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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Philosopher WouldntHurtAChild. While some of his colleagues are happy to oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, he thinks doing so i"s both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Philosopher WouldntHurtAChild. While some of his colleagues are happy to oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, he thinks doing so i"s both is "both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."
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--> "Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get."

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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
-->'''The Philospher''': I do draw the line at children. Some of my colleagues will happily oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, but I think this is both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."

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* EvenEvilHasStandards:
-->'''The Philospher''': I do draw
ColdBloodedTorture: The novel has a torturer's POV, in which he describes, among other things, his favorite methods, the line at children. Some importance of my simply scaring people into talking, and the need to inflict a minimum amount of pain so that the agency he works for will remain feared.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Philosopher WouldntHurtAChild. While some of his
colleagues will happily are happy to oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, but I think this is he thinks doing so i"s both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."



* TheMenInBlack: The novel utilises the trope in the form of a faction of L'Expédience, a parallel-world hopping secret service, suborned by Madame d'Ortolan to suppress the search for extraterrestrials across the many Earths. Subverted somewhat in that L'Expédience are given an internal politics and diverging aims.



* NecessarilyEvil:
-->'''The Philospher''': "I do not enjoy what I do, though I am not ashamed of it, and it would be no exaggeration to say that I am proud of it. It is something that has to be done, and somebody has to do it"

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* NecessarilyEvil:
-->'''The Philospher''': "I do
NecessarilyEvil: The Philosopher does not enjoy what I do, though I am not torturing people, but is "not ashamed of it, it", and it would be no exaggeration to even say that I am he was proud of it. It Put simply, he believes "it is something that has to be done, and somebody has to do it"



* SelectiveSlaughter: The Philosopher, a torturer, refuses to hurt women or children. He notes that some would claim that it was because he once heard his father raping his mother, but he believes that it's because he's a gentleman.



* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Played with.
--> '''The Transitioner''': "I look up, hoping for airships. I always like when there are airships, but I can't see any." (later, on another world:) "Into the street. Still no airships. Dommage!"

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* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Played with.
--> '''The Transitioner''': "I look up, hoping for airships. I always like
Invoked. A man who frequently travels between universes at one point looks up at the sky when there are airships, but I can't see any." (later, on another world:) "Into the street. Still no airships. Dommage!"
arriving in a new one, searching for zeppelins. As he says, he 'likes it when there's zeppelins'.
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* TheMasquerade: Depending on whenever you're living in an open or in a closed world a Marsquerade will or will not be in place

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%% Just says there is a maquerade, but doesn't explain it. * TheMasquerade: Depending on whenever you're living in an open or in a closed world a Marsquerade will or will not be in place



* PsychicPowers: [[ScarilyCompetentTracker Trackers]], [[AntiMagic Blockers]], [[BodySnatcher Transitioners]], [[{{Seers}} Forseers]], etcpp.

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%% * PsychicPowers: [[ScarilyCompetentTracker Trackers]], [[AntiMagic Blockers]], [[BodySnatcher Transitioners]], [[{{Seers}} Forseers]], etcpp.



* UnreliableNarrator:

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%% Just says they call him an unreliable narrator, but doesn't explain how he is one. * UnreliableNarrator:



* YouDidTheRightThing: Creepy when a torturer tells you this
** Edges into YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame.

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%% Doesn't explain what the right thing is. * YouDidTheRightThing: Creepy when a torturer tells you this
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* TheMasquerade: Depending on wether you're living in an open or in a closed world a Marsquerade will or will not be in place

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* AncientConspiracy
* BodySnatcher & BodySurf
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bisquitine, of course.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex
* FirstContact: [[spoiler: Madame d'O's goal is to avoid this]]
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique
* KarmicDeath
* KnightTemplar: several, e.g. Madame d'O

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* TheVamp: Madame d'O, or at least she tries...

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: several (e.g. the Christian Terrorists)

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* [[spoiler: FirstContact: Madame d'O's goal is to avoid this]]

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* [[spoiler: FirstContact: [[spoiler: Madame d'O's goal is to avoid this]]



* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: And how!]]

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* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: And how!]]KarmicDeath
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* TheMultiverse



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* TheMultiverse TortureIsIneffective: A torturer/narrator explains that the worst torture of all is just describing what will happen. Later in the same book, torture fails to work, but only because the character being tortured [[ItMakesSenseInContext teleports out of his body]] first.
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''Transition'' is a novel by IainBanks, first published in 2009.

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''Transition'' is a novel by IainBanks, Creator/IainBanks, first published in 2009.



* CloudCuckoolander: Bisquitine, of course.

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* CloudCuckoolander: {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Bisquitine, of course.


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-->'''The Philospher''': I do draw the line at children. Some of my colleagues will happily obligue when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, but I think this is both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."

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-->'''The Philospher''': I do draw the line at children. Some of my colleagues will happily obligue oblige when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, but I think this is both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."
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''Transition'' is a novel by IainBanks, first published in 2009.

It is based on the premise that a virtually infinite [[TheMultiverse number of parallel dimensions]] do indeed exist. Set between the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and the destruction of the Twin Towers, Transition centres on a shadowy organisation called [[AncientConspiracy 'The Concern']] whose members can transport their consciousness [[BodySnatcher into the bodies of unsuspecting people]] in other dimensions by ingesting a drug called [[AppliedPhlebotinum Septus]] and thus meddle with the socio-political development of other Earths.

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!!This book provides examples of:

* AncientConspiracy
* BodySnatcher & BodySurf
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
-->'''The Philospher''': I do draw the line at children. Some of my colleagues will happily obligue when a child must be tortured to force a parent to talk, but I think this is both morally objectionable and suspect in principle."
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex
* [[spoiler: FirstContact: Madame d'O's goal is to avoid this]]
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique
* [[spoiler: KarmicDeath: And how!]]
* KnightTemplar: several, e.g. Madame d'O
* TheMasquerade: Depending on wether you're living in an open or in a closed world a Marsquerade will or will not be in place
* NecessarilyEvil:
-->'''The Philospher''': "I do not enjoy what I do, though I am not ashamed of it, and it would be no exaggeration to say that I am proud of it. It is something that has to be done, and somebody has to do it"
* PsychicPowers: [[ScarilyCompetentTracker Trackers]], [[AntiMagic Blockers]], [[BodySnatcher Transitioners]], [[{{Seers}} Forseers]], etcpp.
* TheMultiverse
* TheVamp: Madame d'O, or at least she tries...
* UnreliableNarrator:
--> "Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get."
* WellIntentionedExtremist: several (e.g. the Christian Terrorists)
* YouDidTheRightThing: Creepy when a torturer tells you this
** Edges into YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame.
* ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld: Played with.
--> '''The Transitioner''': "I look up, hoping for airships. I always like when there are airships, but I can't see any." (later, on another world:) "Into the street. Still no airships. Dommage!"
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