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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Dodge rules Bitworld because his ability to change it is greater than anyone else's. Other souls simply have to follow his lead. When El usurps him, it's because El is even stronger in Bitworld than Dodge, having conditioned his mind for years prior to entering.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Dodge rules Bitworld because his ability to change it is greater than anyone else's. Other souls simply have to follow his lead. When El usurps him, it's because El is even stronger in Bitworld than Dodge, having conditioned his mind for years prior to entering.
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** Dodge dies from eating an apple after being told not to eat anything. Apples are commonly used to illustrate the forbidden "fruit of knowledge" in the Bible.
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** Dodge dies from eating an apple pastry after being told not to eat anything. Apples are commonly used to illustrate the forbidden "fruit of knowledge" in the Bible.
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* ForWantOfANail: Richard's death is caused by forgetting to fast before surgery and eating a free apple, then assuming that it's trivial and forgetting to mention it before going under. This sets in motion the rest of the plot.
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* ForWantOfANail: Richard's death is caused by forgetting to fast before surgery and eating a free apple, apple pastry, then assuming that it's trivial and forgetting to mention it before going under. This sets in motion the rest of the plot.
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* StealthPun (Multi-lingual): An interesting part of watching Bitworld take form is trying to match its occupants to their original selves. Some are assigned names relating to how they appear there. It becomes apparent that the one who takes up residence in the spring, and thus becomes known as Spring, is [[spoiler:Verna]].
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* StealthPun (Multi-lingual): (multi-lingual): An interesting part of watching Bitworld take form is trying to match its occupants to their original selves. Some selves (as few have clear memories, and some are assigned names relating to how they appear there.there). It becomes apparent that the one who takes up residence in the spring, and thus becomes known as Spring, is [[spoiler:Verna]].
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* StealthPun (Multi-lingual): An interesting part of watching Bitworld take form is trying to match its occupants to their original selves. Some are assigned names relating to how they appear there. It becomes apparent that the one who takes up residence in the spring, and thus becomes known as Spring, is [[spoiler:Verna]].
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** Oddly enough, a character noted as a transgender woman while still in Meatspace is noted as being indecisive to their gender identity once they enter Bitworld.
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** Not that cheap - the book makes repeated references to the growing demand for computational power to keep Bitworld afloat requires untold sums of money, and at least its early inhabitants mostly got in because they put a lot of money into cryogenics.
** Not that cheap - the book makes repeated references to the growing demand for computational power to keep Bitworld afloat requires untold sums of money, and at least its early inhabitants mostly got in because they put a lot of money into cryogenics.
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** Oddly enough, a character noted as a transgender woman while still in Meatspace is noted as being indecisive to their gender identity once they enter Bitworld.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Many events within the virtual afterlife closely mirror the Bible and ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', including the Tower of Babel, the Garden of Eden, the corruption of Adam and Eve, and the fall of Satan. Some events are specifically modeled after the Bible.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
* Dodge dies from eating an apple after being told not to eat anything. Apples are commonly used to illustrate the forbidden "fruit of knowledge" in the Bible.
** Many events within the virtual afterlife closely mirror the Bible and ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', including the Tower of Babel, the Garden of Eden, the corruption of Adam and Eve, and the fall of Satan. Some events are specifically modeled after the Bible.
* Dodge dies from eating an apple after being told not to eat anything. Apples are commonly used to illustrate the forbidden "fruit of knowledge" in the Bible.
** Many events within the virtual afterlife closely mirror the Bible and ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', including the Tower of Babel, the Garden of Eden, the corruption of Adam and Eve, and the fall of Satan. Some events are specifically modeled after the Bible.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Many events within the virtual afterlife closely mirror the Bible and ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', including the Tower of Babel, the Garden of Eden, the corruption of Adam and Eve, and the fall of Satan. Some events are specifically modeled after the bible.Bible.
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* AuthorTract: Given that this book is a sequel to ''Literature/{{Reamde}}'', it becomes increasingly clear that Stephenson is very concerned about skin cancer. In ''Reamde'', Zula notes that the freckled Wallace has scars presumably where cancers have been dug out. Dodge also identifies by a scar on a terrorist's scalp that the man has terminal skin cancer, relating how he's seen similar scars on others. In ''Fall, or Dodge in Hell'', Dodge thinks about how, due to his fair complexion, he'd always assumed he'd die of skin cancer. Another character mentions that he always wears sunscreen and advises others to stay in the shade to avoid skin cancer.
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* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Dodge rules Bitworld because his ability to change it is greater than anyone else's. Other souls simply have to follow his lead. When El usurps him, it's because El is even stronger in Bitworld than Dodge, having conditioned his mind for years prior to entering.
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* BenevolentMageRuler: Dodge rules Bitworld through his ability to alter its reality, and all his efforts are to make the world the best it can be from his perspective. Given the fact that he's a video game developer who is named after his wizard character who rules a fantasy MMO world, Dodge is basically invoking the trope.
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* ReluctantRuler: Dodge doesn't really ''want'' to be the ruler of Bitworld, but he's the one who first started to create it, and it quickly gets inhabited by all sorts of new people, so it's up to him to rule them and make sure they don't wreck everything.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: El casts Dodge and his followers aside after they've become unpopular with the masses and assumes rulership over Bitworld as a divine figure, but it soon becomes clear that he's just a tyrant.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: El has a whole army of angels called Autocthons who preach his gospel and enforce his rules. He's revered by many denizens of Bitworld, but others recognize him as a tyrant.
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* ForWantOfANail: Richard's death is caused by forgetting to fast before surgery and eating a free apple, then assuming that it's trivial and forgetting to mention it before going under. This sets in motion the rest of the plot.
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* SillyWill: Richard's will was written during a brief obsession with the concept of BrainUploading, and a lot of it deals with his desire to have his brain scanned as a means of immortality. The executors have a difficult time establishing what they have to go through to satisfy their legal requirements for this crackpot request.
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* UnexpectedSuccessor: Richard hadn't updated his will in decades, and the peculiarities of it lead to his siblings having to bear a lot more responsibility for his financial empire than they expected or wanted.
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