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* CoolGuns: Takeshi ends up buying an Ingram 40 flechette gun, a prototype CTAC pistol that is armor piercing and can [[MagneticWeapon magnetically recall]] bullets so that it effectively has BottomlessMagazines.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Resleeving an AssholeVictim inside an animal until they went insane is actually something Kovacs did in ''Woken Furies''. Here it's something a Meth does for her petty amusement, to show their LackOfEmpathy.
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* CoolGuns: Takeshi ends up buying an Ingram 40 flechette gun, a prototype CTAC pistol that is armor piercing and can magnetically recall bullets so that it effectively has BottomlessMagazines.

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* CoolGuns: Takeshi ends up buying an Ingram 40 flechette gun, a prototype CTAC pistol that is armor piercing and can [[MagneticWeapon magnetically recall recall]] bullets so that it effectively has BottomlessMagazines.
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Samir encourages Ortega to relax and enjoy the high-quality champagne. She refuses until meeting the married gladiator, then gives this trope.

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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Samir encourages Ortega to relax and enjoy the high-quality champagne. She refuses until meeting the married gladiator, gladiator couple, then gives this trope.
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* SpotTheImposter: Naomi tries to pose as her mother when Kovacs catches her in mum's sleeve, but she lacks Miriam's poise and doesn't even know who Kovacs is.
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-->''"I would have left it in the car, but I really don't trust this neighborhood. "''

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-->''"I --->''"I would have left it in the car, but I really don't trust this neighborhood. "''



* WhiteShirtOfDeath: The Zero-G Gladiators wear crisp white uniforms to show off the blood they draw from each other. A bystander is delighted when her own white dress is splattered with blood.

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* WhiteShirtOfDeath: The Zero-G Gladiators wear crisp white uniforms to show off the blood they draw from each other. A bystander other, and a woman in the audience is delighted when her own white dress is splattered with their blood.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Clarissa Severin is introduced as being fascinated by Kovacs, then [[ItAmusedMe gleefully]] reveals that she drove a man insane by trapping his mind in a snake, ForScience.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Clarissa Severin is introduced as being fascinated by Kovacs, then [[ItAmusedMe gleefully]] reveals that she drove a man insane by trapping his mind in a snake, ForScience. ForScience
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* CheeryPink: Poe decorates Lizzie's virtual safe place in pink to reassure her. Former combat medic Vernon is unimpressed, saying the color reminds him of someone's insides.


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* DrinkingOnDuty: Vernon encourages the security guard to help himself to a glass, so he'll get fired if he reports Vernon knocking him out.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Kovacs mentions Laurens' vice of roughing up prostitutes, he says that at least he's never [=RealDeathed=] anyone, unlike Kovacs.

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* EveryoneHasStandards: When Kovacs mentions Laurens' vice of roughing up prostitutes, he says apologizes to the Japanese Meths that at least he's never [=RealDeathed=] anyone, unlike Kovacs.Bancroft's son insults.


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* MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse with Laurens, who says that while he has killed in Virtual and [=SleeveDeath=], he refuses to kill anyone for real, unlike Kovacs.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: The theme for Bancroft's party is each guest must bring something unique. Isaac Bancroft presents the mummified hand of Conrad Harlan, the Founding Father of Harlan's World. Laurens brings Takeshi, as the last-living Envoy.

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* CollectorOfTheStrange: The theme for Bancroft's party is each guest must bring something unique. Isaac Bancroft presents the mummified hand of Conrad Harlan, the Founding Father of Harlan's World. Clarissa Severin has a pet snake with the downloaded mind of a human. Laurens brings Takeshi, as the last-living Envoy.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Clarissa Severin is introduced as being fascinated by Kovacs, then gleefully reveals she willing drove a man insane by trapping his mind in a snake. ForScience.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Clarissa Severin is introduced as being fascinated by Kovacs, then gleefully [[ItAmusedMe gleefully]] reveals that she willing drove a man insane by trapping his mind in a snake. snake, ForScience.

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* IronicEcho: When Ortega protests that Kovacs isn't licensed to Null-Gravity Performances, Bancroft nonchalantly chalks it up to "One of those unfortunate accidents" with the paperwork. Ortega proceeds to blow out the machine suspending the gravity, then claims the gun just went off as "One of those unfortunate accidents."

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When Ortega protests that Kovacs isn't licensed to Null-Gravity Performances, Bancroft nonchalantly chalks it up to "One of those unfortunate accidents" with the paperwork. Ortega proceeds to blow out the machine suspending the gravity, then claims the gun just went off as "One of those unfortunate accidents.""
** Kovacs reminds Laurens of his earlier reassurance that he doesn't own Kovacs. It's made clear in this episode that's not what the Meth really thinks.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Laurens claims to venerate his wife while only using prostitutes for his carnal desires.
-->'''Kovacs:''' So you love your wife too much to fuck her?
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dmitri Kadmin kills Alice's sleeve after she helps him by betraying and drugging Takeshi.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Dmitri Kadmin kills Alice's sleeve after she helps him by betraying she's forced to betray and drugging drug Takeshi.

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* GrandTheftMe: Played with. Miriam Bancroft's daughter Naomi has a habit of stealing an unused sleeve of her mother's every once in a while to have sex with her boyfriend.

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* GrandTheftMe: Played with. Miriam Bancroft's daughter Naomi has a habit of stealing an unused sleeve of her mother's every once in a while to have sex with her boyfriend.one of the bodyguards.



* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Vernon willing hands over his daughter's stack, but promises to torch the Raven and everything in it if Poe harms her.



* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Samir will have you know that he is a Muslim not a Monk, and doesn't begrudge non-Muslim infidels from a little mood modification.

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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Vernon willing hands over his daughter's stack, but promises to torch the Raven and everything in it if Poe harms her. Kovacs assures him that as she's now a guest of the Raven, Poe would do anything to protect her.
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Samir will have you know that he is a Muslim not a Monk, monk, and doesn't begrudge non-Muslim infidels from a little mood modification.


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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Samir encourages Ortega to relax and enjoy the high-quality champagne. She refuses until meeting the married gladiator, then gives this trope.

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* ShoutOut: The folk song "O Death" plays during the final scene.



* WhiteShirtOfDeath: The Zero-G Gladiators wear crisp white uniforms to show off the blood they draw from each other.

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* WhiteShirtOfDeath: The Zero-G Gladiators wear crisp white uniforms to show off the blood they draw from each other. A bystander is delighted when her own white dress is splattered with blood.

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