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* {{Squick}}: El Bicho touching Matt's face with [[spoiler:his melted hand stump.]]

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El Bicho touching Matt's face with [[spoiler:his melted hand stump.]]
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* CosmicDeadline: While not completely confirmed, it certainly feels this way due to the pacing going into overdrive within the last hundred pages or so.
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** Glass Eye Dabengwa being the father of Fani (the woman forced to marry Benito Alcran, and one of those who was poisoned) could have had some real intensity to it (especially if she was meant to be one of the daughters of the wife Listen was cloned from). Instead, it's just commented how Dabengwa has a lot of daughters and is guilty of so much ParentalNeglect that he won't even remember her and indeed, her never does. While this does establish the evilness of the guy, having him remember and have some reaction alter on could have been interesting.

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** Glass Eye Dabengwa being the father of Fani (the woman forced to marry Benito Alcran, and one of those who was poisoned) could have had some real intensity to it (especially if she was meant to be one of the daughters of the wife Listen was cloned from). Instead, it's just commented how Dabengwa has a lot of daughters and is guilty of so much ParentalNeglect that he won't even remember her and indeed, her he never does. While this does establish the evilness of the guy, having him remember and have some reaction alter on could have been interesting.
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** A still-traumatized Chacho [[spoiler: finding his long-lost father only to discover he's a low-functioning eejit.]]

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** A still-traumatized Chacho [[spoiler: finding his long-lost father only to discover he's a low-functioning eejit.]]]]
** Matt finding out that [[spoiler:Tam Lin was microchipped and thus his death probably wasn't a HeroicSuicide but an IMustScream situation.]]
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Major Beltran the pilot who is quickly presented as a scheming contrarian and then killed off rather than getting any character development.
** The AscendedExtra Rivas family (one of the technicians who created Matt and his children) who ultimately come across as not as developed as they could have been and villains despite the lack of need for it in the plot.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Matt maybe being challenged and/or aided by any potential remaining Alcrans (descendants of El Patron's younger children who abandoned the family at some point in the past, or possibly any kids Benito had as a result of his implied ReallyGetsAround behavior).
** Glass Eye Dabengwa being the father of Fani (the woman forced to marry Benito Alcran, and one of those who was poisoned) could have had some real intensity to it (especially if she was meant to be one of the daughters of the wife Listen was cloned from). Instead, it's just commented how Dabengwa has a lot of daughters and is guilty of so much ParentalNeglect that he won't even remember her and indeed, her never does. While this does establish the evilness of the guy, having him remember and have some reaction alter on could have been interesting.
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* SequelGap: This book was released over 11 years after the original. This is likely why the first few chapters contain sprinklings of recap.
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* SequelGap: This book was released over 11 years after the original. This is likely why the first few chapters contain sprinklings of recap.
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* Squick: El Bicho touching Matt's face with [[spoiler:his melted hand stump.]]

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* Squick: {{Squick}}: El Bicho touching Matt's face with [[spoiler:his melted hand stump.]]

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* CompleteMonster: El Patron was one, and Glass Eye Dabengwa proves to be no better.
** His representative, Happy Man Hikwa, seems to love gunning down wildlife, women and children and shows not the slightest concern over the destruction of cities.
** [[spoiler:Dr. Rivas]] first appears as a somewhat sympathetic PunchClockVillain like the others, but he's revealed to be totally amoral and when things descend into chaos, he reveals his true intentions with chilling bluntness.
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** Dr. Rivas first appears as a somewhat sympathetic PunchClockVillain like the others, but he's revealed to be totally amoral and when things descend into chaos, he reveals his true intentions with chilling bluntness.

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** Dr. Rivas [[spoiler:Dr. Rivas]] first appears as a somewhat sympathetic PunchClockVillain like the others, but he's revealed to be totally amoral and when things descend into chaos, he reveals his true intentions with chilling bluntness.
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**''Cockroaching'', although it was apparently never used on anyone.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Mirasol's death]].

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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Mirasol's death]].death]].
** A still-traumatized Chacho [[spoiler: finding his long-lost father only to discover he's a low-functioning eejit.]]
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* CompleteMonster: El Patron was one, and Glass Eye Dabengwa proves to be no better.
** His representative, Happy Man Hikwa, seems to love gunning down wildlife, women and children and shows not the slightest concern over the destruction of cities.
** Dr. Rivas first appears as a somewhat sympathetic PunchClockVillain like the others, but he's revealed to be totally amoral and when things descend into chaos, he reveals his true intentions with chilling bluntness.


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* CosmicDeadline: While not completely confirmed, it certainly feels this way due to the pacing going into overdrive within the last hundred pages or so.
* TheScrappy: Listen, definitely. [[spoiler:Although to be fair she does get much better in that regard by the book's end]].
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Mirasol's death]].

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