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Ender's Game

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Ender's Game	comment	Ender's Game is the book that put Orson Scott Card on the map, and it remains his most famous work ever, with its sequel Speaker for the Dead a close second. It was first published in 1985.In the not-too-distant future, mankind has barely survived two invasions by an insectoid alien race, formally known as Formics, but called Buggers by most of the viewpoint characters. As the threat of a third invasion looms nigh, the world's most talented children are taken to an orbiting Battle School. There they study physics, mathematics, history, psychology, politics, and play a lot of games. And the biggest, best game of all is the Battle Room, where they organize into "armies" and play 41-on-41 zero-G laser tag as the adults look on, searching for future commanders against the incoming menace.Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, six-year-old and third child of his family, a stigma due to the population restriction laws. He is the only one of his family to be accepted to the school, and so, leaving behind his parents, his loving sister Valentine, and his sadistic brother Peter, he leaves for Battle School... and things won't be at all easy.The novel acted as a springboard for multiple series and other associated works, dealing with different time periods in the same canon. The first, consisting of A War of Gifts: An Ender Story, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind follow Ender in the far future and focus on worldbuilding and a hefty dose of ethical pondering. By Card's admission, Ender's Game was expanded from its short story form just to set up Speaker for the Dead. The second begins with Ender's Shadow, a retelling of Ender's Game from the viewpoint of Bean, one of his friends. The Shadow series then follows Bean in the Twenty More Minutes Into The Future Earth, consisting of Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. The Shadow series—whose novels might accurately be described as Thrillers—is a more direct continuation of the original novel and its themes of war and politics (with Hegemon being described by its author as "a giant game of Risk"), and many more characters from the original book appear in it. Shadows in Flight loses the politics and is more contemporary with the Ender Sequels, though still a Bean story. It is concluded by The Last Shadow, a chronologically final novel that caps off both sub-series. The Formic Wars series, co-written with Aaron Johnston, is a prequel series showing Earth's earlier encounters with the Formics. A trilogy of novels, Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, and Earth Awakens, has been published, with a second sequel forthcoming. The Fleet School series, yet another P.O.V. Sequel, taking place after the end of the original novel, but focused on space rather than on Earth. The protagonist is Dabeet Ochoa, an incredibly smart (and incredibly arrogant) kid, who wishes to go to Fleet School (formerly known as Battle School), but attendance is reserved only to the so-called "Children of the Fleet" (i.e. kids of IF officers and enlisted). He catches the interest of Hyrum Graff (the Minister of Colonization).In other works, there is also a short story collection called First Meetings. Marvel Comics has published Comic Book Adaptations of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Speaker for the Dead, and Ender in Exile, as well as several one shots. Additionally, they launched the Formic Wars series, which function as prequels to the books.The Film of the Book, Ender's Game, came out in 2013 after languishing in Development Hell for around two decades. Card served as a co-producer, and it was written and directed by Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), starring Asa Butterfield as Ender, Hailee Steinfeld as Petra, Abigail Breslin as Valentine, Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff and Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham.Compare Animorphs or Neon Genesis Evangelion, works which similarly deconstruct Kid Hero-focused science-fiction.
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Ender's Game / int_13f5b1b	comment	Ender's entire modus operandi is to thoroughly master the rules of any game, then reinterpret or just plain screw them in new and imaginative ways. His teachers, counting on him to become the greatest living weapon in the history of humanity, are only too happy to let him do so, and have deliberately designed the school environment to favor such thinking. An example of this is when Ender, in a simulation battle against overwhelming odds, ignores the implied rule that all enemies must first be defeated and simply enters the enemy's gate, resulting in an Instant-Win Condition. The teachers constantly force him to come up with new ways to use this trope by closing off the loopholes he explores as soon as he exposes and exploits them. In a strange twist, some of the other army leaders, angry at Ender's perfect win streak, claim that the teachers are actually helping him, despite it being blatantly obvious that it's the other way around, seemingly unable to comprehend that he's simply that good.
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Ender's Game / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Ender's Game / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Ender is attacked by Bonzo and many others while he's in the shower, so Ender is naturally naked, but Bonzo takes off his clothes after Ender goads him, telling him how cowardly it is to attack a kid who's naked in the shower and smaller than you, with lots of reinforcements.
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Ender's Game / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Ender's Game / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: Two of them: The later battles against the buggers were real, not simulations. The buggers weren't actually trying to kill humanity, they just couldn't communicate with humans and fundamentally did not understand them.
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Ender's Game / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Ender's Game / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Ender was made to be the ultimate commander, with enough empathy and charisma to lead an army and understand the enemy. He eventually serves his purpose and is casually treated as an afterthought for the people who used him. This eventually means he becomes a Death Seeker, violates space law in the sequels by planting the Hive Queen on a planet with humans and Penguinos and encourages a colony to rebel because he knows that authority figures are manipulative liars who don't understand complex situations with aliens.
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Ender's Game / int_1a1ea492	type	Lord British Postulate
Ender's Game / int_1a1ea492	comment	Lord British Postulate: An In-Universe case of this where, faced with a video game puzzle that appears to be Unwinnable by Design—both cups the giant offers Ender's Player Character are poisoned—Ender attacks and kills the giant instead after getting frustrated with Save Scumming and throws the whole game Off the Rails. This being 1985, Card can be somewhat forgiven for thinking that ruthlessly slaughtering NPCs would be an innovative solution rather than just ordinary Video Game Cruelty Potential: though the first three Ultima games, which named the trope, predate this book, he may not have heard of the fandom trend of PCs finding implausible ways to kill Lord British.
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Ender's Game / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
Ender's Game / int_1b60dcba	comment	In the first chapter, after Ender gets in trouble for a violent fight with a bully named Stilson and his friends, the investigating IF officers ask why he kept beating Stilson after knocking him to the ground. He answers "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." This foreshadows the ending, where the IF outright destroys the Buggers' home planet with Ender's help—thus ensuring that humanity wins all the next fights with the Buggers before they've even started.
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Ender's Game / int_1bd4c0bf	type	Unwinnable by Design
Ender's Game / int_1bd4c0bf	comment	Unwinnable by Design: The fantasy game mentioned under Take a Third Option. When Ender reaches the Good Ending, his instructors go into shock, because the game doesn't have one. Ender's last battles as commander at Battle School are meant to be this as Battle School staff test his ability to find a third option.
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Ender's Game / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Ender's Game / int_1c445e86	comment	The buggers weren't actually trying to kill humanity, they just couldn't communicate with humans and fundamentally did not understand them.
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Ender's Game / int_1c785368	type	Badass Israeli
Ender's Game / int_1c785368	comment	Badass Israeli: Invoked and subverted. There is a legend at Battle School that Jewish generals cannot lose, and Rat Army, led by the Jewish Rose "de Nose", is second in the ranking when Ender joins; on the other hand, Rose "de Nose" is portrayed as not really being that great, and it is pointed out that despite an all-Jewish triumvirate (American Jewish Hegemon, Israeli Jewish Strategos, and Russian Jewish Polemarch), it was the half-Maori, entirely non-Jewish Mazer Rackham who drove off the Second Invasion.
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Ender's Game / int_1cb6d160	type	Weaponized Stench
Ender's Game / int_1cb6d160	comment	Weaponized Stench: Discussed before Dragon Army's battle with Phoenix Army. When Ender's troops ask why he didn't notify them sooner that they were having a battle that day, he replies, "I thought you needed the shower. Yesterday Rabbit Army claimed we only won because the stink knocked them out."
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Ender's Game / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Ender's Game / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The Buggers are implied to have an empire of dozens of planets with a queen on each. They're a Keystone Army where if a queen dies then all the Buggers she controls become brain dead. They then go and put all their queens on the one planet.
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Ender's Game / int_1e4fe3c3	type	MultiNationalTeam
Ender's Game / int_1e4fe3c3	comment	Multi National Team: The International Fleet and the children at Battle School come from a wide array of nationalities.
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Ender's Game / int_21185913	type	Bully Brutality
Ender's Game / int_21185913	comment	Bully Brutality: Applied by Peter Wiggin to his brother Andrew (ex. beating him up to a pulp after forcing him to "play Formic"). Inverted by Ender, who applies overwhelming brutality to his bullies to force them to stop.
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Ender's Game / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Ender's Game / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: When Ender is first assigned to Salamander, he doesn't know anyone there other than its commander is a boy named Bonzo Madrid, and Ender initially thinks Petra is him when she's the first one to talk to Ender. Initially this could be an understandable mistake, since everyone involved is a prepubescent and there isn't much physical difference between boys and girls at that age—except one obvious onenote For those who do not get it, boys have penises while girls have vaginas Later on in that scene it's revealed she was standing there stark naked.
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Ender's Game / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In his first battle, the other army is able to pass through the gate even though Ender isn't frozen. In his last battle, he wins by sending a boy through the gate, even though the other army hasn't been defeated yet. At Command School, Ender uses "Dr. Device" in one of the first battles, and the very last.
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Ender's Game / int_2313c3f0	type	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse
Ender's Game / int_2313c3f0	comment	Exclusive Clique Clubhouse: The kids at the Battle School are officially divided into "armies" and given specific barracks across the Battle School - the better to prevent fraternization and ensure competition between armies. Though none of them are given any special amenities, each army has its own particular character, and the the barracks are organized accordingly: Salamander Army is run like a dictatorship under Bonzo Madrid and the barracks only relaxes once he's out of the room, while Rat Army adopts a slobby, jocular demeanor to match Commander Rose "The Nose's" unprofessional attitude.
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Ender's Game / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Ender's Game / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The novel greatly expands the original short story. It gives Ender a family and elaborates on his life before he was sent to Battle School, and it provides details about the enemy aliens and the background of the war. In the short story, Ender has no memories of life before Battle School, and the aliens are never named or described.
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Ender's Game / int_240fee1f	type	Ultimate Final Exam
Ender's Game / int_240fee1f	comment	Ultimate Final Exam: The final test at Command School features Ender and his team being given a nearly-impossible simulation pitted against an enemy fleet and its home planet... with an extra-dangerous twist not revealed until the test is complete: it wasn't a simulation at all, but a real combat scenario - more specifically the final battle against the Buggers. Ender wins, but only by sacrificing the lives of everyone in the fleet and committing genocide, a fact he is not pleased with when the awful truth is finally revealed.
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Ender's Game / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Ender's Game / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Ender's approach to bullies, with the reasoning that if he only fights hard enough to win he'll probably have to fight again at some point; his strategy is to keep going until he has completely deterred not just his assailant, but also anyone else who may be inclined to attack him.
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Ender's Game / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Ender's Game / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: the Little Doctor, a.k.a. MD Device, which operates on the principle of crossing two lasers to create a chain reaction of molecular disintegration.
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Ender's Game / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Ender's Game / int_2673425b	comment	A Kid Hero is called upon to save the world from aliens? Sounds like fun stuff... until you see the realistic treatment of Child Soldiers, with all of the brutal indoctrination and psychological trauma that accompanies fighting a war as a child. The Alien Invasion plot becomes a lot less "fun" when you realize the moral compromises that Earth's governments might make in the face of the very real threat of human extinction.
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Ender's Game / int_269c2c35	type	TechMarchesOn
Ender's Game / int_269c2c35	comment	Tech Marches On: Locke and Demosthenes are awfully influential for a couple of bloggers, aren't they?
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Ender's Game / int_2717a55e	type	Bizarre Alien Psychology
Ender's Game / int_2717a55e	comment	Mazer Rackham speculates that this is why he could get a clean shot at the queen of the second Formic invasion: "Maybe in their world, queens are never killed, only captured, only checkmated." If so, from their perspective he did the equivalent of pulling a gun in a playground shoving match. He's wrong, as it turns out: the queen intentionally left herself open to atone for killing other sapient beings. Only Formic queens are sapient—their drones are telepathically controlled—and they initially didn't realize all humans are.
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Ender's Game / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Ender's Game / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: Let us count the ways... A Kid Hero is called upon to save the world from aliens? Sounds like fun stuff... until you see the realistic treatment of Child Soldiers, with all of the brutal indoctrination and psychological trauma that accompanies fighting a war as a child. The Alien Invasion plot becomes a lot less "fun" when you realize the moral compromises that Earth's governments might make in the face of the very real threat of human extinction. A hyper-intelligent child successfully manages to save the human race? Sounds cool... until you see the realistic treatment of adolescent psychology, and of gifted children in particular. Ender's intelligence makes him Earth's best hope, but it also kills any hope of his developing actual friendships, and puts him in the uncomfortable position of having to learn to bend people to his will. The governments of Earth unite to build a space fleet and fight off an alien menace? Sounds like an uplifting idea... until you see the realistic treatment of global politics, written with the Cold War fresh on America's mind. Though the human race does triumph in the end, Peter and Valentine correctly guess that many rival nations have spent the decades arming for war with each other, planning for the day when they no longer have a common enemy to unite against. In the end, the International Fleet collapses into civil war the instant that the Buggers are defeated, and the political situation on Earth almost explodes... at least before an unexpected peacemaker shows up to fix everything.
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Ender's Game / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Ender's Game / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Peter gains control of the world by anonymously distributing political articles on the Internet. Nowadays we call that "blogging," which has become so common that the idea of a blogger gaining that much power seems unlikely. Parodied by xkcd here.
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Ender's Game / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Ender's Game / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently Bonzo's was the second death ever at Battle School; the first was a suicide, but we never get any further details on the incident.
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Ender's Game / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Ender's Game / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Mazer Rackham hit one ship (the queen's) and his war was over. The fact that he was the only human on Earth to figure out how to do this is why he was kept around to be Ender's teacher.
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Ender's Game / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
Ender's Game / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: Formic drones are remotely controlled by the queens. Kill the queen, and the army is decapitated.
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Ender's Game / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Ender's Game / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Possible candidates for Battle School are implanted with a device that monitors everything they see and hear. Ender's final test is to remove his device, letting him think that he's no longer under consideration, then seeing how he reacts.
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Ender's Game / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Ender is a third child in a society where that's generally illegal, although he is a sanctioned exception to the rule. It is stated that despite his authorized status, it's a cause of tension in his family because both of his parents came from non-compliant families.
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Ender's Game / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Ender's Game / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: One of Ender's defining features is his emotional control - he gets angry, but he doesn't show it unless he needs to for dramatic effect. The fight with Bonzo highlights this:
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Ender's Game / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Ender's Game / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: After being goaded by Ender over ganging up on him in the shower, Bonzo Madrid decides to fight Ender one-on-one. It doesn't go well.
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Ender's Game / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Ender's Game / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Deconstructed. Humanity considers the Formics inherently monstrous, causing them to take progressively horrific and morally-ambiguous steps to defeat them in the war, but by the end it turns out that the Formics' aggression was based on a misunderstanding and lack of communication. After Ender wipes out their entire species (an action that in most stories focused on Always Chaotic Evil species is perfectly justified), he discovers that lasting peace between humans and Formics may have been (and might still be) possible.
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Ender's Game / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: There is NOTHING Ender won't do to win a fight and ensure it never happens again. He learned this lesson when he was five. Mazer Rackham reinforces the same lesson. War is about doing whatever you can to win. There are no rules except what you can do to your enemy and what you can stop him from doing to you — especially since, in this particular case, the buggers cannot communicate with humanity and have shown no interest in establishing peaceful relations. (Both Rackham and Ender express, at different points, a wish that this was the sort of war where the Geneva Conventions could possibly apply, but also acknowledge that it isn't.)
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Ender's Game / int_4aac92bd	comment	Sock Puppet: "Locke" and "Demosthenes" are online personas created by Peter and Valentine to serve as foils for each other and influence international politics.
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Ender's Game / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Invoked. The military commanders are searching for child prodigies specifically due to their lack of awareness of the larger picture, so they won't be subject to fatal hesitation.
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Ender's Game / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Near the end of the book.
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Ender's Game / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The Formics are normally referred to as the "Buggers" in this book. This slang gradually disappeared later in the series and is not used in The Film of the Book, since in British English it's a slang term for anal sex.
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Ender's Game / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Ender's Game / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When Ender's attacked, he wins the fight and all subsequent ones all at once by beating his opponent so badly that not only will they never be able to hurt him again, but none of the witnesses will dare to pick a fight with him either.
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Ender's Game / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Ender's Game / int_545d100b	comment	A hyper-intelligent child successfully manages to save the human race? Sounds cool... until you see the realistic treatment of adolescent psychology, and of gifted children in particular. Ender's intelligence makes him Earth's best hope, but it also kills any hope of his developing actual friendships, and puts him in the uncomfortable position of having to learn to bend people to his will.
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Ender's Game / int_599c74ea	type	Zero-Approval Gambit
Ender's Game / int_599c74ea	comment	Zero-Approval Gambit: Ender does this in the end. When the Hive Queen says she can repopulate her species, Ender points out that if he did that, humans would wipe her and her children out again. Instead, he writes her story, publishes it, and then spends several years traveling until the tide turns and there's a safe world for her. It works; the sequel books show that Ender in history went down as a monster, surprising the people who meet him in person.
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Ender's Game / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Ender's Game / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Petra is the only girl ever mentioned at the Battle School; when Ender is first recruited, it is mentioned that girls rarely pass the tests to get in. However, Ender's sister Valentine proves to be an important character.
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Ender's Game / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Ender's Game / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Battle School has its own lexicon of informal slang. Rookie recruits are called "launchies"note Referring to the fact that they've just recently launched from Earth, and are still grouped with the students who launched with them, a squad within an army is called a "toon" (presumably short for "platoon"), and "Neh?" "Eh." — borrowed from Japanese, where it essentially means "Right?" "Yeah." — is a frequent interjection in casual conversation.
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Ender's Game / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Ender's Game / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Although the very aggressive children such as Peter are prevented from attending, emotional abuse and bullying are common at Battle School, escalating to physical abuse in some cases.
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Ender's Game / int_634fba64	type	Prohibited Hero Saves the Day
Ender's Game / int_634fba64	comment	Prohibited Hero Saves the Day: Ender is ordered to remain on the sidelines without firing his weapon and in disobeying is able to turn what would have been a close defeat into a draw.
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Ender's Game / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Ender's Game / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Subverted. The purpose of the Drill Sergeant Nasty is to give the recruits a common adversary: they all hate him, and it draws them together into a team. He picks on someone so the rest will sympathize with him. Graff, on the other hand, tells the rest of the recruits that Ender is the greatest soldier ever, and none of them have a prayer of measuring up to him. This turns them against Ender and isolates him, forcing him to develop the leadership and command abilities they need from him.
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Ender's Game / int_6393ad11	type	Nuclear Nullifier
Ender's Game / int_6393ad11	comment	Nuclear Nullifier: There's an offhand mention of shields that "make it so nobody bothers with nuclear weapons anymore".
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Ender's Game / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Ender's Game / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The enemy alien race is insectoid in both physical appearance and in characteristics such as a Hive Mind of drones and workers controlled by a queen. This leads to both their official name, Formics (from the Latin word for ant), as well as the pejorative "Buggers"
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Ender's Game / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
Ender's Game / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: When Ender first meets Rose de Nose, he's lying naked on his bed with the desk over his groin with an oversized set of genitals projecting onto it that waggle whenever he moves.
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Ender's Game / int_6a5aa9d0	type	Author Usurpation
Ender's Game / int_6a5aa9d0	comment	Author Usurpation: Ender's Game is the only one of Orson's books that became mainstream, and it overshadows his other books.
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Ender's Game / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ender's Game / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: One of the Battle School leaders points out that "Ender," a mispronunciation of the name Andrew, can be taken to mean "Finisher," as they hope that he will finish the war between humans and the Formics.
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Ender's Game / int_6c8ce91f	type	Insult to Rocks
Ender's Game / int_6c8ce91f	comment	Insult to Rocks: Shen and Ender, on Bernard:
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Ender's Game / int_718c561	type	Performance Anxiety
Ender's Game / int_718c561	comment	Performance Anxiety: In command school, Ender pushes more and more responsibility on Petra due to her competence. She eventually cracks under the pressure, and they almost lose a winnable battle before Ender notices. From that time on, Petra is only able to be entrusted with the most basic tasks since she can no longer perform under pressure.
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Ender's Game / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Ender's Game / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: At one point Petra tries to pull Ender aside in the hallway to talk to him, which would have separated him from his army and made him vulnerable to attack by students who are jealous of his unbroken winning streak. Ender sees the trap and forces her to walk with him. When he confronts her about it and asks if she knew what she was doing when she tried to stop him, she has no idea what the others had planned and is clearly shocked at Ender's implication that she was complicit.
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Ender's Game / int_735b3587	type	Naked First Impression
Ender's Game / int_735b3587	comment	Naked First Impression: The children at Battle School have a pretty casual attitude toward nudity. When Ender first arrives in Salamander Army, Petra, the only girl in the army, is lounging around with the boys buck naked without a shred of shame.
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Ender's Game / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Ender's Game / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Averted. Since there is no FTL travel, there is no way for a supply unit to catch up with a fleet outside its home system in a time period less than years. So they don't even try - every fleet sent to Formic space is essentially sent on a suicide mission. They're given enough supplies to make a one-way trip and fight a short campaign, after which they will either have taken the system and be able to colonize it, or they will be dead.
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Ender's Game / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Ender's Game / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The enemy's gate is down." "The game is over."
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Ender's Game / int_749ce315	type	Ring World Planet
Ender's Game / int_749ce315	comment	Ringworld Planet: Battle School is built as a ring, though it later turns out the Fleet acquired Artificial Gravity from the Formics.note That has since been retconned by prequels and spin-offs. Humans were messing around with artificial gravity even before the First Invasion, and the Formics never had it to begin with.
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Ender's Game / int_75fe56dc	type	Truth and Lies
Ender's Game / int_75fe56dc	comment	Truth and Lies: Peter's campaign to manipulate the public via Sock Puppet bloggers.
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Ender's Game / int_762f71cb	type	Unwinnable Training Simulation
Ender's Game / int_762f71cb	comment	Unwinnable Training Simulation: Ender's last tests at Command School seem to be approaching this. The very last test seems Unwinnable by Design, even for Ender.
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Ender's Game / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Ender's Game / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Bonzo make a point to Ender that his name is pronounced with two long o's (Bone-so), not Bon-zo.
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Ender's Game / int_76f18656	type	Giant Corpse World
Ender's Game / int_76f18656	comment	Giant Corpse World: After Ender kills the giant in the video game, dwarves build a village in its skeleton.
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Ender's Game / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
Ender's Game / int_77e45bb5	comment	Ender claims that his combat prowess and compassion both come from how well he understands and loves his enemies. However, from what we actually see of his thought processes, he doesn't seem to understand anything about them beyond "they're hurting me because they're mean and jealous, and they might become too scared to hurt me if I seriously injure them." As for loving them, the only evidence of this we ever get is that he feels sad after killing or hurting them, and even then he seems to be more pitying himself in a Why Did You Make Me Hit You? way rather than actually regretting the action.
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Ender's Game / int_7976e429	type	2-D Space
Ender's Game / int_7976e429	comment	2-D Space: Averted as Ender uses his understanding of 3-dimensional space to his early advantage at Battle School.
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Ender's Game / int_7ab81664	type	Kick Them While They Are Down
Ender's Game / int_7ab81664	comment	Kick Them While They Are Down: Ender continues beating Stilson even after Stilson is on the ground doubled over in pain, so the other bullies will think Ender's too crazy/dirty-fighting to mess with again. He doesn't know it at the time, partly because he's shipped off to Battle School right afterwards, but he kills Stilson when he does it.
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Ender's Game / int_7c36c716	type	Angst Coma
Ender's Game / int_7c36c716	comment	Angst Coma: Ender succumbs to exhaustion for a few days when he discovers that he unwittingly committed mass genocide/xenocide against the Buggers while believing he was only undergoing training for it. Justified in a number of ways: physical and mental exhaustion, the fact that he was trying to convince the military that he was ethically unfit for command, and possibly psychic backlash from being connected to the Buggers themselves at the moment he killed them all.
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Ender's Game / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Ender's Game / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The "Little Doctor" device is capable of destroying a planet, and is used for that purpose near the end of the book (though it disintegrates a target instead of blowing it up).
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Ender's Game / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Ender's Game / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: Once Ender's given his own army, the school starts screwing him over as hard as they can. His team are perpetually put through harder battles with more and more unfair rules to try to push his strategic abilities to the limit and teach him to win against vastly superior foes. Examples include: a battle where the enemy army is allowed to get in position ahead of time; a battle where disabled enemies revive after a short time; two battles in the same day when generally armies have at least a week in between to recuperate; and a battle against two enemy armies. At Command School, the virtual battles Ender has to lead get more and more blatantly unfair, with his army's ships being lower and lower quality while the enemy armies are bigger and stronger. Eventually he is pushed to the point where to make a statement, he wins a massive battle in the most self destructive way he could. Then it turns out all the battles that he had been commanding were real, and the final battle he attempted to win incorrectly was actually the Formic's home planet, meaning he had won the war.
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Ender's Game / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Ender's Game / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: Almost everyone in the Battle School, and the best of the best move on to Tactical and/or Command training to become super-generals. Ender, being the best of the best of the best, skips a few grades here and there, graduating to effectively become the supreme commander of all Earth's (space-bound) military forces by the time he's starting to enter puberty.
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Ender's Game / int_81ba8543	type	Hive Drone
Ender's Game / int_81ba8543	comment	Hive Drone: The Formics will stop moving and die when their queen is killed.
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Ender's Game / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Ender's Game / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: This book and its spin-off, Ender's Shadow, both take place at a military school for children- Ender is 7 at the beginning of his story and Bean is 4. Although they grow up a bit during the story, they are still young teens at the end of the book- but it is clearly written for adults, featuring adult themes and a reading level far too difficult for most elementary schoolers to read at all.
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Ender's Game / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Ender's Game / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Some people complain that the kids at the battle school are too smart, but Orson Scott Card has received letters from gifted children telling him that they found the children in the battle school to be realistic (Ender is over the top, but he's supposed to be, and he's also got some genetic engineering factoring into his intelligence).
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Ender's Game / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Ender's Game / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Dragon Army seems like this, as none of the members really stood out from the crowd in their previous armies. Ender's leadership and empathy draws them together into the finest unit the school has ever seen.
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Ender's Game / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
Ender's Game / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Valentine is Yin, Peter is Yang, and Ender is Yin-Yang.
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Ender's Game / int_8c732f20	type	Time Dilation
Ender's Game / int_8c732f20	comment	Time Dilation: Responsible for the Chekhov M.I.A.. Also becomes a significant factor in later books, explaining how Ender and Valentine manage to remain alive millenia after the events of the first book.
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Ender's Game / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Ender's Game / int_8e0430ab	comment	Ender later takes a third option as the instructors are testing his limits by putting him into increasingly unfair battles. Facing impossible odds, Ender elects to circumvent the battle entirely and perform the winning ritual, which had previously only been completed when the entire enemy army was disabled. This results in a Non-Standard Game Over for the opposing armies, as well as the instructors closing the loophole that allowed it.
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Ender's Game / int_8e971de4	type	Tournament Arc
Ender's Game / int_8e971de4	comment	Tournament Arc: Battle School is run this way.
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Ender's Game / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Ender's Game / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Subverted. Ender still feels guilty over hurting his enemies in self-defense, no matter how terrible they are.
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Ender's Game / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Ender's Game / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: Subverted. After two consecutive Formic invasions resulting in the tens of millions of human deaths, the humans conclude that they must launch an all-out offensive against the Formics or be destroyed. However, the second invasion caused the Formics to realize that each individual human they killed was sentient (rather than an extension of a hive mind). They are horrified by that fact and have no intention of continuing hostilities, but also no way of communicating that to the humans.
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Ender's Game / int_931ef4f1	type	Complacent Gaming Syndrome
Ender's Game / int_931ef4f1	comment	Complacent Gaming Syndrome: In-Universe example. The other commanders at Battle School rely on tried-and-true strategies that have been in place for years. Ender wins by exploiting the flaws in them.
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Ender's Game / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Ender's Game / int_950bbfa7	comment	The fantasy game mentioned under Take a Third Option. When Ender reaches the Good Ending, his instructors go into shock, because the game doesn't have one.
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Ender's Game / int_958ffe8c	type	The Perils of Being the Best
Ender's Game / int_958ffe8c	comment	The Perils of Being the Best: It is because Ender is the best strategist at Battle School that he is targeted by enemies for attack, isolated by being singled out by the trainers, and ultimately tricked into committing xenocide against an entire alien race. Had Ender been an average strategist, none of these fates would have befallen him.
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Ender's Game / int_95bac90d	type	Subspace Ansible
Ender's Game / int_95bac90d	comment	Subspace Ansible: Namechecking Ursula K. Le Guin, even.
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Ender's Game / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Ender's Game / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: Mazer Rackham is named after British illustrator Arthur Rackham and former Brigham Young University president Karl G. Maeser, while Hyrum Graff is named after Mormon Church leader Hyrum Smith (the brother of Joseph Smith). Both names reference Orson Scott Card's Mormon faith.
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Ender's Game / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Ender's Game / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: Earth's forces are fighting against insect-appearing aliens.
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Ender's Game / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Ender's Game / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Ender struggles with the realization of how similar he is to his brother Peter in their capability to destroy.
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Ender's Game / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Ender's Game / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: For once, the aliens are guilty of this. By the time they realized their mistake, they knew it was too late. While they resist their destruction, they harbor no malice toward humanity.
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Ender's Game / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ender's Game / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: After a battle, students checking the stats are surprised to learn that there was still an active soldier on the losing army, as Ender had been ordered to sit in a corner and not move or fire his weapon and thus had escaped the notice of the victorious army. He later wins a battle by performing the victory ritual despite the fact that the two opposing armies are mostly intact, as everyone else had assumed that incapacitating all enemy soldiers was a prerequisite to victory. When Ender goes off his three-month leave on Earth before Command School at Val's persuasion, he thinks that she convinced him to leave Earth for another four, forty, maybe four thousand years. At the end of the book, Ender actually does leave Earth behind; thanks to the relativistic effects of space travel, his absence lasts centuries from Earth's point of view. In the first chapter, after Ender gets in trouble for a violent fight with a bully named Stilson and his friends, the investigating IF officers ask why he kept beating Stilson after knocking him to the ground. He answers "Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone." This foreshadows the ending, where the IF outright destroys the Buggers' home planet with Ender's help—thus ensuring that humanity wins all the next fights with the Buggers before they've even started.
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Ender's Game / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Ender's Game / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The Buggers feel tremendous regret upon realizing the fundamental mistake in how they had attempted first contact (that killing any human means killing a sentient person as opposed to a drone). Ender feels the same after realizing that all of his "practice battles" in command school were real, and he was sending real soldiers to kill or be killed.
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Ender's Game / int_a3df8e61	type	And You Thought It Was a Game
Ender's Game / int_a3df8e61	comment	And You Thought It Was a Game: While Ender and his toon leaders believe they are playing simulations, they are actually in command of a full invasion force.
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Ender's Game / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Ender's Game / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: the original version of the book, published in 1985, had a political situation that failed to include the end of the Cold War on account of it having not yet happened. The Shadow sequels, and an Updated Re-release in 1991, fixed these issues.
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Ender's Game / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Ender's Game / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Justified as being part of Ender's Training from Hell. Alternatively, averted, as the adults are disturbingly good at what they do: making Ender's life suck.
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Ender's Game / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Ender's Game / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Ender, one of the most compassionate people ever born, is a ruthless killer. Peter, a sociopath, gave the humans peace and unity. This is not lost on Ender. The scary part is that it makes sense, as Ender's empathy would allow him to understand and anticipate his enemies' plan and reactions and counteract them with brutal efficiency, whereas Peter's sociopathy would allow him to make rational judgments (once he gets over his homicidal tendencies) and ignore petty emotions that spark 90% of the human conflicts (such as nationalism, pride, or ambition).
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Ender's Game / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Ender's Game / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: invoked Ender's combination of empathy and pragmatism leaves him constantly feeling regret for the actions he takes to protect himself from his enemies. By extension, after Ender writes his book about the buggers, the whole of humanity considers Ender a monster for exterminating them, and his name is a taboo word.
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Ender's Game / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Ender's Game / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: It's unintentional on Ender's part but in his first army, Ender lands on the top of the coveted efficiency rankings. This is because the rankings penalize players for missing shots and being disabled or eliminated; since Ender has been forbidden from firing his weapon or participating in the battle in any way, he's literally at the top of the rankings for doing nothing. Ender quickly learns how to hack the messaging system by creating duplicate accounts of someone he wants to impersonate simply by adding a space to the end of their name. Embarrasing posts from that person then spam the system, causing all sorts of blackmail. Ender's entire modus operandi is to thoroughly master the rules of any game, then reinterpret or just plain screw them in new and imaginative ways. His teachers, counting on him to become the greatest living weapon in the history of humanity, are only too happy to let him do so, and have deliberately designed the school environment to favor such thinking. An example of this is when Ender, in a simulation battle against overwhelming odds, ignores the implied rule that all enemies must first be defeated and simply enters the enemy's gate, resulting in an Instant-Win Condition. The teachers constantly force him to come up with new ways to use this trope by closing off the loopholes he explores as soon as he exposes and exploits them. In a strange twist, some of the other army leaders, angry at Ender's perfect win streak, claim that the teachers are actually helping him, despite it being blatantly obvious that it's the other way around, seemingly unable to comprehend that he's simply that good.
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Ender's Game / int_b24f7133	type	Bathroom Brawl
Ender's Game / int_b24f7133	comment	Bathroom Brawl: Ender is attacked by bullies in the showers and he fights the leader while both of them are naked.
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Ender's Game / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
Ender's Game / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: Ender is allowed to go on leave between Battle School and Command School. He spends it on Earth, and decides he'd rather stay there, build a raft and lie around on a lake. The teachers are afraid of forcing him to return against his will since they need him fully committed, so they eventually send Valentine to shame him into returning voluntarily. She despises them for using her to manipulate Ender, but she does it anyway because she knows what's at stake.
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Ender's Game / int_b75cf01c	type	There Is No Rule Six
Ender's Game / int_b75cf01c	comment	There Is No Rule Six: Rose tells Ender that there are only three rules, "Do what I tell you and don't piss in the bed." When Ender asks what the third rule is, as he was clearly meant to, Rose replies that that was three rules — "We don't do too good in math, here."
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Ender's Game / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Ender's Game / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: The immediate reaction to Dragon Army winning by exploiting an Instant-Win Condition in the Battle Room game is a new rule that all enemy soldiers must be killed or disabled before the gate can be opened.
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Ender's Game / int_ba183b0e	type	The Paralyzer
Ender's Game / int_ba183b0e	comment	Ender repeatedly breaks the conventions of Battle School's wargames through innovative tactics such as having his teammates use their stun guns on their own suits so that teammates can use them as Bulletproof Human Shields, or simply bullrushing a scenario the instructors deliberately slanted against his side to exploit the Instant-Win Condition, a tactic he ultimately repeats in (what he thinks is a simulation for) the final assault on the Formic homeworld.
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Ender's Game / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Ender's Game / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The "Warsaw Pact" is still around and ready to threaten world peace after the Third Invasion is over. Retconned in the later books by calling it the New Warsaw Pact. (Apparently Warsaw is really unlucky when it comes to hosting conferences that involve conquest-minded Russian regimes.)
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Ender's Game / int_bbc77bb5	type	Hard Truth Aesop
Ender's Game / int_bbc77bb5	comment	Hard Truth Aesop: The people you love can manipulate you. Ender resents how Graff can use Valentine as a pawn to give him what he wants. Valentine even admits at the end that she's manipulating Ender to become a Formic colony governor because she knows he is too traumatized to even think that far ahead and if it were up to him he'd let anyone kill him or use him, whether or not it made him happy. It says something that as Ender grows up in later books, he builds a new life apart from his big sister and creates an AI that is the perfect version of her. You don't have to forgive yourself to live a content life. Ender is certainly not happy at the end of the story, but he is calmer and more in charge of his destiny. He admits that even if the Hive Queen forgave him, he damn well doesn't because thanks to him, the Formics became humans' living nightmares. Ender writes the Hive Queen's eulogy under a pseudonym, which turns the tide over a thousand years so that Ender Wiggin is seen as a monster and the Formics as tragic beings.
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Ender's Game / int_bd80cdeb	type	Weaponized Offspring
Ender's Game / int_bd80cdeb	comment	Weaponized Offspring: The Formic queen gives birth to all her soldiers, since the Formics are an insect race.
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Ender's Game / int_be5d0950	type	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate
Ender's Game / int_be5d0950	comment	Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: Invoked by Ender. He, the overall commander, takes care of discipline so that the immediate commanders can bond with their troops better.
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Ender's Game / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Ender's Game / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: Although students at Battle School are not subject to physical abuse (at least, not by the instructors) they do undergo the psychological equivalent of Training from Hell.
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Ender's Game / int_c02ce551	type	Straight for the Commander
Ender's Game / int_c02ce551	comment	Straight for the Commander: Mazer Rackham reveals this is how the Formic Navy was defeated, by deducing which ship had their queen. Once he destroyed it, the entire fleet became inert. Unfortunately, the Formics learn from this and try to bait Ender in his first battle into trying the same strategy, by putting their ships in a sphere formation with an expendable decoy as the "leader" in the center. Ender doesn't fall for it. Then at the climax of the book, Ender orders his fleet to charge straight in and fire their mass disintegrator weapons at the Formic homeworld, causing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom that kills all the queens there, taking out all the species under their control.
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Ender's Game / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Ender's Game / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Subverted. Ender wishes that he could be true companions with his friends, but he finds multiple times throughout the book that as he gains more power, he becomes less of a friend and more of boss to his companions. He even notes in the Command School segment of the book that he is growing more and more distant to his friends, who have become True Companions with each other. He is mostly just the authority figure to them. Not that they don't consider him a friend at all. He is just too much of an authority figure to them to see him as a true companion.
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Ender's Game / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Ender's Game / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ender is a very compassionate and loving person (when he's allowed to be) and his brother Peter is a cruel and possibly sociopathic person. In the end, Peter goes down in history as the man who brought about world peace and is remembered as an international hero, while Ender becomes famous for destroying the Formic race and in the far distant future is remembered as a genocidal monster. Ender lampshades it while in Heroic BSoD. Justified because Ender himself saw the destruction of the Formics this way and gave himself a Historical Villain Upgrade in his memoir The Hive Queen.
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Ender's Game / int_c4835ce7	type	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape
Ender's Game / int_c4835ce7	comment	Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: The Buggers did not realize that the humans they killed were individual entities rather than "appendages" of a dominant mind. When they do finally realize this, they are horrified and recognize that they have given humans ample justification to kill them in retribution.
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Ender's Game / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Ender's Game / int_c5f0119c	comment	We're told that Graff's strategy for doing the Battle School is based on doing whatever it takes to train commanders and going with whatever works, however harsh. That's why all his training methods had a 100% failure rate for 70-80 years before meeting Ender.
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Ender's Game / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Ender's Game / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Every Battle School participant joins under the age of 12, although they're (normally) not sent to fight until they're healthy adults, at which point they'll have been through a regular adult boot camp.
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Ender's Game / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Ender's Game / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Ender claims that his combat prowess and compassion both come from how well he understands and loves his enemies. However, from what we actually see of his thought processes, he doesn't seem to understand anything about them beyond "they're hurting me because they're mean and jealous, and they might become too scared to hurt me if I seriously injure them." As for loving them, the only evidence of this we ever get is that he feels sad after killing or hurting them, and even then he seems to be more pitying himself in a Why Did You Make Me Hit You? way rather than actually regretting the action. We're told that Graff's strategy for doing the Battle School is based on doing whatever it takes to train commanders and going with whatever works, however harsh. That's why all his training methods had a 100% failure rate for 70-80 years before meeting Ender. Aside from Ender, the book provides very little evidence that any of the Battle School kids are the prodigies they're said to be. Maybe the most extreme example of this is Shen, who is identified by Ender as being among the best students he's worked with despite having done nothing to demonstrate any sort of special talent up to that point.
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Ender's Game / int_cab89481	type	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!
Ender's Game / int_cab89481	comment	Screw the Rules, They're Not Real!: Ender repeatedly breaks the conventions of Battle School's wargames through innovative tactics such as having his teammates use their stun guns on their own suits so that teammates can use them as Bulletproof Human Shields, or simply bullrushing a scenario the instructors deliberately slanted against his side to exploit the Instant-Win Condition, a tactic he ultimately repeats in (what he thinks is a simulation for) the final assault on the Formic homeworld. Ender plays a puzzle video game whose final level appears to be Unwinnable by Design: a giant offers him two cups to drink from, but no matter which one Ender chooses, his Player Character is poisoned and dies. After a few tries, Ender gets frustrated and attacks (and kills) the giant instead of the purported puzzle, and things in the game go Off the Rails. Mazer Rackham speculates that this is why he could get a clean shot at the queen of the second Formic invasion: "Maybe in their world, queens are never killed, only captured, only checkmated." If so, from their perspective he did the equivalent of pulling a gun in a playground shoving match. He's wrong, as it turns out: the queen intentionally left herself open to atone for killing other sapient beings. Only Formic queens are sapient—their drones are telepathically controlled—and they initially didn't realize all humans are.
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Ender's Game / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Ender's Game / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Zigzagged. The reason Graff et al employ the And You Thought It Was a Game trope on Ender is to free him from this trope; because he thinks it's a training simulation with no consequences, he's free to do whatever he wants, make any sort of We Have Reserves sacrifices he wants, to win. And it works... until Ender discovers that whole "xenocide" thing, at which point he feels the consequences of his choices like never before.
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Ender's Game / int_cc05f657	type	Begin with a Finisher
Ender's Game / int_cc05f657	comment	Begin with a Finisher: Ender's primary philosophy when it comes to fighting (and warfare): overwhelming shock & awe. Basically, thoroughly and savagely attack your enemy to the point where they never attempt any kind of retaliation out of outright fear. Don't just win this battle, win every battle to come. Near the very beginning of the novel, when he's being picked on by bullies, Ender knows that they'll never leave him alone if he just takes their abuse, so he brutally beats (and, unbeknownst to him at the time, kills) the leader of the gang to intimidate the rest of the group. In the Battle School, when he's confronted by a gang in the showers, he goads the leader into fighting him one-on-one, then proceeds to once again brutally defeat him. After that he gets a reputation as someone not to be messed with... And finally, at the end of the book when he's leading the fighters in the simulation, he instructs a fighter, instead of engaging the enemy fleet directly, to bypass it completely and try to just destroy the enemy's home planet.
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Ender's Game / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Ender's Game / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: To Starship Troopers.
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Ender's Game / int_d63f8a53	type	The Alternet
Ender's Game / int_d63f8a53	comment	The Alternet: The alt-Internet is called "the nets" and is depicted as several interconnecting but discrete networks, like in the old days of CompuServe and Prodigy (when the book was written). There's also the participation in important political debates on a by-invitation-only and closely moderated basis, rather than the free-for-all that politics on the modern Internet has become.
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Ender's Game / int_d7b63718	type	Space Cadet Academy
Ender's Game / int_d7b63718	comment	Space Cadet Academy: The Battle School. There are also mentions of the Tactical (for those who don't wash out but also don't make it quite as high as others) and Pre-Command (exactly what is sounds like) schools. The highest school is the Command School, but only the best of the best are sent there from the Pre-Command School.
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Ender's Game / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Ender's Game / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Ender may have mercy, but you sure as hell won't see it in the Battle Room. Or if you decide to ambush him.
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Ender's Game / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
Ender's Game / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding Ender's Game was originally followed by a number of sequels featuring Ender in the far future. The author later returned to the time period of the original novel by writing Ender's Shadow, a P.O.V. Sequel written from the perspective of Bean, one of Ender's friends. This was then followed by a number of Shadow novels taking place immediately after Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. These two sub-series can be read completely independently from one another. However, later books start to get more interwoven, starting with Ender in Exile, a book set between Ender's Game and its original sequel Speaker for the Dead picking up an unresolved plot thread from the Shadow series. The two series became fully welded with the release of The Last Shadow, a chronologically final novel that acts as a finale for both sub-series.
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Ender's Game / int_dc7d9864	type	Virus and Cure Names
Ender's Game / int_dc7d9864	comment	Virus and Cure Names: The descolada and recolada viruses translate as "un-glueing" and "re-glueing" because of their effect on DNA.
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Ender's Game / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Ender's Game / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: It's revealed at the end that the Bugger queens despaired the moment they lost the first battle of the Third Invasion. By then they had realized with utter horror and deep remorse that each human they had killed in the First and Second invasions was an independent, sapient being, as opposed to the drones in the Buggers' Hive Mind. Now they realized the humans were counterattacking in earnest. Summed up succinctly by the thought:
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Ender's Game / int_de56f2bf	type	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide"
Ender's Game / int_de56f2bf	comment	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": The "third invasion" looks like the Buggers were the aggressors. The truth is something else: the humans were committing xenocide against the Buggers, and the Buggers had no intent of attacking Earth again, but we didn't know that at the time.
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Ender's Game / int_de72739d	type	Flexible Tourney Rules
Ender's Game / int_de72739d	comment	Flexible Tourney Rules: The teachers at Battle School start purposely stacking the deck against Ender as he racks up an unbroken string of wins, challenging him to adapt, and seeing how far he can bend without breaking.
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Ender's Game / int_e2f1ae4b	type	You Won't Feel a Thing!
Ender's Game / int_e2f1ae4b	comment	You Won't Feel a Thing!: At one point, Ender is told "it won't hurt a bit" to have his monitor taken out, but Ender knows that adults say that when it is going to hurt; he doesn't mind the lie because he can still take it as an accurate indicator of what to expect.
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Ender's Game	hasFeature	Sub-Lightspeed Setting / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Subspace Ansible / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Super-Intelligence / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Take Over the World / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Teen Genius / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Alternet / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Benchwarmer / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Can Kicked Him / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Chooser of the One / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Extremist Was Right / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Federation / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Game Come to Life / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Great Politics Mess-Up / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Mothership / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Neidermeyer / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Only Way They Will Learn / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Perils of Being the Best / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Spock / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Squadette / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	There Is No Rule Six / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	They Knew the Risks / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Things Get Real / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Third Line, Some Waiting / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Time Dilation / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Time Skip / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Time to Step Up, Commander / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	To Know Him, I Must Become Him / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Tom the Dark Lord / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Training Montage / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Trickster Mentor / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	20 Minutes into the Future / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	2-D Space / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Two-Part Trilogy / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Tyke-Bomb / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Ultimate Final Exam / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Uniqueness Value / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Design / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Unwinnable Training Simulation / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Veteran Instructor / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Video Game Cruelty Potential / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Virus and Cure Names / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Voodoo Shark / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Warrior Therapist / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Warts and All / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Wave-Motion Gun / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	We Will Use Lasers in the Future / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Weak, but Skilled / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Weaponized Offspring / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Weaponized Stench / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Wise Tree / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	World War Whatever / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide" / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Write What You Know / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Written by the Winners / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Xanatos Speed Chess / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Xenofiction / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	You Are Not Ready / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	You Did the Right Thing / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	You Have to Have Jews / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Young and in Charge / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Young Conqueror / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Youngest Child Wins / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Zero-Approval Gambit / int_afc86b0a
Enders Game (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Ender's Game
endersgame	sameAs	Ender's Game
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Children Are Special / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	Save Our Team / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	School for Scheming / int_afc86b0a
Ender's Game	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_afc86b0a

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