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* KickTheSonofABitch: Their execution of Angela.



[[folder:The Deus Group]]

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* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: Elliot and Darlene manage to hack their bank accounts, rob them completely blind, and expose all of their crimes to the public. The group collapses and many of their members finally face the music.]]



* CoDragons: [[spoiler: With Irving, though he's more personally close to White Rose than Irving seems to be. However, "Shutdown" reveals that Irving was in his position once, and since he kills himself in the same episode, Irving is back on top.]]

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* CoDragons: [[spoiler: With Irving, though he's more personally close to White Rose than Irving seems to be. However, "Shutdown" reveals that Irving was in his position once, and since he kills himself in the same episode, Irving is back on top.once.]]



Minister Zhang's new assistant.

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Minister Zhang's Whiterose’s new assistant.assistant following [[spoiler: Grant’s suicide]].



* TheConsigliere: She acts as Minister Zhang's assistant and advisor for his plans for the Congo facility and the operations of the Deus Group.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She takes the place of Grant as Whiterose's advisor [[spoiler:after Grant's death]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She quits [[spoiler:during Zhang's meeting with Price after Zhang refuses to listen to her advise.]]

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* TheConsigliere: She acts as Minister Zhang's Whiterose’s assistant and advisor for his her plans for the Congo facility and the operations of the Deus Group.
* ReplacementGoldfish: She takes the place of Grant as Whiterose's advisor [[spoiler:after [[spoiler: after Grant's death]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: She quits [[spoiler:during during Zhang's meeting with Price after Zhang refuses to listen to her advise.]]



* KarmaHoudini: Never suffers any consequences for butchering an FBI agent to death with an axe, and has apparently gotten a book published since then. However, given Santiago’s status as an AssholeVictim one could easily argue that he had it coming.

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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Never suffers any consequences for butchering an FBI agent to death with an axe, and has apparently gotten a book published since then. However, given Santiago’s status as an AssholeVictim one could easily argue that he had it coming.]]



->''I am not a doctor but I am 99% sure I punctured a lung.''

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->''I am not a doctor doctor, but I am 99% sure I punctured a lung.''



* AffablyEvil: Much like Irving and León, Janice can be genuinely friendly and charming, but at the same time will kill anyone who her superiors want her to kill.

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* AffablyEvil: Much like Irving and León, Leon, Janice can be genuinely friendly and charming, but at the same time will kill anyone who her superiors want her to kill.kill. She’s also clearly the most depraved of the three.



* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word, until Season 4.

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* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word, [[spoiler: until Season 4.4]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his speeches against "the establishment", he's nothing more than a propagandist for the Deus Group and begins supporting Donald Trump despite considering him a buffoon.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his speeches against "the establishment", he's nothing more than a propagandist for the Deus Group and begins supporting Donald Trump UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump after being told to by Zhang, despite considering him Trump nothing more than a buffoon.
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* IconicOutfit: He's always seen wearing a forensic white overall with a hood, boots, protective gloves and goggles.
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* KickTheSonofABitch: Their execution of Angela.

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* FlatCharacter: She solely exists to be evil, brutal and sadistic.

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* FlatCharacter: She solely exists to be evil, brutal and sadistic.sadistic and merely to torture Dom.



* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Unlike the more flamboyant Ivring, Janice is a a homely woman with an unremarkable appereance and demeanor.

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* TortureTechnician: Takes this opportunity whenever she needs information, especially when she uses her taxidermy tools to stab Dom.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Unlike the more flamboyant Ivring, Irving, Janice is a a homely woman with an unremarkable appereance appearance and demeanor.
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* FlatCharacter: She solely exists to be evil, brutal and sadistic.
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* KnownOnlyByHisNickname: Leon is not his real name.

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* KnownOnlyByHisNickname: OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Leon is not his real name.



* SensitiveGuyManlyMan: Manly Man to Elliot's sensitive guy.

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* SensitiveGuyManlyMan: SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Manly Man to Elliot's sensitive guy.
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* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Operatives like Irving, Janice, [[spoiler: Angela, and Santiago]] don't seem at all menacing on the outside.
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->''I am not a doctor but I am 99% sure I punctured a lung.''
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* KarmaHoudini: As a consequence of being EasilyForgiven, Leon suffers no consequences for being a Dark Army enforcer and [[spoiler:instrumental in the deaths of Trenton and Mobley.]]
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* BigEater: As the name implies, he's constantly eating a sandwich.
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* MoralityPet: Elliot is this for him. He even lampshades it in a deleted scene from "Gone".
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* SensitiveGuyManlyMan: Manly Man to Elliot's sensitive guy.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Elliot.
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* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler: Downplayed. Despite being a former DA member, Elliot is one of the few people he cares about the most and makes it clear to Dom that he is his priority when she asks him.]]
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* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Season 4 shows that despite everything that happened in the barn, Leon is on good terms with both Elliot and Darlene.]]
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* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: By the end, only Leon, Irving and Wang Shu have left the Dark Army for good on their own terms.]]
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* IconicOutfit: More or less all his outfits have a camo piece in them. [[spoiler: this foreshadows the season 4 reveal that he isn't a true believer in the Dark Army but more of a soldier for hire.]]
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* AffablyEvil: Much like Irving and León, Janice can be genuinely friendly and charming, but at the same time will kill anyone who her superiors want her to kill.

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* AffablyEvil: Much like Irving and León, Janice can be genuinely friendly and charming, but at the same time will kill anyone who her superiors want her to kill.

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* AffablyEvil: Much like Irving and León, Janice can be genuinely friendly and charming, but at the same time will kill anyone who her superiors want her to kill.



* FauxAffablyEvil: Comes across as extremely friendly even as she's warning Dom that she'll have to murder her entire family if she doesn't perform as expected, but it's clearly just a thin facade covering a completely amoral nature.
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At first believed to be just a significantly organized hacker group who happen to share a common goal with fsociety, the Dark Army turn out to be a much larger criminal syndicate operating as an enclave within the one percent. Rooted in China, the Dark Army are led by the fabled dark web figure Whiterose and are capable of manipulating world events through the seemingly limitless resources that they possess, such as the payrolls of police chiefs, mayors, senators, and presidents. In the greater scheme of things, the Dark Army appear to be seeking a new world order through the implementation of Five/Nine as well as a mysterious project housed in the Washington Township Nuclear Power Plant. This project appears to be of great technological importance, as the Dark Army encourage martyrdom in the name of "the cause" and claim it to be the best gift you can provide. With unfathomable reach and influence, [[ParanoiaFuel the Dark Army are everywhere, and they are nowhere]].

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At first believed to be just a significantly organized hacker group who happen to share a common goal with fsociety, the Dark Army turn out to be a much larger criminal syndicate and terrorist group operating as an enclave within the one percent.1%. Rooted in China, the Dark Army are led by the fabled dark web figure Whiterose and are capable of manipulating world events through the seemingly limitless resources that they possess, such as the payrolls of police chiefs, mayors, senators, and presidents. In the greater scheme of things, the Dark Army appear to be seeking a new world order through the implementation of Five/Nine as well as a mysterious project housed in the Washington Township Nuclear Power Plant. This project appears to be of great technological importance, as the Dark Army encourage martyrdom in the name of "the cause" and claim it to be the best gift you can provide. With unfathomable reach and influence, [[ParanoiaFuel the Dark Army are everywhere, and they are nowhere]].


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* TheMan: They are the 1% of the 1%, the establishment, controlling the world through bribery, extortion, terrorism, and economy.

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* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Many of its operatives, particularly the Chinese ones, commit suicide rather than face arrest or capture. It is possible some of them have bought into [[spoiler:Whiterose's mad project of creating a new world through her nuclear machine.]]



* EvilRunningGood: The Dark Army have members ''everywhere''. According to Whiterose, not even attorneys and presidents are safe from their influence.

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* EvilRunningGood: The Dark Army have members ''everywhere''. According to Whiterose, not even attorneys and presidents are safe from their influence. It is later revealed they have their fingers even in the FBI.



[[folder:Sandwich Guy]]
!!Sandwich Guy
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A member of the Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on a sandwich]].
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* AffablyEvil: He doesn't speak, but his body language gives off the vibe that he's a rather chill fella despite whom he's working for.
* EnigmaticMinion: We never find out his name, backstory or anything.
* MookLieutenant: During the [[spoiler:Dark Army takeover of the Washington Township nuclear plant]].
* TheSpook: Nothing is ever stated about who he is, what his position is, or why he refuses to speak. However, he's strongly implied to be a high-ranking operative, being put in charge of such important tasks as managing the initial Stage 2 site, [[spoiler: serving as the pickup for Angela's data during Stage 2 itself and leading the Dark Army mooks in the take over of the Washington Township nuclear plant.]].
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word, until Season 4.
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[[folder:Sandwich Guy]]
!!Sandwich Guy
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A member of the Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on a sandwich]].

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[[folder:Sandwich Guy]]
!!Sandwich Guy
[[folder:Sasan Nouri]]
!!Sasan Nouri
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
Nuah Ozryel

A member of the Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on operative that stages a sandwich]].fsociety video.



* AffablyEvil: He doesn't speak, but his body language gives off the vibe that he's a rather chill fella despite whom he's working for.
* EnigmaticMinion: We never find out his name, backstory or anything.
* MookLieutenant: During the [[spoiler:Dark Army takeover of the Washington Township nuclear plant]].
* TheSpook: Nothing is ever stated about who he is, what his position is, or why he refuses to speak. However, he's strongly implied to be a high-ranking operative, being put in charge of such important tasks as managing the initial Stage 2 site, [[spoiler: serving as the pickup for Angela's data during Stage 2 itself and leading the Dark Army mooks in the take over of the Washington Township nuclear plant.]].
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word, until Season 4.

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* AffablyEvil: He doesn't speak, but his body language gives off the vibe that he's a rather chill fella despite whom he's working for.
* EnigmaticMinion: We never find out his name, backstory or anything.
* MookLieutenant: During the [[spoiler:Dark Army takeover
FalseFlagOperation: He's part of the Washington Township nuclear plant]].
* TheSpook: Nothing is ever stated about who he is, what his position is, or why he refuses
plot to speak. However, he's strongly implied to be a high-ranking operative, being put in charge of such important tasks as managing the initial frame fsociety and Iran for Stage 2 site, [[spoiler: serving as the pickup for Angela's data during Stage 2 itself and leading the Dark Army mooks in the take over of the Washington Township nuclear plant.]].
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word, until Season 4.
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* ArabianOilSheikh: Some of its members are such.

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* ArabianOilSheikh: ArabOilSheikh: Some of its members are such.



* Fiction500: They are "the 1% of the 1%"



* ButForMeItWasTuesday: When he [[spoiler:meets Dom again in Season 4, he's absolutely nonchalant despite the fact that the last time the two had met he had murdered her superior and threatened to violent hack her family to death.]]



* EvenEvilHasStandards: For a guy that [[spoiler:lustily axed Santiago to death and kept hacking at the corpse, Irving still found Janice too extreme and is glad Dom killed her]].



* KarmaHoudini: Never suffers any consequences for butchering an FBI agent to death with an axe, and has apparently gotten a book published since then. However, given Santiago’s status as an AssholeVictim one could easily argue that he had it coming

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* KarmaHoudini: Never suffers any consequences for butchering an FBI agent to death with an axe, and has apparently gotten a book published since then. However, given Santiago’s status as an AssholeVictim one could easily argue that he had it comingcoming.



*SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: He's involved with the Dark Army despite having no hope of the system ever changing, embracing his role as just a another cog in a machine designed for the benefit of the wealthy instead.



* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why the Dark Army have him killed. They won't risk him being arrested and revealing what he knows of the Dark Army's plans to the police.

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* HeKnowsTooMuch: Why the Dark Army have has him killed. They won't risk him being arrested and revealing what he knows of the Dark Army's plans to the police.police or the FBI.



* StuffedIntoTheFridge: His death is what pushes Darlene over the edge, causing her to work for the FBI and protect Elliot.

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: His death is what pushes Darlene over the edge, causing leading her to work for the become an FBI informant and protect Elliot.



* MouthOfSauron: While portraying himself as a journalist, he's nothing more than a mouthpiece of Whiterose to shape public perception towards the goals of the Dark Army and the Deus Group.

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* MouthOfSauron: While portraying himself as a journalist, he's nothing more than a mouthpiece of for Whiterose to shape public perception towards the goals of the Dark Army and the Deus Group.



* {{Foil}}: To Elliot himself, spousing the same rethoric but manipulating it to fit the authoritarian goals of Whiterose.

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* {{Foil}}: To Elliot himself, spousing the same rethoric but manipulating it to fit the authoritarian goals of Whiterose.the Deus Group.
* {{Hypocrite}}: For all his speeches against "the establishment", he's nothing more than a propagandist for the Deus Group and begins supporting Donald Trump despite considering him a buffoon.



* TheSpook: Nothing is ever stated about who he is, what his position is, or why he refuses to speak. However, he's strongly implied to be a high-ranking operative, being put in charge of such important tasks as managing the initial Stage 2 site and [[spoiler: serving as the pickup for Angela's data during Stage 2 itself]].
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word.

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* EnigmaticMinion: We never find out his name, backstory or anything.
* MookLieutenant: During the [[spoiler:Dark Army takeover of the Washington Township nuclear plant]].
* TheSpook: Nothing is ever stated about who he is, what his position is, or why he refuses to speak. However, he's strongly implied to be a high-ranking operative, being put in charge of such important tasks as managing the initial Stage 2 site and site, [[spoiler: serving as the pickup for Angela's data during Stage 2 itself]].
itself and leading the Dark Army mooks in the take over of the Washington Township nuclear plant.]].
* TheVoiceless: He never speaks a word.word, until Season 4.

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* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Deus Group have their fingers in every pie in recent history, ranging from the Gulf War to the ''implementation of the Internet.''

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* ArabianOilSheikh: Some of its members are such.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: The Deus Group have their fingers in every pie in recent history, ranging from the both Gulf War Wars to the ''implementation of the Internet.''


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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Many of its members are the topmost businessmen of the world. The CEO of E Corp is chosen by them


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*RunningBothSides: The Deus Group runs both E Corp and the Dark Army with the goal to constantly make a profit, regardless if there's a "revolution" like fsociety's.

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[[folder:Williams]]
!!Mr. Williams
->'''Played by:''' Creator/WallaceShawn

An enigmatic Dark Army interrogator.

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!!Mr. Williams
[[folder:Frank Cody]]
!!Frank Cody
->'''Played by:''' Creator/WallaceShawn

An enigmatic Dark Army interrogator.
Erik Jensen

A right-wing talk show host and conspiracy theorist.



* AffablyEvil: Nothing but quiet and polite.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives this to Tyrell in "Legacy", asking him a series of [[ArmorPiercingQuestion personal questions]] to unravel his mind and prove his loyalty.
* FunctionalAddict: Despite being shown repeatedly snorting cocaine over the course of his interrogation of Tyrell, he shows no sign of being high.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's basically a [[TheCameo cameo]] for Creator/WallaceShawn, but his [[ArmorPiercingQuestion sequence of questioning]] drives Tyrell even further into his SanitySlippage and officially makes him part of the Dark Army.

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* AffablyEvil: Nothing MouthOfSauron: While portraying himself as a journalist, he's nothing more than a mouthpiece of Whiterose to shape public perception towards the goals of the Dark Army and the Deus Group.
* {{Expy}}: Of far-right talk show hosts and conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones.
* {{Foil}}: To Elliot himself, spousing the same rethoric
but quiet and polite.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives this
manipulating it to Tyrell in "Legacy", asking him a series of [[ArmorPiercingQuestion personal questions]] to unravel his mind and prove his loyalty.
* FunctionalAddict: Despite being shown repeatedly snorting cocaine over
fit the course authoritarian goals of his interrogation of Tyrell, he shows no sign of being high.
Whiterose.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's basically His rethoric cause a [[TheCameo cameo]] for Creator/WallaceShawn, but his [[ArmorPiercingQuestion sequence of questioning]] drives Tyrell even further into his SanitySlippage and officially makes him part of the Dark Army.Five/Nine truther to murder Gideon Goddard.



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!!Sandwich Guy
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A member of the Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on a sandwich]].

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!!Sandwich Guy
[[folder:Williams]]
!!Mr. Williams
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A member of the
Creator/WallaceShawn

An enigmatic
Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on a sandwich]].interrogator.


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* AffablyEvil: Nothing but quiet and polite.
* BreakingSpeech: Gives this to Tyrell in "Legacy", asking him a series of [[ArmorPiercingQuestion personal questions]] to unravel his mind and prove his loyalty.
* FunctionalAddict: Despite being shown repeatedly snorting cocaine over the course of his interrogation of Tyrell, he shows no sign of being high.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He's basically a [[TheCameo cameo]] for Creator/WallaceShawn, but his [[ArmorPiercingQuestion sequence of questioning]] drives Tyrell even further into his SanitySlippage and officially makes him part of the Dark Army.
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[[folder:Sandwich Guy]]
!!Sandwich Guy
->'''Played by:''' Stephen Lin

[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin A member of the Dark Army who is constantly seen munching on a sandwich]].
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* BrutalHonest: Even more so than Grant, Wang Shu openly question's Zhang's tolerance for Elliot.

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* BrutalHonest: BrutalHonesty: Even more so than Grant, Wang Shu openly question's Zhang's tolerance for Elliot.
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* KnownOnlyByHisNickname: Leon is not his real name.

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