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* TheDitz: Zoey's is genuinely kind but doesn't have a lick of sense.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Deconstructed. Zoey's mom is definitely into bad boys, and this has been directly responsible for most of Zoey's childhood trauma. All three of her stepdads were cruel to her, but she still has nightmares about the one who held her to an electric stove and turned it on, leaving her with a distinctive "rainbow scar" on one shoulder; she refuses to wear tank tops to keep it hidden. Additionally, a major plot point is her mom being oblivious to the malice of one of Molech's goons, letting him drive her to an isolated area for the express purpose of getting leverage against Zoey.
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* TheDitz: Zoey's is genuinely kind but doesn't have a lick of sense.
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---> '''Zoey: I'm making fun of your alcoholism cause it's the only thing I know about you.'''
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---> '''Zoey: '''Zoey:''' I'm making fun of your alcoholism cause it's the only thing I know about you.'''
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Wong talks about a gun being equipped with "Tactical sites" instead of "sights".
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Wong talks about a gun being equipped with "Tactical sites" instead of "sights"."sights" and Zoey mentions "dying" her hair, among others (the first edition is riddled throughout with copy errors).
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* PsychopathicManChild: Molech, in a nutshell. Cut his dialogue that isn't vulgar threats, assertions of his superiority, or ramblings about "the juice," and he has very little to say.
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* NoticeThis: In-universe, miniature cameras are required to have a visible blue light while recording so that those the camera is pointed at are aware they're being broadcast. This light clues Zoey in to a camera existing a couple of times over the course of the novel.
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* MatterReplicator: The caterpillar seems to be able to make anything with a schematic. This includes magnets and complex electronics. Oh, and it can do this from schematics written in an incomprehensible pidgin programming language cobbled together by two now-dead engineers.
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* TheAlcoholic: Andre. Also Will to an extent.Will, which Zoey points out on multiple occasions.
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* TheAllegedCar: Zoey starts the booking owning an old Toyota with a broken heater that someone (heavily implied to be Echo) can easily hack into and control remotely.
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* TheAllegedCar: Zoey starts the booking book owning an old Toyota with a broken heater that someone (heavily implied to be Echo) can easily hack into and control remotely.
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* InfiniteSupplies: The Suits never run out of assets; Zoey even lampshades that a changed plan leaves a brand new car worth about a hundred-thousand dollars parked in the garage, unused. To be fair, Arthur was a billionaire and Livingston Enterprises was richer still, and the difference between a billion dollars and infinite dollars is closer than it seems.
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* InfiniteSupplies: The Suits never run out of assets; Zoey even lampshades that a changed plan leaves a brand new car worth about a hundred-thousand dollars parked in the garage, unused. To be fair, Arthur was a billionaire and Livingston Enterprises was richer still, and the difference between a billion dollars and infinite dollars is closer smaller than it seems.seems.
** A special mention is the caterpillar, which is able to fabricate complex gadgets made of all sorts of exotic materials without needing to.be reloaded.
** A special mention is the caterpillar, which is able to fabricate complex gadgets made of all sorts of exotic materials without needing to.be reloaded.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Basically the reason that Tabula Rasa exists.
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* OptionalTrafficLaws: There's more than one car chase in the novel, one of which is outside Tabula Rasa's lawlessness. Deconstructed by Will, who talks about how his wife was killed in a car chase that she was uninvolved in, up until one of the cars hit her.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Tabula Rasa has no local government and thus effectively no laws. Why things like torture, mass murder, and sex trafficking are never pursued by Utah state or US federal law enforcement is never explained.
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* TheAllegedCar: Zoey starts the booking owning an old Toyota with a broken heater that someone (heavily implied to be Echo) can easily hack into and control remotely.
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Went ahead and made a page for the sequel cause I love it
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A sequel, titled "Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick", Literature/ZoeyPunchesTheFutureInTheDick, was released on October 13, 2020.
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** Early on Armando sarcastically jokes that he doubts any of the landscapers or custodians are especially hungry for revenge, [[spoiler: unbeknownst to him, at least one of them is...]]
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Before his death Arthur was growing to regret the way he made his money, turning to religion and buying the Raiden tech with the intent of [[spoiler: making a superhero out of Armando]] to assuage his conscience. He gets blown to smithereens before he can actually enact his plan.
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* CrimefightingWithCash: The origin of the Raiden tech, or at least the reason why Arthur picked up where the military left off. Unfortunately, it creates a supervillain instead.
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Molech is fond of delivering these when someone tries to negotiate with him, insisting that he doesn't negotiate; he is the strong, and he takes from the weak, and they have no say in it.
** Will also delivers one to Zoey about the history and current state of Tabula Rasa toward the end of the novel.
** Will also delivers one to Zoey about the history and current state of Tabula Rasa toward the end of the novel.
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* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Arthur bought some absurd gadgets and environments for Livingstone Manor, including a room with a bed in the middle of a pool, a ballroom with entirely edible furniture, and having the mansion itself imported from across the country brick by brick. The Suits add to the roster with things like sculpted casino facade, Andre's Fire and Ice outfit (including magnetic cat armor), and the caterpillar fabricator.
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*AwesomeButImpractical: One of Arthur's cars is an old bugatti that still has an internal combustion engine that high powered enough to violate energy laws--Armando points out that driving it around the block would result in a $500 ticket. Taken UpToEleven when Wu winds up driving it [[spoiler: and the whole car explodes]] the first time we see it used.
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* BoringButPractical: Arthur has a whole garage full of fancy cars. The two vehicles that get the most use are an armored sedan that's ugly but safe and a box truck covered with high definition screens that let it impersonate any vehicle of roughly that shape.
** Subverted in that [[spoiler: the sedan]] proves instrumental in TheMole kidnapping Zoey.
** Subverted in that [[spoiler: the sedan]] proves instrumental in TheMole kidnapping Zoey.
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* NewMediaAreEvil: The plot is predicated on a near-futute platform called Blink where millions of people stream their lives through smart glasses or small cameras. The plot specifically relies on Blink hosting content that includes torture and murder. For comparison, [=YouTube=] and Twitch struggle with issues like profanity and exposed nipples.
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* NeverSuicide: Zoey still has nightmares of Jezza, the stepfather who left her with a burn scar from holding her down to an electric stove a decade earlier. He conveniently commits suicide in his prison cell during the events of the novel. Zoey's gut makes her think it wasn't suicide, and a brief conversation with Will reinforces her feelings.
* NewMediaAreEvil: The plot is predicated on anear-futute near-future platform called Blink where millions of people stream their lives through smart glasses or small cameras. The plot specifically relies on Blink hosting content that includes torture and murder. For comparison, [=YouTube=] and Twitch struggle with issues like profanity and exposed nipples.
* NewMediaAreEvil: The plot is predicated on a
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: It's pointed out several times that "Will Blackwater" is clearly an alias, but his real name is never given.
** To a lesser degree, Echo and Molech have their real names stated once or twice in the novel and are otherwise referred to by their nicknames.
** To a lesser degree, Echo and Molech have their real names stated once or twice in the novel and are otherwise referred to by their nicknames.
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* AuthorTract: The novel opens on Zoey being inconvenienced by Stench Machine's reaction to a hologram. From that point on, the novel drives home the point that technology that feeds on humanity's baser instincts--from Blink's glorification of torture to Raiden literally killing people overeager to use it--will always make civilization worse, and trusting in more tech and money to fix those issues is far more likely to cause more problems than answers. Will even gives a ReasonYouSuckSpeech about Tabula Rasa as a whole toward the end of the novel lampshading the idea. In real life, Pargin has frequently criticised tech companies whose products have visibly undermined democracy or otherwise made the world worse out of a misguided believe that more money and tech would undo the damage.
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* CatApult: Inverted. Andre's Fire and Ice outfit uses stray cats for ''armor,'' knowing that no Blink diva will take a shot at him that requires killing an adorable kitten.
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** The novel opens on Zoey trying to get Stench Machine down from the roof because he's terrified of a hologram on the lawn. At the climax, [[spoiler: Stench Machine's reaction to a holographic Arthur Livingston gives away the ruse]].
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Molech's mole lets him into the Livingston Estate and is then immediately punched into a fine red mist.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Molech's mole survives meeting his employer for about sixty seconds.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zoey has a soliloquy about this towards the end of the novel, tying all of the villains (including her terrifying stepfather and a childhood bully) together under a desire to "feed the monster" with acts of cruelty.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zoey has a soliloquy about this towards the end of the novel, tying all of the villains (including her terrifying stepfather and a childhood bully) together under a desire to "feed the monster" with acts of cruelty. She realizes that this is Molech's "juice."
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Zoey has a soliloquy about this towards the end of the novel, tying all of the villains (including her terrifying stepfather and a childhood bully) together under a desire to "feed the monster" with acts of cruelty.
