History TabletopGame / NetRunner

* {{Cyberpunk}}: Very much steeped in the genre.

* AndroidsArePeopleToo: In ''Android: Netrunner'', the Hass-Bioroid faction specialises in AI and Androids. In the verse, they're running a PR campaign to get them accepted as people.

* MegaCorp: The corporation is obviously the embodiment of this trope.

* {{Cyberpunk}}
* {{Cyberspace}}

'''This game provides examples of:'''

* PsychicPowers: One of Jinteki's most closely guarded secrets is that they've developed these in their Nisei line of of clones.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: In ''Android: Netrunner'', the NBN faction, besides owning almost all the media, specialises in knowing everything about the runner, which in game mechanics translate in "tags" that allow the corp to cripple the runner. There is even an NBN card named Big Brother.
* BlandNameProduct: "Diesel gives you flames!"

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the original game, one of the Runner's possible victory conditions is giving the Corp enough Bad Publicity points that this trope no longer applies to them. Bad publicity was kept in the modern version of the game, but it only gets the Runners more financial resources to attack the Corporation and does not make them win by itself.

* WeWillSpendCreditsInTheFuture
** In ''Netrunner'', bits are used as currency by both the Corp and the Runner.
** In ''Android: Netrunner'', this is played straight, with credits as the main currency.

** The Flavor text of "[[http://netrunnerdb.com/find/?q=archer/ Archer]]": "Next time, read the Terms of Service more carefully. Or you might find yourself in the [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Archer?from=Main.Archer/ danger zone]].

* NeverSayDie / DeadlyEuphemism: 'Flatlining'.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: In the original game, one of the Runner's possible victory conditions is giving the Corp enough Bad Publicity points that this trope no longer applies to them. Bad publicity was kept in the modern version of the game, but it only gets the Runners more financial ressources to attack the Corporation and does not make them win by itself.

** The Flavor text of "[[http://netrunnerdb.com/find/?q=archer/ Archer]]": "Next time, read the Terms of Service more carefully. Or you might find yourself in the "[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Archer?from=Main.Archer/ danger zone]]".

* [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dangerous Forbidden Technology]]: The "Omnitech Spinal Tap Cybermodem" card is a cheap, powerful computer... that has a 1 in 6 chance of causing unpreventable brain damage at the start of each of your turns. It also causes brain damage if you try to remove it.
** The updated ''Android: Netrunner'' card, "Spinal Modem", is not quite as dangerous. It has its advantages, but successful traces from the corporation does brain damage.
** The Illicit ice from the Spin cycle. Rezing it gives the corporation Bad Publicity.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One of the Runner's possible victory conditions is giving the Corp enough Bad Publicity points that this trope no longer applies to them. Does not seem to apply in the modern version of the game.

* TheVerse: The original was set in the same universe as ''Cyberpunk 2020'' (complete with rules for using the card game in the RPG). ''Android: Netrunner'' is set in the universe of ''Android''.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: One of the Runner's possible victory conditions is giving the Corp enough Bad Publicity points that this trope no longer applies to them.

In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games bought the rights to ''Netrunner'', updated it to be consistent with its cyberpunk-noir board game ''Android'', and reissued the game as the Living Card Game [[http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=207 Android: Netrunner]]. Though there have been some changes (making the game an LCG and not a CCG, of course; providing "identities" for the Corp and the Runner, each with their own abilities; lots of flavor text overhauls with references to the ''Tabletop/{{Android}}'' universe as well as lots of other sci-fi and fantasy), the game has been very well received so far.

In 2012, Fantasy Flight Games bought the rights to ''Netrunner'', updated it to be consistent with its cyberpunk-noir board game ''Android'', and reissued the game as the Living Card Game [[http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=207 Android: Netrunner]]. Though there have been some changes (making the game an LCG and not a CCG, of course; providing "identities" for the Corp and the Runner, each with their own abilities; lots of flavor text overhauls with references to the ''Android'' universe as well as lots of other sci-fi and fantasy), the game has been very well received so far.

* TheCracker: The runner, possibly. In ''Android: Netrunner'', the Anarch faction.

''Netrunner'' is a card game that depicts [[CyberPunk cyberspace combat]] between [[BigBrother a global]] [[MegaCorp mega-corporation]] (the Corp) and a hacker (the Runner). The Corp's goal is to [[TakeOverTheWorld complete their secret agendas]] before the Runner can hack in and spoil their secret plans for world domination. It isn't easy, though, as the Corp has strong defensive data forts protected by malevolent computer programs known as [[FunWithAcronyms ICE (short for Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics)]]. The Runner must use special programs of their own (called Icebreakers) to break through and steal the hidden plans - to keep the Corp from taking over completely.

On May 10. Fantasy Flight Games announced a reboot of the long out of print game under the name [[http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3272 Android: Netrunner]]

* TheCracker: The runner, possibly.

* FanSequel: Fan expansions, the only way cards can be added to the game now.

* MindRape: Several of the cards that deal Brain damage.

* PlayfulHacker: The runner, possibly.
* ShoutOut: Several, mostly to MagicTheGathering, with whom the game shares a creator.

* TheVerse: Set in the same universe as ''Cyberpunk 2020''.
** One of the two netrunner sourcebooks for Cyberpunk 2020 featured rules for using the NetRunner game as part of the RPG.
** The new release by Fantasy Flight Games is set in the universe of their Android boardgame.

* ViralMarketing: The Corp. Advertisement card "BBS Whispering Campaign".

* AWorldwidePunomenon

* MustHaveCaffeine: The card "Jack n' Joe": "There's too much blood in my caffeine stream."

* TheVerse: Set in the same universe as ''Cyberpunk 2020''

* HeroicBSOD: [[AWorldwidePunomenon Loss by Net damage]].
** On the less [[AWorldwidePunomenon punomenal]] side of things, there's also death by brain damage, which is [[NightmareFuel exactly what it sounds like]].

* NeverSayDie: 'Flatlining'.

* NeverSayDie: 'Flatlining'. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that, aside from actual death, it can also describe damaging the Runner's computer to the point that they are no longer a threat.