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* {{Fingore}}: Terzibashjian gets one of his fingers shot off during the capture of Riviera in Istanbul.
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* CyberNinja: Hideo, a "vat-grown ninja" who is also referred to as a "clone" (presumably the product of genetic engineering). He was an exceptionally deadly fighter. [[StreetSamurai Molly]] tries to take him on because her old boyfriend Johnny was killed by a similar assassin and gets curbstomped, offscreen.

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* CyberNinja: Hideo, a "vat-grown ninja" who is also referred to as a "clone" (presumably the product of genetic engineering). He was an exceptionally deadly fighter. [[StreetSamurai Molly]] tries to take him on because her old boyfriend Johnny was killed by a similar assassin and gets curbstomped, offscreen.assassin, but her previously-fractured leg breaks again before she can lay a hand on him.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hideo and his kind are exquisitely polite, almost genteel... and everyone with the eyes for it can ''feel'' the death emanating off them. Basically, if one of them is dispatched for you, it's over. And they'll probably apologize for all the fuss.

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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Hideo and his kind are exquisitely polite, almost genteel... and everyone with the eyes for it can ''feel'' the death emanating off them. Basically, if one of them is dispatched shows up looking for you, it's over. then either you or someone you know is going to wind up dead. And they'll probably he'll apologize for all the fuss. inconvenience beforehand.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:How Case kills the avatar of Julius Deane that Wintermute uses to speak to him in the matrix.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Wintermute and Neuromancer.]] In fact, it's ''because'' AI is a crapshoot that the Turing Registry and its enforcers exist. Ultimately, [[spoiler:once the AIs merge and become a superintelligence, it's actually pretty benign and is only interested in finding others like it to communicate with]].

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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Wintermute and Neuromancer.]] In fact, it's ''because'' AI is a crapshoot that the Turing Registry and its enforcers exist. Ultimately, [[spoiler:once the AIs merge and become a superintelligence, it's actually pretty benign and is only interested in finding others like it itself to communicate with]].



* ArtificialAfterlife: The technology exists to store Virtual Ghosts on ROM drives, but they can't remember anything new since it's Read-Only. However, [[spoiler:the Neuromancer AI was designed to create fully sentient simulations of dead humans and run elaborate virtual realities for them.]]

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* ArtificialAfterlife: The technology exists to store Virtual Ghosts "constructs" of people on ROM drives, but they can't remember anything new since it's Read-Only. However, [[spoiler:the Neuromancer AI was designed to create fully sentient simulations of dead humans and run elaborate virtual realities for them.]]

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