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* CranialPlateAbility: Cosmo Hill gets a piece of tank armor grafted to his skull from improvised surgery. It allows him to headbutt his way through bulletproof glass when he's trapped by a villain.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Ellen Faustino.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Ellen Faustino.]]
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to Eoin Colfer's other works.
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* NotGrowingUpSucks: Ditto, who appears 6 when he is actually 28.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Ditto as stated above.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Ditto as stated above.
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* OlderThanTheyLook: Ditto
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The titular satellite of satellite city is described as being in a geosynchronous orbit 50 kilometres above the earth. Little wonder then they are having trouble keeping it up.[[note]]Geostationary orbit is normally 35,786 km above the equator. Anywhere else would require a cost-prohibitive amount of fuel to maintain. Even then, 50 km is too low to even be considered low-Earth orbit, and is ''just'' at the edge of the Stratosphere.[[/note]]
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The titular satellite of satellite city Satellite City is described as being in a geosynchronous orbit 50 kilometres above the earth. Little wonder then they are having trouble keeping it up.[[note]]Geostationary orbit is normally 35,786 km above the equator. Anywhere else would require a cost-prohibitive amount of fuel to maintain. Even then, 50 km is too low to even be considered low-Earth orbit, and is ''just'' at the edge of the Stratosphere.[[/note]]
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* SpacePlane: The [=HALO=].
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* TitleDrop: Several times, usually in plural form.
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* WrenchWench: Mona.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** The metal plate in Cosmo's head.
---> '''Mona:''' When your skin heals up, Ditto says you'll be able to head-butt your way through a brick wall.
** Unknowingly brought up a Myishi Vatman, as the metal plate is used to armor assault tanks.
--->'''Vatman:''' Plasti-glass. Nothing short of an assault tank is going to get you out of here.
** The metal plate in Cosmo's head.
---> '''Mona:''' When your skin heals up, Ditto says you'll be able to head-butt your way through a brick wall.
** Unknowingly brought up a Myishi Vatman, as the metal plate is used to armor assault tanks.
--->'''Vatman:''' Plasti-glass. Nothing short of an assault tank is going to get you out of here.
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* ChekhovsGun:
** TheChekhovsGun: Cosmo gets a metal plate installed in Cosmo's head.
---> '''Mona:''' When your skin heals up,his head that's made from assault tank plating, with him hearing from Ditto says you'll be secondhand that he'll "be able to head-butt your (his) way through a brick wall.
** Unknowingly broughtwall." Much later, [[spoiler:the group ends up in a Myishi Vatman, as acid vat and the metal plate is used to armor assault tanks.
--->'''Vatman:''' Plasti-glass. Nothingman in charge of overseeing the vat says that "nothing short of an assault tank is going to tank" will get you out of here.them out, which gives Cosmo the idea to head-butt the plasti-glass until it shatters.]]
** The
---> '''Mona:''' When your skin heals up,
** Unknowingly brought
--->'''Vatman:''' Plasti-glass. Nothing
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* EvilLawyerJoke: Colfer seems to be going for this; the heavily militarized police in Satellite City are referred to as "lawyers", and they work for the bad guys to silence witnesses to incidents and accidents involving them, to ensure that they can avoid potentially costly lawsuits. There is an Elite version of them called "Paralegals" who are more armored, armed, and more ruthless than the regular 'lawyers', and are sent out as a last resort whenever the business that employs them stands to lose lots of money.
** Two examples of this: the first is when they ambush the drag race in the Krom Factory when the Myishi Z-12 nitrocharger race car Stefan gave to one of the gangs to buy Mona's freedom from their ranks. According to Stefan, the car cost them billions of dollars (or 'dinars') for them to develop and they took it as a giant kick in the teeth.
** [[spoiler:example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.]]
** Two examples of this: the first is when they ambush the drag race in the Krom Factory when the Myishi Z-12 nitrocharger race car Stefan gave to one of the gangs to buy Mona's freedom from their ranks. According to Stefan, the car cost them billions of dollars (or 'dinars') for them to develop and they took it as a giant kick in the teeth.
** [[spoiler:example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.]]
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* EvilLawyerJoke: Colfer seems to be going for this; the The heavily militarized police in Satellite City are referred to as "lawyers", and they who work for the bad guys to silence witnesses to incidents and accidents involving them, {{MegaCorp}}s to ensure that they can avoid potentially costly lawsuits. There is There's also an Elite elite version of them lawyers called "Paralegals" who are more armored, armed, and more ruthless than the regular 'lawyers', lawyers, and are sent out as a last resort whenever the business that employs them stands to lose lots of money.
** Two examples of this:money. The group encounters them twice: the first is when they the lawyers ambush the a drag race in the Krom Factory when the Myishi Z-12 nitrocharger to recover a stolen experimental race car that Stefan gave to one of the gangs a gang to buy Mona's freedom from their ranks. According to Stefan, ranks, and the car cost them billions of dollars (or 'dinars') for them to develop and they took it as a giant kick in the teeth.
** [[spoiler:example number two issecond when they infiltrate [[spoiler:infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on them, as they're getting dangerously close to figuring out Faustino's real plan for them.]]the Parasites]].
** Two examples of this:
** [[spoiler:example number two is
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* LineOfSightName:
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* LineOfSightName:LineOfSightName: This is explicitly stated to be the modus opernadi for naming John Does in this society.
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** This is explicitly stated to be the modus opernadi for naming John Does in this society.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: The origin of the Bartoli babies, Ditto included. their creator, Dr. Ferdinand Bartoli expriemented on infants like Ditto in a mad attempt to create a superhuman. Needless to say, not only does he not succeed, but his efforts are exposed.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: The origin of the Bartoli babies, Ditto included. their Their creator, Dr. Ferdinand Bartoli expriemented Bartoli, experimented on infants like Ditto in a mad attempt to create a superhuman. Needless to say, not only does he not succeed, but his efforts are exposed.
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** [[spoiiler:example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.]]
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** [[spoiiler:example [[spoiler:example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.]]
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** example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.
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** example [[spoiiler:example number two is when they infiltrate the Supernaturlists' HQ to try and kill them, once Faustino learns from Stefan about Ditto's rightful belief that the parasites aren't monsters, but natural painkillers. She sends them to silence them before they can catch on to Faustino's plan for them.]]
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* PlayingWithSyringes: The origin of the Bartoli babies, Ditto included.
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* PlayingWithSyringes: The origin of the Bartoli babies, Ditto included. their creator, Dr. Ferdinand Bartoli expriemented on infants like Ditto in a mad attempt to create a superhuman. Needless to say, not only does he not succeed, but his efforts are exposed.
