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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: This book actually predated ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', as well as multiple trilogies. After that craze? This can seem kind of "light".
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* OnceOriginalNowOverdone: OnceOriginalNowCommon: This book actually predated ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', as well as multiple trilogies. After that craze? This can seem kind of "light".
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This book actually predated ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', as well as multiple trilogies. After that craze? This can seem kind of "light".
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: OnceOriginalNowOverdone: This book actually predated ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', as well as multiple trilogies. After that craze? This can seem kind of "light".
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* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. Zane is even worse than David since Shay said she knew Zane before Tally did and she's not cool with them dating. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
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* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. Zane is even worse than David since Shay said she knew Zane before Tally did and she's not cool with them dating. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: This book actually predated ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', as well as multiple trilogies. After that craze? This can seem kind of "light".
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* OlderThanTheyThink: A new reader picking this up might dismiss this as a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' or ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' clone - except it was written three to five years prior.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: A new reader picking this up might dismiss this as a ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' or ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' clone - -- except it was written three to five years prior.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Of a sort - While ''Uglies'' was never a ''flop'' so to speak, it was a rather uncommon find in bookstores prior to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', which enabled ''Uglies'' to get another chance because people would recommend this to other teens and adults who were fans of ''Hunger Games''.
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* VindicatedByHistory: Of a sort - While ''Uglies'' was never a ''flop'' so to speak, per se, it was a rather uncommon find in bookstores prior to ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', a series which enabled ''Uglies'' to get another chance because people would recommend this to other teens and adults who were fans of ''Hunger Games''.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: To start with, the world is a post-apocalyptic collection of city-states with shady ideologies and government-mandated shaming and brainwashing programs, most people are shallow, self-absorbed idiots by design, [[spoiler:an increasingly ambiguous protagonist that regularly ends up betraying her friends through circumstances outside of her control, and both heroines increasingly suffer tragedy, bouts of plot-relevant AesopAmnesia that reset their characters back to square one, and a villain that conspires to get what she wants, time after time.]] This does, thankfully, ease up a bit by the end of ''Specials'', and the sequels that follow are more optimistic. in tone.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: To start with, the world is a post-apocalyptic collection of city-states with shady ideologies and government-mandated shaming and brainwashing programs, most people are shallow, self-absorbed idiots by design, [[spoiler:an increasingly ambiguous protagonist that regularly ends up betraying her friends through circumstances outside of her control, and both heroines increasingly suffer tragedy, bouts of plot-relevant AesopAmnesia that reset their characters back to square one, and a villain that conspires to get what she wants, time after time.]] This does, thankfully, ease up a bit by the end of ''Specials'', and the sequels that follow are more optimistic. optimistic in tone.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Zane's death; what happens is that Diego takes him in and tries to repair his brain, but his body tissue rejects the implant and his body starts to fail, and not helping is Tally's city starts dropping bombs on Diego. Tally cries when she sees him in a hospital bed, reduced to a vegetable on life support. SHe has to make the difficult choice to take him off it, because other bombing victims are coming inside]].
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Zane's death; what happens is that Diego takes him in and tries to repair his brain, but his body tissue rejects the implant and his body starts to fail, and not helping is Tally's city starts dropping bombs on Diego. Tally cries when she sees him in a hospital bed, reduced to a vegetable on life support. SHe She has to make the difficult choice to take him off it, because other bombing victims are coming inside]].
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: To start with, the world is a post-apocalyptic collection of city-states with shady ideologies and government-mandated shaming and brainwashing programs, most people are shallow, self-absorbed idiots by design, [[spoiler:an increasingly ambiguous protagonist that regularly ends up betraying her friends through circumstances outside of her control, and both heroines increasingly suffer tragedy, bouts of plot-relevant AesopAmnesia that reset their characters back to square one, and a villain that conspires to get what she wants, time after time.]] This does, thankfully, ease up a bit by the end of ''Specials'', and the sequels that follow are more optimistic. in tone.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: To start with, the world is a post-apocalyptic collection of city-states with shady ideologies and government-mandated shaming and brainwashing programs, most people are shallow, self-absorbed idiots by design, [[spoiler:an increasingly ambiguous protagonist that regularly ends up betraying her friends through circumstances outside of her control, and both heroines increasingly suffer tragedy, bouts of plot-relevant AesopAmnesia that reset their characters back to square one, and a villain that conspires to get what she wants, time after time.]] This does, thankfully, ease up a bit by the end of ''Specials'', and the sequels that follow are more optimistic. in tone.
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* FridgeHorror: Shay gets furious
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* FridgeHorror: Shay gets furious when she learns that [[spoiler:Tally shared the Cure with Zane and not with her. Consider if Tally ''had'' done it, however; then Shay would have received the pill that was designed to eat the lesions, but it would have eaten her brain as well. It may have been Shay in the hospital bed at the end of the trilogy and taken off life support rather than Zane]].
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: One essay in the companion book Mind-Rain paints Shay as a PsychoLesbian. And another essay portrays her as a DracoInLeatherPants.
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** One essay in the companion book Mind-Rain paints Shay as a PsychoLesbian. And another essay portrays her as aDracoInLeatherPants.DracoInLeatherPants.
** Scott Westerfeld claims that Shay [[spoiler:willingly became a Special when Dr. Cable made her the offer]]. Considering her state of mind, however, with how betrayed she felt that [[spoiler:Tally shared the cure with Zane but not with Shay, there may have been more manipulation than what has appeared in canon]].
** Maddy claims, and Dr. Cable confirms, that the [[spoiler:lesions inside the brain are designed to keep the Pretties as vapid and brainless, so they just pursue pleasures and not try to destroy the world by overusing resources]]. There may be another reason for the lesions, however; it could be a mercy to help [[spoiler:transitioning Uglies that don't respond well to surgery. After all, the operation literally cuts your whole body up and changes you from the inside out, including eye and hair color. That is a little bit traumatic]]. Perhaps the lesions started as a way to [[spoiler:help Uglies adjust to being Pretty, and the mind control was an added benefit]]. It may also explain why the Specials are all a bit on the violent and melodramatic side; in addition to [[spoiler:Dr. Cable brainwashing them]], [[spoiler:they're given nanotechnology for RapidHealing and uber-sharp fangs and teeth]].
** One essay in the companion book Mind-Rain paints Shay as a PsychoLesbian. And another essay portrays her as a
** Scott Westerfeld claims that Shay [[spoiler:willingly became a Special when Dr. Cable made her the offer]]. Considering her state of mind, however, with how betrayed she felt that [[spoiler:Tally shared the cure with Zane but not with Shay, there may have been more manipulation than what has appeared in canon]].
** Maddy claims, and Dr. Cable confirms, that the [[spoiler:lesions inside the brain are designed to keep the Pretties as vapid and brainless, so they just pursue pleasures and not try to destroy the world by overusing resources]]. There may be another reason for the lesions, however; it could be a mercy to help [[spoiler:transitioning Uglies that don't respond well to surgery. After all, the operation literally cuts your whole body up and changes you from the inside out, including eye and hair color. That is a little bit traumatic]]. Perhaps the lesions started as a way to [[spoiler:help Uglies adjust to being Pretty, and the mind control was an added benefit]]. It may also explain why the Specials are all a bit on the violent and melodramatic side; in addition to [[spoiler:Dr. Cable brainwashing them]], [[spoiler:they're given nanotechnology for RapidHealing and uber-sharp fangs and teeth]].
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* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
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* FridgeHorror: Shay gets furious
* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. Zane is even worse than David since Shay said she knew Zane before Tally did and she's not cool with them dating. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. Zane is even worse than David since Shay said she knew Zane before Tally did and she's not cool with them dating. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Zane's death.]]
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler: Zane's death.]]death; what happens is that Diego takes him in and tries to repair his brain, but his body tissue rejects the implant and his body starts to fail, and not helping is Tally's city starts dropping bombs on Diego. Tally cries when she sees him in a hospital bed, reduced to a vegetable on life support. SHe has to make the difficult choice to take him off it, because other bombing victims are coming inside]].
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* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat intentional -- the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: To start with, the world is a post-apocalyptic collection of city-states with shady ideologies and government-mandated shaming and brainwashing programs, most people are shallow, self-absorbed idiots by design, [[spoiler:an increasingly ambiguous protagonist that regularly ends up betraying her friends through circumstances outside of her control, and both heroines increasingly suffer tragedy, bouts of plot-relevant AesopAmnesia that reset their characters back to square one, and a villain that conspires to get what she wants, time after time.]] This does, thankfully, ease up a bit by the end of ''Specials'', and the sequels that follow are more optimistic. in tone.
* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhatintentional -- intentional; the author purposely used gender-neutral terms when Shay asks Tally where she got her locket in Uglies.
* LesYay: Shay gets awfully jealous whenever Tally gets a boyfriend. This arguably becomes [[spoiler: FoeYay later on as Shay becomes more and more villainous.]] Somewhat
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* {{Narm}}: The fact that Shay took the time to write her cryptic directions to the Smoke for Tally in ''rhyme'' before running away. It's not a case of the poem being a mnemonic device passed down between fugitives to the Smoke; it refers to details that are personal to Tally, showing that Shay wrote the poem herself.
