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** Forest and Kenton have a talk wherein Kenton suggests that he quit smoking. Forest replies that doing so makes no difference. [[spoiler:This is likely because Forest knows that Kenton is going to die in a few days.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:It's implied in the simulation that the electromagnetic lift falls because of Lily's gunshot but if you look carefully, you can see that Stewart shut off the magnetism in that version of events as well, so it was always his fault]].

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* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:It's implied in the simulation that the electromagnetic lift falls because of Lily's gunshot gunshot, but if you look carefully, you can see that Stewart shut off the magnetism in that version of events as well, so it was always his fault]].
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** There is a reason why one of the letters in the show's logo does not share the same curves as the other letters. Forest confirms this in the final episode.

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* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:It's implied in the simulation that the electromagnetic lift falls because of Lily's gunshot, but if you look carefully, you can see that Stewart shut off the magnetism in that version of events as well, so it was always his fault]].

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** There is a reason why one of the letters in the show's logo does not share the same curves as the other letters. Forest confirms this in the final episode.
* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:It's implied in the simulation that the electromagnetic lift falls because of Lily's gunshot, gunshot but if you look carefully, you can see that Stewart shut off the magnetism in that version of events as well, so it was always his fault]].
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* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Stewart repeatedly criticizes the devs team for creating the future while having little care for the past in terms of culture. Episode 7 has him reciting Philip Larkin's "[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07 Aubade]]"; Forest and Katie just assume it's Shakespeare.

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* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Stewart repeatedly criticizes the devs team for creating the future while having little care for the past in terms of culture. Episode 7 has him reciting Philip Larkin's Creator/PhilipLarkin's "[[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6e2f07 Aubade]]"; Forest and Katie just assume it's Shakespeare.
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* AdultFear: Forest saw his family [[spoiler:get into a fatal car accident just a few meters away from him. At the same time he was on the phone with his wife who was driving, which leads to the guilt of thinking he caused a fatal distraction]].
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* IdiotBall: Jen and Lily's plan requires [[spoiler:Kenton, the head of security at a massive corporation who has just committed murder]] to leave someone in his office alone with his computer unlocked.

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* IdiotBall: Jen and Lily's plan requires [[spoiler:Kenton, the head of security at a massive corporation who has just committed murder]] murder,]] to leave someone in his office alone with his computer unlocked.



* PrecisionFStrike: Kenton, upon seeing the "Fuck you" sign on Lily's window while [[spoiler: trying to murder her]], mutters, "Bitch." It happens to be [[spoiler: the last thing he ever says.]]

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* PrecisionFStrike: Kenton, upon seeing the "Fuck you" sign on Lily's window while [[spoiler: trying to murder her]], mutters, "Bitch." It happens to be [[spoiler: the last thing he ever says.]]says]].
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* AntiVillain: Forest. The He's merciless in achieving his mission, but honestly regrets the actions he takes and is remarkably civil and sympathetic even toward the people he's tried to destroy.

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* AntiVillain: Forest. The He's merciless in achieving his mission, but honestly regrets the actions he takes and is remarkably civil and sympathetic even toward the people he's tried to destroy.
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* TeenGenius: Lyndon is only nineteen and already an extremely skilled coder, able to work on and make pivotal advancements in a project and field where most of his colleagues have been working for longer than he's been alive.
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Around a Class 3. Most of the technology shown is either similar to that of the real world, or is at least plausible. Except for the whole project of the Devs team: [[spoiler:a projection that allows someone to see and hear anything that occurred in the past and up to a fixed point in the future]].
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* BookEnds: Of a soundtrack variety. Only the first and final episodes include "Regnantem Sempiterna" as performed by Jan Garbarek and the immortal Hilliard Ensemble.
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* CrossCastRole: Lyndon is played by the female Creator/CaileeSpaeny, but referred to as a male, [[https://collider.com/devs-interview-cailee-spaeny-lyndon-gender/ as confirmed in her interview with Collider]].

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* CrossCastRole: Lyndon is played by the female Creator/CaileeSpaeny, Creator/CaileeSpaeny. According to Alex Garland, the character is not trans but referred a cis male played by a female actress. Garland wanted the character to come across as a male, [[https://collider.com/devs-interview-cailee-spaeny-lyndon-gender/ as confirmed youthful without casting an underage actor. Spaeny could easily pass for an adolescent boy in her interview with Collider]].the role, though puzzlingly the character is stated to be 19, only a few years younger than Spaeny herself.

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* AGodAmI: Jamie reflects that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, Forest makes no effort to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he reveals that the V in "Devs" is actually the Roman counterpart for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]

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* AGodAmI: Jamie reflects that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, AffluentAscetic:
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Forest makes no effort is the CEO of the most powerful tech company in the world, but he lives in a simple, middle-class house and drives an old, mid-level family sedan. Even considering the ridiculous property values in Silicon Valley, he could afford far more, but he doesn't care about money. He's only interested in his work to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he [[spoiler: resurrect his family in Deus]].
** Stewart is a prominent coder in Devs and so obviously receives a grand salary in addition to the expectation of a $10 million bonus at the project's completion. However, one late episode
reveals that he lives in a tiny trailer parked on the V in "Devs" is actually side of the Roman counterpart street in the slums. Given that he seems to spend almost all of his waking hours in the office, he likely doesn't feel the need for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]something more luxurious.



* AntiVillain: Forrest. The He's merciless in achieving his mission, but honestly regrets the actions he takes and is remarkably civil and sympathetic even toward the people he's tried to destroy.

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* AntiVillain: Forrest.Forest. The He's merciless in achieving his mission, but honestly regrets the actions he takes and is remarkably civil and sympathetic even toward the people he's tried to destroy.



** Pete, a run-of-the-mill homeless man, states defiantly that he isn't afraid of Kenton. Kenton's response is to wonder why. It turns out that [[spoiler:Pete is an undercover agent who is as skilled in combat as Kenton is.]]

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** Pete, a run-of-the-mill homeless man, states defiantly that he isn't afraid of Kenton. Kenton's response is to wonder why. It turns out that [[spoiler:Pete is an undercover agent who is as skilled in combat as Kenton is.]]is]].



* AGodAmI: Jamie reflects that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, Forest makes no effort to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he reveals that the V in "Devs" is actually the Roman counterpart for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]



* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Kenton is not a big fan of the Chinese, and he's not afraid to let multiple Chinese people know (on multiple occasions).

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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Kenton is not a big fan of the Chinese, and he's not afraid to let multiple Chinese people know (on multiple occasions). This seems more to do with suspicions about their government than personal racism.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: More a case of writers are overly impressed by math. Lily challenges her co-worker to reciting the Fibonacci sequence. They get to three-digit numbers before Lily's co-worker falters, and the others are amazed by Lily's feat. But figuring out the next Fibonacci number is very simple mental arithmetic: just add the number your challenger last said to the number you last said. You would expect that any elite coder at the most powerful tech company in the world would find it quite easy to add three-digit numbers together.

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* WritersCannotDoMath: More a case of The writers are overly impressed by math. Lily challenges her co-worker don't seem to reciting realize how easy it is to recite the Fibonacci sequence. They get When Lily challenges her co-worker, they only make it to three-digit numbers before Lily's co-worker opponent falters, and the others are amazed by Lily's feat. that Lily can keep going. But figuring out the next Fibonacci number is very simple mental arithmetic: just add the number your challenger opponent last said to the number you last said. You would expect that any elite coder at the most powerful tech company in the world would find it quite easy to add three-digit numbers together.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Lily establishes that she's a smart cookie by besting her friend in reciting the Fibonacci sequence.


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* OohMeAccentsSlipping: While the British Sonoya Mizuno's native English accent doesn't so much slip back in, her American accent sounds strange and fluctuates throughout the series.


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* WritersCannotDoMath: More a case of writers are overly impressed by math. Lily challenges her co-worker to reciting the Fibonacci sequence. They get to three-digit numbers before Lily's co-worker falters, and the others are amazed by Lily's feat. But figuring out the next Fibonacci number is very simple mental arithmetic: just add the number your challenger last said to the number you last said. You would expect that any elite coder at the most powerful tech company in the world would find it quite easy to add three-digit numbers together.
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* BeautyInversion: While Lily is always characterized as desirable, the show goes to some length to downplay the very glamorous Sonoya Mizuno's looks. Lily has a boyish hairstyle and wears almost uniformly casual and gender-neutral clothing.
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* ShoutOut: Lyndon appears in several scenes wearing a Music/{{Primus}} T-shirt.

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* AntiVillain: Forrest. The He's merciless in achieving his mission, but honestly regrets the actions he takes and is remarkably civil and sympathetic even toward the people he's tried to destroy.
* BatmanGambit: Lily and Jen's plan to [[spoiler:steal the security camera footage]] relies on quite a few things that are out of their control happening as they expect: If [[spoiler:Kenton had not summoned them both into his office and then left Jen alone in his office while dealing with Lily without locking his computer]], they would have failed.
* BloodKnight: The senator's bodyguard laments taking his job because it lacks the action he enjoyed as a soldier. Kenton doesn't sympathize.



* FreezeFrameBonus: [[spoiler:It's implied in the simulation that the electromagnetic lift falls because of Lily's gunshot, but if you look carefully, you can see that Stewart shut off the magnetism in that version of events as well, so it was always his fault]].



* IdiotBall: Jen and Lily's plan requires [[spoiler:Kenton, the head of security at a massive corporation who has just committed murder]] to leave someone in his office alone with his computer unlocked.



** [[spoiler:This bites her in the ass when it provides Amaya a plausible cover to kill her off]].



** Zigzagged in the finale. [[spoiler:Lily is shown the simulation of her final moments: she shoots Forest in the head, but this causes the electromagnetic lift to fail, killing her as well. In the real world, she tosses the gun as the lift's door closes, ensuring that she can't shoot Forest. However, Stewart disables the electromagnetic field, killing both Lily and Forest]].
*** [[spoiler:In a FreezeFrameBonus, Stewart disables the electomagnetic lift in the simulation anyway, so Lily would have died anyway]].

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** Zigzagged in the finale. [[spoiler:Lily is shown the simulation of her final moments: she shoots Forest in the head, but this causes the electromagnetic lift to fail, killing her as well. In the real world, she tosses the gun as the lift's door closes, ensuring that she can't shoot Forest. However, Stewart disables the electromagnetic field, killing both Lily and Forest]].
*** [[spoiler:In a FreezeFrameBonus, Stewart disables the electomagnetic lift in the simulation anyway, so Lily would have died anyway]].
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Kenton starts acting in self-interest, as he warned earlier.


** Pete, a run-of-the-mill homeless man, is the only person on the show who is unafraid of Kenton. The latter wonders why. It turns out that [[spoiler: Pete is an undercover agent who is as skilled in combat as Kenton is.]]

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** Pete, a run-of-the-mill homeless man, is the only person on the show who is unafraid states defiantly that he isn't afraid of Kenton. The latter wonders Kenton's response is to wonder why. It turns out that [[spoiler: Pete [[spoiler:Pete is an undercover agent who is as skilled in combat as Kenton is.]]



* HollywoodHacking: Averted. Hacking is shown to be studying the code of the program and looking for vulnerabilities. Hacking a phone's password is shown to be a fairly tedious process.



* KarmaHoudini: Zigzagged. [[spoiler: Forest gets everything he wants in the end...but only in some versions of the simulation.]]

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* KarmaHoudini: Zigzagged. [[spoiler: Forest gets everything he wants in the end... but only in some versions of the simulation.]]



* ObfuscatingInsanity: Lily tries this to throw off Kenton. While it initially works, an evaluating psychiatrist later sees right through it. It also backfires on her as it provides an opening to get rid of her by having her committed against her will.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lily finds a password-protected program in Sergei's phone disguised as a Sudoku app, a game which Sergei hates.
* OverzealousUnderling: Kenton decides to tie up all loose ends to save his own skin - in other words, he becomes an OverzealousUnderling so Amaya won't have to blame their actions on an OverzealousUnderling. [[spoiler:This gets him killed.]]

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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Lily tries this to throw off Kenton. While it initially works, an evaluating psychiatrist later sees right through it. It also backfires on her her, as it provides an opening to get rid of her by having her committed against her will.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Lily finds a password-protected program in Sergei's phone disguised as a Sudoku app, a game which that Sergei hates.
* OverzealousUnderling: Kenton decides to tie up all loose ends to save his own skin - in other words, he becomes an OverzealousUnderling so Amaya won't have to blame their actions on an OverzealousUnderling. [[spoiler:This gets him killed.]]
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* AllMenArePerverts: Lyndon and Stewart use the technology to watch Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller have sex. Katie even lampshades how they're basically using technology that essentially changes everything we know about existence to watch porn.


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* CoolOldGuy: Stewart. He's played by an actor in his seventies but he's witty, cultured, very intelligent and gets along very well with younger people, especially Lyndon.


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* IntergenerationalFriendship: Stewart and Lyndon get along very well despite the former being about fifty years older.
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''Devs'' is a 2020 Creator/{{FXNetworks}} / Creator/{{Hulu}} science fiction thriller MiniSeries written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland. It features Creator/SonoyaMizuno, Creator/NickOfferman, Jin Ha, Creator/AlisonPill, Creator/ZachGrenier, Stephen [=McKinley=] Henderson, and Creator/CaileeSpaeny in its central cast.

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''Devs'' is a 2020 Creator/{{FXNetworks}} [[Creator/{{FXNetworks}} FX]] / Creator/{{Hulu}} science fiction thriller MiniSeries {{mini series}} written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland. It features Creator/SonoyaMizuno, Creator/NickOfferman, Jin Ha, Creator/AlisonPill, Creator/ZachGrenier, Stephen [=McKinley=] Henderson, and Creator/CaileeSpaeny in its central cast.
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''Devs'' is a 2020 Creator/{{FXNetworks}} / Creator/{{Hulu}} science fiction thriller MiniSeries written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland. It features Creator/SonoyaMizuno, Creator/NickOfferman, Jin Ha, Creator/AlisonPill, Creator/ZachGrenier, Stephen [=McKinley=] Henderson, and Cailee Spaeny in its central cast.

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''Devs'' is a 2020 Creator/{{FXNetworks}} / Creator/{{Hulu}} science fiction thriller MiniSeries written and directed by Creator/AlexGarland. It features Creator/SonoyaMizuno, Creator/NickOfferman, Jin Ha, Creator/AlisonPill, Creator/ZachGrenier, Stephen [=McKinley=] Henderson, and Cailee Spaeny Creator/CaileeSpaeny in its central cast.
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* CrossCastRole: Lyndon is played by the female Cailee Spaeny, but referred to as a male, [[https://collider.com/devs-interview-cailee-spaeny-lyndon-gender/ as confirmed in her interview with Collider]].

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* CrossCastRole: Lyndon is played by the female Cailee Spaeny, Creator/CaileeSpaeny, but referred to as a male, [[https://collider.com/devs-interview-cailee-spaeny-lyndon-gender/ as confirmed in her interview with Collider]].
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* ExistentialHorror: The Devs system is able to not only project the past by extrapolating quantum particles, but project the future as well, casting serious doubt on the notion of free will. When Stewart pulls up a projection of the Devs viewing room one second into the future, his fellow programmers are terribly shaken. Earlier, Sergei has a panic attack and vomits from realizing the implications of Devs. By the end, Stewart doubts if his own reality is even "real."
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Lily tries this to distract Kenton. While it initially works, an evaluating psychiatrist later sees right through it. It also backfires on her as it provides an opening to get rid of her by having her committed against her will.

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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Lily tries this to distract throw off Kenton. While it initially works, an evaluating psychiatrist later sees right through it. It also backfires on her as it provides an opening to get rid of her by having her committed against her will.
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* ObfuscatingInsanity: Lily tries this to distract Kenton. While it initially works, an evaluating psychiatrist later sees right through it. It also backfires on her as it provides an opening to get rid of her by having her committed against her will.
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* AdultFear: Forest saw his family [[spoiler:get into a fatal car accident just a few meters away from him]].

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* AdultFear: Forest saw his family [[spoiler:get into a fatal car accident just a few meters away from him]].him. At the same time he was on the phone with his wife who was driving, which leads to the guilt of thinking he caused a fatal distraction]].
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* AGodAmI: Jamie bemuses that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, Forest makes no effort to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he reveals that the V in "Devs" is actually the Roman counterpart for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]

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* AGodAmI: Jamie bemuses reflects that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, Forest makes no effort to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he reveals that the V in "Devs" is actually the Roman counterpart for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]



** [[spoiler: Kenton kills Jamie this way.]]
** [[spoiler: Lily kills Forest this way in the simulation]].
* TheChewToy: Jamie. He's abruptly dumped by the woman he loves, roped into helping her avenge the guy she left him for (just as he's getting over her), is tortured by a racist psychopath for his trouble, then just as he thinks [[spoiler: he's about to begin a new life with her again,]] he is [[spoiler: unceremoniously murdered.]]

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** [[spoiler: Kenton [[spoiler:Kenton kills Jamie this way.]]
** [[spoiler: Lily [[spoiler:Lily kills Forest this way in the simulation]].
* TheChewToy: Jamie. He's abruptly dumped by the woman he loves, roped into helping her avenge the guy she left him for (just as he's getting over her), is tortured by a racist psychopath for his trouble, then just as he thinks [[spoiler: he's [[spoiler:he's about to begin a new life with her again,]] he is [[spoiler: unceremoniously [[spoiler:unceremoniously murdered.]]

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* AGodAmI: Jamie bemuses that tech magnates who end up with too much power believe themselves to be messiahs. When confronted with this, Forest makes no effort to deny it. [[spoiler:In fact, he reveals that the V in "Devs" is actually the Roman counterpart for U, revealing the program's actual name to be "Deus."]]



* TheChewToy: Jamie. He's abruptly dumped by the woman he loves, roped into helping her avenge the guy she left him for (just as he's getting over her), is tortured by a racist psychopath for his trouble, then just as he thinks [[spoiler: he's about to begin a new life with her again,]] he is [[spoiler: unceremoniously murdered.]]



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* TheChewToy: Jamie. He's abruptly dumped by the woman he loves, roped into helping her avenge the guy she left him for (just as he's getting over her), is tortured by a racist psychopath for his trouble, then just as he thinks [[spoiler: he's about to begin a new life with her again,]] he is [[spoiler: unceremoniously murdered.]]

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