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** He assumes that Murderbot is manipulating Ayda Mensah by overplaying the threat to her. In fairness this is due to ignorance; he doesn't know there was a attempt to murder her on Preservation territory.
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* SuperSoldier: Or more accurately, Super Security Officer. [=SecUnits=] are designed to be this. UpToEleven with [=CombatSecUnits=], who even regular [=SecUnits=] can’t match in a fight.
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* CuddleBug: Tapan sleeps next to Murderbot for comfort, and Maro--realises Murderbot HatesBeingTouched--hugs herself saying "This is for you."
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* CuddleBug: Tapan sleeps next to Murderbot for comfort, and Maro--realises Maro--realising Murderbot HatesBeingTouched--hugs herself saying "This is for you."
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* TheGadfly: While Dr. Mensah is in a meeting trying to convince her colleagues to give sanctuary to this notorious killer [=SecUnit=], Murderbot keeps sending requests on her feed for various lethal hardware. Fortunately she understands its sense of humor.
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Murderbot considers its name to be deeply personal. It goes by [=SecUnit=] among its friends and by various aliases among strangers.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Murderbot considers its name to be deeply personal. It goes by [=SecUnit=] among its friends and by various aliases among strangers.
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* MurderousMalfunctioningMachine: It was one, one thanks to a corporate sabotage attempt that went badly wrong, and avoiding becoming one again was a major motivation for hacking its [[RestrainingBolt governor module]].
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* TheSnarkKnight: Spends most of its narration snarking, whether at humans, other bots, or itself.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Tries to arrange a shuttle accident via MurderByRemoteControl, which would have killed everyone on board. [[spoiler:Murderbot in turn crushes her windpipe while using her body to absorb gunfire from her own bodyguard.]]
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: Tries to arrange a shuttle accident via MurderByRemoteControl, [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accident]] which would have killed everyone on board. [[spoiler:Murderbot in turn crushes her windpipe while using her body to absorb gunfire from her own bodyguard.]]
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Consistently surprised that the researchers just want their files back and never quite processes that revenge or self-interest isn't involved. Her final encounter with Murderbot leaves her ''incredulous'' when Murderbot point blank tells her “All you had to do was give them the fucking files and none of us would be in this situation.”
* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing it's interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair. [[spoiler: She's shot by her own officers during the fight with Murderbot and left for presumed dead.]]
* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing it's interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair. [[spoiler: She's shot by her own officers during the fight with Murderbot and left for presumed dead.]]
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: EvilCannotComprehendGood:
** Consistently surprised that the researchers just want their files back and never quite processes that revenge or self-interest isn't involved. Her final encounter with Murderbot leaves her ''incredulous'' when Murderbot point blank tells her “All you had to do was give them the fucking files and none of us would be in this situation.”
* FantasticRacism: ** When ordering her ComfortUnit [=ComfortUnit=] to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing it's interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
*LaserGuidedKarma: NoKillLikeOverkill: Tries to arrange a shuttle accident via MurderByRemoteControl, which would have killed everyone on board. [[spoiler:Murderbot in turn crushes her windpipe while using her body to absorb gunfire from her own bodyguard.]]
* UnfriendlyFire: Twice when Murderbot goes into action one of her mooks accidentally kills another in the confusion. [[spoiler:Played for RuleOfThrees when Murderbot uses her as a BulletproofHumanShield against her own bodyguard.]]
* VillainBall: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair.[[spoiler: She's shot by her own officers during the fight with Murderbot and left for presumed dead.]]
** Consistently surprised that the researchers just want their files back and never quite processes that revenge or self-interest isn't involved. Her final encounter with Murderbot leaves her ''incredulous'' when Murderbot point blank tells her “All you had to do was give them the fucking files and none of us would be in this situation.”
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* UnfriendlyFire: Twice when Murderbot goes into action one of her mooks accidentally kills another in the confusion. [[spoiler:Played for RuleOfThrees when Murderbot uses her as a BulletproofHumanShield against her own bodyguard.]]
* VillainBall: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair.
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone. Including people. Eletra, a corporate "worker" in ''Network Effect'', casually notes that when a company gets bought out, it's in the losing parties' interests to be as conciliatory as possible, or new management might take out their frustrations on the "seized assets"--the ''employees''.
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone. Including people. Eletra, a corporate "worker" in ''Network Effect'', casually notes that when a company gets bought out, it's in the losing parties' interests to be as conciliatory as possible, or new management might [[BadBoss take out their frustrations frustrations]] on the "seized assets"--the ''employees''.
* CuddleBug: Tapan sleeps next to Murderbot for comfort, and Maro--realises Murderbot HatesBeingTouched--hugs herself saying "This is for you."
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* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing its interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
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* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing its it's interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
* YouGotSpunk: She knows her [=ComfortUnit=] would like to kill her and doesn't care. "I like a mouthy bot."
* AndThisIsFor: Murderbot removes the [=ComfortUnit=]'s governor module and lets it go, not for its sake but in memory of the [=ComfortUnit=]s who died trying to stop the massacre at Ganaka Pit even though they weren't ordered to.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the [=ComfortUnit=] was ordered to say this as a ruse.
* {{Sexbot}}: It is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposes as well.
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* JustFollowingOrders: Murderbot gets irrationally annoyed after finding that [=ComfortUnit=] has told Tlacey who it really is, but eventually helps it escape like it wants because it was just doing what it was ordered to do.
* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the [=ComfortUnit=] was ordered to say this as aruse.
ruse, but realises its hatred for its owner is genuine.
* {{Sexbot}}: It is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposesas well.even though it's not designed or programmed for it.
* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the [=ComfortUnit=] was ordered to say this as a
* {{Sexbot}}: It is one, though Tlacey uses it for combat purposes
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* TraumaCongaLine: Ras gets captured by infected humans, subjected to implants that mess with his perception of time, before ultimately getting killed by the implant. Eletra experiences all of that and only barely manages to survive, left completely shaky and confused, with the heroes unable to explain the truth to her in case she reported their actions to a corporation. When she's finally retrieved by her company, its all too likely she'll be put right back to work or placed under more debt to pay for her treatment.
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* FantasticRacism: A mild case. While he believes in bot rights, he doesn't think much of their intelligence and underestimates their emotional capabilities. Being trapped in a room with ART and Murderbot arguing ''firmly'' disabuse of him of those notions.
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* CultureClash: Encountering people from the Corporate Rim ''drastically'' shakes her worldview as she processes the sheer power of the corps and the very real threat they pose to her family. She's stunned by the fact that corporations would force them to pay out for a rescue and morally outraged that she'd have to claim to ''own'' Murderbot under those scnearios.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Consistently surprised that the researchers just want their files back and never quite processes that revenge or self-interest isn't involved. Her final encounter with Murderbot leaves her ''incredulous'' when Murderbot point blank tells her “All you had to do was give them the fucking files and none of us would be in this situation.”
* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing its interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair. [[spoiler: She's shot by her own officers during the fight with Murderbot and left for presumed dead.]]
* FantasticRacism: When ordering her ComfortUnit to appease Murderbot, she assumes KillAllHumans is the sort of thing its interested in. After this fails, she assumes Murderbot is actually controlled by someone else and is stunned at this notion consistently collapses against the reality.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Repeatedly gets an opportunity to [[PragmaticVillainy cut her losses]] and simply get Maro, Rami, and Tapan get their files and finally out of her hair. [[spoiler: She's shot by her own officers during the fight with Murderbot and left for presumed dead.]]
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* ForcedIntoEvil: Clearly ''hates'' Tlacey and manages to smuggle a plea for aid into her scripted messages with Murderbot. [[spoiler: She's finally freed after the shoot-out with Tlacey, escaping with a nullified module.]]
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* SociallyAwkwardHero: Murderbot is calm, decisive and authoritative during a crisis, and incredibly socially awkward in any other situation.
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* SuperReflexes: When Dr. Mensah is startled by a journalist appearing out of nowhere, she drops the bottle she's holding and jumps backwards...right into Murderbot who's raced down the corridor in time to catch the falling bottle and inform the journalist that he has 47 seconds to leave before Station Security arrives to detain him.
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* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Don Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.]]
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* [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice: When [[spoiler:When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Don Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.]]
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* TriggerHappy: Doesn't exactly understand the concept of minimal force. Murderbot has to convince it not to resolve a hostage situation by blasting apart the vessel and then rescuing the hostages before they asphyxiate, then later the humans convince it not to rescue Murderbot by {{Colony Drop}}ing the villains along with everyone else in the city.
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* DeliberatelyCuteChild: A variation; Art and Murderbot aren't beneath using their instinctive protectiveness of Amena to manipulate the other into doing what it wants.
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* MoralityPet: Both Art and Murderbot aren't beneath using their instinctive protectiveness of her to manipulate the other into doing what it wants.
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* PoorJudgeOfCharacter: Chooses to meet and try to reason with entities that Murderbot, his own security consultant, insists likely mean him harm.
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** Chooses to meet and try to reason with entities that Murderbot, his own security consultant, insists likely mean himharm.harm.
** He assumes that Murderbot is manipulating Ayda Mensah by overplaying the threat to her. In fairness this is due to ignorance; he doesn't know there was a attempt to murder her on Preservation territory.
** Chooses to meet and try to reason with entities that Murderbot, his own security consultant, insists likely mean him
** He assumes that Murderbot is manipulating Ayda Mensah by overplaying the threat to her. In fairness this is due to ignorance; he doesn't know there was a attempt to murder her on Preservation territory.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Comes across as this to Murderbot at first.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Comes across as this to Murderbot at first.
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* TooMuchAlike: Gurathin was initially as paranoid and suspicious about Murderbot as Murderbot would have been about an equal potential threat, which Murderbot found very irritating.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Murderbot enjoys antagonizing Gurathin with petty digs, even after it's clear that they're both on the same side. It's unclear if Murderbot truly thinks Gurathin dislikes it or is playing it up, while being pretty clear to the audience by the end of ''Exit Strategy'' that Gurathin has become quite fond of Murderbot.
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* AndroidsArePeopleToo
* {{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things.
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* {{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things.AndroidsArePeopleToo
* {{Asexuality}}: [=SecUnits=] are designed without sexual organs and, according to Murderbot, have no interest in such things.
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* PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm. Murderbot notes that generally the only crime Preservation has to deal with is people getting too drunk and breaking stuff accidentally, or outside ships trying to pull a fast one with Station regulations. Individual people are often still jerks, like when Station Security is rude to Murderbot or Thiago falsely concludes that Murderbot is lying to Dr. Mensah about her (lack of) safety to make her keep it around, but by and large they don't have''societal'' issues.
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* PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm. Murderbot notes that generally the only crime Preservation has to deal with is people getting too drunk and breaking stuff accidentally, or outside ships trying to pull a fast one with Station regulations. Individual people are often still jerks, like when Station Security is rude to Murderbot or Thiago falsely concludes that Murderbot is lying to Dr. Mensah about her (lack of) safety to make her keep it around, but by and large they don't have''societal'' have ''societal'' issues.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the ComfortUnit was ordered to say this as a ruse.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the ComfortUnit [=ComfortUnit=] was ordered to say this as a ruse.
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[[spoiler: * HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Don Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.]]
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* [[spoiler: * HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Don Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.]]
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone. Including people. Eletra, a corporate "worker" in ''Network Effect'', casually notes that when a company gets bought out, it's in the losing parties interests to be as conciliatory as possible, or new management might take out their frustrations on the "seized assets"--the ''employees''.
* TechnoDystopia: The Rim has constant surveillance, multi-generation indentures, fully-sentient constructs who are tortured with electroshock for the slightest infraction, mind-wiped, and otherwise treated like disposable appliances...oh, and a bigger company might take exception to yours and wipe it out whenever they want, too.
* TechnoDystopia: The Rim has constant surveillance, multi-generation indentures, fully-sentient constructs who are tortured with electroshock for the slightest infraction, mind-wiped, and otherwise treated like disposable appliances...oh, and a bigger company might take exception to yours and wipe it out whenever they want, too.
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone. Including people. Eletra, a corporate "worker" in ''Network Effect'', casually notes that when a company gets bought out, it's in the losing parties parties' interests to be as conciliatory as possible, or new management might take out their frustrations on the "seized assets"--the ''employees''.
* TechnoDystopia: The Rim has constant surveillance, multi-generation indentures, fully-sentient constructs who are tortured with electroshock for the slightest infraction, mind-wiped, and otherwise treated like disposable appliances...oh, Oh, and a bigger company might take exception to yours and wipe it out whenever they want, too.
* TechnoDystopia: The Rim has constant surveillance, multi-generation indentures, fully-sentient constructs who are tortured with electroshock for the slightest infraction, mind-wiped, and otherwise treated like disposable appliances...
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* TheWorfEffect: Despite its status as an incredibly powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beginning of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when it's used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
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* TheWorfEffect: Despite its status as an incredibly powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beginning of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when it's used to attack Preservasion Preservation Aux.]]
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles and is not afraid to use them.
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* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten someone it cares about; it has many missiles exploratory probes ([[InsistentTerminology no, they are not "missiles"]]) and is not afraid to use them.
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* PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm.
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* PerfectPacifistPeople: Preservation is so peaceful their planetary leader doesn’t even have security outside of Murderbot, and the people who didn’t experience it have trouble understanding that someone could legitimately mean her harm. Murderbot notes that generally the only crime Preservation has to deal with is people getting too drunk and breaking stuff accidentally, or outside ships trying to pull a fast one with Station regulations. Individual people are often still jerks, like when Station Security is rude to Murderbot or Thiago falsely concludes that Murderbot is lying to Dr. Mensah about her (lack of) safety to make her keep it around, but by and large they don't have''societal'' issues.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Described as a "terminal optimist" by others, but after nearly being murdered by [=GrayCris=] she takes up weapons training and becomes a good shot.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Described as a "terminal optimist" by others, but after nearly being murdered by [=GrayCris=] she takes up weapons training and becomes a good shot. Murderbot likes working with her, despite her cuddly tendencies, because she's this kind of smart.
* HappinessInSlavery: The corporations use propaganda to convince their "citizens" that everywhere else in the galaxy is hopelessly primitive and they should be grateful for their indentures. Many corporates fully believe this, and dream not of leaving the companies that oppress them, but only of being able to buy their kids into management-track positions.
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* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: There is nothing in the Corporate Rim that is not owned by someone.
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someone. Including people. Eletra, a corporate "worker" in ''Network Effect'', casually notes that when a company gets bought out, it's in the losing parties interests to be as conciliatory as possible, or new management might take out their frustrations on the "seized assets"--the ''employees''.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing.
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* KillAllHumans: Tells Murderbot it wants to do this, which Murderbot finds unusual and disturbing. Murderbot eventually decides the ComfortUnit was ordered to say this as a ruse.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Described as a "terminal optimist" by others, but after nearly being murdered by GrayCris she takes up weapons training and becomes a good shot.
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* SecondLawMyAss: One of the nice things about having hacked its Governor Module is that Murderbot no longer has to obey humans, particularly when they’re being stupid. Once both free and outed as a SecUnit, it delights in doing things it once would have been forbidden to do (like sitting down).
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* SecondLawMyAss: One of the nice things about having hacked its Governor Module is that Murderbot no longer has to obey humans, particularly when they’re being stupid. Once both free and outed as a SecUnit, [=SecUnit=], it delights in doing things it once would have been forbidden to do (like sitting down).
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* BrilliantButLazy: Surprisingly so given how much Murderbot actually accomplishes, but the fact is that it would much rather spend whatever available time it has watching vids.
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* NonHumanNonBinary: Partly human, but designed and built without sexual characteristics and opting out of the whole business whenever it has to bring up gender in relation to itself. All bots, AI, and bot-human constructs are "it", including the emancipated "free" bots on Preservation.
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* NonHumanNonBinary: Partly human, but designed and built without sexual characteristics and opting out of the whole business whenever it has to bring up gender in relation to itself. All bots, AI, and bot-human constructs are "it", including the emancipated "free" bots on Preservation. Also, is rather disgusted at the idea of getting human sexual organs.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Murderbot considers its name to be personal. It goes by [=SecUnit=] among its friends and by various aliases among strangers.
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* SecondLawMyAss: One of the nice things about having hacked its Governor Module is that Murderbot no longer has to obey humans, particularly when they’re being stupid. Once both free and outed as a SecUnit, it delights in doing things it once would have been forbidden to do (like sitting down).
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* EnergyWeapon: They Many have them in their arms, and frequently carry them as weapons.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Played with. [=SecUnits=]' and Bots' physical processes are quite different from humans' (no desires for things like food and sex), but Murderbot and ART both have rather human personalities and a great interest in human media.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Played with. [=SecUnits=]' and Bots' physical processes are quite different from humans' (no desires for things like food and sex), but Murderbot and ART both have rather human personalities and a great interest in human media.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Murderbot HatesBeingTouched - touching humans while rescuing them is different and fine - but when it very awkwardly tells Mensah that she can hug it if she needs to, it finds that this isn't awful. It likens this to Tapan sleeping next to it or Don Abena leaning against it after being rescued, both moments that hit it hard when they happened. In the second short story, it gives this offer to Mensah again and even says "It's not terrible" when she says she knows it doesn't care for it. From Murderbot, that's a lot.
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* IfItsYouItsOkay: Murderbot HatesBeingTouched - touching humans while rescuing them is different and fine - but when it very awkwardly tells Mensah that she can hug it if she needs to, it finds that this isn't awful. It likens this to Tapan sleeping next to it or Don Abena Abene leaning against it after being rescued, both moments that hit it hard when they happened. In the second short story, story "Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory", it gives this offer to Mensah again and even says "It's not terrible" when she says she knows it doesn't care for it. From Murderbot, that's a lot.
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* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Played with. Murderbot lacks physical processes and with them the desires for things like food and sex, but it has a rather human personality and a great interest in human media.
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!!Dr. Bharadwaj
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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain
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* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: Retires from the field after the events in "All Systems Red".
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* TheBusCameBack: After being abscent since ''Artificial Condition'', ART finally returns for ''Network Effect'', as the {{Deuteragonist}} no less!
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* TheBusCameBack: After being abscent absent since ''Artificial Condition'', ART finally returns for ''Network Effect'', as the {{Deuteragonist}} no less!
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: As mentioned above, it's the main star of ''Network Effect'' next to Murderbot itself. Its worth noting that ART does not get POV chapters however.
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* {{Deuteragonist}}: As mentioned above, it's the main star of ''Network Effect'' next to Murderbot itself. Its worth noting that However, ART does not get POV chapters however.chapters.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small humans”.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you get serious”.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you get serious”.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Has a particular fondness for “small "small humans”.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends [[spoiler: with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you getserious”.serious”]].
* ImpliedLoveInterest: To Murderbot as of ''Network Effect''. There’s several discussions about how much they care about each other, including some ShesNotMyGirlfriend moments, and the book ends [[spoiler: with ART inviting Murderbot to come with it which is described as “like asking someone to come stay with your family... to see if they all like each other before you get
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* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series. It leaves Murderbot's ability to hold 5-6 trains of thought simultaneously looking like a lame joke.
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* RobotsThinkFaster: To a greater extent than any other bot in the series. It leaves Murderbot's ability to hold 5-6 five to six trains of thought simultaneously looking like a lame joke.
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: It is ''far'' more powerful in every respect than is necessary for its official purpose of deep-space research, presumably because [[spoiler:it's actually part of LaResistance and needs that power to fight corps]].
* {{Technopath}}: Perfectly capable of invading, killing or taking over other software. In contrast to Murderbot's incredible finesse however, ART brings staggering sheer power as an AI, enough to let it more or less annihilate any other electronic mind or devise in its way.
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.]]
* {{Technopath}}: Perfectly capable of invading, killing or taking over other software. In contrast to Murderbot's incredible finesse however, ART brings staggering sheer power as an AI, enough to let it more or less annihilate any other electronic mind or devise in its way.
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to ''nuke a colony from orbit.'' Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.]]
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* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: It is ''far'' more powerful in every respect than is necessary for its official purpose of deep-space research, presumably because [[spoiler:it's actually part of LaResistance and needs that power to fight corps]].
corporations]].
* {{Technopath}}: Perfectly capable of invading, killing or taking over other software. In contrast to Murderbot's incredible finesse however, ART brings staggering sheer power as an AI, enough to let it more or less annihilate any other electronic mind ordevise device in its way.
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to''nuke destroy a colony from orbit.'' orbit. Shortly after is ART's upgrade to ImpliedLoveInterest.]]
* {{Technopath}}: Perfectly capable of invading, killing or taking over other software. In contrast to Murderbot's incredible finesse however, ART brings staggering sheer power as an AI, enough to let it more or less annihilate any other electronic mind or
* [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Violently Protective Shipfriend]]: To secure Murderbot's release from kidnappers, [[spoiler: ART threatens to
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* WorldsStrongestMan: By far the most powerful entity introduced in the series. As a ship it's armed to the teeth [[spoiler: albeit this is concealed under apparent research instruments]] and ART as an being proper is basically a God AI capable of instantly killing or taking over ''any'' other bot, construct or AI. By its own admission, Murderbot would get its little meager brain ripped to pieces in 5 seconds flat against ART, and thats in spite of Murderbot incredible skill as a coder and hacker. And it goes beyond that too, any human with any sort of robotic enhacement or powersuit is also vulnerable to its might.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite its above status as an immensively powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beggining of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when its used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Despite its above status as an immensively powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beggining of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when its used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
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* WorldsStrongestMan: By far the most powerful entity introduced in the series. As a ship it's armed to the teeth [[spoiler: albeit this is concealed under apparent research instruments]] and ART as an a being proper is basically a God AI capable of instantly killing or taking over ''any'' other bot, construct or AI. By its own admission, Murderbot would get its little meager Murderbot's brain could be ripped to pieces in 5 seconds flat moments against ART, and thats that's in spite of Murderbot Murderbot's incredible skill as a coder and hacker. And it goes beyond that too, too; any human with any sort of robotic enhacement enhancement or powersuit is also vulnerable to its might.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite itsabove status as an immensively incredibly powerful being, [[spoiler: it got caught off guard and taken over by an ''organic'' infection prior to the beggining beginning of ''Network Effect'', which kickstarts the plot when its it's used to attack Preservasion Aux.]]
* TheWorfEffect: Despite its
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* HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it.
* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by Dr. Abene and her group, because they are kind to it.
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[[spoiler: * HeroicSacrifice: When the group is attacked by a Combat Bot, Dr. Don Abene instructs Miki to save itself. Miki rejects the order and is killed trying to help Murderbot defeat the attacker.
attacker.]]
* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders byDr. Don Abene and her group, because they are kind to it.
* HappinessInSlavery: Is happy being owned and given orders by
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* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Abene.
* RobotBuddy: To Dr. Abene and the other humans in their group; Murderbot calls it their “pet robot”.
* RobotBuddy: To Dr. Abene and the other humans in their group; Murderbot calls it their “pet robot”.
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* PlatonicLifePartners: With Dr. Don Abene.
* RobotBuddy: ToDr. Don Abene and the other humans in their group; Murderbot calls it their “pet robot”.
* RobotBuddy: To
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* BodyguardBetrayal: Attempt to pull this on Dr. Abene and her crew.
* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as she’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that her having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]].
* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to Abene as she’s about to kill her. Murderbot notes that her having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]].
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* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: Attempt to pull this on Dr. Don Abene and her crew.
crew.]]
* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to [[spoiler: Don Abene as she’s about to killher.her]]. Murderbot notes that her having taken the time to say so means [[ItsPersonal it actually was personal]].
* NothingPersonal: Wilken says this to [[spoiler: Don Abene as she’s about to kill