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Cloning Blues renamed to Clone Angst as per TRS, specifically about angst from a character discovering that they're a clone.


* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:The Chase we know is actually a backup copy of his mind, taken as he uploaded and secretly downloaded into his body after an early gen:LOCK mission went bad. The original Chase and his Holon were captured by the Union and used to create Nemesis]]. Chase is less than happy when he learns this.

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* CloningBlues: %%* CloneAngst: [[spoiler:The Chase we know is actually a backup copy of his mind, taken as he uploaded and secretly downloaded into his body after an early gen:LOCK mission went bad. The original Chase and his Holon were captured by the Union and used to create Nemesis]]. Chase is less than happy when he learns this.



* DecoyProtagonist: {{Play|ingWithATrope}}ed with. Julian Chase has always been the Main Protagonist of the season, but [[spoiler:the one the series follows from the second half of Episode 1 on is not the same iteration of Chase. Rather, he is a [[CloningBlues copy]] of the original Chase's cyberbrain after the original was captured by the Union. The Chase followed during the first half of Episode 1 is the original, and currently in Union custody, serving as the basis for the Nemesis]].

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* DecoyProtagonist: {{Play|ingWithATrope}}ed with. Julian Chase has always been the Main Protagonist of the season, but [[spoiler:the one the series follows from the second half of Episode 1 on is not the same iteration of Chase. Rather, he is a [[CloningBlues copy]] copy of the original Chase's cyberbrain after the original was captured by the Union. The Chase followed during the first half of Episode 1 is the original, and currently in Union custody, serving as the basis for the Nemesis]].



* CloningBlues: He's the original mind of Chase that's been trapped in the Holon for years, and is irate that a mental copy has been living his life in his body. The finale casts doubt on this, as his final words in the mindscape reveal that he is actually a Union-made copy of that original mind, and not the only one at that.

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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst: He's the original mind of Chase that's been trapped in the Holon for years, and is irate that a mental copy has been living his life in his body. The finale casts doubt on this, as his final words in the mindscape reveal that he is actually a Union-made copy of that original mind, and not the only one at that.body.
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* InformedAttribute: In the Season 2 premiere, Cammie claims that one bonus of their use of Mindshare is that the entire team is now fluent in Japanese. This is never displayed; even in the most intimate of moments between Kazu and other team members, they don't drop a single Japanese phrase, while Kazu's use of English never goes beyond the sprinkling of GratuitousEnglish you'd expect from an anime. Presumably, it would be overtaxing to the voice actors, particularly those who are already putting on accents, to speak any lines in convincing Japanese (or English in Yamadera's case).

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* InformedAttribute: In the Season 2 premiere, Cammie claims that one bonus of their use of Mindshare is that the entire team is now fluent in Japanese. This is never displayed; even in the most intimate of moments between Kazu and other team members, they don't drop a single Japanese phrase, while Kazu's use of English never goes beyond the sprinkling of GratuitousEnglish you'd expect from an anime. Presumably, it would be overtaxing to the voice actors, particularly those who are already putting on accents, to speak any lines in convincing Japanese (or English in Yamadera's case). Introducing this ability [[spoiler:allows Val/entina to have a DeadPersonConversation with Kazu in the penultimate episode, accurately hallucinating the way he speaks.]]

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* ShortTeensTallAdults: 17 years old but a full foot shorter than her adult colleagues. Gets {{discussed|Trope}} in regards to how she controls her Holon; since the frame for her mech is based on a statistically average human build, her legs feel grossly out of proportion to the rest of her body when she's uploaded since she's used to having much shorter legs in her normal body. This often leads to her falling flat on her ass when she gets too wild with her Holon's movements, and as the intro shows is probably the impetus for the rabbit-like legs her Holon will eventually get.



* TeensAreShort: 17 years old but a full foot shorter than her adult colleagues. Gets {{discussed|Trope}} in regards to how she controls her Holon; since the frame for her mech is based on a statistically average human build, her legs feel grossly out of proportion to the rest of her body when she's uploaded since she's used to having much shorter legs in her normal body. This often leads to her falling flat on her ass when she gets too wild with her Holon's movements, and as the intro shows is probably the impetus for the rabbit-like legs her Holon will eventually get.
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->Voiced by: [[Creator/ProZD SungWon Cho]]

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->Voiced by: [[Creator/ProZD SungWon Cho]]
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* FreudianSlip: When the team is deployed to stop the Union attack on an Ether hub, Yaz starts to say that this kind of attack is "not usually our style" before quickly catching & correcting herself to say "the Union's style".

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* FreudianSlip: When the team is deployed to stop the Union attack on an Ether hub, Yaz starts to say that this kind of attack is "not usually our style" before quickly catching & and correcting herself to say "the Union's style".



* FreudianExcuse:[[spoiler:As revealed in "The Grand Guignol", she watched her grandmother, the governor of Puerto Rico, dragged from her home and torn apart by an angry mob after she enforced a brutal martial law which prevented social collapse in the wake of mass death and famine from the first Great Flood. Seeing this and hearing her grandmother's final words ("This is my burden, I alone know the weight) permanently stuck with Marin to the point she came to believe any atrocity she commits would be justified as long as it maintained the greater good and kept civilization stable while expressing lip service to feeling guilty.]]

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* FreudianExcuse:[[spoiler:As FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:As revealed in "The Grand Guignol", she watched her grandmother, the governor of Puerto Rico, dragged from her home and torn apart by an angry mob after she enforced a brutal martial law which prevented social collapse in the wake of mass death and famine from the first Great Flood. Seeing this and hearing her grandmother's final words ("This is my burden, I alone know the weight) weight") permanently stuck with Marin to the point she came to believe any atrocity she commits would be justified as long as it maintained the greater good and kept civilization stable while expressing lip service to feeling guilty.]]



* FreudianExcuse: The Polity struck first and even before then critics of the Omnifaith went as far as terrorism against them. Their response was beyond disproportionate but it didn't come from the void either.

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* FreudianExcuse: The [[spoiler:The Polity struck first first]], and even before then critics of the Omnifaith went as far as terrorism against them. Their response was beyond disproportionate but it didn't come from the void either.
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* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Dr. Weller told the gen:LOCK team that they would hear from him when they escaped the Union invasion on the Anvil. [[DeadPersonWriting He never said it would be in person.]]]]

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* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Dr. Weller told the gen:LOCK team that they would hear from him when they escaped the Union invasion on the Anvil. [[DeadPersonWriting [[DeadManWriting He never said it would be in person.]]]]
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: A firm example of the trope, willing to do whatever evil needed for the greater good of the Polity.[[spoiler:This trope gets turned on its head when she finds out the greater good she sacrificed for was a massively corrupt lie.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: A firm example of the trope, willing to do whatever evil needed for the greater good of the Polity. [[spoiler:This trope gets turned on its head when she finds it turns out that the greater good she sacrificed for was a massively corrupt lie.lie, and the war was her own fault.]]
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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Like Caliban, they're named after a character from ''Theatre/TheTempest''. {{Lampshaded}} when Cammie finds a copy of the play amount Weller's old effects and realises the ThemeNaming, using it to dig up Weller's old test data on the gen:LOCK subjects.

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* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Like Caliban, they're named after a character from ''Theatre/TheTempest''. {{Lampshaded}} when Cammie finds a copy of the play amount among Weller's old effects and realises the ThemeNaming, using it to dig up Weller's old test data on the gen:LOCK subjects.

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Death By Sex is no longer a trope per this TRS thread Zero Context Examples and examples that do not fit existing tropes will be deleted.


* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:He has sex with Val and is dead less than 20 minutes later.]]



* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:He has sex with Val and is dead less than 20 minutes later.]]



* DeathBySex: [[spoiler:He's killed an episode after he has sex with Miranda when the HAMMER system is fired.]]


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* SexSignalsDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed an episode after he has sex with Miranda when the HAMMER system is fired.]]
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Dewicked trope


* BareYourMidriff: The outfit Val/entina's introduced in does this.
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* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: If physical comedy is going to be employed, Cammie is typically one of the victims.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After being freed from his Polity brainwashing by Team gen:LOCK, Sinclair goes on to ''[[KillEmAll completely massacre]]'' every soldier stationed at the Anvil standing between him and Marin all before slitting her throat and liberating the copied minds being forced to pilot her Holon Frames.]]

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After being freed from his Polity brainwashing by Team gen:LOCK, Sinclair goes on to ''[[KillEmAll completely massacre]]'' ''completely massacre'' every soldier stationed at the Anvil standing between him and Marin all before slitting her throat and liberating the copied minds being forced to pilot her Holon Frames.]]
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Kazu's Holon is impaled by a Nemesis clone's blade, which kills him.]]]

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Kazu's Holon is impaled by a Nemesis clone's blade, which kills him.]]]]]
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* DeathbyIrony: [[spoiler: Ironically the Twilight program lead to his death when the fused version of it consumes Tate. Ultimately, his belief lead to his downfall.]]

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* DeathbyIrony: DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: Ironically the Twilight program lead to his death when the fused version of it consumes Tate. Ultimately, his belief lead to his downfall.]]
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* ColorCodedCharacters: Much like Machinima/RedVsBlue and WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}, each character in the main group of heroes prefers to wear a color - in the case of the pilots, this extends to the robots they pilot so that they're identifiable in the field, along with the suits of armor they wear when piloting the things. Julian's color is cyan, Yaz's is gold, Cammie's is teal, Kazu's is red-orange, Val/entina's is purple, and Sinclair's was intended to be blue. Dr. Weller chiefly wears brown, while Col. Marin's uniform is dark grey.

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* ColorCodedCharacters: Much like Machinima/RedVsBlue WebAnimation/RedVsBlue and WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}, each character in the main group of heroes prefers to wear a color - in the case of the pilots, this extends to the robots they pilot so that they're identifiable in the field, along with the suits of armor they wear when piloting the things. Julian's color is cyan, Yaz's is gold, Cammie's is teal, Kazu's is red-orange, Val/entina's is purple, and Sinclair's was intended to be blue. Dr. Weller chiefly wears brown, while Col. Marin's uniform is dark grey.



* BilingualBonus: She slips into Gaelic when piloting a Holon for the first time, singing the first two lines of happy birthday and later letting out a [[Machinima/RedVsBlue "son of a bitch"]] when startled. She slips into Russian when confronted by Nemesis for the second time in "The Best Defense" with "мудак блядь" after her mindshare with Val, which [[SirSwearsALot of course]] means "fucking asshole".

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* BilingualBonus: She slips into Gaelic when piloting a Holon for the first time, singing the first two lines of happy birthday and later letting out a [[Machinima/RedVsBlue [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlue "son of a bitch"]] when startled. She slips into Russian when confronted by Nemesis for the second time in "The Best Defense" with "мудак блядь" after her mindshare with Val, which [[SirSwearsALot of course]] means "fucking asshole".

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* DeviousDaggers: Fittingly for a former secret agent, Val/entina has been seen with knives since Rooster Teeth [[https://twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1047458745121296385 revealed the character on Twitter]]. Val/entina's ability to throw knives with great precision comes in handy when fighting the fake Sinclair. Val/entina's Holon in its final form also wields a long dagger for close combat, fitting for their fighting style.



* KnifeNut: Fittingly for a former secret agent, Val/entina has been seen with knives since Rooster Teeth [[https://twitter.com/RoosterTeeth/status/1047458745121296385 revealed the character on Twitter]]. Val/entina's ability to throw knives with great precision comes in handy when fighting the fake Sinclair. Val/entina's Holon in its final form also wields a long dagger for close combat, fitting for their fighting style.

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->Voiced by: [[Creator/RoosterTeeth Miles Luna]]

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* HumanoidAbomination: It looks like a demon-possessed Holon with abnormal proportions and a savage fighting style. Gets taken UpToEleven in the Season 1 finale, as it's been upgraded with tentacles, more armor, extra legs, and blood-red nanite smoke that can shapeshift into weapons.

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* HumanoidAbomination: It looks like a demon-possessed Holon with abnormal proportions and a savage fighting style. Gets taken UpToEleven Exaggerated in the Season 1 finale, as it's been upgraded with tentacles, more armor, extra legs, and blood-red nanite smoke that can shapeshift into weapons.



* PrimalStance: It has a tendency to get down and run on all of its limbs like an animal. Taken UpToEleven in the season 1 finale, where its additional spidery limbs and nanotech tentacles let it scuttle about in an utterly inhuman way.

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* PrimalStance: It has a tendency to get down and run on all of its limbs like an animal. Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated in the season 1 finale, where its additional spidery limbs and nanotech tentacles let it scuttle about in an utterly inhuman way.
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