* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The Gamemaster's Guide encourages you to give Friend Computer a different interpretation to increase the paranoia of your game. Is it really a badly overpatched piece of legacy software rendered paranoid and confused by decades of rival programmers trying to subvert it to its own ends? Or is it fully aware of what it's doing, and every bit of confused actions is part of a carefully maintained charade?
* AudienceAlienatingEra:
** The general consensus is that 5th edition was largely irredeemable, to the point where the degree to which it [[CanonDiscontinuity didn't happen]] is higher than those which, literally, didn't happen.
** West End Games' Second Edition {{Metaplot}} adventures ("The Secret Society Wars," the post-Crash Alpha Complex, and the "Vulture Warriors of Dimension X" series) also get a lot of well-deserved flak from fans.
* ParanoiaFuel: The point of Straight.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'', another series about helmeted lawbringers in a satiric future dystopia, with both featuring FantasticRacism toward {{Mutants}}.