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1	%%* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Some readers see Kimiko as an EvilutionaryBiologist. Others think more kindly of her.
2	%%* AssPull: Transmuting the entire natural world into computronium actually makes plants healthier and grow better. Well ''that'' sure is convenient.
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The comic's divisive, but the art is almost always agreed to be extremely detailed and well-constructed.
4	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
5	** Is Kimiko Ross a well crafted and interesting heroine or a bad case of the author projecting? With the lengthy name, suspiciously [[OtakuSurrogate tomboyish traits]], and the central importance of the protagonist have led some to call Mary Sue; while fans of the series feel the criticisms are either overblown or just excuses to bash the author. The fact that she's a clearly unhinged ideologue who doesn't care if mankind lives or dies is either a good counterpoint to this that makes her flawed or it just makes her creepier. It would be one thing if Kim herself was intentionally portrayed as an unhinged and broken individual, whose past experiences made her the way she is, then her unhinged ideals and beliefs would make sense. However in the actual comic, reality tends to bend to fit her opinions and prejudices and is, for many, the nail in the coffin. This is less of an issue in the non-arc based stories, as they work based on the absurdity...but once Dark Science happens? It gets NUTS.
6	** [[spoiler:This is especially a point when she gets her Exode body, which is explicitly just BETTER then everything.]]
7	** On the other hand, she becomes considerably warmer and less up herself towards the end of the "Dark Science" storyline, eventually admitting to Ling that she's [[https://dresdencodak.com/2022/07/11/dark-science-119-goodbye-bodyguard/ desperate to have some actual friends]].
8	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: On Kimiko's first day in Nephilopolis, she repaired a robot. Nobody had ever done this before, and the robots are so grateful that they've not only [[https://dresdencodak.com/2015/05/05/dark-science-45/ built a giant statue of her]] but they also build her a facility in which [[spoiler: she can give herself a whole new body.]] This is the first event that triggers her major CharacterDevelopment after the previous storyline.
9	%%** [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/12/16/lantern-season/ Never Alone]].
10	%%** More [[https://dresdencodak.com/2022/07/11/dark-science-119-goodbye-bodyguard/ recently]], the first major sign of said Character Development:
11	%%--->'''Kimiko''': I don't know how to... my whole life... nobody gets close, everybody leaves. "Spooky girl, ha ha, keep your distance." So I keep my distance, I work, I make everything a project, I fix things. That's what I... But I'm sick of it! I don't want allies and bodyguards, I want '''friends'''!\
12	'''Ling''': [''taking her hand''] Hey, doofus. What do you think we are?
13	%%* LesYay: ''Quite'' a bit of it between Kim and Lilith, and that's even before they end up [[ItMakesSenseInContext kissing to stall the police.]]
14	%%* MemeticMutation: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/05/02/copan/ "I will do science to it."]]
15	%%* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2013/03/19/dark-science-25/ "I do not help, Mr. Bogan. I oppose."]]
16	* NightmareFuel: When Kimiko tells Balthazar about how she lost her arm, legs, three ribs, one eye and half her spinal cord, she adds "It's not so bad. I got to make my own replacements. It's very--" This is accompanied by a [[https://dresdencodak.com/2012/03/09/dark-science-17/ flashback picture]] of her ''operating on herself'', with tears of pain streaming down her face, [[SkipTheAnesthetic biting down on a tongue depresser to stop herself from screaming]].
17	%%** "[[http://dresdencodak.com/2006/02/13/trouble-in-memphis/ Somewhere]], Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and '''immortal'''."
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