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* EvilGenius: Subverted. He's certainly a genius, and he he ''seems'' evil to begin with, but he's ultimately revealed as an antihero.
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* EvilGenius: Subverted. He's certainly a genius, and he he ''seems'' evil to begin with, but he's ultimately revealed as an antihero.
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* SmugSnake
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* SmugSnakeSmugSnake: The smuggest guy in the books.
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* {{Jerkass}}
* MajorlyAwesome: He may be pure Evil but [[VillainousValour he does make a good account of himself.]] Subversion: He's actually ascended past the rank but keeps it as a moniker.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
* MajorlyAwesome: He may be pure Evil but [[VillainousValour he does make a good account of himself.]] Subversion: He's actually ascended past the rank but keeps it as a moniker.
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* {{Jerkass}}
{{Jerkass}}: To say he's not a pleasant man would be a massive understand.
* MajorlyAwesome: He may be pureEvil evil but [[VillainousValour he does make a good account of himself.]] Subversion: He's actually ascended past the rank but keeps it as a moniker.
*PrivateMilitaryContractorsPrivateMilitaryContractors: He works for one of these, though we don't learn much about it.
* MajorlyAwesome: He may be pure
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* TheSociopathTheSociopath: He shows no qualms about committing torture and murder to get what he wants.
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* WouldHurtAChild
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* WouldHurtAChildWouldHurtAChild: He has no problem ordering the deaths of children in his Darknet campaigns.
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* HotScientist
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** To explain events, the daemon set him up as a fall guy, leading to his arrest and making sure that the daemon was labeled as a hoax for a while, even to government agencies. They do eventually get wise to the fact that Sebeck was just a pawn and that the daemon was declaring itself to the world just before going underground, but [[SacrificalLion they refuse to pardon Sebeck]] because [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade doing so would be to tacitly acknowledge the daemon was real and responsible for the mansion siege]]. Ross and Phillips never stopped fighting for him, right up to the very end.
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** To explain events, the daemon set him up as a fall guy, leading to his arrest and making sure that the daemon was labeled as a hoax for a while, even to government agencies. They do eventually get wise to the fact that Sebeck was just a pawn and that the daemon was declaring itself to the world just before going underground, but [[SacrificalLion [[SacrificialLion they refuse to pardon Sebeck]] because [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade doing so would be to tacitly acknowledge the daemon was real and responsible for the mansion siege]]. Ross and Phillips never stopped fighting for him, right up to the very end.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed or even subverted. He's seemingly set up to be the protagonist, but he seemingly dies near the start of the first book. But he turns up alive and well at the end of it, and ultimately does become a major character in the second book.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed or even subverted. DecoyProtagonist:
** He's seemingly set up to be theprotagonist, but he seemingly dies near the start protagonist of the first book. But book, but the daemon [[FrameUp frames him]] for defrauding millions from Sobol and setting up the siege at Sobol's house as cover story, which itself lead to the deaths of a number of other law enforcers. His arrest for fraud and murder roughly demarcates the end of the first act, and he falls into being a tertiary character in prison, and his execution was the demarcation for the end of the second act.
** However, he turns up alive and well at the end ofit, the first book, and ultimately does become a major character in the second book.
** He's seemingly set up to be the
** However, he turns up alive and well at the end of
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* NotQuiteDead: Proves to be alive at the end of the first book.
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* NotQuiteDead: Proves to be alive at NotQuiteDead:
** His execution went through as planned, but theend of daemon offered him an out; taking it caused the first book.
daemon to influence events so that his execution by lethal injection was only sedated him and he was legally declared dead to get him off the hook. It was perfectly willing to kill him if he didn't acknowledge the daemon before the end.
** To explain events, the daemon set him up as a fall guy, leading to his arrest and making sure that the daemon was labeled as a hoax for a while, even to government agencies. They do eventually get wise to the fact that Sebeck was just a pawn and that the daemon was declaring itself to the world just before going underground, but [[SacrificalLion they refuse to pardon Sebeck]] because [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade doing so would be to tacitly acknowledge the daemon was real and responsible for the mansion siege]]. Ross and Phillips never stopped fighting for him, right up to the very end.
*UnwittingPawnOldCopYoungCop: A variation, he has this dynamic with Ross, though the latter is a consultant for the Sobol case.
* ShotgunWedding: How he married his wife, which went a long way in explaining why he was a bad husband and father until circumstances forced him to really appreciate the life he had built, even if it wasn't the one he had wanted.
* UnwittingPawn: Manipulated by the daemon to cover its existence after it got enough of an introduction, and the Feds willingly go along with it because they're concerned about the stock market. Sebeck does realize that the daemon still has plans for him, even when he's behind bars.
* TheWatson: Despite being the detective, the fact that he's [[HopelessWithTech no good with the cyber angle]] has him playing this role early on.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Getting arrested lead him to tragically reconciling with his wife and regretting not being a better father to his son.
** His execution went through as planned, but the
** To explain events, the daemon set him up as a fall guy, leading to his arrest and making sure that the daemon was labeled as a hoax for a while, even to government agencies. They do eventually get wise to the fact that Sebeck was just a pawn and that the daemon was declaring itself to the world just before going underground, but [[SacrificalLion they refuse to pardon Sebeck]] because [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade doing so would be to tacitly acknowledge the daemon was real and responsible for the mansion siege]]. Ross and Phillips never stopped fighting for him, right up to the very end.
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* ShotgunWedding: How he married his wife, which went a long way in explaining why he was a bad husband and father until circumstances forced him to really appreciate the life he had built, even if it wasn't the one he had wanted.
* UnwittingPawn: Manipulated by the daemon to cover its existence after it got enough of an introduction, and the Feds willingly go along with it because they're concerned about the stock market. Sebeck does realize that the daemon still has plans for him, even when he's behind bars.
* TheWatson: Despite being the detective, the fact that he's [[HopelessWithTech no good with the cyber angle]] has him playing this role early on.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Getting arrested lead him to tragically reconciling with his wife and regretting not being a better father to his son.
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* CommonCharacterClasses: Acts as a Rogue in the Darknet and specializes on infiltration and subtlety.
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* CommonCharacterClasses: Acts as a Rogue in the Darknet and specializes on in infiltration and subtlety.
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** [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man In Front Of The Man]]: That said, he's only the chief enforcer of the {{Bigger Bad}}s who run TheConspiracy.
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* TheHeavy: He's the chief enforcer of those who run TheConspiracy.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Daemon kills some twelve people and is responsible for a number of other unscrupulous actions, but Sobol feels it's necessary to avert greater casualties in the long term. Again, he's ultimately proven correct.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: The Daemon kills some twelve quite a few people and is responsible for a number of other unscrupulous actions, but Sobol feels it's necessary to avert greater casualties in the long term. Again, he's ultimately proven correct.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Downplayed. He decides to commit a number of posthumous murders in order to prevent greater catastrophes down the road.
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* NecessarilyEvil: Downplayed. He decides to commit a number of posthumous murders in order to prevent greater catastrophes down the road. Ultimately, his actions can be considered a response to a planet-scale version of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem trolley problem]]. Sobol knew no one else had the means and motivation to pull the lever, so he chose to do it himself.
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* UnscrupulousHero: The most probable categorisation for him. He does a number of highly unsavoury things up to and including posthumous murder, but he has benign motivations for all of it.
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* UnscrupulousHero: The most probable categorisation for him. He does a number of highly unsavoury things up to and including posthumous (posthumous) murder, but he has [[TheNeedsOfTheMany benign motivations motivations]] for all of it.it. Could also be considered a particularly dark PragmaticHero.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: While his methods are cruel, his motivations are rather good-natured.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: While his methods are cruel, his motivations are rather good-natured.nothing less than the aversion of an environmental collapse that would likely result in billions of deaths.
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* TragicVillain: Again, subverted. His life story is tragic and he initially come across as villainous, but he's ultimately revealed as having good intentions.
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* TragicVillain: Again, subverted. His life story is tragic and he initially come comes across as villainous, but he's ultimately revealed as having good intentions.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: As mentioned above under BadassBookworm.
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* TragicVillain: Again, subverted. His life story is tragic, but he's ultimately revealed as having good intentions.
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* TragicVillain: Again, subverted. His life story is tragic, tragic and he initially come across as villainous, but he's ultimately revealed as having good intentions.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is ultimately revealed to be Sobol's plan as the story developed.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is ultimately revealed to be Sobol's plan as the story developed.develops.
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* WorthyOpponent: Considered this by the darknet.
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* WorthyOpponent: Considered this by the darknet.Darknet's inhabitants.
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Computer consultant that the Daemon attempts to frame for some of its initial actions. While he initially appears to be your every day computer security consultant, it quickly becomes clear that he has a ''much'' more complicated history than he is letting on.
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Computer consultant that the Daemon attempts to frame for some of its initial actions. While he initially appears to be your every day everyday computer security consultant, it quickly becomes clear that he has a ''much'' more complicated history than he is letting on.
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* TheDrifter: Starts of as an IT consultant with no actual permanent home. Ends up being the first person to truly understand the Daemon and is the most influential character not chosen by the Daemon.
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* TheDrifter: Starts of off as an IT consultant with no actual permanent home. Ends up being the first person to truly understand the Daemon and is the most influential character not chosen by the Daemon.
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* TheLancer: Provides the tech-savvyness to Sebek's more worldly character.
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* TheLancer: Provides the tech-savvyness tech savvy to Sebek's more worldly Sebeck's worldlier character.
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* BadassBookworm: Manages to create a successful plan to overthrow the entire world order ''while dying of cancer''.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: Ultimately, his plan comes to fruition and the Daemon establishes a sustainable society based on renewable resources.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: Ultimately, his plan comes to fruition and the Daemon establishes a sustainable self-sustaining society based on renewable resources.resources. It also proves itself superior to its predecessor by censuring Loki where the old world had continued to empower the Major.
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Pretty much the defining characteristic of a daemon; you wouldn't even be ''hearing'' the tape if you didn't perform the necessary trigger action - [[spoiler:like, say, '''try to TakeOverTheWorld''']].
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* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Pretty much the defining characteristic of a daemon; you wouldn't even be ''hearing'' the tape if you didn't perform the necessary trigger action - [[spoiler:like, like, say, '''try to TakeOverTheWorld''']].TakeOverTheWorld'''.
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The detective initially put on the Daemon case. The Daemon seems to take specific delight in torturing him and sets him up to take the fall for the massacre at Sobol's mansion. He is demonized (no pun intended) by the media [[spoiler:and executed]] for his alleged crimes. However, his story does not end there...
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The detective initially put on the Daemon case. The Daemon seems to take specific delight in torturing him and sets him up to take the fall for the massacre at Sobol's mansion. He is demonized (no pun intended) by the media [[spoiler:and executed]] and executed for his alleged crimes. However, his story does not end there...
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[[folder:Roy "Tripwire" Merritt''' -- ''The Burning Man.]]
Merritt was part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team tasked with infiltrating Sobol's mansion at the beginning of the story. The rest of his team was killed by the various boobytraps before they were even able to get in the front door. Despite being set on fire by a gasoline-armed sprinkler system, he managed to breach the back door and make his way far enough into the mansion to trigger the self-destruct mechanism. Even with all this, he survives, albeit significantly scarred from the experience. His epic run is recorded by mansion security cameras and passed around the darknet as inspiration. They christen him "The Burning Man" as a mark of honor and he becomes a folk hero and legend even - especially - after things take a horrible turn for him [[spoiler: and end up with him getting killed by the Major]].
* {{Determinator}}
* HeroAntagonist
Merritt was part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team tasked with infiltrating Sobol's mansion at the beginning of the story. The rest of his team was killed by the various boobytraps before they were even able to get in the front door. Despite being set on fire by a gasoline-armed sprinkler system, he managed to breach the back door and make his way far enough into the mansion to trigger the self-destruct mechanism. Even with all this, he survives, albeit significantly scarred from the experience. His epic run is recorded by mansion security cameras and passed around the darknet as inspiration. They christen him "The Burning Man" as a mark of honor and he becomes a folk hero and legend even - especially - after things take a horrible turn for him [[spoiler: and end up with him getting killed by the Major]].
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[[folder:Roy "Tripwire" Merritt''' Merritt -- ''The The Burning Man.]]
Man]]
Merritt was part of the elite Hostage Rescue Team tasked with infiltrating Sobol's mansion at the beginning of the story. The rest of his team was killed by the various boobytraps before they were even able to get in the front door. Despite being set on fire by a gasoline-armed sprinkler system, he managed to breach the back door and make his way far enough into the mansion to trigger the self-destruct mechanism. Even with all this, he survives, albeit significantly scarred from the experience. His epic run is recorded by mansion security cameras and passed around the darknet as inspiration. They christen him "The Burning Man" as a mark of honor and he becomes a folk hero and legend even - especially - after things take a horrible turn for him[[spoiler: and end up with him getting killed by the Major]].
Major.
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{{Determinator}}: As explained in the biography above.
*HeroAntagonistHeroAntagonist: Opposes the Daemon, but has no villainous qualities whatsoever.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the characters who stay loyal to the existing world order to the end, Merritt is the only one who is unambiguously good, to the extent that the people on the darknet adore him.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Of the characters who stay loyal to the existing world order to the end, Merritt is the only one who is unambiguously good, to the extent that the people on the darknet adore him.
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The Major surgically removes his fingertips, tongue and eyes for a BorrowedBiometricBypass.]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The The Major surgically removes his fingertips, tongue and eyes for a BorrowedBiometricBypass.]]
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When [[spoiler: [[WorthyOpponent Merritt]]]] is assassinated in front of him, Gragg makes his singular mission to find and ''destroy'' the person responsible. This is probably his only saving grace.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: When [[spoiler: [[WorthyOpponent Merritt]]]] Merritt]] is assassinated in front of him, Gragg makes his singular mission to find and ''destroy'' the person responsible. This is probably his only saving grace.
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* UnwittingPawn: As much as, and possibly even more than, Sebeck. [[spoiler:Sobol deliberately engineered his rise to power to give the members of the darknet a clear example of the evils of concentrated power for them to unite against.]]
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* UnwittingPawn: As much as, and possibly even more than, Sebeck. [[spoiler:Sobol Sobol deliberately engineered his rise to power to give the members of the darknet a clear example of the evils of concentrated power for them to unite against.]]
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* [[spoiler:WeCanRebuildHim]]: How he [[spoiler: comes back after the Major removes his eyes, tongue and fingertips.]]
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* TheDrifter: Starts of as an IT consultant with no actual permanent home. Ends up being the first person to truly understand the Daemon and is the most influential character [[spoiler: not chosen by the Daemon]].
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* TheDrifter: Starts of as an IT consultant with no actual permanent home. Ends up being the first person to truly understand the Daemon and is the most influential character [[spoiler: not chosen by the Daemon]].Daemon.
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* IHaveManyNames: Was an identity thief. [[spoiler: His real name is Ivan Borovich.]]
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* IHaveManyNames: Was an identity thief. [[spoiler: His real name is Ivan Borovich.]]
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* DefectingForLove: Considers this when realizing [[spoiler:that Jon has joined the Darknet]]. Her allegiance to her country keeps her going until [[spoiler:she realizes that she has been working for what is essentially a conglomerate of private companies with their own interests]].
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* DefectingForLove: Considers this when realizing [[spoiler:that that Jon has joined the Darknet]]. Darknet. Her allegiance to her country keeps her going until [[spoiler:she she realizes that she has been working for what is essentially a conglomerate of private companies with their own interests]].interests.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that her work didn't help her country so much as [[spoiler: allow private conspirators to take over the world]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:the Daemon specifically created the backdoor she found to lure his enemies into a trap]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that her work didn't help her country so much as [[spoiler: allow private conspirators to take over the world]]. world. Thankfully, [[spoiler:the the Daemon specifically created the backdoor she found to lure his its enemies into a trap]].trap.
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* EvilGenius
EvilGenius: Subverted. He's certainly a genius, and he he ''seems'' evil to begin with, but he's ultimately revealed as an antihero.
*TheExtremistWasRight
TheExtremistWasRight: Ultimately, his plan comes to fruition and the Daemon establishes a sustainable society based on renewable resources.
*IDidWhatIHadToDoIDidWhatIHadToDo: The Daemon kills some twelve people and is responsible for a number of other unscrupulous actions, but Sobol feels it's necessary to avert greater casualties in the long term. Again, he's ultimately proven correct.
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* NecessarilyEvilNecessarilyEvil: Downplayed. He decides to commit a number of posthumous murders in order to prevent greater catastrophes down the road.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: His entire motivation is to save society from a catastrophic collapse, and he's willing to do whatever this takes, no matter how unethical it may be from a deontological standpoint.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: His entire motivation is to save society from a catastrophic collapse, and he's willing to do whatever this takes, no matter how unethical it may be from a deontological standpoint.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
* WellIntentionedExtremist: while his methods are cruel, his motivations are rather good-natured.
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* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans
TragicVillain: Again, subverted. His life story is tragic, but he's ultimately revealed as having good intentions.
* UnscrupulousHero: The most probable categorisation for him. He does a number of highly unsavoury things up to and including posthumous murder, but he has benign motivations for all of it.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is ultimately revealed to be Sobol's plan as the story developed.
* WellIntentionedExtremist:while While his methods are cruel, his motivations are rather good-natured.
* UnscrupulousHero: The most probable categorisation for him. He does a number of highly unsavoury things up to and including posthumous murder, but he has benign motivations for all of it.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This is ultimately revealed to be Sobol's plan as the story developed.
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DeathByOriginStory: Seemingly killed near the start of the story, but ultimately revealed to be alive at the end of the first book.
*DefectiveDetective
DecoyProtagonist: Downplayed or even subverted. He's seemingly set up to be the protagonist, but he seemingly dies near the start of the first book. But he turns up alive and well at the end of it, and ultimately does become a major character in the second book.
*[[spoiler: NotQuiteDead]]DefectiveDetective: Cheats on his wife whom he only married due to pregnancy, has an appetite for danger that borders on DeathSeeker, has a poor relationship with his son, and things only get stranger from there.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that her work didn't help her country so much as [[spoiler: allow private conspirators to take over the world]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:the Daemon specifically created the backdoor she found to lure his enemies into a trap]].trap]].
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* {{Badass}}: Let's sum up; At his peak, he is a sociopathic cyborg computer hacker armed with laser gauntlets, semi-intelligent machete-wielding motorcycles, driving a bulletproof sports car and backed up by an AI Nazi Oberstleutenant. Okaayyy... [[Literature/SnowCrash Raven]]? Step aside. Your Badass slot has been usurped.
** BadassBiker: In the second book, he tools around on a custom-made Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle and wears futuristic biker leathers that double as bulletproof body armor.
** BadassBiker: In the second book, he tools around on a custom-made Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle and wears futuristic biker leathers that double as bulletproof body armor.
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* {{Badass}}: Let's sum up; At his peak, he is a sociopathic cyborg computer hacker armed with laser gauntlets, semi-intelligent machete-wielding motorcycles, driving a bulletproof sports car and backed up by an AI Nazi Oberstleutenant. Okaayyy... [[Literature/SnowCrash Raven]]? Step aside. Your Badass slot has been usurped.
**BadassBiker: In the second book, he tools around on a custom-made Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle and wears futuristic biker leathers that double as bulletproof body armor.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that her work didn't help her country so much as [[spoiler: allow private conspirators to take over the world]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:the Daemon specifically created the backdoor she found to lure his enemies into a trap]].
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After realizing that her work didn't help her country so much as [[spoiler: allow private conspirators to take over the world]]. Thankfully, [[spoiler:the Daemon specifically created the backdoor she found to lure his enemies into a trap]].
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** TheManInFrontOfTheMan: That said, he's only the chief enforcer of the {{Bigger Bad}}s who run TheConspiracy.
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** TheManInFrontOfTheMan: [[TheManBehindTheMan The Man In Front Of The Man]]: That said, he's only the chief enforcer of the {{Bigger Bad}}s who run TheConspiracy.
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* ShoutOut: [[TheElricSaga Stormbringer]].
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* ShoutOut: [[TheElricSaga [[Literature/TheElricSaga Stormbringer]].
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* BadAss: Let's sum up; At his peak, he is a sociopathic cyborg computer hacker armed with laser gauntlets, semi-intelligent machete-wielding motorcycles, driving a bulletproof sports car and backed up by an AI Nazi Oberstleutenant. Okaayyy... [[Literature/SnowCrash Raven]]? Step aside. Your Badass slot has been usurped.
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* BadAss: {{Badass}}: Let's sum up; At his peak, he is a sociopathic cyborg computer hacker armed with laser gauntlets, semi-intelligent machete-wielding motorcycles, driving a bulletproof sports car and backed up by an AI Nazi Oberstleutenant. Okaayyy... [[Literature/SnowCrash Raven]]? Step aside. Your Badass slot has been usurped.usurped.
** BadassBiker: In the second book, he tools around on a custom-made Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle and wears futuristic biker leathers that double as bulletproof body armor.
** BadassBiker: In the second book, he tools around on a custom-made Ducati Streetfighter motorcycle and wears futuristic biker leathers that double as bulletproof body armor.
* EnemySummoner: His {{Lightning Gun}}s are nice and all, but the true source of his power is his ability to summon up and control a seemingly endless number of [=AutoM8s=], razorbacks, microjet drones, and angel teeth.
* EvilSorcerer: An invoked trope. He's the only named Sorcerer in the books and easily the most evil Daemon operative around.
* FreudianExcuse: Apparently, he had a very, ''very'' unhappy childhood. One of the reasons that he's so easy for Sobol to manipulate is that he craves the approval of a father figure, having never gotten any from his own.
* FreudianExcuse: Apparently, he had a very, ''very'' unhappy childhood. One of the reasons that he's so easy for Sobol to manipulate is that he craves the approval of a father figure, having never gotten any from his own.
* LightningGun: The LIP-C weapons embedded in the fingertips of his gloves. He notes that being able to shoot lightning bolts from his hands is the fulfillment of a longtime personal goal.
* NoPlaceForMeThere: In the same internal monologue, he notes that his greatest fear is that there will one day be no more enemies of the network to fight and he will have to settle down to a quiet life in a sleepy darknet community, which he considers to be a special kind of hell.
* OneManArmy: Loki is the founder and sole member of the Stormbringer logistics defense faction. At the height of his power, he is personally able to bring to bear as much military might as the rest of the darknet members in the central United States ''put together''.
* OneManArmy: Loki is the founder and sole member of the Stormbringer logistics defense faction. At the height of his power, he is personally able to bring to bear as much military might as the rest of the darknet members in the central United States ''put together''.
* ShoutOut: [[TheElricSaga Stormbringer]].
* UnwittingPawn: As much as, and possibly even more than, Sebeck. [[spoiler:Sobol deliberately engineered his rise to power to give the members of the darknet a clear example of the evils of concentrated power for them to unite against.]]
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* [[spoiler:WeCanRebuildHim]]: how he [[spoiler: comes back after the Major removes his eyes, tongue and fingertips.]]
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* [[spoiler:WeCanRebuildHim]]: how How he [[spoiler: comes back after the Major removes his eyes, tongue and fingertips.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Freedom™''.
** TheManInFrontOfTheMan: That said, he's only the chief enforcer of the {{Bigger Bad}}s who run TheConspiracy.
* BlondGuysAreEvil
** TheManInFrontOfTheMan: That said, he's only the chief enforcer of the {{Bigger Bad}}s who run TheConspiracy.
* BlondGuysAreEvil
* DirtyCoward: Not that it's necessarily a negative quality, since it saves his life from the Daemon's forces several times.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He's actually surprised to discover that Loki has a rock-bottom rep score on the darknet.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors
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* WeHaveReserves: He explicitly tells Loki that this is why he believes his side will win: victory always comes down to who runs out of troops first, and it's not going to be the military-industrial complex.
* WouldHurtAChild
* WouldHurtAChild
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* AscendedExtra: He has a fairly small role in the first book, but becomes the main antagonist in the second.
* BadBoss: One of the worst ever. In the second book, for example, he deliberately murders one of his own men in order to steal his gun while escaping from Loki's razorbacks. Later, he smugly tells Loki that he doesn't care if the latter slaughters his men. In fact, it saves him from having to pay their completion bonuses.
* BadBoss: One of the worst ever. In the second book, for example, he deliberately murders one of his own men in order to steal his gun while escaping from Loki's razorbacks. Later, he smugly tells Loki that he doesn't care if the latter slaughters his men. In fact, it saves him from having to pay their completion bonuses.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: He has a couple of {{Motive Rant}}s about it in the second book.
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* TheSociopath
* TheSpook: Known facts about his past can be counted on one hand. His name is not one of them.
* TheSociopath
* TheSpook: Known facts about his past can be counted on one hand. His name is not one of them.
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* AlmightyJanitor: On paper, he's a back-office staffer for an obscure private security firm. In practice, he's one of the most powerful men in the world. Driven home in a scene early in the second book, in which he's part of the audience at a presentation given by two men who have no idea who he is and are taken aback when he starts asking them questions...even though everyone else in the room actually works for him.
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* BlackHatHacker: what he was before the Daemon recruited him.
* CommonCharacterClasses: Takes the role of a Mage in the Darknet.
* CommonCharacterClasses: Takes the role of a Mage in the Darknet.
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* BlackHatHacker: what What he was before the Daemon recruited him.
* CommonCharacterClasses: Takes the role of aMage Sorcerer in the Darknet.Darknet. Of course, the rest of the title is "Logistics Defense Sorcerer", so he's pretty much the Darknet's equivalent of a secret agent.
* CommonCharacterClasses: Takes the role of a
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Literally - his obituary activates the Daemon.
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Cryptography consultant from the NSA that is assigned to the Daemon Task Force. He and The Major butt heads considerably because of their vastly different outlooks on how to handle the situation. She becomes Jon Ross' love interest.
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Cryptography consultant from the NSA that is assigned to the Daemon Task Force. He She and The Major butt heads considerably because of their vastly different outlooks on how to handle the situation. She becomes Jon Ross' love interest.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: He recognises in ''Freedom[[superscript:TM]]'' that despite his top Darknet level he has no friends.
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* LonelyAtTheTop: He recognises in ''Freedom[[superscript:TM]]'' ''Freedom™'' that despite his top Darknet level he has no friends.
