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* DrivenToEvil: Regina Jones' Cyberpyscho gigs send V to bring down dangerous cyborgs who underwent a psychotic break due to their implants and became mass murderers. [[spoiler: Shards around the massacre sites reveal underlying issues that complicate things, including untreated mental illness, bad interactions between between the victim's brain and the software of their implants and substance abuse.]]



* {{Dystopia}}: The {{cyberpunk}} world of ''[=CP2077=]'' has a society that allows body modification to the point many suffer psychotic breaks, and a police force that responds with dangerously excessive force to crimes. Ambulances are now floating [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APCs]] staffed by PMC troops who will kill on sight to ensure no one gets in the way of them treating someone insured by their medical company. And millions live below the poverty line, with many only able to make a living as criminals resorting to stealing, selling drugs, OrganTheft and worse, or HiredGuns who hurt and kill their fellow man for a tiny bit of temporary contract work from {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. [[spoiler:Did we mention that all major corporations are pushing their major resources into perfecting mind-control? Arasaka collects memories from their uploaded clients, Trauma Team wipes memories from their patients, and a shadow organization brainwashes key political figures]].

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* {{Dystopia}}: The {{cyberpunk}} world of ''[=CP2077=]'' has a society that allows body modification to the point many suffer psychotic breaks, and a police force that responds with dangerously excessive force to crimes. Ambulances crimes, privatized ambulance services that are now floating [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APCs]] staffed by PMC troops who will kill on sight to ensure no one gets in the way of them treating someone insured by their medical company. And millions live below the poverty line, with many only able to make a living as survive by becoming criminals resorting to stealing, selling drugs, OrganTheft and worse, or HiredGuns who hurt and kill their fellow man for a tiny bit of temporary contract work from {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s. [[spoiler:Did we mention that all major corporations are pushing their major resources into perfecting mind-control? Arasaka collects memories from their uploaded clients, Trauma Team wipes memories from their patients, and a shadow organization brainwashes key political figures]].



* EccentricTownsfolk: Night City includes chrome models, psychos who want to turn themselves into robots, ripperdocs who install cybernetic modifications but are entirely organic themselves, scavengers who kidnap people to steal their cybernetics, SWAT team ambulance workers, mind-linked identical twin mixed martial art fighters, overly sassy mercenaries, Haitian hackers worshipping [=AIs=], "fixers" with gold-plated cyborg arms, and all sorts of other oddballs.

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* EccentricTownsfolk: Night City includes chrome skinned models, psychos psychopaths who want to turn themselves into robots, ripperdocs who install cybernetic modifications but are entirely organic themselves, scavengers who kidnap people to steal their cybernetics, SWAT team ambulance workers, mind-linked identical twin mixed martial art fighters, overly sassy mercenaries, Haitian hackers worshipping [=AIs=], "fixers" with gold-plated cyborg arms, and all sorts of other oddballs.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Rafael Pérez, one of the [[BackAlleyDoctor Ripperdocs]] to be found in Arroyo, used to be a top-flight [[MegaCorp Moore Technologies]] researcher, but quit because of the hideous stress and pressure that's a mandatory feature of all Corpo jobs... and because he witnessed Moore's latest cybernetics being repeatedly, and fatally, TestedOnHumans.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lenny Nero is an underground dealer of XBDs who works with various gangs. He happily sells snuff XBDs made by Scavs (his only in person appearance has V attempting to buy a specific snuff film from him to find [[spoiler:the location that the local Scavs are holding Evelyn]]). His only real concern is making sure you aren't a cop. However, even ''he'' has his limits, and that limit is [[spoiler:snuff involving children. You can find a datashard during the Dirty Biz gig where he cuts ties with Gottfried over the content of the XBDs he wants Lenny to sell. He also despises that Gottfried has gotten his own (possibly mentally challenged) son in on the business.]]

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lenny Nero is an underground dealer of XBDs [=XBDs=] who works with various gangs. He happily sells snuff XBDs [=XBDs=] made by Scavs (his only in person appearance has V attempting to buy a specific snuff film from him to find [[spoiler:the location that the local Scavs are holding Evelyn]]). His only real concern is making sure you aren't a cop. However, even ''he'' has his limits, and that limit is [[spoiler:snuff involving children. You can find a datashard during the Dirty Biz gig where he cuts ties with Gottfried over the content of the XBDs he wants Lenny to sell. He also despises that Gottfried has gotten his own (possibly mentally challenged) son in on the business.]]



* EverythingIsOnline: doors, security systems, weapons, and even people are all hooked up to various networks, to the point you can (and often have to) hack into most of them.

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* EverythingIsOnline: doors, Doors, security systems, weapons, and even people are all hooked up to various networks, to the point you can (and often have to) hack into most of them.

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** [[spoiler:Takemura]] will die during "Search and Destroy", when he gets crushed by rubble. [[spoiler:The player can actually save him if they turn around immediately after they get control of V, [[GuideDangIt but nothing in the game indicates that this is a possibility]], so most players just left him to die.]]

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** [[spoiler:Takemura]] will die during "Search and Destroy", when he gets crushed by rubble. [[spoiler:The player can actually save him if they turn around immediately after they get control of V, [[GuideDangIt but nothing in the game indicates that this is a possibility]], so most players just left him to die. A patch to the game added an optional objective that says "Save Takemura", so the player can now make a more informed choice.]]


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* DrinkingContest: [[spoiler:We participate in one very briefly during "A Cool Metal Fire", when Johnny controls V's body and goes to a strip club.]]
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* EnhanceButton: The game has its own high tech version with the "Braindance editor". Semi-{{Justified}} in that you only get what the recorder's cyberware enhancements picked up, but you can still move around in it to view different angles, and get data the recorder didn't notice, enhance and hear both sides of a whispered phone conversation, and even download whole files when the recorder only saw a single screenshot.

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* EnhanceButton: The game has its own high tech version with the "Braindance editor". Semi-{{Justified}} Semi-{{Justified|Trope}} in that you only get what the recorder's cyberware enhancements picked up, but you can still move around in it to view different angles, and get data the recorder didn't notice, enhance and hear both sides of a whispered phone conversation, and even download whole files when the recorder only saw a single screenshot.
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** In a bit of BlackComedy, if you hang out in Pacifica long enough, you can hear a PSA over the speakers letting you know that you don't need to be afraid of sharks while swimming. After all, they've all gone extinct!
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lenny Nero is an underground dealer of XBDs who works with various gangs. He happily sells snuff XBDs made by Scavs (his only in person appearance has V attempting to buy a specific snuff film from him to find [[spoiler:the location that the local Scavs are holding Evelyn]]). His only real concern is making sure you aren't a cop. However, even ''he'' has his limits, and that limit is [[spoiler:snuff involving children. You can find a datashard during the Dirty Biz gig where he cuts ties with Gottfried over the content of the XBDs he wants Lenny to sell. He also despises that Gottfried has gotten his own (possibly mentally challenged) son in on the business.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: A recurring theme throughout the story is how many characters, including V, have huge ambitions but fail to consider all contingencies before taking action. Ultimately, money, power, politics, and human nature come into play and throw even the best-laid plans awry

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