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The Agent G novels are a series by C.T. Phipps. It is a Cyberpunk story set in the near-future as the present day slowly moves to become a technology ravaged dystopia starring a cybernetically enhanced assassin named G.In a world where virtually any death can be bought for the right price, follow the path of a high-tech assassin searching for answers to questions he shouldn't be asking along with his next target. Agent G is a Letter, one of the Society's 26 weapons for hire. Unfortunately for the Society, G is starting to think for himself. Unfortunately for G, he's in the middle of infiltrating a rival organization and is running out of people he can trust.The books follow the titular agent as he witnesses the slow transformation from a Next Sunday A.D. Spy Fiction science fiction series to a 20 Minutes in the Future Cyberpunk Dystopia. It deals with issues of Transhumanism, corporate corruption, and conspiracy theories. It is a book that crosses over in The Tournament of Supervillainy.Books in the series:
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Applied Phlebotinum
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Applied Phlebotinum: Black Technology is super-advanced sci-fi technology like A.I., cybernetics, nanotechnology, and so on which the governments as well as megacorporations of the world keep for their own use.
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Heroic BSoD
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G, in particular, treats his job as a hitman as a profession which should be done with a minimum of collateral damage or hurt to the innocent but absolute fidelity to the parameters he's been given. He's killed innocents before but while this haunts him, he also thinks it was a trade off to get his memories back. The discovery he has no memories to get back and never did causes a Heroic BSoD.
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Evil Versus Evil
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Evil Versus Evil: The hunt for the International Refugee Society's leadership by the U.S. Government by Strike Force-22 turns out to be one of these.
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Brainwashed and Crazy
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Assistants are humans meant to be Morality Pet associates to the Letters. They are taken from enemies of the Society and turned into deeply devoted Happiness in Slavery types who soothe the Letters loneliness so they remain better tools for the organization.
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Genre Shift
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Genre Shift: The series starts with the premise of being a James Bond-esque assassin in a 20 Minutes in the Future Conspiracy Thriller with science fiction elements before the entire world is devastated by a volcanic eruption and is transformed into a Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A Lighter Shade of Black
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A Lighter Shade of Black: The International Refugee Society is ostensibly this to the Carnivale. G, in particular, is a lot more of a Consummate Professional to the Ax-Crazy Carnivale. This includes minimizing collateral damage and only doing the job they're paid to do.
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Love-Interest Traitor
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Love-Interest Traitor: Marissa turns out to be this, having turned against G and Strike Force-22 to save her sister.
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The Rival
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The Rival: The Carnivale serves as this for the Society. It doesn't last past the book.
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Mutual Kill
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Mutual Kill: Claire and Marissa end up killing one another. G could have stopped it but his hesitation ends up leaving him over the corpses of both.
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Artificial rain with disinfectant is now induced over the cities on a daily basis.
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Neon City
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Neon City: This is the fate of Los Angeles after the Eruption and Long Winter. The city is rebuilt as an arcology with holograms, neon lights, and a Las Vegas meets Tokyo feel. It's such a dramatic change that the locals name it New Los Angeles after a few years.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: It's exactly like our world except the governments are all secretly controlled by Megacorps who keep advanced technology suppressed so they can maintain their monopoly on power. They employ a variety of cybernetically enhanced super-soldiers and A.I. to keep all dissent in line. It's also stated that if they didn't do this then the entire world would go to hell and the death toll would be in the millions.
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Benevolent A.I.
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Benevolent A.I.: Delphi is a kind, compassionate, and progressive entity that just so happens to be enslaved by the Societ. G helps free her and she becomes a driving force for releasing Black Technology into the world.
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Bland-Name Product
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Bland-Name Product: Combined with Captain Ersatz for numerous real-life companies and organizations. There's Halifax International (Haliburton), Universiti (Academi/Blackwater), and Karma Corp (a still-functioning Enron).
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Fantastic Noir
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Fantastic Noir: Is the story of a professional assassin and cyborg who works for Murder, Inc.. He finds himself A Lighter Shade of Black than his employers but can't turn to the authorities or anyone else to do better. Femme Fatale characters aplenty.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: The Smiling Killer is one of these as well as being a Badass Abnormal Hollywood Cyborg killer.
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Psycho for Hire
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Psycho for Hire: The Smiling Killer is one of these. So is seemingly most of the Carnivale.
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Tomato in the Mirror
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Tomato in the Mirror: Claire discovers she's a bioroid reprogrammed by Marissa to seduce G and serve as her agent.
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After the End
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After the End: This installment takes place a couple of decades after a volcano destroyed Wyoming and covered the United States in a year long Winter. It has rebuilt itself into a cyberpunk dystopia using AI-created technology and millions of bots.
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Do Androids Dream?
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Do Androids Dream?: G and the rest of the Letters are all androids as compared to the Shells who are machines with human brains. They are notably indistinguishable from humans other than their special abilities. G has a full Tomato in the Mirror moment when he discovers he's not human.
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Government Agency of Fiction
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Government Agency of Fiction: The State of Emergency Council, the Federation Bureau of Entertainment, Technology, and Weapons
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La Résistance
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La Résistance: H.O.P.E has turned into a terrorist organization that resists the power of the megacorporations. The Turing Society is a Renegade Splinter Faction that is less ruthless.
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The Man Behind the Man
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The Man Behind the Man: The Big 20 serves as the cause of all the world's problems as the MegaCorp collection dictate all of the world's problems. It becomes the Big 200 by Assassin as the entire world is now under their dominion.
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Techno Dystopia
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Techno Dystopia: "Black Technology" is used to monitor the populace and empower cyborg enforcers to enforce the will of powerful corporations while keeping the public unaware. Eventually, the Black Technology all gets out and the setting transitions to being a full-blown Cyberpunk dystopia.
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Dystopia
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Dystopia: The United States now consists of a bunch of heavily populated arcologies that are ruled by corporations.
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Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy
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Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy: Subverted by the reveal of who is behind the International Refugee Society. It's just a collection of corporations using it to make an extremely large amount of money and keep Black Technology all to themselves.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: A curious example of it as combat in the books is extremely brutal and fast paced with people tending to die quickly or being finished off soon after being injured. The exception of this is the Hollywood Cyborg characters who pretty much are superheroes compared to everyone else and thus terrifying.
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Make It Look Like an Accident
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Make It Look Like an Accident: A specialty of the Letters, who prefer not to make waves. Agent G is implied to be particularly good at this as he prefers to have as few people caught up in the assassination as possible in order to minimize casualties.
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Wretched Hive
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Wretched Hive: Los Angeles and most of the other cities in America have become this way. This is a Downplayed Trope in the city proper that is run by the corporations and played straight in the Refugee Zones that are little more than enormous slums behind gigantic walls of concrete.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Marissa and Claire end up dead while the conspiracy goes ahead with the completely useless nano-therapy. G prevents it from being used as a substitute for real medicine, though, and only as a additional charge. G reunites with his daughter and makes billions that he continues to use to help the poor.
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MacGuffin
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Macguffin: The nano-therapy treatment is meant to cure all diseases and potentially pave the way to create a Transhuman future for humanity. Whoever controls it will make trillions and potentially dominate the future of human destiny. It doesn't work and can never work because nanotech can't be made small enough or intricate enough to be effective. The current plan is just to sell it as working and cover-up the resulting deaths.
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Fluffy the Terrible
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Fluffy the Terrible: The International Refugee Society, until you note it's initials are the same as the IRS. This is Justified by the fact the charity they run is actually just a cover for their Murder, Inc. business.
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Cold-Blooded Torture
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Cold-Blooded Torture: G ends up subjected to the Electric Torture variant of this by Lucio Biondi after he's revealed as a double-agent. Notable for giving a short speech on the historical use of it in real life.
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Agent Provocateur
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Agent Provocateur: G is dispatched to go undercover with the Carnivale and eliminate its leaders. In the process, he proceeds to undermine the organization from within and sick its agents on each other, both to make his job easier as well as destroy it irrevocably. He succeeds.
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One Nation Under Copyright
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One Nation Under Copyright: This is a Downplayed Trope with the aftermath of the Eruption. The world's largest corporations are granted nation-state status so they can help rebuild the global economy with its facilities treated like embassies and its workers having dual citizenship. In practice, it's just to increase their power as well as protect them from liability.
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President Evil
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President Evil: G certainly seems to think so by the end. But see Ambiguously Evil.
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Spy Fiction
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Spy Fiction: Dirty Martini with a bit of Absinthe. Agent G is a glamorous assassin who is charming, debonair, and utterly ruthless. He also has the help of AI, cybernetics, and futuristic gadgets. However, the world is an immensely cynical one with his employers being corrupt governments as well as corporate overlords. Betrayal is very common place and everyone is lying to everyone else.
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Rape as Backstory
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Rape as Backstory: Lucita Biondi is revealed to have experienced this as part of her "training" at the hands of her father.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: The protagonists and the majority of the Society are friendly, cheerful, and part of an international criminal conspiracy that sells murder for hire. G, himself, is a combination of this and Hitman with a Heart. He is pleasant and mild-mannered with a bit of a dorky side when off-mission. However, he has murdered innocents before and is utterly ruthless in pursuing his goal of getting his memories back. Lucita Biondi becomes a Sixth Ranger to the group despite remaining the same ruthless assassin and antihero she was at the start.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Daniel Gordon serves the Invisible Hand as this. He's also a Psycho for Hire. E serves as this for Persephone.
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Pragmatic Villainy
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Pragmatic Villainy: The Society survives through this. While they keep their agents on incredibly short leashes, they also provide them with extremely luxurious lives as well as Morality Pet Assistants to keep them psychologically healthy. They also indulge Agent G's aversion to killing the innocent as long as it doesn't interfere with his targets. This doesn't help when he discovers they've actually been planning to just Mind Wipe him at the end of his ten years to start again.
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: This book has a fifteen year time skip that follows the release of Black Technology into the world and the transformation of society from the present to a Gibosnian Cyberpunk dystopia.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: Agent G completes his by choosing to side with Delphi and upload the Black Technology of the world onto the internet, weakening the Invisible Hand and US government while also providing the public with massive amounts of new technology.
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I Have Your Wife
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I Have Your Wife: How Daniel Gordon manages to compel Marissa's obedience. He killed one of her sisters and kidnapped the other with an explicit threat to her neices as well.
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All Asians Know Martial Arts
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All Asians Know Martial Arts: Played with regarding E as he does know them and has a very samurai-like code but is fully aware he's not Asian but a clone raised in a lab.
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The Reveal
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The Reveal: G isn't a human being but an Artificial Human and a Tomato in the Mirror who never had a human life and is destined to die early.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: The Invisible Hand is actually a reference to the Invisible Hand of the Free Market.
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 Agent G / int_6c553873
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Private Military Contractors
 Agent G / int_6c553873
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Private Military Contractors: The International Refugee Society is, technically, this but is closer to Murder, Inc.. Mercenaries also play a large role in the world as many companies and organizations employ them as security. This includes Bland-Name Product versions of Academi and G8.
 Agent G / int_6c553873
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Agent G / int_6c553873
 Agent G / int_6cd2fb82
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Full-Conversion Cyborg
 Agent G / int_6cd2fb82
comment
Full-Conversion Cyborg: These are called "Shells" (as in Ghost in the). Notably, Shells look identical to human beings on the outside and are seemingly able to live normal lives in-between missions. They are also Implacable Man killing machines in the service of the government or Private Military Contractors.
 Agent G / int_6cd2fb82
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Agent G / int_6cd2fb82
 Agent G / int_6fdd991c
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Overt Operative
 Agent G / int_6fdd991c
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Overt Operative: The Carnivale thinks nothing of attacking Boston Airport in order to get their target.
 Agent G / int_6fdd991c
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Agent G / int_6fdd991c
 Agent G / int_72217e12
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Murder, Inc.
 Agent G / int_72217e12
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Murder, Inc.: The Society is the world's most efficient assassination unit and it's run like a corporation with its chief clients being governments as well as megacorporations.
 Agent G / int_72217e12
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Agent G / int_72217e12
 Agent G / int_75b53c77
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Arcology
 Agent G / int_75b53c77
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Arcology: After the Long Winter and Eruption, Black Technology is used to rebuild the world's largest cities to house the massive populations of displaced peoples. Rather than become ecological paradises and self-sufficient trading hubs, they rapidly become hellish prison with 'Refugee Zones.'
 Agent G / int_75b53c77
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Agent G / int_75b53c77
 Agent G / int_7dca00c0
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Duel of Seduction
 Agent G / int_7dca00c0
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Duel of Seduction: Lucita and G both try and seduce each other to the other side.
 Agent G / int_7dca00c0
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Agent G / int_7dca00c0
 Agent G / int_7febc23b
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Establishing Character Moment
 Agent G / int_7febc23b
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Establishing Character Moment: Agent G causally talks to his trapped target about why he committed the crimes he did. Agent G reveals he's already poisoned the man and made sure he's planned out his death in meticulous detail so it's impossible for him to escape. After he finds out, he finishes the job and invokes Make It Look Like an Accident.
 Agent G / int_7febc23b
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Agent G / int_7febc23b
 Agent G / int_80b57bec
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Super-Soldier
 Agent G / int_80b57bec
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Super-Soldier: Letters were designed to be this. They are cybernetically enhanced assassins with ridiculous amounts of skills as well as the ability to literally have their faces changed. They're also Ridiculously Human Robots and Artificial Human hybrids from birth with electronic brains.
 Agent G / int_80b57bec
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Agent G / int_80b57bec
 Agent G / int_853b7948
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Ambiguously Evil
 Agent G / int_853b7948
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Ambiguously Evil: President Douglas opposes the Invisible Hand and Society but wants to build her own cyborg murder squad. In the end, G decides she's A Lighter Shade of Black at best and burns her too.
 Agent G / int_853b7948
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Agent G / int_853b7948
 Agent G / int_868afe72
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Covert Group with Mundane Front
 Agent G / int_868afe72
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Covert Group with Mundane Front: Infiltrator starts out with the protagonist working for the International Refugee Society, which is a nod to Spectre in Thunderball. The organization is actually a covert front for a Murder, Inc. group that provides the ultra-wealthy with high-tech Hollywood Cyborg-performed assassinations.
 Agent G / int_868afe72
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Agent G / int_868afe72
 Agent G / int_86e12b9a
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City Noir
 Agent G / int_86e12b9a
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City Noir: Los Angeles has become one of these with the Long Winter. It is also a City of Adventure and Mega City. It is specifically now known as the Los Angeles Arcology.
 Agent G / int_86e12b9a
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Agent G / int_86e12b9a
 Agent G / int_8767b1f3
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Black-and-Gray Morality
 Agent G / int_8767b1f3
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Black-and-Gray Morality: The Society and Carnivale are both black. The NSA is gray.
 Agent G / int_8767b1f3
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Agent G / int_8767b1f3
 Agent G / int_895ec17
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Only in It for the Money
 Agent G / int_895ec17
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Only in It for the Money: A's motivations regarding nano-therapy are simply to sell it for billions.
 Agent G / int_895ec17
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Agent G / int_895ec17
 Agent G / int_898ff050
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Villain Protagonist
 Agent G / int_898ff050
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Villain Protagonist: G starts the story as a Affably Evil assassin who works for Murder, Inc. and takes any contract as long as the money is good. Gradually, he evolves into a somewhat more Noble Demon sort of character but never quite shakes off his Antihero qualities.
 Agent G / int_898ff050
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Agent G / int_898ff050
 Agent G / int_8a4bec9e
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MindWipe
 Agent G / int_8a4bec9e
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Mind Wipe: This happens to all Letters when they join the Society to make sure they don't have any reasons to object to killing people for money as well as to sever all ties to the outside world. There's actually no mind-wipe since the Letters are Artificial Human androids.
 Agent G / int_8a4bec9e
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Agent G / int_8a4bec9e
 Agent G / int_8e81e57f
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Voice with an Internet Connection
 Agent G / int_8e81e57f
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Voice with an Internet Connection: Assistants have this role in the Society. They are connected to their Letters via cybernetics and with Delphi (a Benevolent A.I.) via their computers to provide instant support in the field. G's Assistant, Marissa is also an undercover NSA agent.
 Agent G / int_8e81e57f
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Agent G / int_8e81e57f
 Agent G / int_8eb0370f
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Corporate Conspiracy
 Agent G / int_8eb0370f
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Corporate Conspiracy: A group called the Big Twenty use their vast influence to manipulate global politics via Hollywood Cyborg assassins operated by a Murder, Inc. named the International Refugee Society. The Big Twenty are the world's largest corporations and eventually become the Big Two Hundred when the setting moves from 20 Minutes into the Future to a Cyberpunk dystopia.
 Agent G / int_8eb0370f
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Agent G / int_8eb0370f
 Agent G / int_9075ac17
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Just a Machine
 Agent G / int_9075ac17
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Just a Machine: This was the reasoning behind the Letter project. Regular soldiers have rights, needs, and free will while the Letters were designed to be dispoable Super-Soldier assassins who could be used like drones. It was stated this was Loophole Abuse even then since they qualified as Ridiculously Human Robots. Also, subverted in the Letters are treated quite well in order to avoid a Robot Uprising.
 Agent G / int_9075ac17
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Agent G / int_9075ac17
 Agent G / int_90b66e22
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Femme Fatale
 Agent G / int_90b66e22
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Femme Fatale: Marissa was always one of these but drops the pretense. It gets her killed.
 Agent G / int_90b66e22
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Agent G / int_90b66e22
 Agent G / int_91e894b4
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Apocalypse How
 Agent G / int_91e894b4
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Apocalypse How: The eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano kills 50 million people in the United States and plunges the world into a years-long winter.
 Agent G / int_91e894b4
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Agent G / int_91e894b4
 Agent G / int_927b2f11
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The Bus Came Back
 Agent G / int_927b2f11
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The Bus Came Back: No one expected Lucita to make a return so soon.
 Agent G / int_927b2f11
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Agent G / int_927b2f11
 Agent G / int_928ca2cc
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
 Agent G / int_928ca2cc
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: What Agent G suspects happens to Letters who fulfill their 10 year contract despite some proof to the contrary. The truth is they never outlive their usefulness.
 Agent G / int_928ca2cc
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Agent G / int_928ca2cc
 Agent G / int_95b7c400
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Faux Affably Evil
 Agent G / int_95b7c400
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Faux Affably Evil: Lucio Biondi is a pleasant, grandfatherly figure who welcomes G into the family. He's also had his transgender daughter raped, murdered his brother, and once blew up a schoolbus of children.
 Agent G / int_95b7c400
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Agent G / int_95b7c400
 Agent G / int_970c790a
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Big Bad
 Agent G / int_970c790a
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Big Bad: The assassin A is the primary antagonist despite being more like The Heavy than the prime mover and shaker. The real Big Bad and emotional core of the climax is Marissa.
 Agent G / int_970c790a
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Agent G / int_970c790a
 Agent G / int_9823c800
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PrivateMilitaryContractor
 Agent G / int_9823c800
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Private Military Contractor: Atlas Security is a global army that handles much of the world's security. This includes policing actions, prison maintainance, and security against internal threats. It has grown so powerful that is now an N.G.O. Superpower.
 Agent G / int_9823c800
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Agent G / int_9823c800
 Agent G / int_98ba5dfe
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Unproblematic Prostitution
 Agent G / int_98ba5dfe
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Unproblematic Prostitution: Zig-Zagged. Many people have taken to becoming contracted live-in prostitutes to the super-rich.
 Agent G / int_98ba5dfe
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Agent G / int_98ba5dfe
 Agent G / int_998360a
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Take Up My Sword
 Agent G / int_998360a
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Take Up My Sword: Persephone has arranged this for G as while she would have preferred to survive, she is happy to let him use the Society's resources post-mortem for something good.
 Agent G / int_998360a
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Agent G / int_998360a
 Agent G / int_9b06e314
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Greater-Scope Villain
 Agent G / int_9b06e314
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Greater-Scope Villain: The Invisible Hand that is secretly controlling a huge chunk of the United States' economy.
 Agent G / int_9b06e314
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Agent G / int_9b06e314
 Agent G / int_9b54d536
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Evil Counterpart
 Agent G / int_9b54d536
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Evil Counterpart: A is another one of these to G, being a brutal Letter who possesses vast skill in both assassination as well as psi-ops.
 Agent G / int_9b54d536
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Agent G / int_9b54d536
 Agent G / int_9edbda07
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Elite Mooks
 Agent G / int_9edbda07
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Elite Mooks: The Reapers are a group of cybernetically enhanced mercenaries that exist as a kill squad for the Invisible Hand.
 Agent G / int_9edbda07
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Agent G / int_9edbda07
 Agent G / int_9f619ad6
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Corporate Warfare
 Agent G / int_9f619ad6
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Corporate Warfare: The books include an organization called the International Refugee Society. It provides the world's richest corporations assassination, espionage, and sabotage services. The Society uses cybernetic assassins to make sure its patrons remain the richest corporations in the world as well as the governments that support them. This is arguably unnecessary because they already have access to technology far in advance of what is available to the public.
 Agent G / int_9f619ad6
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Agent G / int_9f619ad6
 Agent G / int_a814671b
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N.G.O. Superpower
 Agent G / int_a814671b
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N.G.O. Superpower: The International Refugee Society is powerful enough the future President of Italy is terrified of offending them and is implied to be owned by the people owned by it. The IRS is owned by a trio of Megacorps.
 Agent G / int_a814671b
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Agent G / int_a814671b
 Agent G / int_aa3695e9
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BadassAbnormal
 Agent G / int_aa3695e9
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Badass Abnormal: All of the Letters are cyborgs and so are the Shells. They have enhanced strength, speed, durability, and intelligence plus ability to interact with technology via Hollywood Hacking. Generally, this is treated as making them act like superheroes as they slaughter any regular human that they encounter but run into trouble with each other.
 Agent G / int_aa3695e9
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Agent G / int_aa3695e9
 Agent G / int_aa8dcc21
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MegaCorp
 Agent G / int_aa8dcc21
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MegaCorp: Karma Corp is treated like this. In fact, it needs the help of numerous other companies to pull off the illusion of being one. Ironically, the International Refugee Society is more of one than Karma Corp as they have massive amounts of control over much larger companies thanks to their use of political ties, violence, Black Technology, and stolen money.
 Agent G / int_aa8dcc21
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Agent G / int_aa8dcc21
 Agent G / int_aa9c5801
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MegaCorp
 Agent G / int_aa9c5801
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Megacorp: Karma Corp is an example of this and it's implied to be just one of several. Karma Corp despite being loosely based on Enron is shown to be the world's largest manufacturer of technology of all stripes as well as having ties to arms manufacturers plus Private Military Contractors. It also controls the United States government from behind the scenes with its allies. It is the chief contractor of the IRS.
 Agent G / int_aa9c5801
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Agent G / int_aa9c5801
 Agent G / int_ac4ac8e5
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
 Agent G / int_ac4ac8e5
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Job Title for the subtitles: Infiltrator, Saboteur, Assassin.
 Agent G / int_ac4ac8e5
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Agent G / int_ac4ac8e5
 Agent G / int_b8237752
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HollywoodCyborg
 Agent G / int_b8237752
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Hollywood Cyborg: These are very common as soldiers in the setting, even if the public doesn't know about them. They come in a variety of types with "implants" giving you a computerized brain that can link to the internet or special abilities, "Shells" being whole body replacements containing your brain, and The Letters who are full on Ridiculously Human Robots or Artificial Humans. Cybernetics are a source of superpowers in this setting and they are exploited to the max by the characters. One example is a character who actually survives a bomb exploding in his face then a grenade shoved in his pants.
 Agent G / int_b8237752
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Agent G / int_b8237752
 Agent G / int_bd31fda5
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ArtificialHumans
 Agent G / int_bd31fda5
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Artificial Humans: The Letters turn out to be this. They were created by Karma Corp to be disposable assets for the United States military. It straddles the line with Ridiculously Human Robots as they're cybernetic as well as organic organisms that had their bodies grown before they had their new parts installed, including their cyberbrains.
 Agent G / int_bd31fda5
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Agent G / int_bd31fda5
 Agent G / int_bdddc73e
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Yakuza
 Agent G / int_bdddc73e
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Yakuza: Persephone takes refuge with this group in order to hide from the government.
 Agent G / int_bdddc73e
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Agent G / int_bdddc73e
 Agent G / int_beb9a361
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Anti-Hero
 Agent G / int_beb9a361
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Anti-Hero: Agent G is this, being a Hitman with a Heart in a Pre-Cyberpunk Crapsack World. He is a Professional Killer who doesn't have any real objections to his job and enjoys the Man of Wealth and Taste benefits. While he feels bad about killing innocents, he shows no problem doing it to the even slightly corrupt.
 Agent G / int_beb9a361
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 Agent G / int_bf8ae149
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Layered Metropolis
 Agent G / int_bf8ae149
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Layered Metropolis: The arcologies are divided between their super-structures, factory districts, and Refugee Zones.
 Agent G / int_bf8ae149
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Agent G / int_bf8ae149
 Agent G / int_c0689dff
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HoneyPot
 Agent G / int_c0689dff
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Honey Pot: Marissa created Claire to serve as one of these to G. She ended up proving a valuable operative in her own right.
 Agent G / int_c0689dff
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 Agent G / int_c2ab0eaf
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Double Agent
 Agent G / int_c2ab0eaf
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Double Agent: G is sent to infiltrate the Carnivale after killing a traitorous agent and assuming his identity. Marissa Sanchez turns out to be one of these too.
 Agent G / int_c2ab0eaf
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 Agent G / int_c2b28f75
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A.K.A.-47
 Agent G / int_c2b28f75
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A.K.A.-47: Rather than use existing weapons, C.T. Phipps uses completely fictitious ones which he describes the effects of. Justified by the fact they're almost all science fiction weapons made by fictional companies.
 Agent G / int_c2b28f75
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Agent G / int_c2b28f75
 Agent G / int_c301532f
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten
 Agent G / int_c301532f
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Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: G forgives Marissa for her betrayal but ends their relationship.
 Agent G / int_c301532f
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 Agent G / int_c32ff031
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Xanatos Gambit
 Agent G / int_c32ff031
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Xanatos Gambit: Nano-therapy doesn't work and the companies are simply going to pretend it works and charge billions of credits from the public while claiming it does. Agent G ends up blackmailing the corporates to making it a placebo therapy used in conjunction with real medicine as the only victory he can.
 Agent G / int_c32ff031
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Agent G / int_c32ff031
 Agent G / int_c420a553
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We Can Rule Together
 Agent G / int_c420a553
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We Can Rule Together: The titular agent receives a job offer from The Mole to work for the U.S. Government against his employers, the chance to keep all of the money he's made from assassinations, as well as a pardon for his crimes. G takes it.
 Agent G / int_c420a553
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Agent G / int_c420a553
 Agent G / int_c601fc37
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Professional Killer
 Agent G / int_c601fc37
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Professional Killer: All of the Letters are this. They often fight against other contract killers.
 Agent G / int_c601fc37
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Agent G / int_c601fc37
 Agent G / int_c67af1b0
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Big Bad Wannabe
 Agent G / int_c67af1b0
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Big Bad Wannabe: Zheng Wei is a Corrupt Corporate Executive with an Evil Plan that involves putting out a nonfunctional nanotech treatment that will defraud millions. He is considered a nobody by everyone involved.
 Agent G / int_c67af1b0
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Agent G / int_c67af1b0
 Agent G / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out
 Agent G / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out: The Long Winter to Game of Thrones. Memnonic Drives are named in-universe for Johnny Mnemonic. Dina Meyer is apparently having a career resurrection. Claire is named for Resident Evil's Claire Redfield. C.T. Phipps references several of his books as in-universe movies. The New Dragon Inn Grand Hotel is a reference to the New Dragon Inn. G makes a comparison between the Invisible Hand and Rollo Tomasi from L.A. Confidential. Basically saying that The Illuminati-esque organization does not literally exist but serves as a representation of forces beyond his control.
 Agent G / int_c75df49a
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Agent G / int_c75df49a
 Agent G / int_c83a589c
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Luke, I Am Your Father
 Agent G / int_c83a589c
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Marcus Gordon, the inventor of the Letters, to G. Subverted by the revelation Marcus considers him just another product he's created. His actual son, who G was based on, died long ago. G was his mother's Replacement Goldfish.
 Agent G / int_c83a589c
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Corporate Samurai
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Corporate Samurai: The Letters in Agent G are Corporate Samurai in the sense they are assassins, spies, and thieves for the International Refugee Society. Somewhat off-kilter in the fact they are the service which the International Refugee Society provides to the rest of the world. They're mercenaries-for-hire kept on a leash with their past lives' memories kept from them as a restraint on their obedience.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: G and the other surviving Letters have become this, creating Atlas Security as the world's largest provider of Private Military Contractor forces.
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Killed Off for Real
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Killed Off for Real: Persephone dies in the middle of the book, though she leaves behind a A.I. will that gives G all of the IRS' hidden resources and bank accounts.
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Hacker Cave
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Hacker Cave: The H.O.P.E. Refugee Zone hackers have one of these under a club.
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Elites Are More Glamorous
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Elites Are More Glamorous: America has a cyborg Special Forces unit called Strike Force-22.
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Carnival of Killers
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Carnival of Killers: The Carnivale is a literal example of this. Albeit, the name just reflects they tend to be more colorful than other assasins, giving themselves badass names and being less careful about collateral damage than other groups.
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Brain/Computer Interface
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Brain/Computer Interface: This is called a IRD implants in the setting. They allow human beings to store their memories, interact with computers directly, and properly manage their cybernetics. It's subverted when G discovers that he doesn't have one since his entire brain is a computer due to being a bioroid rather than a "real" cyberized human.
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Sixth Ranger
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Lucita Biondi becomes a Sixth Ranger to the group despite remaining the same ruthless assassin and antihero she was at the start.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Claire is a assassin and soldier that works for H.O.P.E. She's a new version of bioroid programmed with all the training that the Letters went through.
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Thanatos Gambit
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Thanatos Gambit: Persephone has one of these which she uses to get her revenge against the people who killed her. She gives all of her resources and the Society's remaining holdings to G along with a massive amount of blackmail. Essentially, giving him the resources to take them down or at least denying them to her enemy.
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies
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Colliding Criminal Conspiracies: The Carnival versus the Society versus the NSA.
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Karmic Jackpot
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Karmic Jackpot: Agent G gets billions of dollars in resources and property from Persephone's A.I. after he buries the Society and weakens the corrupt US government.
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Morality Pet
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Morality Pet: Weaponized by the Society with Assistants. In addition to wiping their memories, Letters are given Brainwashed and Crazy associates who are designed to make them feel like they have friends as well as loved ones who they can support. Romances are very common despote the fact neither the Letters or Assistants can 100% consent.
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The Mole
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The Mole: G serves as this in the Carnivale. Marissa, it turns out, is this for the Society.
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Clone Angst
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Clone Angst: G kills his "father" when he discovers that he's just a clone made from the man's actual son and sold as a product to the Society.
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VideoWill
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Video Will: Persephone effectively leaves one of these by giving G all of the Society's former assets via her A.I.
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Sniper Rifle
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Sniper Rifle: G makes multiple uses of one throughout the series and is implied to be one of the best shots in the world. S is stated to be actually better than him but we never see this tested. G, however, avoids windows and prefers to keep his back to walls.
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Consummate Professional
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Consummate Professional: The Letters are all this by reputation. With few exceptions, they seem to be it. G, in particular, treats his job as a hitman as a profession which should be done with a minimum of collateral damage or hurt to the innocent but absolute fidelity to the parameters he's been given. He's killed innocents before but while this haunts him, he also thinks it was a trade off to get his memories back. The discovery he has no memories to get back and never did causes a Heroic BSoD.
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
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Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: How the majority of the world views H.O.P.E and its opposition to the Big 200.
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Magic Plastic Surgery
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Magic Plastic Surgery: Apparently, basic surgery now costs 250 credits and takes about an hour at the mall.
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Enemy Civil War
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Enemy Civil War: It's G's goal to initiate one of these in the Carnivale. He succeeds but Lucio Biondi quickly puts it down. The action still weakens the organization enough the Italian government and G, himself, finish it off.
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The Remnant
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The Remnant: The International Refugee Society has been hunted to oblivion by the United States with its leaders in hiding.
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Cyberpunk
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Cyberpunk: While the previous books were cyberpunk themed, this book drops the pretense and makes it every cyberpunk trope combined.
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Real After All
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Real After All: The Invisible Hand, basically The Illuminati, have been teased several times but turn out to actually exist.
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Brain Uploading
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Brain Uploading: Apparently, the genesis of the Letters program. Subverted when the people looking for immortality were disappointed, though. They wanted to survive forever and only were able to make very good copies.
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The Corrupter
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The Corrupter: G's strategy for dealing with the Carnivale is to play on Lucita's resentments and ambitions.
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