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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The [[spoiler: escape rocket]] is shaped like a Tyrannosaurus rex. Why? Because.

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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Yokko and Kiyora hide in one.
* ApocalypseHow: A class 6 threatens the Earth.

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%% * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Yokko and Kiyora hide in one.
%% * ApocalypseHow: A class 6 threatens the Earth.



* ArtificialMeat: What Chicken George started as.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin? Not just biology either...
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Chicken George and America Young.]]

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%% * ArtificialMeat: What Chicken George started as.
%% * ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin? Not just biology either...
%% * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Chicken George and America Young.]]



* BeastMan: Chicken George.
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: What Grand Master Rose becomes.]]

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%% * BeastMan: Chicken George.
%% * BodyHorror: [[spoiler: What Grand Master Rose becomes.]]



* CoolAirship: Grand Master Rose has one.
* CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of Grand Master Rose.]]
* DeathOfAChild: Tends to happen.

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%% * CoolAirship: Grand Master Rose has one.
%% * CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of Grand Master Rose.]]
%% * DeathOfAChild: Tends to happen.



* {{Dystopia}}
* EasyAmnesia: Inflicted on various characters, including Yokko and Chicken George.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Nobara is every bit as nasty as Grand Master Rose]].

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%% * {{Dystopia}}
%% * EasyAmnesia: Inflicted on various characters, including Yokko and Chicken George.
%% * EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Nobara is every bit as nasty as Grand Master Rose]].



* EvilChancellor: Vice President Gorman of the USA.

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%% * EvilChancellor: Vice President Gorman of the USA.



* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: All over the place.
* GaiasVengeance
* GainaxEnding: Seriously, what the hell!?

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%% * FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: All over the place.
%% * GaiasVengeance
%% * GainaxEnding: Seriously, what the hell!?



* GreenAesop
* HealingFactor: The “commodities”.

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%% * GreenAesop
%% * HealingFactor: The “commodities”.



* HollywoodEvolution: Apparently, humans evolved from dinosaurs. T-rex, to be precise.
* HollywoodGenetics
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: How Chicken George regards mankind.
* ImMelting: Several people in the Earth In Peril arc.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Grand Master Rose
** ImmortalityImmorality
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Chicken George and Barbara.]]
* ItMakesSenseInContext: The plot doesn't seem ''quite'' as weird to someone who has read the manga.
* JustBeforeTheEnd
* LargeHam: President Young and Grand Master Rose.
* LEGOGenetics: The zoo Chicken George visits features tiger/tarantula and dog/human hybrids, to name a couple.
* LittleProfessorDialog: Those are some damn smart three year-olds.
* LooksWorthKillingFor: Grand Master Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.
* MadScientist: Chicken George.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Chicken George has one; it's a textbook example of this trope.
* MindScrew: Seriously, the whole entire manga is just ''weird''.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Chicken George.

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%% * HollywoodEvolution: Apparently, humans evolved from dinosaurs. T-rex, to be precise.
%% * HollywoodGenetics
%% * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: How Chicken George regards mankind.
%% * ImMelting: Several people in the Earth In Peril arc.
%% * ImmortalityImmorality
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* ImmortalitySeeker: Grand Master Rose
** ImmortalityImmorality
%% * InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Chicken George and Barbara.]]
%% * ItMakesSenseInContext: The plot doesn't seem ''quite'' as weird to someone who has read the manga.
%% * JustBeforeTheEnd
%% * LargeHam: President Young and Grand Master Rose.
%% * LEGOGenetics: The zoo Chicken George visits features tiger/tarantula and dog/human hybrids, to name a couple.
%% * LittleProfessorDialog: Those are some damn smart three year-olds.
%% * LooksWorthKillingFor: Grand Master Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.
%% * MadScientist: Chicken George.
%% * MadScientistLaboratory: Chicken George has one; it's a textbook example of this trope.
%% * MindScrew: Seriously, the whole entire manga is just ''weird''.
%% * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Chicken George.



* OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler: The aliens do this to everyone they come across]].

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%% * OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler: The aliens do this to everyone they come across]].



* PeopleJars: The "commodities" are made in these.
* PlantPerson: America Young.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Literally one of the ways Grand Master Rose tries to maintain his youth and beauty.
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: A new one is introduced every few chapters.

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%% * PeopleJars: The "commodities" are made in these.
%% * PlantPerson: America Young.
%% * PoweredByAForsakenChild: Literally one of the ways Grand Master Rose tries to maintain his youth and beauty.
%% * SignsOfTheEndTimes: A new one is introduced every few chapters.



* TalkingAnimal: Chicken Lucy.

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%% * TalkingAnimal: Chicken Lucy.



* ToothyBird: Chicken George.

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%% * ToothyBird: Chicken George.



* TheVirus: Mickey has it.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Several times. Chicken George is usually the cause.
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Nobody cares about what happens to the "commodities".
* WhipItGood: How Carolus plans to deal with the infected Mickey, and later, [[spoiler: what one of Grand Master Rose’s servants does to Chicken George to force him to complete the immortality serum. Even later, Nobaru and Doppel have whips too]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Most, if not all, of the chosen children.

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%% * TheVirus: Mickey has it.
%% * VomitIndiscretionShot: Several times. Chicken George is usually the cause.
%% * WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Nobody cares about what happens to the "commodities".
%% * WhipItGood: How Carolus plans to deal with the infected Mickey, and later, [[spoiler: what one of Grand Master Rose’s servants does to Chicken George to force him to complete the immortality serum. Even later, Nobaru and Doppel have whips too]].
%% * WiseBeyondTheirYears: Most, if not all, of the chosen children.
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* AntiVillain: Chicken George, who desires to destroy humanity and the world as vengeance for the destruction of the environment and save the animals by building a rocket-ship.


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* VillainProtagonist: Chicken George would be this, being a MadScientist chicken who plans to exterminate humanity, but his morality changes throughout the series constantly, sometimes being a NominalHero or PragmaticHero.

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* DeathOfAChild: Tends to happen.



* InfantImmortality: Gruesomely averted.
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Not to be confused with ''[[Literature/PeterClinesFourteen 14]]'' by Peter Clines.

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Not to be confused with ''[[Literature/PeterClinesFourteen ''[[Literature/FourteenPeterClines 14]]'' by Peter Clines.
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* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: President Young is the President Personable type, as he is a kind man who always thinks of his people.

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* BeastMan: Chicken George.



* PettingZooPeople: Chicken George.
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* MindScrew: Seriously, the whole entire manga is just ''weird''.
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[[caption-width-right:300:In dystopian future, chicken slaughters you!]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:In [[caption-width-right:300:[[RussianReversal In dystopian future, chicken slaughters you!]]
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Think of it as being a bit like what you'd get if Creator/DavidLynch decided to do a manga.
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* SurrealHorror: Like you wouldn't believe. On a pure logical level, the story comes across as complete farce, but the way that everything about it is played ''dead seriously'' gives it a feeling of weirdly unsettling dread, like something out of a nightmare.

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* SurrealHorror: Like you wouldn't believe. On a pure logical level, The combination of the story comes across as complete farce, but seemingly random, nonsensical plot with the way that everything about it is played ''dead seriously'' highly realistic artwork and truckloads of BodyHorror gives it a the feeling of weirdly unsettling dread, like something out less of a science fiction story and more of a half-remembered nightmare.
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* SurrealHorror: Like you wouldn't believe. On a pure logical level, the story comes across as complete farce, but the way that everything about it is played ''dead seriously'' gives it a feeling of weirdly unsettling dread, like something out of a nightmare.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Chicken George's morality is all over the place through the course of the manga.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin?

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin?begin? Not just biology either...
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Not to be confused with ''[[Literature/PeterClinesFourteen 14]] by Peter Clines''.

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Not to be confused with ''[[Literature/PeterClinesFourteen 14]] 14]]'' by Peter Clines''.Clines.
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[[caption-width:200:In dystopian future, chicken slaughters you!]]

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[[caption-width:200:In [[caption-width:300:In dystopian future, chicken slaughters you!]]
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* ArtificialMeat: What Chicken George started as.
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* HumansAreBastards: How Chicken George regards mankind.

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* HumansAreBastards: HumansAreTheRealMonsters: How Chicken George regards mankind.
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* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Chicken George]].
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: It’s not Lucy, it’s ‘’Chicken’’ Lucy.

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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: It’s not Lucy, it’s ‘’Chicken’’ ''Chicken'' Lucy.

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what the hell did I just read.


''{{Fourteen}}'' is a scif-fi horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. The manga takes place in a dystopic future, where a lump of chicken flesh from a chicken meat-growing factory transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet.

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''{{Fourteen}}'' ''Fourteen'' is a scif-fi horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu. The manga takes place in a dystopic future, where a lump of chicken flesh from a chicken meat-growing factory transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet.



!!''{{Fourteen}}'' provides examples of:

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!!''{{Fourteen}}'' !!''Fourteen'' provides examples of:



* CloningBlues: Mickey. [[spoiler: Except the one we become familiar with is a clone, and the original Mickey is dead]].
* CoolAirship: Grandmaster Rose has one.
* CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of grandmaster Rose.]]

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Where to begin?
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Chicken George and America Young.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: The government plans to use Chicken George’s sympathy for animals to force him to develop the immortality serum.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: What Grand Master Rose becomes.]]
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Chicken George]].
* CloningBlues: Mickey. Mickey, while a prisoner of Chicken George, is cloned several times. [[spoiler: Except the one we become familiar with is a clone, one of those clones, and the original Mickey is dead]].
* ContrivedCoincidence: Kiyora needs to [[spoiler: become the son of the President of the United States]]? Well, as it turns out, [[spoiler: President Young’s son, America is dead, and Kiyora is the perfect candidate to have his cells rearranged into the form of America and be fused with his remains]].
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CoolAirship: Grandmaster Grand Master Rose has one.
* CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of grandmaster Grand Master Rose.]]



* EvilChancellor: Vice president Gorman of the USA.

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* EasyAmnesia: Inflicted on various characters, including Yokko and Chicken George.
* EnfantTerrible: [[spoiler: Nobara is every bit as nasty as Grand Master Rose]].
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The [[spoiler: escape rocket]] is shaped like a Tyrannosaurus rex. Why? Because.
* EvilChancellor: Vice president President Gorman of the USA.USA.
* EvilIsVisceral: [[spoiler: Grand Master Rose becomes an abomination of flesh while Chicken George is working on the immortality serum.]]
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: All over the place.
* GaiasVengeance
* GainaxEnding: Seriously, what the hell!?



* HealingFactor: The “commodities”.
* HollywoodEvolution: Apparently, humans evolved from dinosaurs. T-rex, to be precise.
* HollywoodGenetics



* ImmortalitySeeker: Grandmaster Rose

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* ImMelting: Several people in the Earth In Peril arc.
* ImmortalitySeeker: Grandmaster Grand Master Rose



* InfantImmortality: Gruesomely averted.
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler: Chicken George and Barbara.]]



* LargeHam: President Young of the USA.
* LooksWorthKillingFor: Grandmaster Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.

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* JustBeforeTheEnd
* LargeHam: President Young of the USA.
and Grand Master Rose.
* LEGOGenetics: The zoo Chicken George visits features tiger/tarantula and dog/human hybrids, to name a couple.
* LittleProfessorDialog: Those are some damn smart three year-olds.
* LooksWorthKillingFor: Grandmaster Grand Master Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.



* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: People's everyday clothing look just like when the comic was made.

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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Chicken George.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: People's everyday clothing look looks just like it did when the comic was made.made.
* OrificeInvasion: [[spoiler: The aliens do this to everyone they come across]].



* PlantPerson: America Young, and presumably the other green babies as well.

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* PlantPerson: America Young, Young.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Literally one of the ways Grand Master Rose tries to maintain his youth
and presumably the other green babies as well.beauty.
* SignsOfTheEndTimes: A new one is introduced every few chapters.
* TalkingAnimal: Chicken Lucy.



* ThatWasNotADream: Yokko initially thinks the [[spoiler: child choosing]] is a dream, until she realizes [[spoiler: Kiyora is really gone]].
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: It’s not Lucy, it’s ‘’Chicken’’ Lucy.
* ToothyBird: Chicken George.



* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mickey, upon seeing Chicken George for the first time.

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* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mickey, upon seeing Several times. Chicken George for is usually the first time.cause.



* WhipItGood: How Carolus plans to deal with the infected Mickey.

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* WhipItGood: How Carolus plans to deal with the infected Mickey.Mickey, and later, [[spoiler: what one of Grand Master Rose’s servants does to Chicken George to force him to complete the immortality serum. Even later, Nobaru and Doppel have whips too]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Most, if not all, of the chosen children.
* {{Zeerust}}: Despite taking place in the 2100s, some of the technology is the same as in the 1980s.
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* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Yokko and Kiyora hide in one.


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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Yokko considers abortion, but quickly changes her mind.
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** ImmortalityImmorality

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Added all tropes I could recognize up to the end of volume 3.


* CloningBlues: Mickey. [[spoiler: Except the one we become familiar with is a clone, and the original Mickey is dead]].
* CoolAirship: Grandmaster Rose has one.



* DiseaseBleach: Chicken George suffers the chicken version of this, with his cockscomb turning white after he discovers a horrible secret about humanity.

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* DiseaseBleach: Chicken George suffers the chicken version of this, with his cockscomb turning white after he discovers a horrible secret about humanity. It goes back to its normal coloration within days, though.



* ImmortalitySeeker: Grandmaster Rose



* LooksWorthKillingFor: Grandmaster Rose wants to be beautiful. No matter what.



* PlantPerson: America Young, and presumably the other green babies as well.



* VomitIndiscretionShot

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* VomitIndiscretionShotTheVirus: Mickey has it.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Mickey, upon seeing Chicken George for the first time.


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* WhipItGood: How Carolus plans to deal with the infected Mickey.
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I\'m reading the entire thing in one sitting and updating this page with tropes as I see them.

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* DiseaseBleach: Chicken George suffers the chicken version of this, with his cockscomb turning white after he discovers a horrible secret about humanity.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot

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Fourteen is a scif-fi horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu.

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Fourteen http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fourteen_4904.gif

''{{Fourteen}}''
is a scif-fi horror manga series by Kazuo Umezu.
Umezu. The manga takes place in a dystopic future, where a lump of chicken flesh from a chicken meat-growing factory transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet.



!!''Fourteen'' provides examples of:
* PettingZooPeople: Chicken George is this.

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!!''Fourteen'' !!''{{Fourteen}}'' provides examples of:
* ApocalypseHow: A class 6 threatens the Earth.
* CreepyChild: In Dr. Chicken George's lab in Japan, a few can be found. [[spoiler: They're copies of grandmaster Rose.]]
* DecompressedComic: Oh ''yes''. Things that usually would have taken one panel to show are frequently stretched out over four or more, sometimes an entire page.
* {{Doorstopper}}: The series is over 4,000 pages long.
* {{Dystopia}}
* EvilChancellor: Vice president Gorman of the USA.
* GreenAesop
* HumansAreBastards: How Chicken George regards mankind.
* ItMakesSenseInContext: The plot doesn't seem ''quite'' as weird to someone who has read the manga.
* LargeHam: President Young of the USA.
* MadScientist: Chicken George.
* MadScientistLaboratory: Chicken George has one; it's a textbook example of this trope.
* NoNewFashionsInTheFuture: People's everyday clothing look just like when the comic was made.
* PeopleJars: The "commodities" are made in these.
* PettingZooPeople: Chicken George is this.George.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Chicken Lucy often tells people what she's feeling. You'd expect this to be a justified example, what with chickens not having many facial expressions and all, but often she doesn't say it with the spirit you'd expect.
* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: Nobody cares about what happens to the "commodities".
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