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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Very much averted with Kimiko, who loses three limbs, one eye and part of her spinal column, although she gets better (see ArtificialLimbs). Even then, when she gets beaten up in later strips, she comes out covered in scratches and bruises. After her [[spoiler: upgrade to a robot body]], she still has to be repaired.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Very much averted with Kimiko, who loses three limbs, one eye and part of her spinal column, although she gets better (see ArtificialLimbs). Even then, when she gets beaten up in later strips, she comes out covered in scratches and bruises. After her [[spoiler: upgrade [[spoiler:upgrade to a robot body]], she still has to be repaired.
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** Kimiko "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell namesake]]. What's more, in the original manga Kusanagi's name was described as "an obvious alias" (roughly the equivalent of the last name "Excalibur") and it turns out [[spoiler:it isn't even her father's real surname either]].
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** Kimiko "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like Motoko Kusanagi from ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', and like her [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell namesake]]. What's more, in is a cyborg following the original manga Kusanagi's name was described as "an obvious alias" (roughly the equivalent of the last name "Excalibur") and it turns out [[spoiler:it isn't even her father's real surname either]].Hob arc.
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* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/09/26/dark-science-21/ Kimiko borrowing a party dress from Yvonne]] is a rather humorous example, as the latter is taller and much... ahem, [[BuxomIsBetter bigger]] than the former. Also, Vonnie's preference for NavelDeepNeckline leaves Kim with some "severe structural questions" (namely how one holds up the front without using their hands).
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* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: [[http://dresdencodak.com/2012/09/26/dark-science-21/ Kimiko borrowing a party dress from Yvonne]] is a rather humorous example, as the latter is taller and much... ahem, [[BuxomIsBetter [[BuxomBeautyStandard bigger]] than the former. Also, Vonnie's preference for NavelDeepNeckline leaves Kim with some "severe structural questions" (namely how one holds up the front without using their hands).
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* ShoutOut: Kimiko "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell namesake]]. What's more, in the original manga Kusanagi's name was described as "an obvious alias" (roughly the equivalent of the last name "Excalibur") and it turns out [[spoiler:it isn't even her father's real surname either]].
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Kimiko "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell namesake]]. What's more, in the original manga Kusanagi's name was described as "an obvious alias" (roughly the equivalent of the last name "Excalibur") and it turns out [[spoiler:it isn't even her father's real surnameeither]].either]].
** The title of [[https://dresdencodak.com/2008/04/05/kimiko-battles-the-pink-robots/ Hob #19]], "Kimiko Battles The Pink Robots", is a reference to ''Music/YoshimiBattlesThePinkRobots''.
** Kimiko "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Thunderbolt]]" Ross (née Kimiko Sarai '''Kusanagi''') dresses (and at times acts) a lot like her [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell namesake]]. What's more, in the original manga Kusanagi's name was described as "an obvious alias" (roughly the equivalent of the last name "Excalibur") and it turns out [[spoiler:it isn't even her father's real surname
** The title of [[https://dresdencodak.com/2008/04/05/kimiko-battles-the-pink-robots/ Hob #19]], "Kimiko Battles The Pink Robots", is a reference to ''Music/YoshimiBattlesThePinkRobots''.
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* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Senna Diaz considers Creator/{{Moebius}} to be their most important artistic influence.
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* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Senna Diaz considers Creator/{{Moebius}} to be their her most important artistic influence.
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* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Aaryn Diaz considers Creator/{{Moebius}} to be their most important artistic influence.
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* ArtEvolution: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [[http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip]] to [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip]] and [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author Aaryn Senna Diaz considers Creator/{{Moebius}} to be their most important artistic influence.
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* CastOfSnowflakes: Aaryn Diaz [[http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/3583964949/figures-they-speak-for-themselves-mildly-nsfw makes a point to design characters this way]] (mildly NSFW).
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* CastOfSnowflakes: Aaryn Senna Diaz [[http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/3583964949/figures-they-speak-for-themselves-mildly-nsfw makes a point to design characters this way]] (mildly NSFW).
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* CapitalismIsBad: Played for dark comedy in a [[https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/ strip]] titled "Summer Dream Job", where Kim gets a job in which she works in her dreams, chasing down monsters (she rides a dinosaur and scoops up random Frankensteins and vampires into a bucket). The FBI inform her that since her job doesn't involve having her ideas "bought and sterilized by god-fearing American business interests", she's in violation of federal labour laws, and since she can't afford to pay the fine or afford the fee for crossing the border into R.E.M. sleep, she is deported from her subconscious. The last frame has her sitting at her kitchen table with blank hollow eyes, observing that she can't afford to sleep.[[note]]This is a joke about capitalism because capitalism is not merely business; it's business institutionalised and protected by government.[[/note]]
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* CapitalismIsBad: CapitalismIsBad:
** Played for dark comedy in a [[https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/ strip]] titled "Summer Dream Job", where Kim gets a job in which she works in her dreams, chasing down monsters (she rides a dinosaur and scoops up random Frankensteins and vampires into a bucket). The FBI inform her that since her job doesn't involve having her ideas "bought and sterilized by god-fearing American business interests", she's in violation of federal labour laws, and since she can't afford to pay the fine or afford the fee for crossing the border into R.E.M. sleep, she is deported from her subconscious. The last frame has her sitting at her kitchen table with blank hollow eyes, observing that she can't afford to sleep.[[note]]This is a joke about capitalism because capitalism is not merely business; it's business institutionalised and protected by government.[[/note]][[/note]]
** "Dark Science" arc played this trope straight, especailly the Laissez-Faire style not too similiar to Ayn Rand, where the inhabitants are too focused on wealth and technological prestige achievement that much of the dysfunctions (namely immense wealth gap and complete societal disregard for safety standards) were ignored that led to formation of Department of Opposition.
** Played for dark comedy in a [[https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/ strip]] titled "Summer Dream Job", where Kim gets a job in which she works in her dreams, chasing down monsters (she rides a dinosaur and scoops up random Frankensteins and vampires into a bucket). The FBI inform her that since her job doesn't involve having her ideas "bought and sterilized by god-fearing American business interests", she's in violation of federal labour laws, and since she can't afford to pay the fine or afford the fee for crossing the border into R.E.M. sleep, she is deported from her subconscious. The last frame has her sitting at her kitchen table with blank hollow eyes, observing that she can't afford to sleep.[[note]]This is a joke about capitalism because capitalism is not merely business; it's business institutionalised and protected by government.
** "Dark Science" arc played this trope straight, especailly the Laissez-Faire style not too similiar to Ayn Rand, where the inhabitants are too focused on wealth and technological prestige achievement that much of the dysfunctions (namely immense wealth gap and complete societal disregard for safety standards) were ignored that led to formation of Department of Opposition.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The comic started out as lighthearted and whimsical. Characters talked to Egyptian gods, Niels Bohr is apparently a cat, and everybody was all happy-happy-joy-joy-let's-go-to-the-moon-and/or-play-tabletop-[=RPGs=]. Then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html this]] came along. And then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_059.html this]], which seems to swing right back to comedy again. And then back to drama ''again'' in the Dark Science storyline.
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%% * CerebusSyndrome: The comic started out as ''mostly'' lighthearted and whimsical. Characters talked to Egyptian gods, Niels Bohr is apparently a cat, and everybody the general tone was all happy-happy-joy-joy-let's-go-to-the-moon-and/or-play-tabletop-[=RPGs=]. Then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_045.html this]] came along. And then [[http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_059.html this]], which seems to swing right back to comedy again. And then back to drama ''again'' in the Dark Science storyline.
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* CapitalismIsBad: Played for dark comedy in a [[https://dresdencodak.com/2006/10/07/summer-dream-job/ strip]] titled "Summer Dream Job", where Kim gets a job in which she works in her dreams, chasing down monsters (she rides a dinosaur and scoops up random Frankensteins and vampires into a bucket). The FBI inform her that since her job doesn't involve having her ideas "bought and sterilized by god-fearing American business interests", she's in violation of federal labour laws, and since she can't afford to pay the fine or afford the fee for crossing the border into R.E.M. sleep, she is deported from her subconscious. The last frame has her sitting at her kitchen table with blank hollow eyes, observing that she can't afford to sleep.[[note]]This is a joke about capitalism because capitalism is not merely business; it's business institutionalised and protected by government.[[/note]]
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However, "Dark Science" is all about Kimiko's misadventures, and doesn't feature her previous supporting cast.
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character carried over into it is Vonnie.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Played for laughs when Kim asks a BrainlessBeauty guy out for coffee under the impression that he's very smart and as into transhumanism as she is. He turns out to be a Ditz who's chiefly interested in sports, and when he refers to his favourite team as the "Sportland Sports", this is presumably Kim's own complete lack of interest in sport editing his dialogue to reflect the fact that one sports team (and indeed one sport) is, as far as she's concerned, no different from any other.
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* BrainlessBeauty: At the beginning of "Hob", Kim is sitting in a café when she sees a hot guy carrying a copy of a book by the real life transhumanist philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 FM-2030]]. She has an ImagineSpot in which she has a conversation with the guy who takes her up in his airship, they swap high-minded chat about transhumanism, and then make out. This is broken when, in real life, the guy asks merely if he can borrow the spare chair at her table, whereupon she blurts out a random sentence about Victor Hugo.[[note]]"Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog.[[/note]] At the end of the entire story, Kim (whose adventures in the meantime have mutilated her so that she's made herself into a cyborg) sees the guy working in a library and asks him out for coffee, mentioning the FM-2030 book. He says yes and burbles on about how it'd be "cool to have, y'know, a big robot body for sportball." Kim's heart sinks, because he's turned out to be this trope.
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* BrainlessBeauty: At the beginning of "Hob", Kim is sitting in a café when she sees a hot guy carrying a copy of a book by the real life transhumanist philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 FM-2030]]. She has an ImagineSpot in which she has a conversation with the guy who takes her up in his airship, they swap high-minded chat about transhumanism, and then make out. This is broken when, in real life, the guy asks merely if he can borrow the spare chair at her table, whereupon she blurts out a random sentence about Victor Hugo.[[note]]"Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog.[[/note]] "[[/note]] At the end of the entire story, Kim (whose adventures in the meantime have mutilated her so that she's made herself into a cyborg) sees the guy working in a library and asks him out for coffee, mentioning the FM-2030 book. He says yes and burbles on about how it'd be "cool to have, y'know, a big robot body for sportball." sportball" and how he likes the "Sportland Sports". Kim's heart sinks, because he's turned out to be this trope.
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* BrainlessBeauty: At the beginning of "Hob", Kim is sitting in a café when she sees a hot guy carrying a copy of a book by the real life transhumanist philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030 FM-2030]]. She has an ImagineSpot in which she has a conversation with the guy who takes her up in his airship, they swap high-minded chat about transhumanism, and then make out. This is broken when, in real life, the guy asks merely if he can borrow the spare chair at her table, whereupon she blurts out a random sentence about Victor Hugo.[[note]]"Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog.[[/note]] At the end of the entire story, Kim (whose adventures in the meantime have mutilated her so that she's made herself into a cyborg) sees the guy working in a library and asks him out for coffee, mentioning the FM-2030 book. He says yes and burbles on about how it'd be "cool to have, y'know, a big robot body for sportball." Kim's heart sinks, because he's turned out to be this trope.
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* AnAesop: Transhumanism is a good idea and cyborgs and robots should get the benefit of the doubt... because preserving your flesh does not automatically preserve your humanity; guarding your humanity is on you.
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* AnAesop: AnAesop:
** Transhumanism is a good idea and cyborgs and robots should get the benefit of the doubt... because preserving your flesh does not automatically preserve your humanity; guarding your humanity is onyou.you.
** Dark Science storyline is about why science alone cannot improve society with the technocracy of Nephilopolis being so focused on technological advancement over the well-being of its citizens that a rebel group arises from the downtrodden citizens and former technocrats who fell out of favor.
** Transhumanism is a good idea and cyborgs and robots should get the benefit of the doubt... because preserving your flesh does not automatically preserve your humanity; guarding your humanity is on
** Dark Science storyline is about why science alone cannot improve society with the technocracy of Nephilopolis being so focused on technological advancement over the well-being of its citizens that a rebel group arises from the downtrodden citizens and former technocrats who fell out of favor.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Tons. Kimiko Sarai Kusanagi (Kim's birth name), Alina and Dmitri Tokamak, Mathias Melchior, Kaito Kusanagi.
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* BoomerangBigot: Enoch the mezzode despises mezzodes for "selling off your humanity just because you didn't save up."
-->'''Essene''': Enoch, we're mezzodes. You're a mezzode.
-->'''Enoch''': [''whose head is '''literally''' a camera''] No, I'm temporarily decapitated. I get my head back when my student loans are paid.
-->'''Essene''': Enoch, we're mezzodes. You're a mezzode.
-->'''Enoch''': [''whose head is '''literally''' a camera''] No, I'm temporarily decapitated. I get my head back when my student loans are paid.
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* KentBrockmanNews: The news magazines in Dark Science are hysterically Orwellian, with articles about the hikes in prices-per-word of dissenting speech, a "[[FantasticRacism cyborg rights]]" activist somehow committing suicide in police custody [[TheCoronerDothProtestToomuch with artillery rounds fired from 10 meters away]], and an article about a terrorist assassin whose name is literally written in the paper as "[[OrwellianRetcon Name Deleted, Replace Later]]".
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].
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* KentBrockmanNews: The news magazines in Dark Science are hysterically Orwellian, with articles about the hikes in prices-per-word of dissenting speech, a "[[FantasticRacism cyborg rights]]" activist somehow committing suicide in police custody [[TheCoronerDothProtestToomuch with artillery rounds fired from 10 meters away]], and an article about a terrorist assassin whose name is literally written in the paper as "[[OrwellianRetcon Name Deleted, Replace Later]]".
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].
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* KentBrockmanNews: The news magazines LosingYourHead: Melchior becomes a talking head in Dark Science are hysterically Orwellian, with articles about the hikes in prices-per-word of dissenting speech, a "[[FantasticRacism cyborg rights]]" activist somehow committing suicide in police custody [[TheCoronerDothProtestToomuch with artillery rounds fired from 10 meters away]], and an article about a terrorist assassin whose name is literally written in the paper as "[[OrwellianRetcon Name Deleted, Replace Later]]".
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].jar, which he's quite annoyed about.
* KickTheDog: Dark Science has Mathias Melchior, Director of the Department of Opposition, who in his first appearance trips a scientist/bureaucrat carrying a huge stack of paper and tosses a old lady with a walking frame off the side of a building. But then again, [[PunchClockVillain that's his job]].
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** Then majorly upgraded after [[spoiler: she gets her new body]], and can hear "the bioelectric voices of the river, tugging at the Earth's magnetic field", among other things.
* SuperStrength: After her [[spoiler: upgrade to a new body]], Kimiko can lift several cows.
* SuperStrength: After her [[spoiler: upgrade to a new body]], Kimiko can lift several cows.
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* ThinkingOutLoud: Played for laughs when Kimiko monologues to Tvcat[[note]]It's a cat with a TV instead of a head, obviously[[/note]] about Nephilopolis, her father and her own early life, thinking that Tvcat is merely your average local animal, and then notices Asmodea and Balthazar hiding behind the furniture listening to her.
-->'''Kimiko''': [''falling out of her chair'''] WAUGH How long were you--
-->'''Asmodea''': Pretty much the whole time.
-->'''Balthazar''': You kept going and it got increasingly awkward to say something.
-->'''Tvcat''': It's also very rude to interrupt.
-->[''Kimiko has a "WTF the cat can TALK?" expression'']
-->'''Kimiko''': [''falling out of her chair'''] WAUGH How long were you--
-->'''Asmodea''': Pretty much the whole time.
-->'''Balthazar''': You kept going and it got increasingly awkward to say something.
-->'''Tvcat''': It's also very rude to interrupt.
-->[''Kimiko has a "WTF the cat can TALK?" expression'']
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** Its list of "20 Essential Facts you should know about Kimiko Ross" includes "Described as 'demagogue', 'thug' and 'weather balloon' by trusted sources."
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* PropagandaPiece: Played for laughs with the ''Nephilopolitan Tribune'', which whenever it posts a story concerning Kimiko always portrays her as a demented assassin and existential threat to society. This is partly done by means of amusing StylisticSuck: for example, the [[https://dresdencodak.com/2015/01/06/dark-science-38/ image]] illustrating a completely fictional story about Kimiko trying to kill Alisa Caspar is actually the [[https://dresdencodak.com/2013/10/02/dark-science-28/ image]] from an earlier strip of Leviathan threatening Kimiko, with Kimiko airbrushed out of it and her head crudely Photoshopped onto Leviathan's body.
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* TendrilsOfDarkness: Leviathan/Thomas [[https://dresdencodak.com/2014/09/22/dark-science-34/ uses these on Kimiko]] when he's just about to kill her--in a particularly nasty example, they wrap around her throat and then envelop her whole head. [[spoiler: Fortunately for her, his 15 minutes of mandated mayhem then end, and she survives.]]
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Very much averted with Kimiko, who loses three limbs, one eye and part of her spinal column, although she gets better (see ArtificialLimbs). Even then, when she gets beaten up in later strips, she comes out covered in scratches and bruises. After her [[spoiler: upgrade to a robot body]], she still has to be repaired.
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* LameComeback: Kimiko has one when being [[https://dresdencodak.com/2013/12/02/dark-science-29/ chased and insulted by Leviathan]].
-->'''Leviathan''': A pretender. A spoiled brat so envious of your so-called father that you can't even see the wondrous gift he gave you.
-->'''Kimiko''': Oh yeah? Well--
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-->[''Kimiko runs off'']
-->'''Leviathan''': A pretender. A spoiled brat so envious of your so-called father that you can't even see the wondrous gift he gave you.
-->'''Kimiko''': Oh yeah? Well--
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-->[''Kimiko runs off'']
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* CharacterDevelopment: Kimiko started out as slightly grumpy, then in the "Hob" storyline blossomed into a full-blown misanthrope, literally not caring if humanity were wiped out, marking the strip's notorious case of CerebusSyndrome. Then, on losing her home and all her money at the beginning of "Dark Science", she moves to Nephilopolis and has some new adventures which involve her already heavily modified body getting seriously damaged. As a result of her showing some kindness to robots at the beginning of the storyline, the grateful robots build her a treatment facility and she proceeds to [[spoiler: transplant her brain into a cool new robot body which makes her feel truly alive for the first time]]. In the course of being betrayed by one friend, [[spoiler: Vonnie]], she makes new acquaintances and admits that she's used to shunning people because they think of her as the "spooky girl", but that [[spoiler: she genuinely wants friends]], and is told that she already has some. Whereupon they all [[https://dresdencodak.com/2022/08/22/dark-science-122-dr-kill/ go to the movies]].
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* VerbalTic: Whenever Kimiko is startled while seated to the point that she falls off her chair, she cries "Waugh!" This [[Creator/EvelynWaugh may or may not be]] a ShoutOut.
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* StylisticSuck: The Nephilopolis newspaper, ''Nephilopolitan Tribune'', suffers a staff strike, with the result that there's nobody to proofread it. The results are... amateurish.
-->While Nephilopolitan staff have gone on strike over "unpaid wages" and "un comfortable number of handguns in the writer's room", management is exci ted to announce a new internship position. Can you read? Also do you kno w where spell check button is? If you can find it for us, you may already be qualified! Startinng pay is up to and including exposure. Contact human resources at New Hires at Nephilopolitan dot what? Gone? How does an unpaid intern go on strike? Unbelievable. Then who's answerin g the email? I don't have the login. I said I don't have the login. Quantifica tion's gonna liquidate ius if we don't. [=HOld=] on the dictation bot is still on. Delet e last paragraph. Delete laste paragre. Delete. Last. Paragragh. I think it w orked.
-->While Nephilopolitan staff have gone on strike over "unpaid wages" and "un comfortable number of handguns in the writer's room", management is exci ted to announce a new internship position. Can you read? Also do you kno w where spell check button is? If you can find it for us, you may already be qualified! Startinng pay is up to and including exposure. Contact human resources at New Hires at Nephilopolitan dot what? Gone? How does an unpaid intern go on strike? Unbelievable. Then who's answerin g the email? I don't have the login. I said I don't have the login. Quantifica tion's gonna liquidate ius if we don't. [=HOld=] on the dictation bot is still on. Delet e last paragraph. Delete laste paragre. Delete. Last. Paragragh. I think it w orked.
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* RuleOfDrama: Invoked for laughs when Lilith is having a hard time defeating Volo, and then Ling takes out Volo with a single punch.
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* RuleOfDrama: Invoked for laughs when [[https://dresdencodak.com/2021/11/29/dark-science-112-detangling/ Lilith is having a hard time defeating Volo, Volo]], and then Ling takes out Volo with a single punch.
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* RuleOfDrama: Invoked for laughs when Lilith is having a hard time defeating Volo, and then Ling takes out Volo with a single punch.
-->'''Lilith''': Hold on, you were watching that whole fight? Why didn't you jump in sooner?
-->'''Ling''': Drama.
-->'''Lilith''': Hold on, you were watching that whole fight? Why didn't you jump in sooner?
-->'''Ling''': Drama.
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** Later on, [[https://dresdencodak.com/2021/05/30/dark-science-107-performance-of-a-lifetime/ during an]] ImagineSpot (although this being ''Dresden Codak'', it might not be), Kimiko herself is dressed in a {{Stripperiffic}} warrior costume that gives her these.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Mostly of Kimiko herself. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Mildly {{NSFW}}), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]]. One of the odder examples is when [[spoiler:she has an entirely new body built from scratch]], but the robots responsible don't bother to give her a full set of clothes, so she [[http://dresdencodak.com/2015/07/08/dark-science-49-exode/ just walks around in her underwear]] for a few pages.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Mostly of Kimiko herself. Special mention goes to Kimiko [[http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ naked]] (Mildly {{NSFW}}), and Kimiko in a [[http://dresdencodak.com/2008/01/25/future-memories/ loose dressing gown]]. One of the odder examples is when [[spoiler:she has an entirely new body built from scratch]], but the robots responsible don't bother to give her a full set of clothes, so she [[http://dresdencodak.com/2015/07/08/dark-science-49-exode/ just walks around in her underwear]] for a few pages. [[spoiler: Arguably justified in that her new body gives her enhanced powers of perception, e.g. being able to see all the stars in the sky during daylight hours, and she feels more at home in her new body than she did in her original one, so clothes might inhibit that.]]
