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* MeaningfulName: In Mahjong, Chombo is when a player calls a win on a technically complete hand which grants no points, incurring a huge forfeit, i.e. a huge loss through self-sabotage. This fits self-sabotaging loser Bobby Chombo to a T.
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* Fiction500: Bigend inherited a sizable chunk of cash and turned it into Blue Ant, one of the most profitable advertising agencies in the globe. [[spoiler:He further increased Blue Ant's success by incorporating the techniques from the reclusive artist from ''Pattern Recognition'', and at the end of ''Zero History'', Bobby Chombo furnishes him with a program designed to predict market movements with up to seventeen minutes in the future. One can only wonder how deep his pockets are going to become given he believed seven ''seconds'' would have been more than enough.]]
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* Fiction500: Bigend inherited a sizable chunk of cash and turned it into Blue Ant, one of the most profitable advertising agencies in the globe. [[spoiler:He further increased Blue Ant's success by incorporating the techniques from the reclusive artist from ''Pattern Recognition'', and at the end of ''Zero History'', Bobby Chombo furnishes him with a program designed to predict market movements with up to seventeen minutes in the future. One can only wonder how deep his pockets are going to become given he believed seven ''seconds'' would have been more than enough.]]
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: To throw off Foley, Milgrim tosses the tracking device he was saddled with into the stroller of a {{Mafiya}} member's baby.
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* ThrowingTheDistraction: To throw off Foley, Milgrim tosses the tracking device he was saddled with into the stroller of a {{Mafiya}} member's baby. Much later, a furious Foley waves it at Milgrim, very obviously having tried to follow the device and suffered the father's unwelcome attention for a while.
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* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Inchmale asks Hollis if Odile is a lesbian, since she appears to be very attracted to Heidi (an attraction which is reciprocated, if only briefly). Hollis says that Heidi occupies a sort of unique category where people's normal gender preferences don't apply, suggesting that straight women and possibly gay men are frequently into her without it affecting their overall sexual orientation.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: With inflatable giant mylar penguins that get confused with a UFO hallucination, to be precise.
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* BikerBabe: Fiona in Zero History.
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** The Footage:Fetish:Forum scenes are very reminiscent of 4chan (beyond the presence use of usernames), showing how far people will go when they're obsessed with something. Also the oft-mentioned porn.
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** The Footage:Fetish:Forum scenes are very reminiscent of 4chan (beyond the presence use of usernames), showing how far people will go when they're obsessed with something. Also the oft-mentioned porn. Given the time period and the name structure, it was probably meant to resemble Usenet.
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* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Inverted by Bigend, as explained by Milgrim in ''Zero History'':
-->"The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."
** Gareth pronounces it as two words: "Big End".
-->"The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."
** Gareth pronounces it as two words: "Big End".
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* PretentiousPronunciation: Inverted by Bigend, as explained by Milgrim in ''Zero History'':
-->"The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."
-->"The French pronunciation would be 'Bayh-jhan', I think. But he seems to favor the other."
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Now a Useful Note, which cannot be listed as a trope.
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* TheWarOnTerror: A definite backdrop to and influence on the series. Cayce Pollard's father was a CIA agent who went missing on September 11, 2001, and the books are heavily concerned with surveillance and military contracting. [[spoiler:The shipping container in ''Spook Country'' turns out to contain stolen Iraq War reconstruction funds.]]
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* PostCyberPunk: on the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism bleaker]] end of the scale but a definite progression from his early CyberPunk.
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* PostCyberPunk: on On the [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism bleaker]] end of the scale but a definite progression from his early CyberPunk.
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* Fiction500: Bigend inherited a sizable chunk of cash and turned it into Blue Ant, one of the most profitable advertising agencies in the globe. [[spoiler:He further increased Blue Ant's success by incorporating the techniques from the reclusive artist from ''Pattern Recognition'', and at the end of ''Zero History'', Bobby Chombo furnishes him with a program designed to predict market movements with up to seventeen minutes in the future. One can only wonder how deep his pockets are going to become given he believed seven ''seconds'' would have been more than enough.]]
