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Ergo Proxy

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168 feature instances
101 referencing feature instances

Ergo Proxy	type	TVTItem
Ergo Proxy	label	Ergo Proxy
Ergo Proxy	page	ErgoProxy
Ergo Proxy	comment	This 23 episode sci-fi anime from Manglobe is set in a ravaged, blasted future where humans have confined themselves to domed cities in order to survive. Ergo Proxy is the story of an amnesiac immigrant named Vincent Law and the intelligence operative Re-l Mayer, as they are caught up in the tangled web of secrets surrounding the city of Romdeau and the truth behind the chaos. Central to all of this is the nature of the utopia of Romdeau and the powerful, mysterious monsters known as Proxies.Ergo Proxy is notable for its beautiful animation as well as its love of Mind Screw. It contains elements of Post-Cyberpunk, steampunk, and Film Noir; and draws motifs from psychology and philosophy.
Ergo Proxy	fetched	2024-02-27T22:30:28Z
Ergo Proxy	parsed	2024-02-27T22:30:29Z
Ergo Proxy	processingComment	Dropped link to Akira: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Ergo Proxy	processingComment	Dropped link to Yandere: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Ergo Proxy / int_109b036e	type	Abusive Precursors
Ergo Proxy / int_109b036e	comment	Abusive Precursors: A subtle, yet running undercurrent throughout the series. The creators not only created the AutoReivs, the Proxies, and the "humans", but rigged the system so that once they served their purpose, they would, through various mechanisms, inevitably get destroyed, so that they could have planet Earth to themselves. Likewise, with exceptions, most of the proxies treat their creations as either tools or toys they have the right to destroy whenever they please. Generally speaking, the track record of the interactions of creator to creation in this universe, either species to species, or on an individual basis, is pretty poor.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Ergo Proxy / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: A lot of major characters die throughout the course of the series. Even Re-L herself seemingly becomes a victim of this for a few episodes. By the end, the only characters confirmed to be alive are Vincent, Re-L, Pino and Kristeva.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Ergo Proxy / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: Done by Raul, and then later Vincent.
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Ergo Proxy / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Ergo Proxy / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: The first few episodes are straight-up Cyberpunk and Film Noir, but as soon as Vincent leaves Romdeau those themes are downplayed in favor of the post-apocalyptic setting. Then another Genre Shift occurs towards the end of the series when Vincent and Re-I return to Romdeau, and the Cyberpunk and Film Noir themes return at full throttle.
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Ergo Proxy / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Ergo Proxy / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Some nigh unreadable text in the opening credits actually reveals most of the backstory.
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Ergo Proxy / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Ergo Proxy / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "I am Ergo Proxy, emissary of death."
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Ergo Proxy / int_1b88fa4e	type	Uterine Replicator
Ergo Proxy / int_1b88fa4e	comment	Uterine Replicator: All citizens are born from artificial wombs.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Ergo Proxy / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: The main reason Daedalus ends up losing it big time.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1d52b714	type	Self-Parody
Ergo Proxy / int_1d52b714	comment	Self-Parody: A brief one; when Vincent is sick and hallucinating, he has a nightmare where Re-l's already-copious eyeshadow expands to exaggerated proportions.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Ergo Proxy / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: MCQ spends half the game show episode addressing the viewer.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1ed1bead	type	Domed Hometown
Ergo Proxy / int_1ed1bead	comment	Domed Hometown
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Ergo Proxy / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Ergo Proxy / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: tends to pop up when Re-l is ever conversing with the statues in the chamber.
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Ergo Proxy / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Ergo Proxy / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Pulled a few times. The crowning moment came from Pino when she rescues Re-l in the last episode.
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Ergo Proxy / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Ergo Proxy / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Re-l spends the first six episodes thinking she's in a regular cyberpunk thriller, Vincent spends that time thinking that he's in Kafka-meets-Lovecraft story, and Iggy thinks that it's his duty to make Re-L's life a rom-com with her and Vincent's encounters as Meet Cutes.
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Ergo Proxy / int_20e2a53b	type	Notice This
Ergo Proxy / int_20e2a53b	comment	Notice This: The glint on Swan's pendant.
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Ergo Proxy / int_226b7355	type	Personality Chip
Ergo Proxy / int_226b7355	comment	Personality Chip: The 'Turing Program' that houses AutoReivs's personality can be turned off should it get inconvenient.
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Ergo Proxy / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Ergo Proxy / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When Vincent first encounter Proxy One, he said, "I am Ergo Proxy - the agent of death." This was said when Vincent was not sure of himself or what he even was, but by the end of the series, he says the exact same thing only with more confidence and assurance, making it his Badass Creed.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Ergo Proxy / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: A staple of the show's Mind Screw is how often episodes begin like this, skipping over events with no explanation of How We Got Here. It's used to disguise Its All A Dream in some episodes.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
Ergo Proxy / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Monad in the last episode.
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Ergo Proxy / int_25b5600	type	Captain Ersatz
Ergo Proxy / int_25b5600	comment	Captain Ersatz: Quinn (a secondary character) looks like very much Lara Croft.
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Ergo Proxy / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
Ergo Proxy / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: Everyone in the mall is weirdly chill when a BDSM-looking monster casually plows through a crowd of people. They do start panicking later on, but it's when the monster has already left the scene. It's not a case of Vincent and Monad moving too fast for people to react to, either. A few passersby can be seen moving aside when Vincent gets near them. Romdeau citizens are so used to their Utopian life that the violence is incomprehensible to them.
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Ergo Proxy / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Ergo Proxy / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: Romdeau.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Ergo Proxy / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Re-L lampshades this at one point ("I've been wearing this for twenty-four hours" after her apartment is destroyed); Iggy tries to take her clothes shopping. She ends up wearing that exact same outfit for at least several months, and who know if there are any other clothes left in the world by that point.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Ergo Proxy / int_2d4fa515	comment	They were however designed to respond to the Cogito virus as an alternative, by gaining souls the 'reivs would replace humanity's role in the plan. It wasn't a last resort but due to everything going down the toilet, it activated while the humans were still viable, therefore causing Cogito infectees to be Ax-Crazy. Kristeva drops this one to Pino near the end.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2e68eb9a	type	Kryptonite Ring
Ergo Proxy / int_2e68eb9a	comment	Kryptonite Ring: UV bullets.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Ergo Proxy / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Rapture. After all, it is a great sin to give a name like rapture to a thermonuclear bomb - one of the few things Raul Creed states correctly. Truth in Television, too; have a look at Operation Smiling Buddha.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2f226fee	type	You Didn't Ask
Ergo Proxy / int_2f226fee	comment	You Didn't Ask: In episode 18, after Re-l complains about the lack of power in Mosc dome, Pino says there is power.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2f30658a	type	Eyes Always Shut
Ergo Proxy / int_2f30658a	comment	Eyes Always Shut: Vincent Law in his "harmless immigrant" persona.
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Ergo Proxy / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Ergo Proxy / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Vincent is Ergo Proxy, who erased his memories in an attempt to live as a human.
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Ergo Proxy / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
Ergo Proxy / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Swan in Vincent's dream.
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Ergo Proxy / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Ergo Proxy / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: By the end of the series, Raul is on the wrong side of sanity, but he still comments that Daedalus is over the edge for cloning Re-l and raising the toddler clone as part of Wife Husbandry.
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Ergo Proxy / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Ergo Proxy / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Most humans live in domed cities to escape the diseases in the wasteland outside.
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Ergo Proxy / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Ergo Proxy / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: Subverted. The commune believes that there is an ongoing war inside Romdeau and that they are a part of that war. It's all just a sham by Hoody to keep the commune together and off Vincent's neck.
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Ergo Proxy / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Ergo Proxy / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: To Re-l.
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Ergo Proxy / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Ergo Proxy / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: When asked why he named the show "Ergo Proxy," those being two words that would never otherwise be next to each other in a sentence, the writer, Dai Sato, said, "It sounds cool."
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Ergo Proxy / int_38718ea8	type	Beautiful All Along
Ergo Proxy / int_38718ea8	comment	Beautiful All Along: Vincent starts the series looking kind of short and dumpy. Once he opens his eyes and lets his hair down, however, he's revealed to be rather attractive. After leaving Romdeau he also seems to grow a couple of inches, though this could just be down to him walking more upright. Fridge Brilliance hits when one realizes that as a Proxy, Vincent is a shapeshifter. In a vocal example, the English dub has Vincent's retrospective narration in a smooth mature voice while Vincent's voice starts out meek and whiny. While part of this is just that he has grown more confident, another factor is that the voice is actually Ergo Proxy, not his human form of Vincent Law. The game show episode is particularly good for showing these changes; Vincent starts in his "I am meek and small" appearance from the beginning, and gradually returns to his later look as his confidence improves.
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Ergo Proxy / int_393a1e86	type	But What About the Astronauts?
Ergo Proxy / int_393a1e86	comment	But What About the Astronauts?: Well... After the End (or just before) the human race went into space to flee from the dying Earth, although they realized that given enough time and some help the world could be healed. They created the Proxies for this specific task, and at the end of the series when the clouds open (signalling the world has mostly been healed) you can see the spaceships returning home.
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Ergo Proxy / int_39d37c25	type	The Ruins I Caused
Ergo Proxy / int_39d37c25	comment	The Ruins I Caused: The last scene shows Vincent standing at the top of the ruins of Romdeau, with his caplet billowing in the wind. It's a very badass ending.
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Ergo Proxy / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Ergo Proxy / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: The first eight episodes at least everyone around Vincent Law dies and in Light Beam his has a montage of thinking he might be the angel of death. He is, in fact, the Agent of Death.
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Ergo Proxy / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
Ergo Proxy / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: The Proxies. At least, Ergo Proxy, at any rate.
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Ergo Proxy / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Ergo Proxy / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The original human race abandoned the Earth, but not before they engineered a race of sapient, godlike posthumans to fix the dying world, with a killswitch built into them which would cause them to die upon the completion of their task. The plan was also to wipe out any surviving clone populations on the surface. Nice plan. No shortage of genocide there at all.
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Ergo Proxy / int_3d920e33	type	Mr. Alt Disney
Ergo Proxy / int_3d920e33	comment	Mr. Alt Disney: Will B. Good
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Ergo Proxy / int_3dfa74a8	type	Corrupted Contingency
Ergo Proxy / int_3dfa74a8	comment	Corrupted Contingency: The Cogito Virus, which was intended by "Creators" to give AutoReivs "soul" and start their new civilization, continuing to clean the planet. Except that contingency didn't account for humans and Proxies still being viable, so once awakened by the virus, the vast majority of AutoReivs go Ax-Crazy, first fighting off humans around them, simply to remove them and thus fulfill default requirements of the original contingency.
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Ergo Proxy / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Ergo Proxy / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Every robot apart from Pino and arguably Kristeva. While there are a number of Cogito-infected AutoReivs that don't go on murderous rampages, they do inevitably go insane.
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Ergo Proxy / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Ergo Proxy / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Re-L Mayer wears a white fur jacket half the time.
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Ergo Proxy / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Ergo Proxy / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The Proxy Project.
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Ergo Proxy / int_462e2f79	type	The Outside World
Ergo Proxy / int_462e2f79	comment	The Outside World: Re-l actually makes it to the Outside World, only to find that it is effectively a dark, very dark, Crapsack World. At least there is still life out there, as opposed to Romdeau propaganda stating otherwise.
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Ergo Proxy / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Ergo Proxy / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Either that or Scenery Gorn, YMMV, but you can't deny it's beautifully done.
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Ergo Proxy / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Ergo Proxy / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the beginning of the game show episode, the questioner asks, "What is the title of this song?" Cue immediate cut to the opening theme...
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Ergo Proxy / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Ergo Proxy / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Vincent and Re-l both have feelings like this. Vincent feels that he'll never become a Fellow Citizen, while Re-l just feels that she's too different from all of the other residents of Romdeau.
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Ergo Proxy / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Ergo Proxy / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Complicates things between Re-l and Vincent. Better keep that pistol handy.
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Ergo Proxy / int_53c37297	type	Flash Step
Ergo Proxy / int_53c37297	comment	Flash Step: Any Proxy fight; often taken to extremes. Completely justified, but still, extreme.
Ergo Proxy / int_53c37297	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_53c37297	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_53c37297
Ergo Proxy / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Ergo Proxy / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Kristeva is seemingly this to Raul, but whether her Undying Loyalty is to the system or Raul personally isn't clear. It's revealed to be a bit of both. She eventually turns on Raul and is given his job when he goes rogue, but they reconcile after his reinstation, and per Raul's dying wishes Kristeva chooses to protect Pino.
Ergo Proxy / int_53f5119f	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_53f5119f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_53f5119f
Ergo Proxy / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Ergo Proxy / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: A tactic frequently employed by battling Proxies. It is never directly stated, but the fact that Ergo appears to use this on Vincent to get him to recognize that he is Ergo Proxy implies that this is a power that all Proxies have, possibly to limit the collateral damage of their battles.
Ergo Proxy / int_5541da8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_5541da8c	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_5541da8c
Ergo Proxy / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
Ergo Proxy / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Raul becomes one of these with some Dark Messiah pretensions.
Ergo Proxy / int_55fa41e2	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_55fa41e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_55fa41e2
Ergo Proxy / int_564c1500	type	Red String of Fate
Ergo Proxy / int_564c1500	comment	Red String of Fate: The fake Re-l has a red ball of wool.
Ergo Proxy / int_564c1500	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_564c1500	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_564c1500
Ergo Proxy / int_586589bc	type	Journey to the Center of the Mind
Ergo Proxy / int_586589bc	comment	Journey to the Center of the Mind: Too many to count.
Ergo Proxy / int_586589bc	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_586589bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_586589bc
Ergo Proxy / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Ergo Proxy / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Robots are Autoreivs, though that's pretty much the only example.
Ergo Proxy / int_5ac34441	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_5ac34441	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_5ac34441
Ergo Proxy / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
Ergo Proxy / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: It's heavily implied that this was one of Daedalus' goals in creating Real.
Ergo Proxy / int_5dd191ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_5dd191ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_5dd191ec
Ergo Proxy / int_5fb6411f	type	We Are as Mayflies
Ergo Proxy / int_5fb6411f	comment	We Are as Mayflies: Completely averted with the immortal Proxies.
Ergo Proxy / int_5fb6411f	featureApplicability	-1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_5fb6411f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_5fb6411f
Ergo Proxy / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Ergo Proxy / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: Ergo Proxy's first-two on-screen transformations involve lots of painful screaming.
Ergo Proxy / int_5ff9310b	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_5ff9310b	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_5ff9310b
Ergo Proxy / int_6108858f	type	Cheeky Mouth
Ergo Proxy / int_6108858f	comment	Cheeky Mouth: Rarely. The generally high-quality animation typically seen in the show can make a viewer feel particularly jarred whenever this trope appears.
Ergo Proxy / int_6108858f	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_6108858f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_6108858f
Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Philosophical, literary and even programming references. A lot of fansubs give a crash-course in philosophy at the end of almost all episodes. Thanks!
Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d
Ergo Proxy / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Ergo Proxy / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Daedalus attempts to clone Monad Proxy, the woman he is infatuated with, but fails and manages to create Re-l instead. In a double-whammy, he falls in love with the failed clone, tries again after she leaves him, and creates a complete Proxy instead. Vincent subconsciously is drawn to Re-l because Re-l is a human clone of the Proxy who was his lover before he asked her to remove all of his memories. It is heavily implied that Re-l looks exactly like Monad's human form.
Ergo Proxy / int_643618e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_643618e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_643618e5
Ergo Proxy / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Ergo Proxy / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Hoody takes the terminally-ill Re-L back to Romdeau for treatment, knowing full well that he will be executed by the security force. A zig-zagged example. Iggy gives his life to save Re-L, but it's more because he doesn't want to lose his possession rather than anything else.
Ergo Proxy / int_6439de78	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_6439de78
Ergo Proxy / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
Ergo Proxy / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Happens twice; the first time with the Gameshow episode, and the second with the Who Framed Roger Rabbit -esque episode. Both utilise a completely different format of telling the story; the first with a gameshow/clipshow, and the second by seeing Toon World from Pino's perspective.
Ergo Proxy / int_670db7d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_670db7d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_670db7d7
Ergo Proxy / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ergo Proxy / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Pretty much everybody's name either has a meaning within the show (like the Proxies being literal proxies of "the creator"), is a reference to a well known story (like Dr "don't fly so high" Daedalus and "I want to be a real girl" Pino (Pinocchio)), has a meaning within the context of the show's philosophical psychobabble (like Re-l (Real) and Monad (which in philosophy is the one God and embodiment of reality), which is all even more symbolic given that Daedalus' Monad is a clone of Re-l) or are a reference to notable philosophers and psychologists (such as how Monad is also a play on Jacques 'Monod', one of the founders of microbiology who believed that the realization that all life is chance would cause a revelation in human thought). The extensive proliferation of meaningful names would be insufferable if they didn't reference how pretentious such a naming scheme was in the dialog. Vincent "Law" is key in exploring the boundaries of the established laws, and fails at his own quest to obey the law to the letter. Cogito means "I think" in Latin, which makes Cogito Virus a fitting name for something that gives consciousness to AutoReivs. Will B. Good Heâ€™s a legitimately good proxy, and Vincent is debatably the â€˜villainâ€™ of the episode. Will simply doesnt want him showing up to wreck his dome and risk the lives of his people.
Ergo Proxy / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_6bda9a30
Ergo Proxy / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Ergo Proxy / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Vincent in Episode 3 when he falls from the top of the dome. He is believed to be dead by most, and is only discovered when Raul comes across footage from a surveillance drone which is destroyed by Vincent. Re-l is supposedly killed at the end of Episode 7, and Daedalus is even shown typing up her Death Certificate. It is only three Episodes later that it is revealed that she is in fact alive, and has escaped Romdeau.
Ergo Proxy / int_6ef6417b	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_6ef6417b	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_6ef6417b
Ergo Proxy / int_711714da	type	Opposites Attract
Ergo Proxy / int_711714da	comment	Opposites Attract: Ergo Proxy and Monad Proxy. He's the Proxy of Death. She's the Proxy of Birth. Ergo is aggressive and brutal. Monad is kind and gentle before the loss of her sanity. They make for a very good couple.
Ergo Proxy / int_711714da	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_711714da	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_711714da
Ergo Proxy / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Ergo Proxy / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Iggy. He's even billed as "Iggy, the gay robot" in the Japanese commercial included on the special features disc.
Ergo Proxy / int_722b3319	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_722b3319	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_722b3319
Ergo Proxy / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Ergo Proxy / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: Done to Re-L to make her doubt her "monster" story.
Ergo Proxy / int_727a65e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_727a65e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_727a65e0
Ergo Proxy / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Ergo Proxy / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Pino and Vincent are the only characters who can reasonably be considered "good". Every other character and faction in the story are some level of grey.
Ergo Proxy / int_7335ffa9	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_7335ffa9	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_7335ffa9
Ergo Proxy / int_74150406	type	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
Ergo Proxy / int_74150406	comment	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: The Proxy-killing bullets. Fairly useless unless it hits the vitals though. Proxy One takes one in the arm, rips the arm off, grows a new one and keeps going.
Ergo Proxy / int_74150406	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_74150406	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_74150406
Ergo Proxy / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Ergo Proxy / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: The Pulse of the Awakening. "Raison d'Ãªtre." "I think, therefore I am" and "I think, therefore you are". It's right in the title. Note Ergo Proxy draws from the latin saying Cogito, ergo sum, which translates to "I think, therefore I am"
Ergo Proxy / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_7464705c
Ergo Proxy / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
Ergo Proxy / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: The settlement outside Romdeau.
Ergo Proxy / int_74e9a5b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_74e9a5b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_74e9a5b1
Ergo Proxy / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Ergo Proxy / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Re-l keeps a diary of their journey, recording daily occurrences with utmost gravity. It is Serious Business.
Ergo Proxy / int_76b4b7dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_76b4b7dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_76b4b7dd
Ergo Proxy / int_76e48a97	type	Icarus Allusion
Ergo Proxy / int_76e48a97	comment	Icarus Allusion: One of Daedalus's creations is given wings and is expected to die from exposure to the sun, not because of wings melting, but because she was a Proxy and sunlight is their Achilles' Heel. What exactly happens however, is very much left to interpretation, see: Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence above, for instance.
Ergo Proxy / int_76e48a97	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_76e48a97	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_76e48a97
Ergo Proxy / int_77dd4ff0	type	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty
Ergo Proxy / int_77dd4ff0	comment	Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: So gritty that you can't even see the picture half of the time.
Ergo Proxy / int_77dd4ff0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_77dd4ff0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_77dd4ff0
Ergo Proxy / int_79e07b47	type	Lecture as Exposition
Ergo Proxy / int_79e07b47	comment	Lecture as Exposition: Technically, Game Show as Exposition.
Ergo Proxy / int_79e07b47	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_79e07b47	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_79e07b47
Ergo Proxy / int_7d7ff0b0	type	Crashing Dreams
Ergo Proxy / int_7d7ff0b0	comment	Crashing Dreams: Vincent, when he's sick and unconscious at the Commune.
Ergo Proxy / int_7d7ff0b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_7d7ff0b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_7d7ff0b0
Ergo Proxy / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Ergo Proxy / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When Iggy gets infected with the Cogito virus he really let Re-l have it. And he loves the phrase "useless bitch" far too much. After that, her character progressively improves. And by "progressively", we mean a really slow defrosting stage.
Ergo Proxy / int_7d89315b	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_7d89315b	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_7d89315b
Ergo Proxy / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Ergo Proxy / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Re-l can be quite unpleasant to Vincent (when she's not threatening to shoot him that is).
Ergo Proxy / int_7ef728b1	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_7ef728b1	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_7ef728b1
Ergo Proxy / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Ergo Proxy / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Episode 16, "Busy Doing Nothing." The episode is taken from the point of view of Re-l as she suffers from Cabin Fever after their ship is stranded for several days from lack of wind. She keeps a diary of her observations as well as her intent to busy herself with almost meaningless tasks to prevent herself from going crazy. As the episode goes on, Re-l begins to loosen up as she sees Vincent and Pino making the most of their situation by just being laid back.
Ergo Proxy / int_80a247a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_80a247a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_80a247a9
Ergo Proxy / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Ergo Proxy / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: "What are the Proxies?"
Ergo Proxy / int_8151ec48	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_8151ec48	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_8151ec48
Ergo Proxy / int_876c28ff	type	Excessive Evil Eyeshadow
Ergo Proxy / int_876c28ff	comment	Excessive Evil Eyeshadow: Re-L isn't evil, but she does apparently keep a large container of that dark blue eyeshadow with her at all times. The only times she isn't shown wearing it are when she's just gotten out of bed.
Ergo Proxy / int_876c28ff	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_876c28ff	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_876c28ff
Ergo Proxy / int_88359b23	type	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
Ergo Proxy / int_88359b23	comment	Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Re-l Mayer and Vincent Law, Vincent is easily more emotional while Re-l is usually expressionless, impatient, or angry.
Ergo Proxy / int_88359b23	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_88359b23	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_88359b23
Ergo Proxy / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Ergo Proxy / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: All over the place, to the extent where it's hard to tell whether some things are actually happening.
Ergo Proxy / int_8cf6aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_8cf6aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_8cf6aa
Ergo Proxy / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Ergo Proxy / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Nightmare Quiz Show / Who Want to Be in Jeopardy, with its Info Dump about the Proxies and their purpose.
Ergo Proxy / int_8e20979	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_8e20979
Ergo Proxy / int_8f98bbf6	type	Robot Religion
Ergo Proxy / int_8f98bbf6	comment	Robot Religion: Apparently, the first thing a Cogito-infected Auto Reiv does is pray.
Ergo Proxy / int_8f98bbf6	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_8f98bbf6	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_8f98bbf6
Ergo Proxy / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Ergo Proxy / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 1.
Ergo Proxy / int_91e894b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_91e894b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_91e894b4
Ergo Proxy / int_947ac4b0	type	White Mask of Doom
Ergo Proxy / int_947ac4b0	comment	White Mask of Doom: Ergo Proxy himself with his half-face, Harlequin-esque... thing.
Ergo Proxy / int_947ac4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_947ac4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_947ac4b0
Ergo Proxy / int_980f0816	type	Adventure Towns
Ergo Proxy / int_980f0816	comment	Adventure Towns: Not always in a good way.
Ergo Proxy / int_980f0816	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_980f0816	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_980f0816
Ergo Proxy / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Ergo Proxy / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The live action pigeons in the intro.
Ergo Proxy / int_985795ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_985795ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_985795ab
Ergo Proxy / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Ergo Proxy / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Vincent Law. Several.
Ergo Proxy / int_9bcd82c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_9bcd82c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_9bcd82c0
Ergo Proxy / int_9c96f771	type	You Call That a Wound?
Ergo Proxy / int_9c96f771	comment	You Call That a Wound?: Upon taking a UV shell to the arm, Proxy One tears off the affected limb and instantly regrows a new one.
Ergo Proxy / int_9c96f771	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_9c96f771	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_9c96f771
Ergo Proxy / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ergo Proxy / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Long before the reveal that Vincent is Ergo Proxy, there are quite a few hints. His necklace is suspiciously in Re-L's house after a Proxy broke into it. When Pino drops to her knees, indicating she's infected with the Cogito Virus, it's after Vincent touches her, not Monad. It's heavily implied proxies can infect autoreivs with Cogito; Mary from the first episode immediately becomes infected after Monad flees from Re-l, and Pino doesn't have any contact with other infected. He survive falling out of Romdeau, which is quite high above the ground. His body can fight off the outside world pathogens without any medical assistance. Meanwhile, Re-L is nearly on her deathbed after a brief exposure. He is the only survivor when the entire crew of the Centzon dies of hunger.
Ergo Proxy / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_9d12bbc1
Ergo Proxy / int_9d6e002e	type	Whole Episode Flashback
Ergo Proxy / int_9d6e002e	comment	Whole Episode Flashback: The episode "Ophelia" starts out with the Vincent, Re-l, and Pino bickering over something that previously happened. The rest of the episode flashes back to what had happened.
Ergo Proxy / int_9d6e002e	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_9d6e002e	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_9d6e002e
Ergo Proxy / int_a0434be6	type	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Ergo Proxy / int_a0434be6	comment	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Re-l, taken to Amy Lee extremes—but with the permanent overcast and all it's not like there's a lot of sunshine to bask in.
Ergo Proxy / int_a0434be6	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_a0434be6	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_a0434be6
Ergo Proxy / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Ergo Proxy / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Vincent to Re-l.
Ergo Proxy / int_a2492aff	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_a2492aff	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_a2492aff
Ergo Proxy / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
Ergo Proxy / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We": Re-l's grandfather, the regent of Romdeau, speaks in this manner through four Auto Reivs.
Ergo Proxy / int_a42f56b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_a42f56b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_a42f56b0
Ergo Proxy / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Ergo Proxy / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Iggy is shown in darkness with red eyes in one scene after he's infected with the Cogito virus, and before he kidnaps Re-l. Subverted with Kristeva, who is also shown with red eyes at times after getting the Cogito virus, and is an Entourage class like Iggy, but doesn't go Yandere and escapes Rondo with Re-L and Pino, assigning herself as Pino's guardian as her final order from Raul. Uninfected Autoreivs tend to have red eyes when being overridden remotely.
Ergo Proxy / int_a939a527	featureApplicability	-0.3
Ergo Proxy / int_a939a527	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_a939a527
Ergo Proxy / int_ab74122a	type	Wasteland Elder
Ergo Proxy / int_ab74122a	comment	Wasteland Elder: Hoody and a bunch of others in the Commune.
Ergo Proxy / int_ab74122a	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_ab74122a	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_ab74122a
Ergo Proxy / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Ergo Proxy / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Timothy's death might count, although Pino is too naÃ¯ve to realise he's dead.
Ergo Proxy / int_abc60c5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_abc60c5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_abc60c5d
Ergo Proxy / int_ac1c4bf7	type	Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
Ergo Proxy / int_ac1c4bf7	comment	Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Averted with the "civilian" robots who die incredibly easily; the military robots are entirely distinct. Also averted in several specific cases with Pino, a companion-type AutoReiv, having no useful features whatsoever, except for being mind-bogglingly adorable. The Proxies themselves are ludicrously potent, possessing honest-to-God superpowers, when their job was to fix the atmosphere and maybe grow and/or manage some pseudo-humans. Hmm... come to think of it, that last part might have justified the superpowers.
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Ergo Proxy / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Ergo Proxy / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode is prefaced by "Meditatio" (That's not a misspelling, but the Latin word for meditation).
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Ergo Proxy / int_ad1ab367	type	The Masochism Tango
Ergo Proxy / int_ad1ab367	comment	The Masochism Tango: Oh, yes. Right down to shotguns being waved in people's faces, and stalking someone across most of a continent because they didn't bring you on their awesome wasteland adventure.
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Ergo Proxy / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Ergo Proxy / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Re-l's condescension knows very few limits.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b0155044	type	Always Night
Ergo Proxy / int_b0155044	comment	Always Night: A thick grey cloud covers the entire Earth throughout each day.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Ergo Proxy / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: When she's in bed, Re-L only wears a pair of white panties and a camisole-style top that isn't even a bra. Her Spy Catsuit also qualifies. Still fairly mild by anime standards, since she at least tends to wear a coat.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b54b5147	type	Trouble from the Past
Ergo Proxy / int_b54b5147	comment	Trouble from the Past: The whole purpose of the Proxies is to clean up Earth's ruined environment for humanity at large to be able to return from space. And then the Proxies are supposed to die.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
Ergo Proxy / int_b5785433	comment	Cold Open: The first two episodes have no musical opening, they simply go straight into the story, possibly to hide the fact that Vincent is the real protagonist, not Re-l.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Ergo Proxy / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: A mall full of people and AutoReivs come across as having the worst reaction times in the second episode. So they'll just gawk at an immigrant running hurriedly by them, firing a gun, and won't even look back at the long-haired freak chasing him in a very noisy Foe-Tossing Charge? Sure, they finally start reacting and getting the hell out eventually, but only after the Proxy's already cut a bloody path through half the main hall right in front of them. More or less justified in that these people have lived perfect and safe lives in the bubble that is Romdeau up to this point. They have no context for what's going on.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Ergo Proxy / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: Proxy One. He knows that the Creators design his species to die once they fulfill their role, which is why he creates Ergo to survive the genocide and possibly reap some vengeance.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Ergo Proxy / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: In the end, Vincent/Ergo Proxy chooses Re-l over Monad, and they both escape from Romdeau unscathed, and Re-l, Pino, and Kristeva are about to pick Vincent up in the Four-Hundred Rabbits. Vincent also implies that he may wish to have words with the returning human "Creators" about the rotten mess they put everyone through.
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Ergo Proxy / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
Ergo Proxy / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Re-l gets very close to this a lot of the time. She is, however, very well acquainted with anger and exasperation.
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Ergo Proxy / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
Ergo Proxy / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: The Four-hundred Rabbits. It hovers!
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Ergo Proxy / int_bb44c8e1	type	Robot Kid
Ergo Proxy / int_bb44c8e1	comment	Robot Kid: Pino.
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Ergo Proxy / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Ergo Proxy / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: A possible interpretation of the fate of Daedalus' Monad.
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Ergo Proxy / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Ergo Proxy / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Too many to count.
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Ergo Proxy / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Ergo Proxy / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: The odd game show episode functions as this, except that the rest of the cast who aren't traveling in the team of three get to see the Clip Show elements as well, and thus learn plot important information.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c00e411c	type	Amnesiac God
Ergo Proxy / int_c00e411c	comment	Amnesiac God: Vincent Law.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c3bdfbb9	type	Let's You and Him Fight
Ergo Proxy / int_c3bdfbb9	comment	Let's You and Him Fight: Two Proxies in the same room? They have to fight. This compulsion is an effect of the Pulse of the Awakening. Before the Pulse began, Proxies were able to live in the some dome, and some even loved each other: Monad and Ergo, and Senex and Kazkis. Once the Pulse started, Senex and Kazkis were forced to retreat to separate towers lest they kill one another, and Ergo did kill Monad. At least one Proxy is shown to be tired of having to kill his kindred every time they meet, and spends an entire episode giving Pino a message via a dream that she shouldn't let Ergo Proxy come to his town because Ergo will kill him and indirectly kill all the people living there if he goes there.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c505d6ec	type	Missing Reflection
Ergo Proxy / int_c505d6ec	comment	Missing Reflection: The doppelganger who appears in one episode does not reflect on the water.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Ergo Proxy / int_c72af5a8	comment	Mini-Mecha: Or maybe Powered Armor; some (?) of the "armed autoreivs" seem to be controlled by a human riding on their backs.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Ergo Proxy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Pino is named after the creation of a certain Japanese Doctor, who was herself named after "Pinnochio." Vincent also bears similarities to the Final Fantasy VII character Vincent Valentine. Aside from having the same name, both wear red capes and have demonic alter-egos, Ergo Proxy and Chaos respectively, who have a passing resemblance to each other. Vincent's red worker attire is also reminiscent from Kaneda and company from another great cyberpunk manga, AKIRA. The Amrita cells which grant the Proxies their immortality (and break down when exposed to UV light) are named after the drink that grants the gods their immortality in Hindu Mythology. Episode 2: Scene where Raul Creed's wife and infant son are killed by Monad Proxy contains a shot for shot recreation of the famous scene from the Soviet silent film Battleship Potemkin, where a baby carriage falls down a flight of steps. Episode 15: 2001: A Space Odyssey While it could be referencing any number of game shows, the chair setup and lighting for the final quiz is clearly based on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and the episode title is presumably a reference to Jeopardy!. Rogi the Cricket needs little explanation. Probably an involuntary example, but the genetic wombs in which the citizens of Romdeau are created are incredibly similar to the Looms of the Doctor Who New Adventures. Said Looms create genetically identical (if coming from the same Loom) individuals (called Cousins due to their identical DNA) and, as a means of keeping the population stable, the individuals created this way are sterile. Moreover, there cannot be more than forty-five people born from the same Loom living at any given time. Re-L Mayer's citizen Number is 124c41, Hugo Gernsback wrote a novel with the title Ralph 124C 41+, see the similarities? One episode, named "Sacred Eye of the Void", takes place inside a character's subconscious, referencing the novel Eye in the Sky. Pino's rabbit costume, and she being the one who lead Vincent through the gates to the outside world looks a lot like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In episode 8, Pino describes Halos' soldiers as the club soldiers, lampshaded by a victorian book illustration of them. In Episode 11, Vincent visits a bookstore called "City Lights".
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Ergo Proxy / int_c949edd4	type	Magic Pants
Ergo Proxy / int_c949edd4	comment	Magic Pants: Vincent's clothes.
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Ergo Proxy / int_c960826	type	Supporting Protagonist
Ergo Proxy / int_c960826	comment	Supporting Protagonist: Depending on your perspective, either Vincent or Re-l could be this.
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Ergo Proxy / int_cc15293d	type	UnexpectedGenreChange
Ergo Proxy / int_cc15293d	comment	Unexpected Genre Change: One episode features the characters on a game show, albeit the questions are relevant to the plot. Later in the series, there is an episode that seems like something out of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is also mind-bogglingly canonical and relevant.
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Ergo Proxy / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Ergo Proxy / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: Both Iggy's red eyes and Vincent turning into a Proxy when the camera zooms out.
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Ergo Proxy / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Ergo Proxy / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Good God, where to start? The majority of the secondary characters don't survive to see the end of the series, including all of the citizens at the commune, the soldiers stationed at Halos, and Re-l's grandfather. As far as the main cast goes Iggy, Raul and Daedalus don't survive to the end either. Re-l also dies at one point, but she got better.
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Ergo Proxy / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Ergo Proxy / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: A central motif within the series. Re-L, Vincent, Raul and Proxy One all attempt to escape their predetermined fate with mixed results.
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Ergo Proxy / int_cf6d4bad	type	Steampunk
Ergo Proxy / int_cf6d4bad	comment	Steampunk: A majority of the series is set around the wind machine the 400 Rabbits.
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Ergo Proxy / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
Ergo Proxy / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Re-L pulls this off when she first joins up with Pino and Vincent on The Thousand Rabbits. She gets better eventually.
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Ergo Proxy / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Ergo Proxy / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The Walt Disney Captain Ersatz, Will B. Good, in Smile World.
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Ergo Proxy / int_d01cffbc	type	Badass Longcoat
Ergo Proxy / int_d01cffbc	comment	Badass Longcoat: Re-l and Ergo Proxy.
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Ergo Proxy / int_d7639dba	type	Achilles' Heel
Ergo Proxy / int_d7639dba	comment	Achilles' Heel: The Proxies and UV light. There's a good explanation for it, as the "Creators" intentionally designed the Proxies that way to prevent rebellion and to destroy them once their tasks of ecological cleanup and human regeneration were complete.
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Ergo Proxy / int_da2b1604	type	Foe-Tossing Charge
Ergo Proxy / int_da2b1604	comment	Foe-Tossing Charge: Monad Proxy's pursuit of Vincent in episode 2 involves it rushing through a crowd, flinging away every bystander in its path.
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Ergo Proxy / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Ergo Proxy / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Re-l Mayer, some of the time.
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Ergo Proxy / int_db7efdaf	type	Adolf Hitlarious
Ergo Proxy / int_db7efdaf	comment	Adolf Hitlarious: Vincent's boss looks like Hitler. He appears in episode 1 and later in episode 21. In the German dub, his voice in episode 1 is normal, regular German, but at some point between the episodes they apparently stopped giving fucks altogether and told the voice actor to go nuts with the stereotypical FÃ¼hrer accent for episode 21.
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Ergo Proxy / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Ergo Proxy / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: In the final episode, the thick clouds that cover the Earth finally dissipate, revealing the sun for the first time in thousands of years. Accompanied by human ships descending to Earth from the sky.
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Ergo Proxy / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Ergo Proxy / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: This show is a good example of what can happen when you plan too much. It's possibly the only case of a Xanatos Gambit accidentally turning into a Gambit Pileup. The human "Creators" planned on coming back on their own after the Proxies finished cleaning up their mess. But if they didn't make it, the plan was to have the Proxies create their own batch of humans to repopulate Earth with. If the regrown humans didn't work out, the Cogito Virus was designed to make the AutoReivs take up the role. The "Creators" didn't really think about what would happen if ALL of those things happened at the same time. And they certainly didn't think a Proxy would still be alive when they came back.
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Ergo Proxy / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
Ergo Proxy / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave : The domes.
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Ergo Proxy / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Ergo Proxy / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Both marketing material and the first four episodes make Re-l out to be the main character. It's actually Vincent; Re-l is simply there along for the ride.
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Ergo Proxy / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Ergo Proxy / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Taken literally in a flashback from Vincent's perspective when he barges into Re-l's room. Somewhat Narmful.
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Ergo Proxy / int_dfe687c9	type	Alone with the Psycho
Ergo Proxy / int_dfe687c9	comment	Alone with the Psycho: Re-L is trapped alone with a Cogito-infected Iggy. Fortunately, there's another psycho nearby and it accidentally frees Re-L while trying to kill her.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e0158a1e	type	Industrial
Ergo Proxy / int_e0158a1e	comment	Industrial: The entire soundtrack barring the opening and ending themes.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Ergo Proxy / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Iggy. Later episodes reveal that Re-l deliberately chose him to sound this way.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
Ergo Proxy / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: The Cogito infected AutoReivs. Mind you, they weren't built like that on purpose; they gain souls when infected with Cogito. They were however designed to respond to the Cogito virus as an alternative, by gaining souls the 'reivs would replace humanity's role in the plan. It wasn't a last resort but due to everything going down the toilet, it activated while the humans were still viable, therefore causing Cogito infectees to be Ax-Crazy. Kristeva drops this one to Pino near the end. Kristeva is a robot that, for some reason, wears lipstick. It's quite possible she wears it under Raul's request, like how Re-L is able to make Iggy sounds gay. Pino is so humanlike that she has been mistaken for a real girl on occasions.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e5394bff	type	Souvenir Land
Ergo Proxy / int_e5394bff	comment	Souvenir Land: Has its own episode. Seeing Re-l's name on a computer in one episode suggests that both spellings could be correct, as it shows "REAL" with "RE-L" superimposed on it.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e59a8584	type	Instant Illness
Ergo Proxy / int_e59a8584	comment	Instant Illness: When Re-l goes to the commune outside of Romdeau to retrieve Vincent, she immediately gets sick from contamination exposure when she takes off her protective suit.
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Ergo Proxy / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Ergo Proxy / int_e7b0229a	comment	Vincent subconsciously is drawn to Re-l because Re-l is a human clone of the Proxy who was his lover before he asked her to remove all of his memories. It is heavily implied that Re-l looks exactly like Monad's human form.
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Ergo Proxy / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
Ergo Proxy / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: To an extent, Vincent is one.
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Ergo Proxy / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Ergo Proxy / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: In the last episode, when Romdeau is collapsing, the platform that Re-l is standing on crumbles beneath her and she is clinging for her life to some debris above the fire below. But then Pino and Kristeva come in the Four-hundreds Rabbit Just in Time before the the rest of the platform falls.
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Ergo Proxy / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Ergo Proxy / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Re-l. She starts to get better after Iggy's death.
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Ergo Proxy / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Ergo Proxy / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: In the episode "Ophelia" Re-l was able to tell the real Vincent from the imposter Vincent because it didn't leave a reflection on the water.
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Ergo Proxy / int_ec0ce986	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_ec0ce986
Ergo Proxy / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Ergo Proxy / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Proxy One is mentioned in episode 15, but doesn't officially appear until the very final episode. Technically, he does appear long before that, but he is not revealed to be a separate character from Ergo until the end.
Ergo Proxy / int_f0089082	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_f0089082	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_f0089082
Ergo Proxy / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Ergo Proxy / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Vincent tackles Re-l to the ground to and declares his undying love for her to get her gun away from her. Re-l responds by kissing Vincent to distract him long enough so she can get her gun back.
Ergo Proxy / int_f10d3363	featureApplicability	1.0
Ergo Proxy / int_f10d3363	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ergo Proxy / int_f25493f4	type	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
Ergo Proxy / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Our introduction to the city of Romdeau: "Romdeau City. This place is undoubtedly our final paradise. Today is just another day here. Nothing changes for the better in this cradle...A boring paradise."
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Ergo Proxy / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Ergo Proxy / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Pino, before she left the city. Also the child clone of Re-l, which is especially creepy in the sense that Daedalus made her to, um, "replace" Re-l.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f3d5d15f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ergo Proxy / int_f43dc597	type	Worth Living For
Ergo Proxy / int_f43dc597	comment	Worth Living For: Deconstructed. With the theme of raison d'etre in the story, characters presented with them are willing to go outstanding lengths in order to achieve it - even if it means losing their sanity over it.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f43dc597	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ergo Proxy / int_f50c4557	type	Viewer-Friendly Interface
Ergo Proxy / int_f50c4557	comment	Viewer-Friendly Interface: Averted; computer terminals are just as cluttered with windows as any of ours would be, although depressingly blue-tinted.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Ergo Proxy / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Will B. Good. Heâ€™s a proxy and he goes out of his way to convince Team Re-L not to come near the dome he represents. This eventually prevents a battle with Vincent, protecting the dome, and his people from collateral damage.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f64a9cf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Ergo Proxy / int_f64a9cf7
Ergo Proxy / int_f64fb0e4	type	Smarmy Host
Ergo Proxy / int_f64fb0e4	comment	Smarmy Host: In the game show episode, Vincent and co. end up trapped by a Proxy who acts as a gameshow host and has this personality to a T, and delivers exposition in the form of quiz questions.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Ergo Proxy / int_f9876f7e	comment	Re-l is supposedly killed at the end of Episode 7, and Daedalus is even shown typing up her Death Certificate. It is only three Episodes later that it is revealed that she is in fact alive, and has escaped Romdeau.
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Ergo Proxy / int_f9876f7e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ergo Proxy / int_faf36236	type	Cyberpunk
Ergo Proxy / int_faf36236	comment	Cyberpunk: Well, it appears to be from the first few episodes, at least. "Post-Cyberpunk" is another option, come the finale, at any rate.
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Ergo Proxy / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Ergo Proxy / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "I'm no longer conducting examinations anymore."
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Ergo Proxy / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Ergo Proxy / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Several of the proxies; notably, the super-cheery MCQ seems keen on ending it all.
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Big Brother Is Employing You / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	But What About the Astronauts? / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Canned Orders over Loudspeaker / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Chatty Hairdresser / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Cheeky Mouth / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Contemplate Our Navels / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Cool Boat / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Did You Just Have Sex? / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Uterine Replicator / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Utopia Justifies the Means / int_b51b368d
Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b51b368d
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Ergo Proxy	hasFeature	You Didn't Ask / int_b51b368d
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