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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Peter. Hoo boy. After clearly being the protagonist for the first half of the book, he's suddenly killed off at the midway point. Rick Hutter ends up taking over the protagonist role among the micro group, while Peter's brother Eric, whom he believed dead and was the reason he went to Nanigen in the first place, is revealed to have faked his death and becomes a co-protagonist of the full-sized heroes.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Peter.[[spoiler:Peter. Hoo boy. After clearly being the protagonist for the first half of the book, he's suddenly killed off at the midway point. Rick Hutter ends up taking over the protagonist role among the micro group, while Peter's brother Eric, whom he believed dead and was the reason he went to Nanigen in the first place, is revealed to have faked his death and becomes a co-protagonist of the full-sized heroes. ]]
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: Karen initially decides to stay in the micro-world alone because of this, reasoning that she "can't love anybody." This doesn't wind up happening, and [[TheyDo she and her love interest do wind up together]], although she does vow to return to the micro-world eventually in the end.]]
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: Karen initially decides to stay in the micro-world alone because of this, reasoning that she "can't love anybody." This doesn't wind up happening, and [[TheyDo [[RelationshipUpgrade she and her love interest do wind up together]], although she does vow to return to the micro-world eventually in the end.]]
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* AuthorFilibuster: For some reason, Crichton occasionally feels the need to talk about how many beetles there are in the world, or what [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail springtails]] are, for no particular reason.
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* BeigeProse: Oddly, the book's descriptions are flat, even compared to Crichton's prose, or Preston's.
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* BeigeProse: Oddly, the book's descriptions are flat, even compared to Crichton's prose, or Preston's.Preston's other prose.
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Peter. Hoo boy. After clearly being the protagonist for the first half of the book, he's suddenly killed off at the midway point. Rick Hutter ends up taking over the protagonist role among the micro group, while Peter's brother Eric, whom he believed dead and was the reason he went to Nanigen in the first place, is revealed to have faked his death and becomes a co-protagonist of the full-sized heroes.
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Edward Catel with the disk containing info about Nanigen's shrinking technology. Also, Karen's insistence that she'll find a way back into the micro-world. "Once things get invented, they don't get un-invented. There's a way." and a microbot possibly escaping]] Sadly, this will be averted since [[AuthorExistenceFailure this is a Michael Crichton book.]]
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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Edward Catel with the disk containing info about Nanigen's shrinking technology. Also, Karen's insistence that she'll find a way back into the micro-world. "Once things get invented, they don't get un-invented. There's a way." and a microbot possibly escaping]] Sadly, this will be averted since [[AuthorExistenceFailure this is a escaping.]] However, Michael Crichton book.]]Crichton's death means such a sequel won't happen.
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: Peter Jansen starts as the book's main protagonist and the de facto leader of the team, and he's ruthlessly killed off anyway. Nearly all of the other shrunken students also meet horrible ends; Karen and Rick are the only survivors out of the whole group.]]
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* [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Peter Jansen starts as the book's main protagonist and the de facto leader of the team, and he's ruthlessly killed off anyway. Nearly all of the other shrunken students also meet horrible ends; Karen and Rick are the only survivors out of the whole group.]]
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Before the main plot kicks off, Peter lightly teases Karen for arming herself with pepper spray and a knife as they walk to class, since they're in a nice neighborhood in the daytime. Karen promptly informs him that her half-sister was ''brutally raped in broad daylight,'' so she has every reason to be cautious.
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* DeathOfAThousandCuts: How Nanigen's micro-bots kill their victims.
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* LonersWillStayAlone: [[spoiler: Karen initially decides to stay in the micro-world alone because of this, reasoning that she "can't love anybody." This doesn't wind up happening, and [[TheyDo she and her love interest do wind up together]], although she does vow to return to the micro-world eventually in the end.]]
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* TheShutIn: Karen was this in Cambridge.
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* TenderTears: [[spoiler: Many of the characters cry after Jenny's death. Erika Moll in particular is very emotionally distraught, and her mental state only gets worse as the plot goes on and more of the team dies, causing her to shed these often.]]
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* TranquilFury: [[spoiler: After Eric Jansen learns how his little brother was killed, he calmly states his intent to find Vin Drake, the man responsible for his death.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:When Drake burns down Tantalus base, Ben Rourke is still inside. Rick and Karen escape and Karen fears Rourke is dead, but Rick remarks that he doesn’t think someone who has survived the micro world for so long should be counted out. Despite this, Rourke is not seen or mentioned again.]]
