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Armor
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Armor is a 1984 science fiction novel by John Steakley. It's the distant future, and humanity is embroiled in a Bug War with the implacable, incomprehensible Ants. There's an epic Space Opera backdrop, but the story takes place among the little people at ground level, for whom their own high command also seem distant and incomprehensible.The story alternates between two plot strands.The first follows new recruit Felix, who joins up in the hope of finding a meaningful death and an escape from his traumatic past, but discovers himself to be constitutionally incapable of giving up and letting himself get killed, no matter how hopeless the situation appears to be. He not only survives more battles than any soldier in history, but winds up collecting a whole bunch of new traumas as well.The second, set some years later, follows mercenary Jack Crow as he infiltrates a remote space colony to help steal something from the research base there. Shortly before arriving, he encounters a derelict spaceship containing a suit of Powered Armor, and takes the armor with him as a memento; the research base's head historian, Hollis Ware, finds the suit's blackbox/recorder pod and becomes obsessed with finding out about the armor's former owner. | |
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Dropped link to EnergyWeapons: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Melting-Pot Nomenclature | |
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Melting-Pot Nomenclature: Alejandro Jorges Umemoto. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Felix and Allie have been very close since infancy and shared most of the major events in their lives. Allie came to Banshee to try and bring Felix back to his people. | |
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Ironic Name | |
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Ironic Name: Felix ("happy, fortunate") | |
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Older Than They Look | |
| Armor / int_2f36d97 | comment |
Older Than They Look: Jack notes in narration that another character looks about 50, which, if it is non-cosmetic, makes him about 20 years younger than Jack. The implication is that Jack has had some cosmetic changes of his own. | |
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Space Pirates | |
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Space Pirates: Borglyn's crew, as well as Jack during his long and checkered career. | |
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Lap Pillow | |
| Armor / int_348e5217 | comment |
Lap Pillow: During a mental breakdown prompted by Allie reminding him of his past, Felix attempts to commit suicide on Banshee by unsealing his armor, and Allie pins him down to stop him. Felix then eventually falls asleep and they end up like this. | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse | |
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Karen | |
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Blessed with Suck | |
| Armor / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Felix is a Death Seeker whose fighting instincts are too good to allow him to die. | |
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| Armor / int_3d59c9a0 | type |
Powered Armor | |
| Armor / int_3d59c9a0 | comment |
Powered Armor: Standard issue for the soldiers in a few varieties. | |
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King Incognito | |
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King Incognito: Felix is the hereditary ruler of his home planet. As far as he's concerned, he's done with all that, but his people haven't given up on finding him and persuading him to come back. | |
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Loyal Phlebotinum | |
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Loyal Phlebotinum: Because it's custom-designed to fit with incredibly close tolerances, Powered armor kills anyone that tries to put it on except its designated user. Even then, if their user is out-of-shape, it still makes them miserable. | |
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Drowning My Sorrows | |
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Drowning My Sorrows: Lewis's reason for being an alcoholic. | |
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Time Skip | |
| Armor / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: To after the war, and Felix is drowning his sorrows on a backwater feudal world. | |
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| Armor / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| Armor / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Jack Crow, after he discovers what Borglyn is really planning to steal. | |
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Death World | |
| Armor / int_63557923 | comment |
Death World: Banshee, the planet Felix is posted to, would be lethally unpleasant even without the Ants. It's a desert that's so cold that the smallest hole in one's armor would result in rapidly freezing to death. | |
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Insectoid Aliens | |
| Armor / int_63f22889 | comment |
Insectoid Aliens: The Ants Also the Lyndrill, who are a different sort of bug. | |
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Arm Cannon | |
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Arm Cannon: Warrior class Power armor carries an integrated "blazer" rifle in each forearm. They're fired by going limp-wristed at whatever a marine's aiming at. Scout suits have to make do with rifles, however. | |
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Only One Name | |
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Only One Name: "Just Felix." | |
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Shoulder Cannon | |
| Armor / int_67e82be2 | comment |
Shoulder Cannon: Power suits have a grenade launcher on one shoulder. | |
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Everything's Better with Samurai | |
| Armor / int_690f4c53 | comment |
Everything's Better with Samurai: The Masao's culture is clearly based on Feudal Japan. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
| Armor / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The dwarf crewman Jack murders while escaping prison is named "Praun." Jack called him "the Shrimp" due to his short stature. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
| Armor / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The novel states that suits have a shoulder-mounted grenade launcher. Covers invariably do not have it. | |
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Heroic Safe Mode | |
| Armor / int_7b3352a9 | comment |
Heroic Safe Mode: "The Engine", the altered mindset that keeps Felix alive in battle. As Felix puts it, the Engine "is a remarkable creature. It was a wartime creature and a surviving creature. A killing creature. The Engine is not me. It will work when I cannot. It will examine and determine and choose and, at last, act. It will do all this while I cower inside". | |
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Defiled Forever | |
| Armor / int_813afa05 | comment |
Defiled Forever: This is what Karen believes about herself, leading her to seek a Destructive Romance with Jack. She also verges on Too Kinky to Torture. | |
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Bling of War | |
| Armor / int_881b90be | comment |
Bling of War: The Masao wears gold armor. | |
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Space Opera | |
| Armor / int_89baee12 | comment |
Space Opera | |
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Deconstruction | |
| Armor / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Felix's narrative bears a lot of similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, namely soldiers fighting a Bug War on a Death World in high-tech Powered Armor. Armor, however, seems to be what happens if you mash that novel up with the Vietnam War: the reasons and goals of the war are unclear, and it's told from the perspective of a single ground-pounder for whom the enemy appears demoralizingly persistent, ruthless, and unstoppable. Meanwhile, Felix gets a series of disjointed missions from upper brass who seem so out of touch with the conditions on the ground that they're as incomprehensible as the Ants themselves. And just like in Vietnam, it's strongly implied the Ants won. | |
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Bug War | |
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Bug War: The Antwar | |
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During the War | |
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During the War | |
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One-Man Army | |
| Armor / int_9e943076 | comment |
With Felix, the One-Man Army Invincible Hero: War Is Hell and his mind couldn't take it, creating a Split Personality that can kill its way to victory with ease, but cares absolutely nothing about friend nor foe in its quest to survive. Furthermore, the military's Vast Bureaucracy doesn't realize they're sending him back over and over, or even that he's alive (Felix's entire battalion died on its first scramble, he was listed as dead along with the rest, and they never bother to delete the names of the dead from the automated call-up lists), and tosses Felix again and again into deadly scenarios where he becomes more traumatized. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
| Armor / int_a536f3a3 | comment |
Gender-Blender Name: Allie is short for Alejandro. Similarly, Hollis is usually referred to as Holly. | |
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Died in Your Arms Tonight | |
| Armor / int_a6bd0685 | comment |
Died in Your Arms Tonight: Allie dies in Felix's arms after his suit is punctured on Banshee. | |
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Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| Armor / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Lewis, the founder of the space colony, appears to be a harmless drunk. He's actually ex-military, using alcohol to deal with all the trauma Felix had and then some, and once he's decided he has no other option than to come out of retirement and take on the space pirates it's pretty much all over but the shouting. He has another secret as well, but that would be the spoiler of all spoilers. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Armor / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Felix's first step onto the planet Banshee. Into twelve marching rows of ants. Then too many more to recount. So much so that the Antwar is a running stream of Oh, Crap!. | |
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Inspiration Nod | |
| Armor / int_ad66049e | comment |
Inspiration Nod: This novel is a response to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Felix is asked at one point if he joined the army because bugs blew up his home in South America, which is occurred in Heinlein's novel and was the motivation for the main character's father to join the Mobile Infantry. | |
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Noble Fugitive | |
| Armor / int_b00115aa | comment |
Noble Fugitive: see King Incognito | |
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The Ace | |
| Armor / int_b5b4b077 | comment |
Nathan Kent is The Ace almost to the level of Always Someone Better, and even Felix swoons over the guy. The deconstruction is that high command also doesn't believes he can be that good and cannot afford to have him risk his life and die and demoralize the troops, turning him into a Propaganda Hero instead much to Kent's own disgust. | |
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| Armor / int_be8416ea | type |
Shrouded in Myth | |
| Armor / int_be8416ea | comment |
Shrouded in Myth: Jack Crow is a legendary space pirate, although it becomes clear that most of his exploits are greatly exaggerated. | |
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Neck Lift | |
| Armor / int_c2c80ef | comment |
Neck Lift: Borglyn does this to Crow to let him know what will happen if Jack double-crosses him. | |
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Alien Blood | |
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Alien Blood: Ant blood is black. | |
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Irony | |
| Armor / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Early in the story, Jack Crow remarks whether his anger towards an antagonist is just from the fact he always hated fat men. By the last chapter, Jack remarks how he himself has become fat and thoughtful. | |
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Nice Guy | |
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Nice Guy: Nathan Kent is one. | |
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Cannon Fodder | |
| Armor / int_c86a6f38 | comment |
Cannon Fodder: A large proportion of the characters | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: Flipping every switch on an armor's control panel to "on" overloads its safety features, triggering its power core to go Prompt Supercritical. It's used when a nuke is called for, but they can't get one. | |
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Absent-Minded Professor | |
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Absentminded Professor: Hollis Ware | |
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Planet Baron | |
| Armor / int_d1152b75 | comment |
Planet Baron: Several planets, including Masao and Golden, are ruled as absolute monarchies. The Masao of Masao and the Golden Archon, the respective autocrats of those two planets, both appears as characters in the novel. | |
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Armchair Military | |
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Armchair Military: Fleet high command | |
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Hurting Hero | |
| Armor / int_d3b0ad08 | comment |
Hurting Hero: Felix | |
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The Unfettered | |
| Armor / int_d839c530 | comment |
The Unfettered: The Engine, what Felix calls his drive to survive, will not let Felix die. Ever. | |
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Fake Ultimate Hero | |
| Armor / int_da3043c5 | comment |
Played with in the case of Nathan Kent, who is awesomely skilled with a suit of powered armor, not to mention handsome and extremely charismatic — and has never been anywhere near actual combat, except for brief and carefully stage-managed publicity exercises, because he's far too useful as a propaganda icon to let him go and get killed. For a while it seems like he's a Fake Ultimate Hero, but it turns out he's really as good as his image suggests, which just makes it worse that the high command have made such poor use of him. | |
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| Armor / int_dae3999d | type |
Action Bomb | |
| Armor / int_dae3999d | comment |
Action Bomb: Flipping every switch on an armor's control panel to "on" overloads its safety features, triggering its power core to go Prompt Supercritical. It's used when a nuke is called for, but they can't get one. | |
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| Armor / int_e567510d | type |
Determinator | |
| Armor / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: Felix. Deconstructed because even when he actually wanted to break, his mind absolutely refused, creating a Split Personality that takes over when the shell shock becomes too much for him to be effective in a fight instead. | |
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1.0 | |
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Armor / int_e567510d | |
| Armor / int_ec9a5f50 | type |
Deconstructed Character Archetype | |
| Armor / int_ec9a5f50 | comment |
Deconstructed Character Archetype: With Felix, the One-Man Army Invincible Hero: War Is Hell and his mind couldn't take it, creating a Split Personality that can kill its way to victory with ease, but cares absolutely nothing about friend nor foe in its quest to survive. Furthermore, the military's Vast Bureaucracy doesn't realize they're sending him back over and over, or even that he's alive (Felix's entire battalion died on its first scramble, he was listed as dead along with the rest, and they never bother to delete the names of the dead from the automated call-up lists), and tosses Felix again and again into deadly scenarios where he becomes more traumatized. Nathan Kent is The Ace almost to the level of Always Someone Better, and even Felix swoons over the guy. The deconstruction is that high command also doesn't believes he can be that good and cannot afford to have him risk his life and die and demoralize the troops, turning him into a Propaganda Hero instead much to Kent's own disgust. | |
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| Armor / int_fea715c1 | type |
Feudal Future | |
| Armor / int_fea715c1 | comment |
Feudal Future: Some of the planets in the backdrop have absolute monarchies with feudal trappings; it's explicitly mentioned, though, that rather than being a natural social development they were each deliberately founded by somebody with a large ego and too much money. | |
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| Armor / int_fed93e1b | type |
Dark and Troubled Past | |
| Armor / int_fed93e1b | comment |
Dark and Troubled Past: Felix joined the military to get away from his past, specifically the death of his wife. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Armor / int_fed93e1b | |
| Armor / int_fff371b4 | type |
Death Seeker | |
| Armor / int_fff371b4 | comment |
Death Seeker: Felix | |
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