]].
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* DaChief: Chief Nyerere.
Nyerere, Benjamin's direct superior.
* {Denouement}}: Another vital part of [=SRMD=] treatment.
* {{Determinator}}: Benjamin is a very stubbornman; he is man, more than willing to push through any kind of obstacle to achieve his goal. Best shown in the final face-off against Haas, with his response to YouCanBarelyStand. [[spoiler:Of course, once Haas surrenders and Benjamin has reached his goal, he promptly [[PostVictoryCollapse collapses]]]].
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* {{Determinator}}: Benjamin is a very stubborn
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* EverybodyLives: Ends with zero casualties.
* EvilLaugh: Mad scientists do this ''a lot''
* EvilLaugh: Mad scientists do this ''a lot''
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* [[spoiler: EverybodyLives: Ends The story ends with zero casualties.
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* EvilLaugh: Mad scientists do this ''alot''lot''. Obviously.
* EvilLaugh: Mad scientists do this ''a
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* ForScience: Goes without saying, given This is a story about (reformed or otherwise) mad scientists. Virgil Haas, currently suffering (or enjoying) [=SRMD=], is the cast.most prominent example, but Beatriz Juruna's... fascination with sodium seems stronger than would be considered healthy, and Manny mentions some crazy things mad scientists do because they can.
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* GenkiGirl: Wei Quevillion, as the protagonists comment on [[http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos166.html this page]].
* GoodCopBadCop: Caprice being the good cop to Benjamin's bad cop. [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos266.html Lampshaded]].
* GoodCopBadCop: Caprice being the good cop to Benjamin's bad cop. [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos266.html Lampshaded]].
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* GenkiGirl: Wei Quevillion, the seven-year-old volcano of energy, as the protagonists comment on [[http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos166.html this page]].
* GoodCopBadCop: Caprice being thegood good, cheerful cop to Benjamin's bad bad, snarky cop. [[http://project-apollo.net/mos/mos266.html Lampshaded]].
* GoodCopBadCop: Caprice being the
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** In addition to [[ScaryShinyGlasses his glasses]], as noted below, one sign that Haas has developed ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder is that [[HairAntennae his bangs suddenly jut up and out]], managing to look like horns, or perhaps broken antennae.
** [[spoiler:Benjamin]] also has a different hairstyle when he's in mad science mode. Notably, he messes his hair back into this style when he relapses. Maybe everyone has "normal" hair and "Mad Science" hair...
* GracefulLoser: Most mad scientists end up being pretty relieved that they're stopped. [[spoiler:Benjamin]] wasn't relieved, but was delighted to have been stopped by a WorthyOpponent.
** [[spoiler:Benjamin]] also has a different hairstyle when he's in mad science mode. Notably, he messes his hair back into this style when he relapses. Maybe everyone has "normal" hair and "Mad Science" hair...
* GracefulLoser: Most mad scientists end up being pretty relieved that they're stopped. [[spoiler:Benjamin]] wasn't relieved, but was delighted to have been stopped by a WorthyOpponent.
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** In addition to [[ScaryShinyGlasses his glasses]], as noted below, one sign that Haas has developed ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder is that [[HairAntennae his bangs suddenly jut up and out]], managing and start to look like horns, or perhaps broken antennae.
** [[spoiler:Benjamin]] also has a different hairstylewhen he's while in mad science mode. Notably, he messes his hair back into this style when he relapses. Maybe everyone has "normal" hair and "Mad Science" hair...
* GracefulLoser: Most mad scientistsend up being seem pretty relieved that when they're stopped. [[spoiler:Benjamin]] wasn't relieved, but was delighted to have been stopped by a WorthyOpponent.
** [[spoiler:Benjamin]] also has a different hairstyle
* GracefulLoser: Most mad scientists
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* GroundShatteringLanding: When Benjamin and Caprice crash into the surface of Mars from orbit.orbit, they make a crater and Benjamin suffers a scaphoid fracture. No other injuries, though.
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* HiveMind: Mars again, if you couldn't tell.
** Mars, however, works differently from most in that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession when appropriate, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
** Haas also has built an army of information-gathering robots that function on a simpler level like this.
** Mars, however, works differently from most in that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession when appropriate, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
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**Mars, however, works differently from most in or, to be more precise, the people of Mars.
** What makes it unique among other fictional Hive Minds is that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession when appropriate, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
** Haasalso has built an army of information-gathering robots that function on like a simpler level like this.version of Martian collective.
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** What makes it unique among other fictional Hive Minds is that all members are their own individuals. They relay information to each other, and there is a distinct unified "Mars" meta-personality that can take possession when appropriate, but [[spoiler:all information is not immediately shared; the hive mind is divided in two, like the hemispheres of the brain. The Martians' greatest fear is that if both hemispheres were totally connected, the ''entire planet'' would become collectively susceptible to SRMD--with the safety redundancies removed, a single case could spread rapidly through the population]].
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: After their crash-landing on Mars, Caprice reassures Benjamin that he's on the safest planet in the solar system. Immediately, debris from their landing slams down behind her. [[InflationaryDialogue "Second safest." WHAM! "Among the safest." WHAM! "Forget I said anything."]] Though as Benjamin points out, it was an {{invoked|Trope}} example, as the Mars hive-mind knew darn well that debris was coming.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: After their crash-landing on Mars, Caprice reassures Benjamin that he's on the safest planet in the solar system.Solar System. Immediately, debris from their landing slams down behind her. [[InflationaryDialogue "Second safest." WHAM! "Among the safest." WHAM! "Forget I said anything."]] Though Though, as Benjamin points out, it was an {{invoked|Trope}} example, as the Mars hive-mind Martian HiveMind knew darn well that debris was coming. coming.
-->'''Caprice''': Made you smile, though.
-->'''Caprice''': Made you smile, though.
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* KnowledgeBroker: Taro Watanuki, one of the very few people who can get away with calling Benjamin "Benny." [[spoiler: It's {{Foreshadowing}} to show that there's more to Prester than first let on, and how Taro knows more than it first seems.]] Benjamin uses him to get leads on the case early on.
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* KnowledgeBroker: Taro Watanuki, one of the very few people who can get away with calling Benjamin "Benny." [[spoiler: It's {{Foreshadowing}} to show that there's more to Prester than first let on, we've been shown, and how Taro knows more than it first seems.he seems to.]] Benjamin uses him to get leads on the case early on.
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%% * MindHive: While referred too as a hive mind, Mars is more strictly this: a metapersonality based on the gestalt of all networked Martians as mediated by their data network.
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%% * MindHive: While referred too to as a hive mind, Mars is more strictly this: a metapersonality based on the gestalt of all networked Martians as mediated by their data network.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chief Nyerere and (oddly enough) Haas. In the latter's case while he may be an insane mad scientist trying to take over the world, he does listen to Chaucer and Dryden when they give him advice (even if he does threaten to disassemble the poor fellows occasionally).
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chief Nyerere and (oddly enough) Haas. In the latter's case case, while he may be an insane mad scientist trying to take over the world, he does listen to Chaucer and Dryden when they give him advice (even if he does threaten to disassemble the poor fellows occasionally).
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* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: See BadassBoast above.
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* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: See BadassBoast above.Benjamin does not hesitate to tell people about the time he plunged from orbit on wings of fire.
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** Also averted insofar as the robots are rarely, if ever humanoid, being shaped to their purposes.
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** Also averted insofar as the robots are rarely, if ever ever, humanoid, being shaped to their purposes.
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* RunningGag: Benjamin has an unfortunate habit of being victim to BlastingItOutOfTheirHands.
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* RunningGag: Benjamin has an unfortunate habit of being is, unnervingly often, the victim to of BlastingItOutOfTheirHands.
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* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:On the [[LastMinuteHookup penultimate page]]]]
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* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:On the [[LastMinuteHookup penultimate page]]]]page]].]]
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* {{Synchronization}}: When [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, which means her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin what happened.
* TakeOverTheWorld: A seemingly common compulsion among mad scientists. Unusually for a MadScientist story, we get several hints as to ''how'', exactly, the various loonies in the story intend to "improve" the solar system once they're in charge of it.
* TakeOverTheWorld: A seemingly common compulsion among mad scientists. Unusually for a MadScientist story, we get several hints as to ''how'', exactly, the various loonies in the story intend to "improve" the solar system once they're in charge of it.
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* {{Synchronization}}: When [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- since Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, which means her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin what happened.
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* TakeOverTheWorld: A seemingly common compulsion among mad scientists. Unusually for a MadScientist story, we get several hints as to ''how'', exactly, the various loonies in the story intend to "improve" thesolar system Solar System once they're in charge of it.
* TakeOverTheWorld: A seemingly common compulsion among mad scientists. Unusually for a MadScientist story, we get several hints as to ''how'', exactly, the various loonies in the story intend to "improve" the
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Both main cast members ''are'' therapists -- Benjamin is equally as much a counselor for mad scientists as a detective, and Caprice is a medical doctor and psychiatrist. Therapy for Mad Scientists is a major plot point.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Benjamin Prester, Caprice Quevillion, and even Virgil Haas are or become unwilling to kill innocents. How well they stick by this rule during a disaster tells quite a bit about their resistance to [[VillainousBreakdown Breakdown]], and in Prester's case, CharacterDevelopment.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's mentioned in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank Theories of Robotics'' is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a MadScientist simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with it in the prologue.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Benjamin Prester, Caprice Quevillion, and even Virgil Haas are or become unwilling to kill innocents. How well they stick by this rule during a disaster tells quite a bit about their resistance to [[VillainousBreakdown Breakdown]], and in Prester's case, CharacterDevelopment.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's mentioned in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank Theories of Robotics'' is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a MadScientist simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with it in the prologue.
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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Both main cast members ''are'' therapists -- Benjamin is equally as much a counselor for mad scientists as he is a detective, and Caprice is a medical doctor and psychiatrist. Therapy for Mad Scientists is a major plot point.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Benjamin Prester, Caprice Quevillion, and even Virgil Haas are or become unwilling to kill innocents. How well they stick by this rule during a disaster tells us quite a bit about their resistance to [[VillainousBreakdown Breakdown]], and in Prester's case, CharacterDevelopment.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it'smentioned said in the site's glossary that the book ''Crank Theories of Robotics'' is a known cause of SRMD; effectively, one can become a MadScientist simply by reading it. Doctor Haas is seen with it in the prologue.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Benjamin Prester, Caprice Quevillion, and even Virgil Haas are or become unwilling to kill innocents. How well they stick by this rule during a disaster tells us quite a bit about their resistance to [[VillainousBreakdown Breakdown]], and in Prester's case, CharacterDevelopment.
* TomeOfEldritchLore: While not mentioned directly in the plotline, it's
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Whenever the Martian group mind speaks through one of its members. Said member simultaneously acquires BlackEyesOfEvil: minus the "evil" part.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: Whenever the Martian group mind speaks through one of its members. Said member simultaneously acquires BlackEyesOfEvil: minus the "evil" part.BlackEyesOfEvil, except they're not evil. %%is there a better trope for this?
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Haas threatens this several times for any deviation from his expectations. Caprice notes that it's one of the symptoms of SRMD. [[AntiVillain He never actually goes through with it, though.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Haas threatens this his robots several times for any deviation from his expectations.when they don't do what he wants them to. Caprice notes that it's one of the symptoms of SRMD. [[AntiVillain He never actually goes through with it, though.]]
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* HotScientist: Dr. Juruna.
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* AdultFear: Existential -- see above. Also, when [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, which means her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin what happened.
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* {{Synchronization}}: When [[spoiler: Caprice vanishes off the collective, as if she suddenly died]] -- Martian [[PsychicLink intellect link]] protocols are, according to Caprice, inherited matrilinearly, which means her mother and little sister ''feel this happening''. No wonder Xia is uncontrollably crying while telling Benjamin what happened.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Blue hair runs in Caprice's family, presumably on her mother's side; her dad has brown hair, but every other Quevillion we see has some shade of blue hair. There's a smattering of extras with oddly colored hair, either flat-out unnatural or just [[DarkSkinnedBlond matching oddly]] [[DarkSkinnedRedhead with their skin tone]]. Mind you, it could just be that dyeing your hair unnatural colours is more normalized in 2148. (Although given the Martians' advanced technology it's possible that they have in fact invented the blue hair gene.)
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!!This webcomic provided the name of:
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The name of the mad science disease.
!!And examples of:
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The name of the mad science disease.
!!And examples of:
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!!This webcomic provided the name of:
* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The name of the mad science disease.
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* ScienceRelatedMemeticDisorder: The name of the mad science disease.
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* {{Animesque}}: The art is incredibly reminiscent of some lower-quality manga. It is mostly noticeable on female character design.
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-->'''Ben:''' ''[mild hysterics]'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "He shot my gun!]] He ''shot'' my ''gun!'' Why are you ''negotiating with the man who '''SHOT MY GUN?!'''"''
* YouCanBarelyStand: Word for word, in the final Chase Scene.
* YouCanBarelyStand: Word for word, in the final Chase Scene.
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-->'''Ben:''' ''[mild hysterics]'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "He shot my gun!]] gun! He ''shot'' my ''gun!'' Why are you ''negotiating with the man who '''SHOT MY GUN?!'''"''
* %%* YouCanBarelyStand: Word for word, in the final Chase Scene.