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* AbusiveParents: Tourmaline is raising her adoptive daughter Marble to be a TykeBomb, routinely gaslights her and tries to break up her budding relationship with Seed because it might interfere with her plans. Marble's [[spoiler:human]] adoptive ''father'' Yash seems to be a lot more genuine in his care for her despite also being in on the plan to use Marble as a weapon.
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* AbusiveParents: Tourmaline is raising her adoptive daughter Marble to be a TykeBomb, routinely gaslights her and tries to break up her budding relationship with Seed because it might interfere with her plans. Marble's [[spoiler:human]] adoptive ''father'' father Yash seems to be a lot more genuine in his care for her despite also being in on the plan to use Marble as a weapon.
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* AbusiveParents: Tourmaline is raising her adoptive daughter Marble to be a TykeBomb, routinely gaslights her and tries to break up her budding relationship with Seed because it might interfere with her plans. Marble's [[spoiler:human]] adoptive ''father'' Yash seems to be a lot more genuine in his care for her despite also being in on the plan to use Marble as a weapon.
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* TykeBomb: Part 2 protagonist Marble was stolen as an infant specifically to bring down the post-Schorl status quo as a psychic living weapon. By raising her to adolescence, her adoptive mother/kidnapper Tourmaline plans to be the one person Marble still remembers and cares for after being subjected to DeathOfPersonality via Neural Flare so she can be commanded to bring down the Australian hegemony and the Adverse humans. Marble falling in love with a squirrel boy was decidedly NOT part of the plan and threatens to derail everything, however...
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* DeflectorShield: Human mechs have shields that can withstand a rat squadron's worth of fire, and the control crowns project personal-scale shields around their pilots even outside the mech, though they'll break after tanking the overlord blast from a Shroud pylon. [[spoiler: The kangaroo soultech mechs Bray builds have physical shields that use gravitic lensing to redirect and absorb beams.]]
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* DeflectorShield: Human mechs have shields that can withstand a rat squadron's worth of fire, and the control crowns project personal-scale shields around their pilots even outside the mech, though they'll break after tanking the overlord overload blast from a Shroud pylon. pylon.[[spoiler: The kangaroo soultech mechs Bray builds have physical shields that use gravitic lensing to redirect and absorb beams.]]beams. Humans, once they enter the story, are also shown to wear personal shields that allow them take a somewhat relaxed attitude towards e.g. an entire raccoon army blasting them with everything from small arms to MLRS volleys.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: Post-timeskip, the world is locked into a ForeverWar over scarce resources, with any faction that looks like they might gain enough power to stabilize getting smacked down by [[spoiler:Australia.]] * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: It's easy to tell the origin of any piece of advanced technology by the color scheme. Stuff built by rats is usually black and grey with red lights. Human tech is white with blue lights. [[spoiler:Kangaroo tech]] is black and purple. This applies to less advanced factions too. Lemur military hardware is painted green, raccoons use red/black mottle camo, squirrel tech is orange...
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: It's easy to tell the origin of any piece of advanced technology by the color scheme. Stuff built by rats is usually black and grey with red lights. Human tech is white with blue lights. [[spoiler:Kangaroo tech]] is black and purple. This applies to less advanced factions too. Lemur military hardware is painted green, green [[spoiler:like the technology of the primate precursor civilization they split off from]], raccoons use red/black mottle camo, squirrel tech is orange...orange...
* CrapsackWorld: Post-timeskip, the world is locked into a ForeverWar over scarce resources, with any faction that looks like they might gain enough power to stabilize getting smacked down by [[spoiler:Australia.]] * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Post-timeskip, the world is locked into a ForeverWar over scarce resources, with any faction that looks like they might gain enough power to stabilize getting smacked down by [[spoiler:Australia.]] * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. [[spoiler:With her bare hands.]]
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* InferredHolocaust: At its peak, the Rat Empire had a population of over 90 billion, all entirely dependent on the energy produced by the pylons and the ArtificialGravity technology enabled by this immense power budget. At the climax of Part 1, all pylons are destroyed [[spoiler:by the actions of Brianna and Amethyst.]] Aside from the immediate casualties (which would have been immense, as dozens of major population centers were effectively nuked), the rest of the population was then left to fend for itself in a world without the natural resources to sustain them, debris raining down from orbit and most of their technology no longer working due to lack of power. Post-timeskip, the rats are reduced to just one of several factions struggling for control of Europe, which implies a rather horrifying drop in population.
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* InferredHolocaust: At its peak, the Rat Empire had a population of over 90 billion, all entirely dependent on the energy produced by the pylons and the ArtificialGravity technology enabled by this immense power budget. At the climax of Part 1, all pylons are destroyed [[spoiler:by the actions of Brianna and Amethyst.]] Aside from the immediate casualties (which would have been immense, as dozens of major population centers were effectively nuked), the rest of the population was then left to fend for itself in a world without the natural resources to sustain them, debris raining down from orbit and most of their technology no longer working due to lack of power. Post-timeskip, the rats are reduced to just one of several factions struggling for control of Europe, which implies a rather horrifying drop in population.
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* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: When the telepathic powers of adolescent Lab Rat Marble awaken, she learns what her classmates are thinking about her. [[KidsAreCruel It's not particularly nice.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the final assault on the Empire Clover, piloting one of Schorl's SuperPrototype stryders, comes face to face with Jayrunner (in the human mech), Brushfire (in one of the kangaroo mecha) and Scoria's commandeered Giga-stryder with its continent-erasing main gun. After a quick calculation of her odds, she decides that she's done fighting for Schorl and gets the hell out of dodge.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the final assault on the Empire Clover, piloting one of Schorl's SuperPrototype stryders, comes face to face with Jayrunner (in the human mech), Brushfire (in one of the kangaroo mecha) and Scoria's commandeered Giga-stryder with its continent-erasing main gun. After taking some painful hits and a quick calculation of her odds, she decides that she's done fighting for Schorl and gets the hell out of dodge.
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* SuperPrototype: Schorl built his first two stryders while he was still at full flare power and thus they contain technology that he himself can't comprehend anymore. All mass-produced stryders were developed by reverse-engineering what he could from those two prototypes. [[spoiler:They're sent out to fight near the end of part 1. One is destroyed, the other escapes badly damaged, but not before they take out a whole bunch of kangaroos.]]
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the final assault on the Empire Clover, piloting one of Schorl's SuperPrototype stryders, comes face to face with Jayrunner (in the human mech), Brushfire (in one of the kangaroo mecha) and Scoria's commandeered Giga-stryder with its continent-erasing main gun. After a quick calculation of her odds, she decides that she's done fighting for Schorl and gets the hell out of dodge.
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* ShoutOut: Amethyst, who's very fond of human culture, at one point mentions her favorite human movie. While she never says the title, her description makes it clear that she's talking about ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.
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** Amethyst, who's very fond of human culture, at one point mentions her favorite human movie. While she never says the title, her description makes it clear that she's talking about''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH''.
** To unlock the advanced abilities of the human mech, a pilot needs to ''think'' in human terms. Jayrunner, being a Lemur, comes pretty close but still can't quite manage it. Amethyst comes up with a way to bridge the gap...show Jayrunner human media so that she and the mech have a common frame of reference. Which leads to her finally unleashing the power of the relic weapon...by [[CallingYourAttacks yelling]] [[Manga/GetterRobo "Getter BEAM!"]]. Soon after, she uses the mech's flight ability for the first time, this time using [[Franchise/{{Superman}} "Up, up and away!"]]
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** To unlock the advanced abilities of the human mech, a pilot needs to ''think'' in human terms. Jayrunner, being a Lemur, comes pretty close but still can't quite manage it. Amethyst comes up with a way to bridge the gap...show Jayrunner human media so that she and the mech have a common frame of reference. Which leads to her finally unleashing the power of the relic weapon...by [[CallingYourAttacks yelling]] [[Manga/GetterRobo "Getter BEAM!"]]. Soon after, she uses the mech's flight ability for the first time, this time using [[Franchise/{{Superman}} "Up, up and away!"]]
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--->'''Brushfire''': I will [[BattleTropy display your skull on my wall]], if there is anything left of it!
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* BadassBoast: Queen Brushfire gets a pretty solid one when she faces off against a traitor...
--->'''Brushfire''': I will [[BattleTropy display your skull on my wall]], if there is anything left of it!
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* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: It's easy to tell the origin of any piece of advanced technology by the color scheme. Stuff built by rats is usually black and grey with red lights. Human tech is white with blue lights. [[spoiler:Kangaroo tech]] is black and purple. This applies to less advanced factions too. Lemur military hardware is painted green, raccoons use red/black mottle camo, squirrel tech is orange...
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* HeelRealization: Rat construction worker Rhodey goes through a very rapid one after shaking off the effect of the Fear Signal.
--->'''Rhodey''': Hold on, attack the Rat Empire? My opinion might not be worth squat, but why would you want to do that? Isn't it basically heaven up there?
--->'''Weasel Child''': For a rat, maybe! All of our families were murdered when the shroud pylon was destroyed, just so rats could feel safe! Does that sound like heaven to you?!
--->'''Rhodey''': But, that's how it has to be...right? Surely everyone...understands...that...\\
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That fear signal thingy, I think since it's worn off...I'm starting to...\\
[[ExplainExplainOhCrap Oh soup.]] ''Soup'', you're right. ''We're monsters.''
--->'''Rhodey''': Hold on, attack the Rat Empire? My opinion might not be worth squat, but why would you want to do that? Isn't it basically heaven up there?
--->'''Weasel Child''': For a rat, maybe! All of our families were murdered when the shroud pylon was destroyed, just so rats could feel safe! Does that sound like heaven to you?!
--->'''Rhodey''': But, that's how it has to be...right? Surely everyone...understands...that...\\
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That fear signal thingy, I think since it's worn off...I'm starting to...\\
[[ExplainExplainOhCrap Oh soup.]] ''Soup'', you're right. ''We're monsters.''
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* PokeInTheThirdEye: Brianna defends against Clover's attempts to read her mind first by imagining her naked...[[spoiler:and then by letting her know the truth that the Humans are coming, and there's no telling what Schorl might do when faced with an existential threat of that level.]] Clover is utterly terrified and lets Brianna go.
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* IndyPloy: Brianna is at her best when she's in over her head and making it up as she goes.
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* GravityMaster: Rats use anti-gravity tech reverse-engineered from human relics and can do some very impressive things with it. And still their most powerful gravitic tools are mere toys next to what ''humans'' were able to do with it, if the powers wielded by [[spoiler:post-flare Bray]] are any indication.
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* UnfazedEveryman: A small group of tribal meerkats turns out to be not just entirely unimpressed with the lemur documentary team trying to film them but also with a giant mech rising out of the ocean in front of them and destroying a flying war machine by kicking its own projectile back at it. They just shrug and go right back to fishing.
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* RedAndBlackTotalitarianism: The Rat Empire ''loves'' this aesthetic. From their war machines all the way down to everyday-use consumer goods, everything is black (or dark grey) with red lights. This makes for a strong contrast with the humans' white-with-blue-lights color scheme adopted by Amethyst and later seen on human relic technology.
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* LightIsGood: Amethyst's suit, mecha-suit and stryder are all white, the first clue that [[AntiVillain she's not very evil]].
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* LightIsGood: Amethyst's suit, mecha-suit and stryder are all white, the first clue that [[AntiVillain she's not very evil]]. [[spoiler:Eventually somewhat subverted, as it turns out the white "human" color scheme is also used by the Adverse, who are very definitely NOT good guys.]]
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Brianna doesn't even realize how hurtful her constant jokes are to her companions until she's on the receiving end of a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Pipa. She makes an effort to be better after that.
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* DudeNotFunny: After the [[spoiler:neural flare upgrade reboots his personality]] Brianna's jokes about Bray tend to get this reaction, particularly from Pipa.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Except for human armor, any armor worn by characters or their stryders might as well be tinfoil for all the protection it gives. In most cases diffusor weapons are involved, which work by separating molecular bonds, but in one flashback Lord Brushfire managed to shatter Amethyst's mech armor with his feet.
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* ArmorIsUseless: Except for human armor, any armor worn by characters or their stryders might as well be tinfoil for all the protection it gives. In most cases diffusor weapons are involved, which work by separating molecular bonds, but in one flashback Lord Brushfire managed to shatter Amethyst's mech armor with his feet. The armor does at least allow her to survive a hit that would have reduced an unarmored rat to a fine paste with relatively minor injuries, though.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Brianna's hunt for the flare kicks off a series of events that leads to genocide on an unimaginable scale. She doesn't take it very well when the reality of it begins to sink in.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Neither Amethyst nor Brianna had any idea just how badly their treasure hunt would cause things to spiral out of control.
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* {{Cyborg}}: The neural flare doesn't just provide knowledge, it also modifies the brain and body to interface with human technology and makes various other improvements along the way. Recipients seem to gain a degree of SuperStrength, enhanced perception...and cool glowing eyes.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Schorl veers into this not just by readers' standards but also by those of his own society. Being so long-lived compared to other animals, his perspectives on life and the value of the individual are so skewed that other rats find it utterly impossible to comprehend his way of thinking.
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* ShooOutTheClowns: Things get markedly more serious after the funny-talking, quirky lemurs...leave the story.
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* PsychoForHire: Clover is a textbook example, being a notorious mercenary who seems more motivated by the chance to bully others than any payment.
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* KilledOffscreen: Most of the shorter-lived characters who were still alive at the end of Part 1 are gone after the six-year timeskip to Part 2, [[spoiler: Amethyst and Bri's]] MemorialStatue is seen on page 36.
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Jayrunner after the destruction of Madagascar. Lady Brushfire, Amethyst, and Pipa after Quartz betrays them.]]
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* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Jayrunner after the destruction of Madagascar. Lady Brushfire, Amethyst, and Pipa after Quartz betrays them. TheStinger to Part 1 suggested Bray might have survived a bullet to the head as well, and Part 2 page 36 confirms it.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Quartz]] dies when [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]] crushes his head. With [[spoiler:her]] bare hands.
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** [[spoiler: The lemurs manage to pull a few on the rats when they obtain human mechs, against excavation Stryders. Fighting a full Imperial fleet, though, is too much, due to their unfamiliarity with the human mechs and underestimation of the rat forces. Even then, Jayrunner lasted long enough in her own mech to rack up a sizable kill count and then survive to escape to Australia.]]
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** [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The lemurs manage to pull a few on the rats when they obtain human mechs, against excavation Stryders. Fighting a full Imperial fleet, though, is too much, due to their unfamiliarity with the human mechs and underestimation of the rat forces. Even then, Jayrunner lasted long enough in her own mech to rack up a sizable kill count and then survive to escape to Australia.]]
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* HeadCrushing: In the climactic battle at the end of Book 2, Lady Brushfire leaps from her wrecked mech, tears open the cockpit of Quartz's mech, and [[https://www.deviantart.com/kitfox-crimson/art/In-Our-Shadow-page-346-749713598 crushes his head in one hand]]. Justified as she's a red kangaroo and he's a rat. The epilogue shows that Brushfire kept Quartz's cracked skull as a trophy.
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* HeadCrushing: In the climactic battle at the end of Book 2, Lady [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire leaps from her wrecked mech, tears open the cockpit of Quartz's mech, and [[https://www.deviantart.com/kitfox-crimson/art/In-Our-Shadow-page-346-749713598 crushes his head in one hand]]. Justified as she's a red kangaroo and he's a rat. The epilogue shows that Brushfire kept Quartz's cracked skull as a trophy.]]
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* MixedAnimalSpeciesTeam: The main resistance group in Part 1 includes Bray, a wallaby, Brianna, a numbat, Pipa, a spotted quoll, and Jayrunner, a lemur. [[spoiler: Amethyst, a rat, joins while Jayrunner is temporarily missing, presumed dead.]]
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* MixedAnimalSpeciesTeam: The main resistance group in Part 1 includes Bray, a wallaby, Brianna, a numbat, Pipa, a spotted quoll, and Jayrunner, a lemur. [[spoiler: Amethyst, [[spoiler:Amethyst, a rat, joins while Jayrunner is temporarily missing, presumed dead.]]
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* MySkullRunnethOver: [[spoiler: A neural flare overwrites the user's brain with the sum total of human knowledge, losing whatever memories they had before. Which is why humans intended it for babies.]]
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* MySkullRunnethOver: [[spoiler: A [[spoiler:A neural flare overwrites the user's brain with the sum total of human knowledge, losing whatever memories they had before. Which is why humans intended it for babies.]]
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** [[spoiler: It is later revealed that the faction of humans who built those vaults believed that war gave life meaning, while the use of neural flares led to decadence, and after Bray used a flare their relativistic starship started heading back for Earth to destroy whomever the signal came from. Upgrading them to full-blown AbusivePrecursors.]]
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** [[spoiler: It [[spoiler:It is later revealed that the faction of humans who built those vaults believed that war gave life meaning, while the use of neural flares led to decadence, and after Bray used a flare their relativistic starship started heading back for Earth to destroy whomever the signal came from. Upgrading them to full-blown AbusivePrecursors.]]
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** The surviving [[spoiler: humans]] have adopted a philosophy of eternal conflict as the primary driver of evolution. [[spoiler: Hence why they left behind vaults full of weapons and spread an uplift virus among the animals while trying to destroy all the neural flares used by the decadent (in their eyes) human majority.]]
* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience. [[spoiler: Clover gets a small nosebleed whenever she tries reading Schorl's mind.]]
* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience. [[spoiler: Clover gets a small nosebleed whenever she tries reading Schorl's mind.]]
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* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience.[[spoiler: Clover [[spoiler:Clover gets a small nosebleed whenever she tries reading Schorl's mind.]]
* PsychicNosebleed: The panels showing Emperor Schorl's use of the damaged Neural Flare suggest it wasn't a pleasant experience.
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** While he's at least capable of backing up his claims when it comes to fighting, [[spoiler:Quartz is still far too confident for his own good and is not as smart as he thinks he is, as Amethyst manages to outwit him when he tries to blow up the Kangaroo weapon factory, then outmanoeuvres him during the rat attack on Australia]]. During his fight with [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]], he acts very condescending, but [[spoiler:is completely taken by surprise and unable to dodge when she let her instinct and her rage take over, preventing him to read her thoughts]]. Also, for all his schemes of [[spoiler:overthrowing Schorl, he's nowhere near as close to succeeding when Lady Brushfire kills him]].
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** While he's at least capable of backing up his claims when it comes to fighting, [[spoiler:Quartz is still far too confident for his own good and is not as smart as he thinks he is, as Amethyst manages to outwit him when he tries to blow up the Kangaroo weapon factory, then outmanoeuvres him during the rat attack on Australia]]. During his fight with [[spoiler:Lady Brushfire]], he acts very condescending, but [[spoiler:is completely taken by surprise and unable to dodge when she let her instinct and her rage take over, preventing him to read from reading her thoughts]]. Also, for all his schemes of [[spoiler:overthrowing Schorl, he's nowhere near as close to succeeding when Lady Brushfire kills him]].
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* StraightGay: After remaining ambiguous for a while, the story later confirms that [[spoiler:Briana and Amethyst are more than just friends]].
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* StraightGay: After remaining ambiguous for a while, the story later confirms that [[spoiler:Briana and Amethyst are more than just friends]].friends.]]
