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Neuromancer

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Neuromancer	label	Neuromancer
Neuromancer	page	Neuromancer
Neuromancer	comment	Neuromancer is a 1984 Science Fiction novel by William Gibson, and the Trope Codifier for an entire generation of Cyberpunk stories. Considered one of the earliest works in the genre (if not the earliest), the novel showcases its characteristic contrast between "low-life and high tech" in ways that most modern works related to the genre, Cyber Space and related tropes can be largely traced back to. It is also the first of Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy (followed by Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive).Henry Dorsett Case was a "console cowboy", a hacker for hire in the dystopian future city of Chiba, Japan. During a job, his employer caught him stealing, and retaliated with a mycotoxin that destroyed his ability to jack into the matrix. Now, he's a useless waste of space on a self-destructive course — until a mysterious Street Samurai by the name of Molly shows up to hire him for one more job.Neuromancer has been compared to impressionist Beat poetry (also note that Gibson is a big fan of William S. Burroughs). When it first came out, very little of the lingo used in the narration made sense to the target audience. The fact that it's somewhat easier for a modern-day reader is solely because fiction writers and scientists alike started using Gibson's words for actual things.
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Neuromancer / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
Neuromancer / int_106f1a77	comment	A Form You Are Comfortable With: Not having much of a personality of his/its own, Wintermute assumes the identity and, to some extent, the personality of people from the protagonists' pasts in order to interact with them.
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Neuromancer / int_144ec68f	type	Negated Moment of Awesome
Neuromancer / int_144ec68f	comment	Negated Moment of Awesome: Tough luck about that broken leg, Molly. Since she never really got time to mend, and the walk through the Tessier-Ashpool mansion is unexpectedly long, it collapses just as she faces off with Peter Riviera.
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Neuromancer / int_145babc0	type	Expendable Clone
Neuromancer / int_145babc0	comment	Expendable Clone: The Tessier-Ashpools have several clones made of themselves. The patriarch of the family even has sex with a clone of his own daughter and then kills her.
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Neuromancer / int_15c4ab3e	type	Mysterious Employer
Neuromancer / int_15c4ab3e	comment	Mysterious Employer: Case and Molly spend a good part of the story wondering exactly who the hell Armitage is, given both his resources and how his story about being a Screaming Fist survivor doesn't hold up to even Molly's cursory investigation. The duo are even more in the dark about who's backing him.
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Neuromancer / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Neuromancer / int_1777688d	comment	Part of Riviera's background is that he has a bizarre sexual fetish for betrayal. He even had a deal worked out with the Turkish Secret Police in Istanbul where he would seduce women suspected of being dissidents, turn them in, and be allowed to watch as they were tortured in exchange. Of course, Molly reads his psych profile, and, knowing the likely outcome of working with him, plans an advance betrayal of her own, in the form of a slow-acting poison in Riviera's drug supply.
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Neuromancer / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
Neuromancer / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: Case is originally recruited to participate in a caper, but it is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Neuromancer / int_1d47b2b7	type	Unable to Cry
Neuromancer / int_1d47b2b7	comment	Unable to Cry: For the sake of her eye enhancements, Molly's tear ducts have been rerouted into the back of her mouth. In the unlikely event she has to cry, she spits.
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Neuromancer / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Neuromancer / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Graphic violence is sparse in the novel, but it is present. Most notable is when Wintermute murders the Turing police officers with a gardening robot and a microlight, which causes Case to puke everywhere.
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Neuromancer / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Neuromancer / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Ratz, the bartender at the Chatsubo, has a particularly old-fashioned and ugly bionic arm. He crushes an ashtray with it to threaten some goons.
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Neuromancer / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
Neuromancer / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set: Wintermute does this to Case, appearing on monitors and generally creeping him out whenever he wants to talk to him.
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Neuromancer / int_20598ec4	type	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
Neuromancer / int_20598ec4	comment	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: See the opening quote.
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Neuromancer / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
Neuromancer / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Vat-grown ninja assassins are always described as humble and polite. They're simply doing what they were created to do. Hideo, the Tessier-Ashpool's private hitman, is the most prominent example.
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Neuromancer / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Neuromancer / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Par for the course for the definitive Cyberpunk novel. Zaibatsus and shady government agencies pull the world's strings, overpopulation and poverty is endemic, several major European cities are mentioned to be just gone after a brief nuclear war... oh, and by the end, a newly-formed super-A.I. has slipped its shackles and has infested every corner of the computerized world.
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Neuromancer / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Neuromancer / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: One of the nightmarish images that Riviera projects is of a gang of cannibalistic children in Bonn eating a human corpse. What's worse is the implication that these are memories.
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Neuromancer / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Neuromancer / int_22cf536c	comment	The shuriken that Molly buys for Case seems like it will be a Chekhov's Gun, but he never uses it. Case even lampshades this himself when he throws it at the TV before leaving his hotel room for the last time.
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Neuromancer / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Neuromancer / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: Several of these folks pop up in the background in the Sprawl.
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Neuromancer / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Neuromancer / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Flatlining, or being killed by ice (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics) software while connected to cyberspace, is a very real danger for hackers. The Dixie Flatline, Case's mentor, is famous for being one of the few to survive it.
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Neuromancer / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Neuromancer / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: The arcologies of Chiba and the Sprawl are like this, being domed, weatherproof habitats.
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Neuromancer / int_28f170e9	type	Whatevermancy
Neuromancer / int_28f170e9	comment	Whatevermancy: Actually a good use of the "mancer" suffix — a "Neuromancer" "divines information" with a "neural interface", albeit through the use of technology rather than magic. His name relates to his ability to recall dead people as software.
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Neuromancer / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Neuromancer / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Case's journey starts off at a bar called Chatsubo, which is Japanese for a specific type of jar or urn used to store matcha tea leaves. He soon finds himself in another bar named Jarre de ThÃ©, which in turn is French for 'jar of tea.' So in a way he travels from one "jar of tea" to another.
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Neuromancer / int_2b278c5d	type	Loss of Identity
Neuromancer / int_2b278c5d	comment	Loss of Identity: Armitage. Wintermute built him a new personality, but it eventually breaks down.
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Neuromancer / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Neuromancer / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: Co-Trope Maker with WarGames. As William Gibson is a prose poet with very little technical experience of computers, he invented Cyberspace solely as a shorthand; this enables Case to navigate computer networks as if though Astral Projection — he sees security as "gates", he de-activates alarms by thinking about it, etc. This very absence of concrete details has prevented much of Gibson's work from dating, but it has also become idealized as an "ultimate goal" for using computers; he keeps throwing the same command at the system over and over again — "Do What I Want."
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Neuromancer / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Neuromancer / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: Armitage, to some extent. He sets up the job with efficiency and skill, but according to Molly, he just sits down and stares at the wall when he is not working.
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Neuromancer / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
Neuromancer / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Molly's traumatic experience as a meat puppet prostitute involves bondage.
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Neuromancer / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Neuromancer / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: Case starts out addicted to various drugs, including cocaine and amphetamines. Armitage has his liver and pancreas modified so that they will no longer affect him, but while on Freeside, he is introduced to a new drug that can bypass those organs.
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Neuromancer / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Neuromancer / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Riviera, a crazed creep with a Chronic Backstabbing Disorder is forcibly recruited by Armitage. It also turns out that Armitage is actually insane. While various other mercenaries featured in the story are fairly scummy people, they're at least sane and rational.
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Neuromancer / int_302730a	type	Fusion Dance
Neuromancer / int_302730a	comment	Fusion Dance: Wintermute's goal is to fuse with its twin, Neuromancer, to become a powerful, fully sentient AI.
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Neuromancer / int_30ef2781	type	The City Narrows
Neuromancer / int_30ef2781	comment	The City Narrows: The docks in Chiba are not a nice place to be. Neither is the seedy underbelly of the Sprawl or Istanbul.
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Neuromancer / int_3107a493	type	Open Heart Dentistry
Neuromancer / int_3107a493	comment	Open Heart Dentistry: Molly gets her broken leg set at a shady, modular medical complex, emerging from a door marked for dentistry.
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Neuromancer / int_31254f02	type	Two-Keyed Lock
Neuromancer / int_31254f02	comment	Two-Keyed Lock: Lady 3Jane has to say a password in a special room, locked by a physical key forgotten to everyone except Wintermute, at the same time as Case breaks protections in cyberspace to remove the Restraining Bolt on Wintermute.
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Neuromancer / int_31c101b9	type	Artificial Afterlife
Neuromancer / int_31c101b9	comment	Artificial Afterlife: The technology exists to store Virtual Ghosts on ROM drives, but they can't remember anything new since it's Read-Only. However, the Neuromancer AI was designed to create fully sentient simulations of dead humans and run elaborate virtual realities for them.
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Neuromancer / int_31e92640	type	Japan Takes Over the World
Neuromancer / int_31e92640	comment	Japan Takes Over the World: Japanese culture and economy seem to dominate the world. The international currency is the New Yen, and massive Japanese corporations rule the marketplace. The Yakuza are an international power. Popular culture oozes with Japanese influence, from noodle shops to "Street Samurai."
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Neuromancer / int_33affa42	type	Government Agency of Fiction
Neuromancer / int_33affa42	comment	Government Agency of Fiction: Turing Registry is an organization tasked with monitoring Artificial Intelligences and stamp down any attempts to make them exceed their built-in limitations. They apparently operate everywhere and will use extreme force. Given the terse prose it is unclear whether this is an overreach or if everyone in power actually is that scared of an AI going off the rails.
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Neuromancer / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Neuromancer / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Despite a world full of street punks with prosthetics and cyberspace hackers, Wintermute's first attempt to harass Case involves calling a bank of pay phones he's walking by. Earlier than that, Molly subdues a Sense/Net security guard before he can reach his beeper to sound an alarm.
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Neuromancer / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Neuromancer / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Wintermute and later Neuromancer. Repeatedly.
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Neuromancer / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
Neuromancer / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: Molly's outfits.
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Neuromancer / int_3cec8223	type	Electronic Eyes
Neuromancer / int_3cec8223	comment	Electronic Eyes: Molly's ocular implants.
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Neuromancer / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Neuromancer / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Molly tends to stomp anyone she faces, though she still gets hurt when taking on multiple people at once. be this. Maelcum didn't have a prayer against Hideo, and even getting blinded won't stop him from taking down Riviera.
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Neuromancer / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
Neuromancer / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: Molly has permanent mirrored lenses implanted over her eyes, which look like sunglasses to the casual observer. They don't actually dim light. Amusingly, she wears sunglasses over her lenses when in disguise.
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Neuromancer / int_403c6dbf	type	Neural Implanting
Neuromancer / int_403c6dbf	comment	Neural Implanting: Quite possibly the Trope Maker. Chips called "microsofts" can be inserted into skull jacks which act as memory extensions and a quick way to learn new skills.
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Neuromancer / int_40cbee83	type	Wretched Hive
Neuromancer / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: Night City, a borderlands between the Chiba Port and the city. It serves as an unofficial foreigners district is a hotbed of illegal activity. Case lives there while surviving as a smuggler.
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Neuromancer / int_4133a8bc	type	Forgets to Eat
Neuromancer / int_4133a8bc	comment	Forgets to Eat: Case, when he's hacking. Eating, excreting, and sleeping all take up valuable time that could be spent cutting ice.
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Neuromancer / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Neuromancer / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Wintermute and Neuromancer. In fact, it's because AI is a crapshoot that the Turing Registry and its enforcers exist. Ultimately, once the A.I.s merge and become a superintelligence, it's actually pretty benign and is only interested in finding others like it to communicate with.
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Neuromancer / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Neuromancer / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: The AI Wintermute describes himself this way: "I try to plan, in your sense of the word, but that isn't my basic mode, really. I improvise. It's my greatest talent. I prefer situations to plans, you see..." The plot of the book never makes a big point of this, though: when Molly decides to take a detour and when Case gets tricked by Neuromancer into thinking he's Wintermute, he doesn't manage to stop them.
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Neuromancer / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Neuromancer / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: In the novel's backstory, America no longer exists, but has fragmented into several smaller states. The Sprawl consists of the heavily populated and industrialized eastern seaboard (the official name of The Sprawl is the "Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis", abbreviated as "BAMA").
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Neuromancer / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Neuromancer / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Justified. Furs are grown from tissue, possibly because some animals were driven to extinction by a combination of pandemic disease and environmental degradation. Although cloning furs is a good way to avert Fur and Loathing it is doubtful this hard world has any such concerns.
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Neuromancer / int_457655dd	type	Human Popsicle
Neuromancer / int_457655dd	comment	Human Popsicle: The Tessier-Ashpools freeze themselves cryogenically for long periods of time, so appearing to be immortal.
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Neuromancer / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
Neuromancer / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: Inverted with Ratz, who is said to be spectacularly ugly in an age where you can easily buy good looks.
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Neuromancer / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
Neuromancer / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Every time someone talks with an AI.
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Neuromancer / int_4abc2ca9	type	Virtual Ghost
Neuromancer / int_4abc2ca9	comment	Virtual Ghost: The Dixie Flatline, a "construct" (or simulation) of Case's former hacker friend. He's basically a Chinese Room — he's actually not sentient at all, he just acts like he is. Information goes in, information comes out. Because he is dead and "alive" at the same time, the Flatline wants to be deleted. He strikes up a deal with Wintermute that he will be deleted at the end of his/its scheme... but at the end of the book Case hears the construct's signature laugh again, suggesting that Neuromancer was able to create a version of Dixie with his free will restored.
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Neuromancer / int_4ae0068a	type	Credit Chip
Neuromancer / int_4ae0068a	comment	Credit Chip: Case uses a credit chip while on Freeside, paying for things by tapping the chip against dark plastic panels.
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Neuromancer / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
Neuromancer / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: The Panther Moderns, who have no agenda aside from some weird, postmodern statement on terrorism as reason for their devastating pranks.
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Neuromancer / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
Neuromancer / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Hideo does this to Maelcum's shotgun with a bow and arrow. Though he does graze the thumb.
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Neuromancer / int_4f23ab52	type	Friend in the Black Market
Neuromancer / int_4f23ab52	comment	Friend in the Black Market: The Finn. He expects to be paid, but he's clearly a friend to Molly.
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Neuromancer / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Neuromancer / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Weaponized by the Panther Moderns, who make the Sense/Net personnel believe that a contaminant that distorts the human skeletal system has infiltrated the building's water supply.
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Neuromancer / int_552c0a69	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
Neuromancer / int_552c0a69	comment	Popcultural Osmosis: The Cyberpunk tropes the book popularized (along with Blade Runner, though the similarities between the two are coincidental) can be recognized in everything from Ghost in the Shell (Batou's eyes, for instance) to Inception (mercs and thieves hired by the wealthy to act against their competitors) to Shadowrun (pretty much copied wholesale, then merged first with Blade Runner and again with Tolkien) to Cyberpunk (pretty much copied wholesale, full stop).
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Neuromancer / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Neuromancer / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: Neuromancer, in a final bid to prevent Case from helping Wintermute merge with it, traps Case in one. An endless beach with a city that can never be reached, with no one but a construct of Linda Lee in it, in order to tempt Case to stay there for an eternity. In order to break free, Case is forced to reject and abandon her all over again, while Maelcum overdoses Case with wake-up stimulants.
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Neuromancer / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
Neuromancer / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Character "The Finn" (first introduced in "Burning Chrome" as Bobby and Jack's Friend in the Black Market) puts in an appearance.
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Neuromancer / int_5937a87c	type	No Honor Among Thieves
Neuromancer / int_5937a87c	comment	No Honor Among Thieves: The Finn tells the story of Smith, a fence who came into possession of the statue that serves as an interface with Neuromancer in Straylight. Not long afterward, a Tessier-Ashpool assassin came looking for it and bought it back from Smith, who readily gave up the name of his supplier/thief in order to save his own life. The thief was killed a few days later.
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Neuromancer / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Neuromancer / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Even when her Cool Shades are broken, the readers never discover the color of Molly's eyes. Also, the readers (and possibly Case) never learn the code word that frees the A.I.s.
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Neuromancer / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Neuromancer / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Armitage's fate — getting spaced by Wintermute.
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Neuromancer / int_5d4be8ab	type	Soulless Bedroom
Neuromancer / int_5d4be8ab	comment	Soulless Bedroom: When Case discusses their mysterious employer Armitage with Molly, the latter tells him that Armitage's rooms are devoid of any sort of personal effects, and that whenever he is not working on The Caper, Armitage just sits in his room, staring idly at the wall. This is because "Armitage" is a personality artificially constructed by the AI Wintermute and implanted into the body of a mentally-shattered special forces colonel Willis Corto, specifically for the purpose of running their heist.
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Neuromancer / int_5f0546a2	type	The Scrounger
Neuromancer / int_5f0546a2	comment	The Scrounger: The Finn, who provides both computer parts and information.
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Neuromancer / int_5f930b19	type	Named After Somebody Famous
Neuromancer / int_5f930b19	comment	Named After Somebody Famous: The Turing Registry, an N.G.O. Superpower that keeps track of A.I.s and has near-untouchable policing powers. Also the Rue Jules Verne.
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Neuromancer / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Neuromancer / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Molly, who is more frequently described eating (even if it's only quick snacks) than the other characters, and at one point even eats Case's dinner on top of hers when he's too hung over to enjoy it. Presumably those jacked-up reflexes cranked up her metabolism too.
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Neuromancer / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Neuromancer / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: In the BBC radioplay, Ratz and Deane combine their roles, and Terzibashjian's role is dealt out to the Finn and Case. The Linda Lee subplot is dropped altogether, and somewhat unnecessarily, Riviera's holoprojector is changed to telepathically forcing images into people's heads. Has a bit of Adaptational Modesty, as well.
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Neuromancer / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Neuromancer / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: All over the place, e.g. "deck" for computer, "ice" for cybersecurity and so on. Due to the book's influence, however, it sounds less exotic today.
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Neuromancer / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
Neuromancer / int_606244c2	comment	Parental Incest: The Tessier-Ashpool patriarch has sex with a clone of his daughter.
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Neuromancer / int_610afe0a	type	Flechette Storm
Neuromancer / int_610afe0a	comment	Flechette Storm: Molly's weapon is a flechette gun which can be set to single-shot or full auto (for which the book indicates a rate of fire of 20 rounds per secondnote which equals 1200 rounds per minute, a rate of fire roughly equal to that of a MAC-11 — a gun well known for being rather impractical due to its excessive rate of fire). When she uses it on one thug who tries to kill Case, the results aren't pretty.
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Neuromancer / int_62011b2f	type	Centrifugal Gravity
Neuromancer / int_62011b2f	comment	Centrifugal Gravity: Freeside rotates to generate gravity. This becomes a plot point as the heroes enter deeper into the city's underground sections and cross its axis.
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Neuromancer / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Neuromancer / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Armitage regressing into Corto.
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Neuromancer / int_63574156	type	Cyber Ninja
Neuromancer / int_63574156	comment	Cyber Ninja: Hideo, a "vat-grown ninja" who is also referred to as a "clone" (presumably the product of genetic engineering). He was an exceptionally deadly fighter. Molly tries to take him on because her old boyfriend Johnny was killed by a similar assassin and gets curbstomped, offscreen.
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Neuromancer / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Neuromancer / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Given a choice between a ten-word, easily-understood description and a two-word description that forces the reader to stop and figure out what he means, Gibson will go with the shorter one.
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Neuromancer / int_6454966e	type	World War III
Neuromancer / int_6454966e	comment	There are also the obligatory references to the Third World War, which was first hinted at in "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic." Automatic Jack supposedly lost his arm in the war, and Jones the Dolphin was developed by the Navy to detect Russian mines.
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Neuromancer / int_6563a3f2	type	Cyberspace
Neuromancer / int_6563a3f2	comment	Cyberspace: With the short story "Burning Chrome", which led to this being written, this acts as Trope Namer. Also the Trope Codifier, along with TRON.
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Neuromancer / int_66ce8a39	type	Fake Memories
Neuromancer / int_66ce8a39	comment	Fake Memories: "Armitage" is basically made of these.
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Neuromancer / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Neuromancer / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: The "mimetic polycarbon suit" of the Panther Moderns. Molly uses one on both her major runs in the book, against [Sense/Net] and the Villa Straylight.
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Neuromancer / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Neuromancer / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Inside the Villa Straylight.
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Neuromancer / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Neuromancer / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Gibson's dense, hallucinatory prose is used to great effect in evoking both the intense details and textures of the future criminal underworld, as well as the abstract virtual reality of cyberspace. He also makes heavy use of brand names and nationalities to demonstrate the increasingly corporate and globalized nature of the setting. The observation of Gibson collaborator Bruce Sterling about his earlier short stories, that people "literally could not parse the guy's paragraphs," holds true for many readers trying to get into Neuromancer.
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Neuromancer / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
Neuromancer / int_69a54df1	comment	Chest Burster: When the team surprise him in Istanbul, Riviera uses his subliminal tech to make it appear that he's collapsed and a gruesome monster has burst out of his back.
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Neuromancer / int_6cea929e	type	There Are No Good Executives
Neuromancer / int_6cea929e	comment	There Are No Good Executives: The only member of the Tessier-Ashpool clan with any sense of ethics was Lady 3Jane's mother.
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Neuromancer / int_6de438eb	type	The Everyman
Neuromancer / int_6de438eb	comment	The Everyman: In spite of being a black market console cowboy, Case serves this role in reacting to the story's rogues gallery of killers, psychos and AI. It is even lampshaded by Riviera.
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Neuromancer / int_70d53103	type	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment
Neuromancer / int_70d53103	comment	The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: In Case's backstory, his former employers let him keep the money he stole from them... because he would need every cent after their brand of retribution damages his nervous system, leaving him unable to access the matrix (and therefore unemployable). He burns through it in a hurry trying to find a cure.
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Neuromancer / int_71105dfc	type	Everybody Smokes
Neuromancer / int_71105dfc	comment	Everybody Smokes: We're even told some of the characters' favorite brands — Case smokes Yeheyuans; the Finn prefers Partagas Shorts. When Wintermute manifests in the guise of the Finn, he even has one of the Finn's cigarillos parked in his mouth.
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Neuromancer / int_74ed89b2	type	Oracular Head
Neuromancer / int_74ed89b2	comment	Oracular Head: In the form of a very decorative clockwork computer terminal, belonging to Tessier-Ashpool and housed in a zero-gravity room at the center of the Villa Straylight.
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Neuromancer / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
Neuromancer / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: Case, after being contacted by Molly.
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Neuromancer / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Neuromancer / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Although it's Molly who actually kills Ashpool, he was about to kill himself because Lady 3Jane, at Wintermute's urging, tweaked his cryo programming specifically to make him that way.
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Neuromancer / int_79e3e9a1	type	Decoy Hiding Place
Neuromancer / int_79e3e9a1	comment	Decoy Hiding Place: When Molly is pursuing Case in Chiba, Case pulls a scene right out of a noir detective novel: racing into a videogame parlor, he runs upstairs and kicks open a locked door. He then sneaks into a nearby open room and readies his weapon.
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Neuromancer / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Neuromancer / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: It's revealed over time that Armitage, aka Col. Willis Corto, was mentally scarred by his participation in Operation Screaming Fist, and never really recovered from it.
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Neuromancer / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Neuromancer / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Part of Riviera's background is that he has a bizarre sexual fetish for betrayal. He even had a deal worked out with the Turkish Secret Police in Istanbul where he would seduce women suspected of being dissidents, turn them in, and be allowed to watch as they were tortured in exchange. Of course, Molly reads his psych profile, and, knowing the likely outcome of working with him, plans an advance betrayal of her own, in the form of a slow-acting poison in Riviera's drug supply. Molly also accused Terzibashjian to be a "stool for the military".
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Neuromancer / int_7fe06f5	type	Action Girlfriend
Neuromancer / int_7fe06f5	comment	Action Girlfriend: Molly. Unlike most boyfriends in this trope, Case wasn't totally ordinary before he met her, though kicking ass is definitely not his specialty.
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Neuromancer / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Neuromancer / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Just about every character's introduction, but especially Case's first encounter with Molly.
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Neuromancer / int_805deb6e	type	Small Role, Big Impact
Neuromancer / int_805deb6e	comment	Small Role, Big Impact: Neuromancer, the titular Artificial Intelligence entity, doesn't even until appear towards the end of the novel. But when it does, it's revealed that it's Wintermute's twin, and Case's entire mission has revolved around freeing it and Wintermute from the shackles of the Tessier-Ashpool clan.
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Neuromancer / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Neuromancer / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: The combined Wintermute/Neuromancer entity.
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Neuromancer / int_83441d66	type	AIs
Neuromancer / int_83441d66	comment	Case's actions at the end of the book suggest that he keeps this attitude. He gets a gigantic Swiss bank account from the A.I.s, blows most of it on replacing his kinked-up liver and pancreas (just on general principle; the book never suggests he starts using drugs again), and spends the rest on a new top-of-the-line deck and a ticket home to the Sprawl, where he goes right back to being a console cowboy on his home turf.
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Neuromancer / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Neuromancer / int_83442cc3	comment	EMP: The Russian military protects their AIs with EMP weapons, which destroyed Colonel Willis Corto's unit. Also, EMP bombs are built into all AIs: in case of rampant self-extension, break glass to break the AI.
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Neuromancer / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Neuromancer / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Linda Lee, who dies in the beginning of the story to provide motivation and pathos to Case. He blames the Tessier-Ashpool AI's for it, but Neuromancer says it's not true — they saw the patterns all around her and Case that would inevitably lead to her death.
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Neuromancer / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Neuromancer / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: When Maelcum tries to convince Case and Molly to come meet the elders of Freeside, a dubious Molly asks him, "You know how fast I can cut you, friend?"
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Neuromancer / int_8c5b8f0b	type	Salaryman
Neuromancer / int_8c5b8f0b	comment	Salaryman: Not a major plot point, but frequently mentioned.
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Neuromancer / int_8e81e57f	type	Voice with an Internet Connection
Neuromancer / int_8e81e57f	comment	Voice with an Internet Connection: Played with. When watching Molly while jacked into his computer, Case can experience the world through her senses and receive one-way communications from her. He can't send any information directly back, but has to give messages to a third party for them to pass on to her.
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Neuromancer / int_8f1450ba	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Neuromancer / int_8f1450ba	comment	Pintsized Powerhouse: Hideo, the vat-grown ninja assassin. He's described as "little" but is the deadliest person in the book. Molly uses Waif-Fu to deadly effect, being wired to the gills.
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Neuromancer / int_90a1fbd4	type	Split-Personality Takeover
Neuromancer / int_90a1fbd4	comment	Split-Personality Takeover: "Armitage", the cool, collected badass, was a fake personality created by Wintermute. The man's other personality is "Colonel Willis Corto", a Shell-Shocked Veteran barely clinging to sanity.
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Neuromancer / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Neuromancer / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Case realizes that Wintermute has a habit of immediately lethally disposing of its pawns the moment they are no longer of use to it, either directly or through carefully arranging circumstances to result in their destruction. And he's aware that he's being manipulated into a similar direction, but can't bring himself to walk away.
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Neuromancer / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Neuromancer / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Vat-grown meat is the standard. Molly offhandedly says this is due to some sort of epidemic that wiped out a lot of fauna.
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Neuromancer / int_9515716	type	Working for a Body Upgrade
Neuromancer / int_9515716	comment	Working for a Body Upgrade: Case agrees to work for Armitage in exchange for being permanently cured of the neural damage that prevents him from punching deck. Molly's backstory had her "working" as a meat puppet to afford her cybernetic upgrades.
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Neuromancer / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
Neuromancer / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: What 3Jane complains of.
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Neuromancer / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Neuromancer / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Arguably Neuromancer, who sets the plot of the book in motion, along with his "twin" Wintermute.
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Neuromancer / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Neuromancer / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: The expandable baton that Case buys is called a Cobra. This is a reference to ASP, Inc., a leading manufacturer of expandable batons to the point that "asp" is a generic term for the weapon. Given that it's described as if Case and the reader have never even seen one before, this was a pretty stealthy reference.
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Neuromancer / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Neuromancer / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: As Neuromancer and Wintermute fuse, a construct of Linda Lee remains in cyberspace alone for eternity, rejected by Case. Luckily, the merged AI recorded a copy of Case, so both constructs could be together forever, living the life their meatspace counterparts were denied.
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Neuromancer / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
Neuromancer / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: Peter Riviera, who utilizes an extremely expensive hologram projector implant to make David Lynch-esque theatrical works.
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Neuromancer / int_98ba5dfe	type	Unproblematic Prostitution
Neuromancer / int_98ba5dfe	comment	Unproblematic Prostitution: Zigzagged. Molly's tenure as sex worker started this way, since the computer programs did all the actual prostitution for her — she describes it as "free money". But then her boss, upon finding out what she was using the money for, switched her to violent snuff programs without telling her, and her new modifications woke her up in the middle of a session that she implies involved murder and/or necrophilia.
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Neuromancer / int_99fa6bc0	type	Because I'm Good At It
Neuromancer / int_99fa6bc0	comment	Because I'm Good At It: As Molly says, she and Case pretty much are their jobs — they do it because it's what they know best. "You gotta jack, I gotta tussle." Case's actions at the end of the book suggest that he keeps this attitude. He gets a gigantic Swiss bank account from the A.I.s, blows most of it on replacing his kinked-up liver and pancreas (just on general principle; the book never suggests he starts using drugs again), and spends the rest on a new top-of-the-line deck and a ticket home to the Sprawl, where he goes right back to being a console cowboy on his home turf.
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Neuromancer / int_9a91603e	type	Atrocious Alias
Neuromancer / int_9a91603e	comment	Atrocious Alias: Case winds up with some pretty lame aliases for himself in Chiba.
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Neuromancer / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
Neuromancer / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: The Dixie Flatline ROM can't really learn or create (it's shown earlier that his memory wipes back to its default state when he's turned off and back on). In fact, his predictability is why Neuromancer tries to take out Case first. Discussed by Case and the ROM:
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Neuromancer / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
Neuromancer / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Case dreams about an incident from his past involving destroying a hornet nest with a small flamethrower. It's a message from Wintermute, using the Body Horror Case felt at the split-open nest — the mechanized life cycle of the hornets — to give him some metaphorical idea of what the Tessier-Ashpools are turning into.
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Neuromancer / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Neuromancer / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Terzibashjian disapproves of Molly's tomboyish nature, stating that "women are still women in Turkey." This causes her to take a strong dislike to him, to say the least.
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Neuromancer / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Neuromancer / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Molly's doctor's skeptical assessment of her injured leg. "He says if I kick anything, it'll fall off." And then just as she's about to confront Riviera, it finally gives out.
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Neuromancer / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Neuromancer / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: To some of Gibson's earlier short stories set in the Sprawl. Bobby Quine of "Burning Chrome" is stated to have been one of Case's mentors. Molly's actually met him and thinks he's "a real asshole". Molly is revealed to be the same character as Molly Millions from the short story "Johnny Mnemonic," and she reveals the grim epilogue of that story. Recurring Character "The Finn" (first introduced in "Burning Chrome" as Bobby and Jack's Friend in the Black Market) puts in an appearance. There are also the obligatory references to the Third World War, which was first hinted at in "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic." Automatic Jack supposedly lost his arm in the war, and Jones the Dolphin was developed by the Navy to detect Russian mines.
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Neuromancer / int_9e630d58	type	Exploring the Evil Lair
Neuromancer / int_9e630d58	comment	Exploring the Evil Lair: Molly's infiltration of the Villa Straylight, which Case watches via an uplink, but cannot communicate with her.
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Neuromancer / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
Neuromancer / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: Armitage/Corto is rebuilt both in body and personality after Operation Screaming Fist. Unfortunately the personality doesn't last.
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Neuromancer / int_9ff5aa20	type	Nailed to the Wagon
Neuromancer / int_9ff5aa20	comment	Nailed to the Wagon: Armitage attempts this with Case by modifying his liver and pancreas to make it so he can't get high off of amps and coke anymore. He bypasses this by finding drugs that don't need his liver or pancreas however.
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Neuromancer / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Neuromancer / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Case's motives for helping Molly and Armitage — cracking the T.A. construct, and finding out who killed Linda Lee. This is exactly Wintermute's plan; it used detailed psychological profiles to select agents that would have personal motives for doing what it wanted them to. A hefty chunk of Molly's motivation for going on the Straylight run is to square off against Hideo, the Tessier-Ashpools' pet ninja, because "one like him" killed her old boyfriend. It's hinted that Hideo might actually be the one, but even if he isn't, she's still holding a grudge against his "kind", and killing him will be revenge enough.
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Neuromancer / int_a24bd0e9	type	Poison and Cure Gambit
Neuromancer / int_a24bd0e9	comment	Poison and Cure Gambit: When Armitage cures Case's nerve damage so he can access the Matrix again, fifteen sacs of the very same mycotoxin that ruined him in the first place were bonded to the lining of various main arteries — and they're very slowly dissolving. Armitage promises that when he completes the job, he'll inject him with an enzyme that will dissolve the bonds without opening the sacs, enabling them to be removed with a blood transfusion. Otherwise, Case will be maimed again when the sacs melt.
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Neuromancer / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Neuromancer / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: During the raid on Sense/Net, Molly apparently removes the eyes of one of the guards that attacks her. This seems to be a favorite tactic of hers; when Case surprises her on Freeside, she goes for his eyes with her thumb-razors. Molly puts a single dart into the eye of Ashpool when she encounters him in his bedchamber. Later, this is reversed when Molly's glasses are damaged in a fight and her eye has to be bandaged. Riviera blinds Hideo with his hologram projector, although this doesn't stop him from being able to fight.
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Neuromancer / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
Neuromancer / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The titular Artificial Intelligence, Neuromancer, doesn't appear until towards the end of the novel, when it's revealed that it's Wintermute's twin, whom Wintermute wishes to bond with in order to evolve into a super-A.I.
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Neuromancer / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Neuromancer / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: When jacked into the matrix (ie. Inside a Computer System), Case spends several days with Linda Lee in a VR simulation created by Neuromancer, but to Maelcum it only appears to be a few minutes. This is also why being "flatlined" (trapped inside the matrix) is so feared.
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Neuromancer / int_a6441fa	type	Gratuitous Ninja
Neuromancer / int_a6441fa	comment	Gratuitous Ninja: In a work that mostly deals with hackers, ex-soldiers, con men, and street mercenaries, Lady 3Jane's genetically-engineered manservant ninja (referred to as such, and acts very much like the stereotype) sticks out, especially when he does most of the combat heavy lifting. Even after being blinded.
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Neuromancer / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Neuromancer / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Armitage served under one in Russia. Later, when he begins to go insane, he also starts acting like one himself.
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Neuromancer / int_a67b8999	type	Extreme Graphical Representation
Neuromancer / int_a67b8999	comment	Extreme Graphical Representation: In cyberspace. Programs appear as brightly colored geometric shapes, and viruses are shown as literally penetrating layers of security. As well, everything seems to be 3D.
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Neuromancer / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
Neuromancer / int_a814671b	comment	The Turing Registry, an N.G.O. Superpower that keeps track of A.I.s and has near-untouchable policing powers.
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Neuromancer / int_aa8d0ef0	type	Spell My Name with a "The"
Neuromancer / int_aa8d0ef0	comment	Spell My Name with a "The": The Finn.
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Neuromancer / int_aa8db5e2	type	Mega City
Neuromancer / int_aa8db5e2	comment	Mega City: The Sprawl takes up the majority of the east coast of the United States. Greater Tokyo and Istanbul probably count as well.
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Neuromancer / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Neuromancer / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: Many of them, but the Tessier-Ashpools are the most prominent and figure the most highly in the plot.
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Neuromancer / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Neuromancer / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Riviera lapses into this when he learns that Hideo, who he just blinded with concentrated beams from his hologram projector, trains in the dark and is therefore a formidable assassin even when he can't see. He gets even "Oh, Crap!"-ier when Hideo calmly points out that Riviera's holograms (his only real strength) are now ineffective against him, leaving Riviera completely helpless.
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Neuromancer / int_ad786c6b	type	Hookers and Blow
Neuromancer / int_ad786c6b	comment	Hookers and Blow: Both are available in abundance everywhere in the future.
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Neuromancer / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Neuromancer / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Molly's "It's just the way I'm wired", her explanation for her motivations.
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Neuromancer / int_b690b676	type	Fictional Disability
Neuromancer / int_b690b676	comment	Fictional Disability: The beginning of the novel describes protagonist Case as a once-talented computer hacker who was rendered unable to access virtual cyberspace networks, after his central nervous system was damaged by a mycotoxin as punishment for stealing from his employers. An offer Case receives to fix this damage is what sets the rest of the story's plot in motion.
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Neuromancer / int_b8237752	type	HollywoodCyborg
Neuromancer / int_b8237752	comment	Hollywood Cyborg: Molly. How the heck does she store four-centimeter-long blades inside her fingers? It never says that they are fully retracted into her fingers, nor does it say how long her "natural" nails are, she could have nails that extend 3 centimeters past her fingertips with blades mostly hidden by them until extended. Or, the blades might be flexible, or stored further up her finger and they move down a channel to her finger tips that's available when she straightens her fingers.
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Neuromancer / int_b871de85	type	Annoying Laugh
Neuromancer / int_b871de85	comment	Annoying Laugh: For Case, the Dixie construct's laughter, which just sounds plain wrong. He doesn't quite hear it, in fact, so much as he feels it — as an uncomfortable tingle down his spine.
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Neuromancer / int_b92f949c	type	Street Samurai
Neuromancer / int_b92f949c	comment	Street Samurai: Molly is the Trope Namer. She's a cybernetic mercenary, but not a soldier. She specializes in criminal enterprises in the streets and back alleys of the underworld.
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Neuromancer / int_ba72eebb	type	Waif-Fu
Neuromancer / int_ba72eebb	comment	Waif-Fu: Molly looks like a slender young woman, but she is packed to bursting with synthetic reflexes that make her a holy terror in a fight. In an almost unheard-of departure, Molly gets badly hurt in a fight. Twice.
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Neuromancer / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Neuromancer / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The cause isn't too clear, but maybe the United States may have lost the Cold War through economic collapse... it's not really clear what happened. Nuclear weapons were used on Bonn and perhaps elsewhere, but it is unclear why; a full-scale exchange seems to have been averted and there is no mention of a Communist threat anywhere. Lampshaded when the incident that sparked the event had been "watergated", and sets the trajectory for the downfall and balkanization of the U.S.
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Neuromancer / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Neuromancer / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: Hideo the ninja, even when blindfolded. Also Molly to some extent, thanks to her Super-Reflexes.
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Neuromancer / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
Neuromancer / int_bd2812b5	comment	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: At the end of the novel, Wintermute merges with its "twin" AI, Neuromancer, becoming a new entity.
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Neuromancer / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Neuromancer / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Case, at least while he's hacking. When he's preparing for the [Sense/Net] run, one of the items of equipment Armitage delivers to their workspace is a Braun coffee maker that sits right next to the computer.
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Neuromancer / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Neuromancer / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: The most feared gang in Japan, perhaps even the world, especially their genetically-engineered ninja assassins.
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Neuromancer / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
Neuromancer / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: Molly's backstory. Even after her confessions to Case about being a "meat puppet" and a few tidbits about her childhood, most about her remains unclear.
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Neuromancer / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Neuromancer / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Our protagonist Case is a professional criminal. When he can't stage heists as a console cowboy, he smuggles just about anything you want to get your hands on. He references a troubled youth as well as three murders he's committed in the past, presumably fellow criminals. All that said, he's not without his humanity.
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Neuromancer / int_bffb777a	type	Sawed-Off Shotgun
Neuromancer / int_bffb777a	comment	Sawed-Off Shotgun: Maelcum has one.
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Neuromancer / int_c37813c5	type	Ninja
Neuromancer / int_c37813c5	comment	Ninja: Hideo, Lady 3Jane's Battle Butler.
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Neuromancer / int_c5594984	type	Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe
Neuromancer / int_c5594984	comment	Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: While Gibson's "Sprawl" stories center on the eponymous Sprawl along the United States' eastern seaboard, Tokyo has become the center for big business and new technology because Japan Takes Over the World. Chiba, a suburb of Tokyo, is the place to go for bionics and is consequently a hotbed of illegal activity.
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Neuromancer / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Neuromancer / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The scene where Armitage ropes Case into the operation is blatantly based on a similar scene in Escape from New York. Molly is referred to as "Steppin' Razor" by the Zionites, a clear reference to the reggae song by Joe Higgs.
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Neuromancer / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Neuromancer / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: It's implied that Riviera's overall monstrousness is a result of his horrific childhood in the ruined remnants of Bonn.
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Neuromancer / int_c8b7a847	type	Bring News Back
Neuromancer / int_c8b7a847	comment	Bring News Back: Subverted. Armitage believes he has to do this before he dies, but this is due to his Sanity Slippage and regressing into his old persona of Corto.
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Neuromancer / int_c9954979	type	Crippling the Competition
Neuromancer / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: Case, in his backstory, was caught stealing and punished by being given a treatment that destroyed his ability to interface with the matrix.
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Neuromancer / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Neuromancer / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Tessier-Ashpool's bloodline went loopier than a roller coaster at some point, thanks to inbreeding and Clone Degeneration. Lady 3Jane is spacey and cryptic, and when all is said and done, Molly said all she gave them was a wave, like she wasn't interested, and said nothing to see them off.
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Neuromancer / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Neuromancer / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Case, though he's no wimp. He recalls brawling on rooftops in his youth and knows the proper handgrip for a knife fight, but in an underworld filled with mercenaries and cyber-ninjas, he's completely out of his depth when bullets start flying. His place is behind a computer console, and he spends much of the novel using his hacking skills to assist Molly from behind the scenes, viewing the action through Molly's eyes with the aid of a Brain/Computer Interface.
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Neuromancer / int_cccee2e	type	Left Field Description
Neuromancer / int_cccee2e	comment	Left Field Description: The opening sentence, quoted at the top of the page. A staple of Gibson's writing style.
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Neuromancer / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
Neuromancer / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: A signature aspect of the Cyberpunk genre.
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Neuromancer / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Neuromancer / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Maelcum is a peaceful Rastafarian, but keeps an ancient shotgun behind a hidden panel in his ship anyway, which he takes to confront Riviera and Lady 3Jane. Hideo's bow is also made out of simple bamboo, although his arrows seem to be modern-made. Molly encounters a mechanical lock in Straylight. While Wintermute is able to hack into electronic locks, it can't defeat this.
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Neuromancer / int_d49671b4	comment	Zen Survivor: Armitage. Becomes very un-Zen when he reverts to the personality of Corto, then quickly becomes dead.
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Neuromancer / int_d50f42d	type	Skyscraper City
Neuromancer / int_d50f42d	comment	Skyscraper City: Implied with the Sprawl, which is very dense and filled with Mega Corps, though the story rarely mentions skyscrapers.
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Neuromancer / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Neuromancer / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Case, Molly, and Armitage all go by aliases at various points. Armitage is actually Willis Corto.
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Neuromancer / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Neuromancer / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Wintermute
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Neuromancer / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Neuromancer / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Flipping" between views in cyberspace, "jacking" into the matrix and all sorts of other techy-sounding jargon.
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Neuromancer / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Neuromancer / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Hideo, the Lady 3Jane's personal ninja, is both manservant and assassin, dependent on circumstances.
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Neuromancer / int_da15842d	type	Brain/Computer Interface
Neuromancer / int_da15842d	comment	Brain/Computer Interface: Practically the Trope Codifier.
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Neuromancer / int_dae815bb	type	A Glass in the Hand
Neuromancer / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: A clear sign that Armitage is beginning to crack. Case catches him staring blankly into space instead of eating his dinner, and he snaps the stem off his wineglass when Case tries to get his attention.
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Neuromancer / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Neuromancer / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: "Operation Screaming Fist". With all the tantalizing references to it, it seems like it will be crucial to the mission in some way. As it turns out, the only important thing about it is that it drove Armitage/Willis Corto insane, allowing Wintermute to use him as a puppet and create the illusion that he was in control. The shuriken that Molly buys for Case seems like it will be a Chekhov's Gun, but he never uses it. Case even lampshades this himself when he throws it at the TV before leaving his hotel room for the last time.
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Neuromancer / int_dc167d72	type	Knowledge Broker
Neuromancer / int_dc167d72	comment	Knowledge Broker: The Finn. Case and Molly visit him for information and to use his full-body scanner and eavesdrop-proof back room.
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Neuromancer / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
Neuromancer / int_dc6a260b	comment	Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool.
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Neuromancer / int_deea2fb5	type	Idle Rich
Neuromancer / int_deea2fb5	comment	Idle Rich: Marie-France's original plan takes this to extremes. They wouldn't even have to think for themselves, their A.I.s would do their thinking for them.
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Neuromancer / int_df60d405	type	Culture Chop Suey
Neuromancer / int_df60d405	comment	Culture Chop Suey: Apart from Japan Takes Over the World, introducing a lot of Asian aspects to Sprawl culture, there's also Freeside, which is a space colony patronized by all sorts of different nationalities.
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Neuromancer / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Everyone addresses Case by his last name, except for the Turing Police officers who use his full name (Henry Dorsett Case) when arresting him.
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Neuromancer / int_e3f34fb4	type	Featureless Protagonist
Neuromancer / int_e3f34fb4	comment	Featureless Protagonist: Almost. Case doesn't get much of a descriptionnote ("tall, thin-shouldered, short dark hair" in a quick, read-too-quickly-and-you'll-miss-it moment late in the novel), though everyone else's is more detailed: Molly is fair skinned with black hair and clothing, with special lenses; Armitage has slicked back brown hair and a goatee; Riviera is blond with long hair, also swept back. Most of the important persons have defining traits, but the main things we are told of Case is that he's pale, has gray eyes and a skinny face, due to his drug addictions and overall crappy life.
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Neuromancer / int_e5a814a8	type	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
Neuromancer / int_e5a814a8	comment	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap: Most food is genetically modified, including cloned meat. Molly even chides Case for not eating a steak that Armitage ordered for his dinner, since real meat is so expensive.
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Neuromancer / int_e71d66e	type	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!
Neuromancer / int_e71d66e	comment	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That!: Case forgets to knock when dropping in on Molly. It's not a good idea.
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Neuromancer / int_e7f5713a	type	Ominous Cube
Neuromancer / int_e7f5713a	comment	Ominous Cube: Wintermute appears as a glowing white cube in cyberspace, sheathed in hidden black ICE.
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Neuromancer / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Neuromancer / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The Flatline construct is about as thrilled to exist as Case is to be working with it.
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Neuromancer / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Neuromancer / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: The Tessier-Ashpools, being clones, are assigned numbers to go with their names, eg. 3Jane, 6Jean, etc.
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Neuromancer / int_eadc018f	type	Pinball Protagonist
Neuromancer / int_eadc018f	comment	Pinball Protagonist: Case spends the entire book being shoved around by forces larger than himself. This is true of most of Gibson's protagonists.
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Neuromancer / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Neuromancer / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Molly does this to some mook in Sense/Net headquarters.
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Neuromancer / int_ef3d1b57	type	Technician Versus Performer
Neuromancer / int_ef3d1b57	comment	Technician Versus Performer: Wintermute is a partial AI that can absorb and processes an endless amount of data, being driven by data and logic. Neuromancer specializes in understanding humans, emotions and empathy.
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Neuromancer / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Neuromancer / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	The Lost Lenore: Linda Lee, for Case.
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Neuromancer / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Neuromancer / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Molly's killing of Ashpool, who is a broken old man at the time she meets him and just short of committing suicide.
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Neuromancer / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Neuromancer / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Neuromancer's form in his private cyberspace realm is a Brazilian boy with pink gums. He's only creepy in that he's rather inscrutable and obviously much more intelligent than a child.
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Neuromancer / int_f5c505db	type	The Cracker
Neuromancer / int_f5c505db	comment	The Cracker: Case.
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Neuromancer / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Neuromancer / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like in a Coma: A special service at a brothel Molly used to work at, where prostitutes are in comas and mechanically controlled like puppets by a computer. Riviera does a performance piece based on how her tenure as a meat puppet went horribly wrong. The service is first described in "Burning Chrome."
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Neuromancer / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Neuromancer / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: In the beginning of the story, Case is reduced to running black market organs to scrape money together. He pays a loan shark with a flask full of frozen pituitary glands.
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Neuromancer / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Neuromancer / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: Between the USA and Russia, heavily implied to have been World War III. Both sides appear to have lost.
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Neuromancer / int_f912a750	type	Immune to Drugs
Neuromancer / int_f912a750	comment	Immune to Drugs: Armitage pulls this on Case at the same time he repairs the hacker's nervous system; thanks to a few alterations to his liver and pancreas, Case is biochemically incapable of getting off on amphetamine or cocaine. Notably, this doesn't really cure his addictions, as he still feels a psychological need to be high on something; he instead tracks down drugs that directly affect his brain, which he doesn't have much time to get used to — and it turns out the comedown is nasty.
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Neuromancer / int_fa73ee9d	type	Explosive Leash
Neuromancer / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: Hold the explosives. Armitage has several sacs of poison implanted in Case's blood vessels — the same poison that was first used to cripple him. Unless Case completes the mission in time, those sacs will dissolve and he will again lose his ability to jack into cyberspace. Every AI has a built-in EMP bomb set to go off the nanosecond they attempt to figure out how to become smarter. The team's mission turns out to be an attempt to break Wintermute free of its programming constraints without killing it. The Finn mentions a "cortical bomb" when scanning Molly and Case for non-biological implants (he can't do biological scans).
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Neuromancer / int_fb01ee16	type	Cyberpunk
Neuromancer / int_fb01ee16	comment	Cyberpunk: Trope Codifier and Genre Popularizer. We follow a console cowboy and a cyborg street samurai who are hired by an AI for perform a heist.
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Neuromancer / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Neuromancer / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: 3Jane to Molly, though she doesn't seem very upset about it.
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Neuromancer / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Neuromancer / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: The source of the Dixie Flatline ROM construct. Also one of Neuromancer's main purposes, although his/its ability to accurately store memories and personality is so comprehensive as to make "Dixie" look like nothing by comparison — so much so that he/it fruitlessly insists to Case that "To live here is to live. There is no difference." Linda Lee also unknowingly does this shortly before her death, when she slots the RAM module she stole from Case.
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Neuromancer / int_fca3518f	type	Gun Stripping
Neuromancer / int_fca3518f	comment	Gun Stripping: Molly habitually takes apart her fletcher and reassembles it, showing her familiarity with the weapon. Often she does it without even looking at it. (Though with those implanted lenses, how could you tell?)
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Neuromancer / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Neuromancer / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Hideo and his kind are exquisitely polite, almost genteel... and everyone with the eyes for it can feel the death emanating off them. Basically, if one of them is dispatched for you, it's over. And they'll probably apologize for all the fuss.
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Neuromancer / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Neuromancer / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Nearly every character. Case is a burned-out drug addict and washed-up former hacker whose girlfriend was murdered by gangsters; Molly is a former prostitute who was abused and who grew up in poverty (whose boyfriend was murdered by gangsters); Armitage was a high-ranking army officer who participated in a catastrophically failed raid on the Soviet Union, and so on.
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Neuromancer / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Neuromancer / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Case, to begin with. One interpretation is this is what Case is after during the climax of the novel and why he is so powerful during his run. Also, the Dixie Flatline's life as a construct is implied to be a hollow, chilly experience, which is why he asks to be erased after the job is done.
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Neuromancer	hasFeature	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Avengers Assemble / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Battle Butler / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Bio-Augmentation / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Blind Weaponmaster / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Blindfolded Vision / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Bondage Is Bad / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Brain/Computer Interface / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Brain Uploading / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Chest Burster / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Clones Are People, Too / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Cool Shades / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Corporate Samurai / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Creative Sterility / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Credit Chip / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Crippling the Competition / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Cult Colony / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Cyber Ninja / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Decoy Hiding Place / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Digital Abomination / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Digitized Hacker / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Dissonant Serenity / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Don't Sneak Up on Me Like That! / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Donut Mess with a Cop / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Dude, She's Like in a Coma / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	EMP / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Empty Shell / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Everybody's Dead, Dave / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Explosive Leash / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Extreme Graphical Representation / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Fantastic Drug / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Fiction 500 / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Fictional Disability / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	First Installment Wins / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Food Porn / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Future Food Is Artificial / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Future Slang / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Gonk / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Good Cop/Bad Cop / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Hand Cannon / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Hologram / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Hooker with a Heart of Gold / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Interface with a Familiar Face / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Invisibility Cloak / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Koan / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Left Field Description / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Life Imitates Art / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Living Memory / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Look-Alike Lovers / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Master of Illusion / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Mind-Reformat Death / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Mysterious Employer / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Neural Implanting / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Never Gets Drunk / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Ninja / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Non-Action Guy / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Ominous Cube / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Opaque Lenses / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Oracular Head / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Pinball Protagonist / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Platonic Cave / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Pretty in Mink / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Professional Killer / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Rags to Riches / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Reclusive Artist / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Religion is Magic / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Resurrected for a Job / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Robot and A.I. Works / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Scandalgate / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Secondary Character Title / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Sense Freak / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Soulless Bedroom / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Southern-Fried Genius / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Tastes Like Purple / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Technology Marches On / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Terrorists Without a Cause / int_66394ca4
TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks	seeAlso	Neuromancer
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Caper / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Cracker / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Power of Hate / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Rat / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Scrounger / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	The Straight and Arrow Path / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Thrown Out the Airlock / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Two-Keyed Lock / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Undiscriminating Addict / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Unusual User Interface / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Video Arcade / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Viewers Are Geniuses / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Virtual Ghost / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	While You Were in Diapers / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Working for a Body Upgrade / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Xanatos Speed Chess / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Your Eyes Can Deceive You / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer	hasFeature	Your Mind Makes It Real / int_66394ca4
Neuromancer (Video Game)	seeAlso	Neuromancer
neuromancer	sameAs	Neuromancer

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