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Ready Player One

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Ready Player One	type	TVTItem
Ready Player One	label	Ready Player One
Ready Player One	page	ReadyPlayerOne
Ready Player One	comment	Ready Player One is a 2011 novel by Ernest Cline about a teen named Wade Watts, who spends all his time on OASIS, a virtual reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game that has replaced the Internet itself as humanity's primary means of recreation and communication. He plays to escape his boring, harrowing life in the trailer park he calls home. Wade's life is consumed by the quest to find the hidden fortune of the man who created OASIS, James Halliday. The only clues to how to get at it were hidden away in Halliday's personal writings, and the only way to decode them is... 1980s pop culture.What follows is a story about life, adventure, and a love letter to the 1980s wrapped up in a science fiction plot that's told in a unique style.The Film of the Book was released in 2018, with Steven Spielberg directing. A sequel to the book, Ready Player Two, was released in November 2020.
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Ready Player One / int_1305f045	type	Vanity License Plate
Ready Player One / int_1305f045	comment	Vanity License Plate: Wade's vehicle within the OASIS is a mashup of the Back to the Future Delorean, KITT, and Ecto 1 as acknowledged on its license plate - ECTO 88. For bonus points, the author's real life Delorean has the same vanity plate.
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Ready Player One / int_1527d90d	type	Early Game Hell
Ready Player One / int_1527d90d	comment	Early Game Hell: It took 5 years for anyone to find the first key. Parzival had it particularly tough as he did not have enough credits to either buy better equipment or teleport off-world to level-up his avatar.
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Ready Player One / int_16f187bf	type	Virtual-Reality Warper
Ready Player One / int_16f187bf	comment	Virtual-Reality Warper: The founders of OASIS have characters that can do literally anything within the simulation. After winning the contest, Wade Watts gains these capabilities and complete control of the OASIS - and some of his new powers explicitly violate clear rules of the virtual reality, such as being able to enter a private room without the knowledge or permission of its operators.
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Ready Player One / int_172079cb	type	Dungeon Shop
Ready Player One / int_172079cb	comment	Dungeon Shop: Wade comments in the absurdness of setting up shop in a dungeon while playing Black Tiger.
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Ready Player One / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Ready Player One / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Virtually every character. Particularly Wade, who, upon finding a 1974 Gibson Les Paul in a stone — the exact guitar used by Alex Lifeson during the 2112 tour — plays the first measure of "Discovery", which triggers a message on how to open the Third Gate. To the Sixers, it was just a Plot Coupon; to Wade — and Halliday — it's an awesome guitar that must be played.
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Ready Player One / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Ready Player One / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Wade's plan to infiltrate IOI isn't explained to the reader until he's near the end of it.
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Ready Player One / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Ready Player One / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: It's the first thing that comes up when someone turns on the OASIS consoles, like an old video game.
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Ready Player One / int_1a1ea492	type	Lord British Postulate
Ready Player One / int_1a1ea492	comment	Lord British Postulate: Implied, as Og and Anorak and, by the end of the book, Parzival have infinite hit points and mana, as well as unique spells and abilities.
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Ready Player One / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Ready Player One / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: Wade lampshades that the wise men in the game "Black Tiger" thought running a shop in a dungeon full of monsters was a good idea.
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Ready Player One / int_1b45acae	type	Post-Peak Oil
Ready Player One / int_1b45acae	comment	Post-Peak Oil: Gasoline is in such short supply, fuel costs caused most of the middle and lower classes to outright abandon their vehicles where they ran out. This has driven most of the population into densely packed cities as opposed to in spread out towns and suburbs as the freeway infrastructure can no longer provide the same transit opportunities as they used to. Unfortunately, this mass urban immigration and demand for density has fueled the creation of massive slums quickly created by stacking trailer homes and cargo crates onto freestanding girders.
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Ready Player One / int_1b8d3822	type	Mind Prison
Ready Player One / int_1b8d3822	comment	Mind Prison: Variation - IOI employs wage slaves and indentured debtors in OASIS, holding rooms full of prisoners using VR helmets to earn in-game currency and unlock prizes - all of which are kept by the company.
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Ready Player One / int_1da713c2	type	Cool School
Ready Player One / int_1da713c2	comment	Cool School: While the story is more focused on the OASIS in general, the protagonist, Wade Watts, starts out living in the stacks, a combination urban ghetto, third-world slum and trailer park, but attending school on the virtual planet Ludus. The planet is covered with beautifully appointed schools with immaculately manicured grounds, surrounded by pristine forests. The classes use interactive simulations to teach, and the software enforces school rules, so the teachers don't have to double as disciplinarians (you can even mute students to prevent verbal bullying). Wade makes a point of how infinitely better it is than the impoverished, run-down school he'd gone to before.
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Ready Player One / int_1dab76ed	type	Cosy Catastrophe
Ready Player One / int_1dab76ed	comment	Cosy Catastrophe: The setting wavers between this and a Crapsack World. While poverty, crime, and drug use are rampant and wars and terrorism apparently constant, the economy still seems to function, at least in the US, and implicitly elsewhere. Even the poor have sufficient communications access to use the OASIS (which goes a long way to making life tolerable), and food production, high tech manufacturing, and even food delivery are very much in operation.
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Ready Player One / int_1e580ede	type	Fan of the Past
Ready Player One / int_1e580ede	comment	Fan of the Past: Gunters have to become fans of The '80s (and the end of The '70s) by necessity. This was apparently part of Halliday's plan.
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Ready Player One / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Ready Player One / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: The book at times foregoes any specific description of scenery and action and instead just states the general qualities of them. For example, the description of Anorak's Invitation tells the reader that Halliday is at a high-school dance "surrounded by teenagers whose clothing, hairstyles, and dance moves all indicate that the time period is the late 1980s." We are then informed that Halliday "flawlessly cycl[es] through several signature 80s dance moves." And that's about all the details that are told.
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Ready Player One / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
Ready Player One / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: Well, the IOI operatives technically do have faces, but since they all have to use the same face and identical avatars, the effect is the same.
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Ready Player One / int_20d04319	type	Limerick
Ready Player One / int_20d04319	comment	Limerick: The clue for where to find the copper key is in the form of a limerick, and thus appropriately called "The Limerick" among gunters.
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Ready Player One / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Ready Player One / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The real world, once the oil ran out. Things putter along only because of the OASIS — see Terminally Dependent Society.
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Ready Player One / int_2206fd8c	type	Fallen States of America
Ready Player One / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: The real world action mostly takes place in the United States, and because of the fuel crisis it's shown to have become a collection of overpopulated and polluted cities, surrounded by stacks of trailers, essentially slums. The areas in between are relatively lawless, evidenced by the bus that Wade takes from Oklahoma City to Columbus being armored and escorted. At one point, Wade mentions that despite living in the overcrowded and dangerous stacks with an abusive guardian who spends his welfare money on drugs instead of food, his situation is better than average, and it's implied that many other countries have it worse.
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Ready Player One / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Ready Player One / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The quarter and the Cataclyst. Averted, however, with the handgun and flak jacket Wade purchased after escaping from IOI. It's a reasonable safety measure, but he goes the rest of the book without encountering any threats in the real world.
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Ready Player One / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Ready Player One / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Pretty much IOI's strategy.
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Ready Player One / int_233647f6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
Ready Player One / int_233647f6	comment	Post Cyber Punk: The setting. If IOI wins, it will quickly become classic Cyberpunk.
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Ready Player One / int_2864490b	type	Gravity Screw
Ready Player One / int_2864490b	comment	Gravity Screw: Ogden's nightclub, The Distracted Globe is spherical with the walls and ceilings also being the floor and a zero-gravity dancefloor in the center.
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Ready Player One / int_2905fbec	type	Your Magic's No Good Here
Ready Player One / int_2905fbec	comment	Your Magic's No Good Here: Some worlds have magic, other worlds do not. If you try to travel to a world using magical means, and that world doesn't support it, you'll be stranded until you can hitch a ride on someone else's technology-powered spacecraft. Likewise, there are some fantasy worlds allow magic but not technology, so if you fly your space ship into a no-tech zone, you will be stranded until someone can extract you with magical means. The book also mentions null zones where neither tech nor magic work, but they are not encountered in the story. Many areas are "chaos" zones, where both magic and tech work.
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Ready Player One / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Ready Player One / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Some of the planets have Latin names. Incipio (Latin for 'I begin') is the starting planet. Ludus (Latin for 'school') is the planet where Wade and Aech go to school. The fact that "ludus" also means "game" is an early plot point.
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Ready Player One / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Ready Player One / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: Halliday describes his prize as this, even though it's technically a treasure hunt. The Trope Maker (Adventure) is the location of Halliday's Easter Egg. There is a real one, though. On the arcade planet, if you go to a certain arcade and play a perfect game of Pac-Man, you win a quarter which gives you an extra life.
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Ready Player One / int_2a4222ff	type	Benevolent A.I.
Ready Player One / int_2a4222ff	comment	Benevolent A.I.: Wade has an AI based on Max Headroom that controls his apartment.
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Ready Player One / int_2b9ae056	type	World-Wrecking Wave
Ready Player One / int_2b9ae056	comment	World-Wrecking Wave: The highest end of the nukes, The Cataclyst, destroys all players in a given sector, which is then followed by a shockwave that blasts all objects (unless they are artifacts) as well.
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Ready Player One / int_2e285a8b	type	Person as Verb
Ready Player One / int_2e285a8b	comment	Person as Verb: In universe, "pulling a Pendergast" means revealing a clue or piece of Halliday trivia in public (after the guy that revealed the first clue, hidden in Anorak's Calendar).
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Ready Player One / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Ready Player One / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Avatars don't "die" in OASIS; they "zero out."
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Ready Player One / int_2f50c99f	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Ready Player One / int_2f50c99f	comment	Theme Music Powerup: The battle at the Crystal Gate starts out with AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" pumping through the radio.
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Ready Player One / int_31254f02	type	Two-Keyed Lock
Ready Player One / int_31254f02	comment	Two-Keyed Lock: The third gate requires three people to open it at once. This slows down IOI when they get to the gate first, because it appears to only be one keyhole; the trick to having the other two show up is to have three people sing the Schoolhouse Rock! song "Three is a Magic Number".
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Ready Player One / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Ready Player One / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Sorrento and IOI, in the beginning, come off as a greedy, but well-organized, professional egg-hunter company. Then they try to kill Wade in the real world... and it only gets worse.
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Ready Player One / int_35efd14b	type	Infinite 1-Ups
Ready Player One / int_35efd14b	comment	Infinite 1-Ups: Exploited by Parzival (on the advice of Art3mis) when playing Tempest within the final gate. He makes use of a Good Bad Bug to immediately obtain 40 extra credits. While he ends up not needing to do again, this exploit would have been repeatable if he had lost 39 times before beating the game.
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Ready Player One / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
Ready Player One / int_361a1d26	comment	Anguished Declaration of Love: Wade to Art3mis, though without the prior subverted attempts. It doesn't work for quite a while.
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Ready Player One / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Ready Player One / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Wade calling out the head of IOI. He wasn't IN his home using OASIS, so he could bluff his way through any threats. Unfortunately for his aunt, they weren't kidding when they stated they had his house wired to blow. Wade's plan to break into IOI's database from inside the company's firewall to bring down the walls around the Crystal Gate.
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Ready Player One / int_3a974e42	type	Blemished Beauty
Ready Player One / int_3a974e42	comment	Blemished Beauty: Art3mis resists meeting Wade in real life because of a large birthmark on her face.
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Ready Player One / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Ready Player One / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Whenever avatars get zeroed out, they simply vanish and leave their loot behind for others to collect.
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Ready Player One / int_3cf29583	type	Trojan Prisoner
Ready Player One / int_3cf29583	comment	Trojan Prisoner: Wade infiltrates IOI this way, on charges he trumped up himself under a false identity.
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Ready Player One / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Ready Player One / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The Sixers amass around the third gate their entire army, which is considered the highest military power in the OASIS and basically unstoppable. Unfortunately for them, it turns out that compared to all of the gunters combined plus a sizable amount of the OASIS' normal citizenship who've decided the situation important enough to grab a gun and take potshots, even IOI's military might is only in an extremely distant second place. When the shield finally drops, the Sixers - including all their massive mecha except for one - are annihilated in minutes.
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Ready Player One / int_3d7e196f	type	Matching Bad Guy Vehicles
Ready Player One / int_3d7e196f	comment	Matching Bad Guy Vehicles: The Sixers have a virtual version, in that their avatars in the OASIS and the vehicles they drive there are all identical. This is in contrast to the Gunters, who design their own avatars and vehicles.
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Ready Player One / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Ready Player One / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: Wade's narration goes into long lists of all the pop culture he studies. This ironically, also makes it a sort of IKEA Erotica version of the trope.
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Ready Player One / int_3ee5fd12	type	One-Letter Name
Ready Player One / int_3ee5fd12	comment	One-Letter Name: A variation - "Aech" is pronounced like the letter "H" (probably because the OASIS wouldn't allow an actual One-Letter Name). Aech also calls Parzival "Z".
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Ready Player One / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
Ready Player One / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: When IOI blows up the stacks where Wade lives because he refuses to join or help them, they plant some drug lab equipment between the rubble to make it look like the explosion was the result of an illegal meth lab blowing up. It works.
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Ready Player One / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Ready Player One / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The Great and Powerful Og shows up at the end to help The High Five. (His avatar is a literal "God from the machine," being a Physical God in the machine of OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Ready Player One / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The book pushes an Anti-Escapism Aesop at several points, frequently taking a moment every to discuss whether or not the OASIS has caused human beings to scorn reality for a Lotus-Eater Machine. But the OASIS is also the major thing which makes Wade's and countless other lower class people's miserable lives bearable, as well as a major source of quality public education. "Don't judge people by their online avatar" is brought up a number of times but Art3mis looks almost identical to her real-life self. Zigzagged as Wade's best friend is actually an African American girl. AI Halliday advises Wade not to waste his life in the OASIS just after Wade has become incredibly rich and powerful precisely as a result of wasting his life in the OASIS, and it was Halliday himself who set it up that way.
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Ready Player One / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
Ready Player One / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: One of the main reasons he refuses to help Sorrento after he threatens to blow him up, Parzival figures if he helps Sorrento, Sorrento will blow him up anyway to take care of loose ends.
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Ready Player One / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Ready Player One / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Wade finds the first key on the planet of the school he attends. It was an hour's walk from Aech's school for years, but nobody ever bothered exploring this planet because it was supposedly nothing but multitudes of schools separated by vast tracts of pleasant (but boring) scenery with no animals big enough to kill for loot or experience. Wade spends most of the second section of the book fairly close to IOI headquarters and part of the third section inside the IOI building, only a few floors under their egg hunting division.
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Ready Player One / int_41a3e267	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_41a3e267
Ready Player One / int_42224ac2	type	The Good Kingdom
Ready Player One / int_42224ac2	comment	The Good Kingdom: Halliday's company, Gregarious Simulation Systems (GSS), not only maintains the OASIS for free, it maintains solar-powered wi-fi connection points throughout all cities. The entire plot is basically the gunters defending the free systems from IOI's takeover plans.
Ready Player One / int_42224ac2	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_42224ac2	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_42224ac2
Ready Player One / int_42d9daf9	type	No Fair Cheating
Ready Player One / int_42d9daf9	comment	No Fair Cheating: Your avatar is vulnerable to attack for a full minute after you log out of the OASIS to stop people logging out to avoid being killed.
Ready Player One / int_42d9daf9	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_42d9daf9	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_42d9daf9
Ready Player One / int_433e732f	type	Only Smart People May Pass
Ready Player One / int_433e732f	comment	Only Smart People May Pass: The Easter Egg requires encyclopedic knowledge of 1980s pop culture.
Ready Player One / int_433e732f	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_433e732f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_433e732f
Ready Player One / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Ready Player One / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Wade giving Daito the Beta Capsule, from the recipient's perspective, who says Wade has honor. That said, it's both reason and honor, since Wade, at that point, had no friends left, and was hoping this act of kindness would pay off down the line. It ultimately did, helping to win Shoto over to his side. Also, the "fair" thing to do would have been to auction off the Beta Capsule to the highest bidder and split the proceeds, but Wade figured there was a high probability of this powerful artifact falling into the hands of the Sixers.
Ready Player One / int_44fc28e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_44fc28e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_44fc28e8
Ready Player One / int_48078a7	type	Cool Versus Awesome
Ready Player One / int_48078a7	comment	Cool Versus Awesome: Given the material of the OASIS, this was inevitable. It's especially prominent in the finale, with multiple Humongous Mecha on both sides, ending with a showdown between Mechagodzilla and Ultraman.
Ready Player One / int_48078a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_48078a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_48078a7
Ready Player One / int_480c69ba	type	Infinity -1 Sword
Ready Player One / int_480c69ba	comment	Infinity -1 Sword: The first thirty or so players that obtain the Crystal Key also get to pick from a selection of Giant Robots as prizes. These would prove crucial in the Battle Royale to come over the Crystal Gate.
Ready Player One / int_480c69ba	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_480c69ba
Ready Player One / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Ready Player One / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Ogden "Og" Morrow in the finale.
Ready Player One / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_4a852458
Ready Player One / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Ready Player One / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Sorrento instantly proves himself a threat with just one word.
Ready Player One / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_4e7c4536
Ready Player One / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Ready Player One / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Frequent in the book. The subjects range from deriding traditional beauty (to glorify Art3mis and her â€œRubenesqueâ€� figure) to the benefits of masturbation]] to aid in thinking.
Ready Player One / int_4eaa9b84	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Ready Player One / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Sixers have all the bases covered for the final battle: first they learn from earlier mistakes and keep the location of the Crystal Gate a secret for as long as they can. As soon as its location is discovered, they erect an impenetrable shield around it. Inside the shield is nearly all of the Sixer army, including nearly a dozen Humongous Mecha led by the nigh-indestructible Mechagodzilla. Then, on the off chance someone actually gets past all that and reaches the Gate they detonate the Cataclyst, wiping out all the gunters and leaving the gate wide open for a fleet of Sixers hiding outside the sector to charge in and claim it. Unfortunately for them, they underestimate both Wade's resourcefulness and sheer luck.
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Ready Player One / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
Ready Player One / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: After settling in to his new location, Wade spends a few pages describing his computer setup and security system. He also describes things that he felt were a mistake (e.g. health lockout, and sexual components for his rig).
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Ready Player One / int_54e3f941	type	Hikikomori
Ready Player One / int_54e3f941	comment	Hikikomori: It has completely increased in big numbers, especially in Japan, thanks to the OASIS being popular. Shoto and Daito are two examples from there. Wade is certainly one himself, especially during his time in Columbus.
Ready Player One / int_54e3f941	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_54e3f941
Ready Player One / int_5535272c	type	Coolest Club Ever
Ready Player One / int_5535272c	comment	Coolest Club Ever: The Distracted Globe, a zero-gravity dance club on the planet Neonoir. Notably, it's located in a PvP zone, meaning bouncers — and brawlers — can eject avatars by killing them. The Sixers make a mass attack on Parzival and Art3mis there, hoping to stymie their hunt for the Egg by eliminating their high-level avatars. Og The Great And Powerful shuts them down hard — it was his party.
Ready Player One / int_5535272c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_5535272c
Ready Player One / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Ready Player One / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: Many people spend all of their time in the OASIS rather than deal with the Crapsack World they live in. It is discussed that the world may not have gone to hell so much if the population had any desire to live in it rather than having a digital alternative. A significant portion of the population is homeless but still manages to spend time in the OASIS thanks to free wireless access points and solar recharging stations.
Ready Player One / int_5541da8c	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_5541da8c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_558ae6f6	type	Moon Logic Puzzle
Ready Player One / int_558ae6f6	comment	Moon Logic Puzzle: Solving the puzzles requires not only knowing every detail about 1980s pop culture, but also being able to follow Halliday's train of thought, and he was a legendary eccentric. This is why it took five years for the first key to be found.
Ready Player One / int_558ae6f6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_5628a3	type	Vindicated by History
Ready Player One / int_5628a3	comment	Vindicated by History: It is implied that the Star Wars Prequels are an in-universe example of this, as they are one of Halliday's recommended trilogies. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you realize his approval probably led to this in the first place.
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Ready Player One / int_56807288	type	City Planet
Ready Player One / int_56807288	comment	City Planet: Neoinoir and a few other planets in the OASIS.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_56807288
Ready Player One / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Ready Player One / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Wade mentions multiclassing as a warrior mage.
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Ready Player One / int_58b70952	type	Failure Montage
Ready Player One / int_58b70952	comment	Failure Montage: Among the data that Wade steals from IOI are numerous videos of the Sixers trying and failing to open the Crystal Gate. It is stated that Sixers have spent the past several days performing increasingly absurd actions in hopes that doing them while reciting the words above the Gate will work.
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Ready Player One / int_58dc613c	type	Poster-Gallery Bedroom
Ready Player One / int_58dc613c	comment	Poster-Gallery Bedroom: James Halliday's recreated childhood bedroom is stuffed with Eighties pop culture references. Most plot-relevant is the WarGames poster.
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Ready Player One / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Ready Player One / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Wade is able to convince all of the other Gunters to come help him get through the last gate. Even though this will mean that those Gunters will lose their own chance at winning, Wade correctly reasons that they'll help because, given the choice, they'd rather see him win than Sorrento. Even before that, Sixers were already considered the ultimate enemy by Gunters, to the point that rivalling Gunter clans would gladly put their differences aside for a moment to gang up on the Sixers first.
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Ready Player One / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Ready Player One / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: Sorrento begins the final battle with a shout of "Come on!".
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_5a0e88d8
Ready Player One / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Ready Player One / int_5c1ec068	comment	Big Red Button: Invoked and Lampshaded. It gives Anorak and his successor Parzival the ability to shut down the OASIS if necessary.
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Ready Player One / int_5c960229	type	Futuristic Pyramid
Ready Player One / int_5c960229	comment	Futuristic Pyramid: Replicas of the Tyrrel Building from Blade Runner are one of the most common buildings in the OASIS. The Second Gate can be accessed from any of them.
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Ready Player One / int_5d19d2ba	type	God Mode
Ready Player One / int_5d19d2ba	comment	God Mode: Superusers like Anorak (James Halliday) and Og (Ogden Morrow) are game avatars that possess god-like power within the OASIS. They are able to destroy any avatar in an instant, resurrect fallen avatars, enter chat rooms uninvited, are nigh invincible and possess many other impossible-to-achieve abilities. After Wade Watts/Parzival successfully clears the third gate, he gains both Halliday's vast fortune as well as Anorak's superuser status, his avatar gaining Anorak's cloak and access to a button that could permanently shut down the OASIS if he so chooses.
Ready Player One / int_5d19d2ba	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_5ddcb41f	type	World Shapes
Ready Player One / int_5ddcb41f	comment	World Shapes: Ringworld and Discworld are listed as playable planets in the OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_6003726c	type	Trashy Trailer Home
Ready Player One / int_6003726c	comment	Trashy Trailer Home In the dystopian future the novel is set, the lack of gasoline has forced the majority of the people to live in huge trailer parks where the trailers are (poorly) stacked onto freestanding girders. Protagonist Wade Watts lives in one of these until he gathers enough money to move to his own apartment.
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Ready Player One / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Ready Player One / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: IOI's back-up plan for potential successful attacks at Anorak's castle (use the Cataclyst as soon as someone solves the Gate, then rush in with sixers that have the third key) fails thanks to the quarter Parzival won with the perfect Pac-Man game.
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Ready Player One / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
Ready Player One / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Art3mis, a very skilled gamer, took over a month to beat Acererak at Joust. She was less than pleased that Wade did it on his first try by exploiting a glitch that favors one set of controls.
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Ready Player One / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Ready Player One / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: How Wade escapes from IOI's headquarters after putting his plan in motion.
Ready Player One / int_62fd5552	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Ready Player One / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Daito at the Jade Gate (and unintentionally in real life). Shoto at the battle at the Crystal Gate, against Sorrento's Mechagodzilla.
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Ready Player One / int_6439de78	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_660eceeb	type	Big Guy Fatality Syndrome
Ready Player One / int_660eceeb	comment	Big Guy Fatality Syndrome: Of a sort. Daito's user, Toshiro Yoshiaki, is murdered both online and real life during his "You Shall Not Pass!" moment as Ultraman at the Jade Gate. Which is possible foreshadowing: IOI discovers Daito's real identity and has him killed via throwing him out of his skyscraper apartment window in order to get past his incredible and nigh-unbeatable power-up and take out a competitor for the egg.
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Ready Player One / int_6a79a4a4	type	MacGuffin Delivery Service
Ready Player One / int_6a79a4a4	comment	MacGuffin Delivery Service: Played With. Just as Wade opens the Third Gate, the Sixers detonate The Cataclyst and attempt to enter the Third Gate themselves.
Ready Player One / int_6a79a4a4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Ready Player One / int_6b35bdff	comment	The OASIS video game is serious business, since it's ensnared almost the entire world's population and is apparently the world's most valuable resource. The OASIS can literally be Serious Business as it's not just used for entertainment, but also corporate meetings, essentially allowing conference calls in virtual reality.
Ready Player One / int_6b35bdff	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_6b35bdff	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
Ready Player One / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: Not totally fitting, but at one point, Wade has to go through all of WarGames as Matthew Broderick's character, saying all the lines. Later, the same thing happens with Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's later mentioned that the OASIS creators expand this to other movies and TV shows.
Ready Player One / int_6ba2b94f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Ready Player One / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Sixers of IOI are named because the first number of their employee numbers begins with a six and are six digits long. Also a subtle reference to a six switch Atari 2600 console. Wade's handle "Parzival" references the Arthurian knight who quests for the Holy Grail. Art3mis's handle references the Greek goddess of the hunt. Daito and Shoto mean the katana and wakazashi of a samuraii's twin swords respectively. These two are supposed to be used together, hence the two of them work together. The OASIS is a virtual paradise in the middle of the desert of the real. So named because the guy who invented it felt more at home in game worlds than the real one; and it also unfortunately became one such to the people who played it in the post-oil dystopia the world became.
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Ready Player One / int_6e49fa1f	type	Mayan Doomsday
Ready Player One / int_6e49fa1f	comment	Mayan Doomsday: The OASIS went online on December 21, 2012.
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Ready Player One / int_70e34c75	type	Player Versus Player
Ready Player One / int_70e34c75	comment	Player Versus Player: Usually Gunters vs. Sixers en masse in story. Direct attacks are only possible in certain zones, but the two still attack each others' equipment.
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Ready Player One / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Ready Player One / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Justified. Wade's mech is designed as it was in the show it was based on. Commands must be shouted into the wristband for the robot to respond to them.
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Ready Player One / int_71fcf44	type	The Metaverse
Ready Player One / int_71fcf44	comment	The Metaverse: The OASIS, which specifically evolved out of an Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game to encompass all the others. Its source of revenue isn't even a subscription, but transit between them.
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Ready Player One / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Ready Player One / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Sorrento blocks Wade from recording during their first meeting. Much later, when Wade hacks into IOI's intranet, he finds that Sorrento saved a recording of his own, including the death threats. Even worse, there's also a video of IOI employees throwing the real-life Daito to his death. Wade promptly releases these videos to the press.
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Ready Player One / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Ready Player One / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: IOI seeks to win the contest by any means possible, such as cheating, bribing participants, and even going as far as to kill off participants in the real world. In the end, they still manage to lose when Wade outwits them and wins the contest.
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Ready Player One / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Ready Player One / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: "Sixers" or Suxorz for IOI employees, and "Z" for Wade's avatar, Parzival. Also the "High Five". "Gunter" is the term used for anyone hunting Halliday's Easter Egg, derived from "egg hunter", and it officially means people who hunt for the Egg without outside help, though there are "gunter clans" who team up to search for it as a group.
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Ready Player One / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
Ready Player One / int_73f7b5a5	comment	Total Party Kill: The Cataclyst wipes out every player in the entire sector of space when active. This includes the entire party of heroes (including every gunter) and the entire army of Sixers. The only ones not knocked back to square one are a backup group of Sixers positioned just outside the sector, and Wade who had the extra life he unknowingly obtained for his perfect game of Pac-Man.
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Ready Player One / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Ready Player One / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: The reverence surrounding the '80s is elevated above and beyond any other period, largely because 1) the oldest population had their youth in this period and 2) a VERY lucrative contest was designed by an '80s culture fanatic and can only be won by someone just as fanatical.
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Ready Player One / int_77a55dfa	type	Endless Daytime
Ready Player One / int_77a55dfa	comment	Endless Daytime: Some planets such as Ludus and Middletown are coded to have day constantly.
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Ready Player One / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Ready Player One / int_77f6cc58	comment	100% Completion: Wade stumbles upon a Pac-Man arcade cabinet and decides to beat the high score by performing a perfect play of the game, even though it actually has nothing to do with the egg hunt. Although he doesn't realize it at the time, doing so gives him the only extra life in the history of the OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_78ad42bd	type	The War Sequence
Ready Player One / int_78ad42bd	comment	The War Sequence: The battle at the Crystal Gate, including the Sixers and every OASIS user.
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Ready Player One / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Ready Player One / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: The audiobook is read by Wil Wheaton, who, in the novel, is mentioned as being the Vice President of the OASIS User Council.
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Ready Player One / int_7bfff4ca	type	Mock Headroom
Ready Player One / int_7bfff4ca	comment	Mock Headroom: Wade has an AI personal assistant that takes the form of Max Headroom.
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Ready Player One / int_7bfff4ca	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_7dce646f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
Ready Player One / int_7dce646f	comment	Wakeup Call Boss: The Copper Gate. You'd better have the entirety of WarGames memorized, or you will die.
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Ready Player One / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
Ready Player One / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: The Cataclyst, an absurdly powerful bomb, is a combination of "Cataclysm" and "Catalyst".
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Ready Player One / int_7f67e11	type	The Night That Never Ends
Ready Player One / int_7f67e11	comment	The Night That Never Ends: The planet Neonoir is a Cyberpunk themed world that is always nighttime.
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Ready Player One / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Ready Player One / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When the Sixers barricade the First Gate with a forcefield, the Gunter Clans bombard it with "nukes, magic missiles, and harsh language."
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Ready Player One / int_84313b4f	type	The Three Trials
Ready Player One / int_84313b4f	comment	The Three Trials: The three keys and three gates. The final gate is itself a set of three trials.
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Ready Player One / int_844b6779	type	Super Mode
Ready Player One / int_844b6779	comment	Super Mode: The Beta Capsule gives the user the ability to turn into Ultraman for three minutes once a day. It should be noted that this Super Mode doesn't wear off automatically. The user has to deliberately deactivate it before time runs out, or their avatar will die, as in the actual shows.
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Ready Player One / int_84bc0fef	type	Love Is a Weakness
Ready Player One / int_84bc0fef	comment	Love Is a Weakness: Art3mis breaks up with Wade because their romance is getting in the way of the hunt.
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Ready Player One / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
Ready Player One / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Wade has mastered the arcade game Black Tiger, but while the levels are the same, his skills at playing with a controller don't help him when he must play through the game as a first person VR simulation.
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Ready Player One / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Ready Player One / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: It comes with many of the protagonists being geeks and teenagers. Self-Deprecation is also high.
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Ready Player One / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Ready Player One / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Despite living in a Post-Peak Oil era with repeated references to food shortages and receiving government issued food vouchers (and having to repair and pawn electronics to pay for his own food and clothes because his aunt steals the vouchers), Wade is overweight. This is actually a serious problem in The New '10s; one can avoid starvation on inexpensive microwaved and fast food — if one is willing to accept the ridiculous amounts of sugar and starch food manufactures use as bulk protein. The balanced diet and exercise routine Wade begins after finding the first Key is only possible due to the windfall.
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Ready Player One / int_8a83cabc	type	Captured on Purpose
Ready Player One / int_8a83cabc	comment	Captured on Purpose: During the campaign for the final gate, Wade's plan requires him to let himself get taken into indentured servitude by IOI (under an assumed name) so that he can use secret access codes to hack the company intranet from inside and plant various traps to take down the defences they have established around the gate.
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Ready Player One / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Ready Player One / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: Wade beats the Lich by exploiting what he identifies as the Fatal Flaw of all artificial intelligence programs: the fact that they are unable to improvise, like humans do. When confronted with such an improvisation, an AI must respond by following one of a set of pre-programmed behavior patterns.
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Ready Player One / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Ready Player One / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: James Halliday and Kira are both dead by the time the story begins.
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Ready Player One / int_8bb6d274	type	Comeback Mechanic
Ready Player One / int_8bb6d274	comment	Comeback Mechanic: The final gate cannot be opened unless there are three participants with the crystal key present, preventing a single player from winning without competition. This prevents IOI from winning, despite having uncontested access to the crystal gate for weeks.
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Ready Player One / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Ready Player One / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Halliday was ultimately of the opinion that while VR and other entertainment media is fun, it shouldn't supplant the rest of your life. His Easter Egg contest, on the other hand, promised immense wealth and power to someone who both extensively explored OASIS and has extensive knowledge of 80's pop culture. This incentivized tens of thousands of people to fixate on entertainment media to the exclusion of all else.
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Ready Player One / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
Ready Player One / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: 80s edition, from a varied range of topics, of video games to tv shows passing by music, cinema and old cereal ads.
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Ready Player One / int_8eac3f0e	type	People Fall Off Chairs
Ready Player One / int_8eac3f0e	comment	People Fall Off Chairs: Wade looked up the definition of "Ludus", then fell out of his chair. The software tracked his movement, and tried to have the avatar do the same, but the area told him to remain seated during class.
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Ready Player One / int_8eb0370f	type	Corporate Conspiracy
Ready Player One / int_8eb0370f	comment	Corporate Conspiracy: On the surface, IOI is just like any other competitor for Halliday's Egg, and ownership of the OASIS, albeit with manpower and resources that give them a huge edge in the game. This was apparently not enough for them, though, as they also engaged in stealing user data, attacking Wade Watt's real world home in an attempt to kill him, actually killing another teenaged player by having mercenaries throw him off the balcony of his apartment, buying up people's debts in order to put them in indentured servitude, and grand scale cheating by closing down any area of the OASIS that might contain a clue to Halliday's game. This all ultimately comes to light when the game ends with Wade in control, and its hinted that the company's lawyers will be scrambling to prevent IOI from losing all access to the OASIS and thus the internet.
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Ready Player One / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Ready Player One / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Deconstructed with Wade's aunt, Alice, and her boyfriend, Rick. No matter how harsh they treat Wade, he admits that they still didn't deserve to die.
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Ready Player One / int_8f99ee85	type	Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary
Ready Player One / int_8f99ee85	comment	Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary: In the 2040s, the world has been gripped by an energy crisis on top of climate change. People escape to the OASIS platform, whose currency is actually more stable than any in the real world and is essentially the only thing keeping the world together. The plot centers around attempts to control OASIS after the death of its creator, who made a posthumous challenge that the first person to find the Easter Egg he hid inside the game will inherit his fortune and his company. The Anti-Escapism Aesop is also downplayed here - as the virtual reality is seen as a tool that can better humanity if used to its full potential, but its current use as escapism is limiting this - and ultimately broken when protagonist Wade wins precisely because he's so obsessed with OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Ready Player One / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Wade doesn't submit to Sorrento when he threatens to blow up the stacks because he figures Sorrento is bluffing or will blow up the stacks anyway after he gets the information he wants so Wade can't tell the police.
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Ready Player One / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Ready Player One / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Shoto's goal following Daito's murder.
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Ready Player One / int_930e1bd4	type	Absurdly High-Stakes Game
Ready Player One / int_930e1bd4	comment	Absurdly High-Stakes Game: The OASIS didn't start out as one, but the in-game credits eventually became more valuable than any currency backed by a government. Since credits and assets are wiped when players die, this results in a sizable portion of the OASIS' population avoiding combat zones so they don't risk losing their wealth. The Egg hunt has a quarter trillion dollars as a prize. Adding to the stakes, IOI plans on commercializing the OASIS if they win, which is a horror few pre-Net individuals can comprehend.
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Ready Player One / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Ready Player One / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Nolan Sorrento's Mecha-Godzilla mech is a massive, hulking robot that towers over all of the other robots in the Battle of Castle Anorak and fires a destructive mouth beam. To compensate for its massive size, devastating attack power and being able to take a hit, the thing is very slow.
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Ready Player One / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Ready Player One / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Nolan Sorrento, the Head of Operations in the Oology Division of IOI, is the main antagonist of the novel. His Establishing Character Moment is to casually blow up part of the stacks where Wade lives to make him into an example.
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Ready Player One / int_97c6b148	type	Allegedly Free Game
Ready Player One / int_97c6b148	comment	Allegedly Free Game: OASIS costs only a token 25-cent subscription set-up fee, but doing just about anything costs money, including bullets (decidedly expensive given that OASIS guns have Bottomless Magazines), in-game fuel and teleportation fees. You can earn money in-game from killing monsters and running dungeons (demonstrated by Wade earning about $20,000 in OASIS credits from collecting treasure in the Tomb of Horrors), but without some initial capital to get off the starting world, it's essentially impossible. Wade comments on this, being dirt-poor and unable to leave the school-planet Ludus, thus feeling like he'll never get to actually search for even the first of the three keys in the Hunt. IOI is seen as villainous by ordinary people because they want to, among other things, charge a monthly subscription fee, and make it ad-supported.
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Ready Player One / int_98995a37	type	Ridiculous Future Sequelisation
Ready Player One / int_98995a37	comment	Ridiculous Future Sequelisation: There's been more Indiana Jones made but neither Halliday nor Wade like them. This trope is otherwise averted with people obsessing over 1980s media in order to find Halliday's clues.
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Ready Player One / int_9981590a	type	Anti-Escapism Aesop
Ready Player One / int_9981590a	comment	AI Halliday advises Wade not to waste his life in the OASIS just after Wade has become incredibly rich and powerful precisely as a result of wasting his life in the OASIS, and it was Halliday himself who set it up that way.
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Ready Player One / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Ready Player One / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: I-r0k, a guy Aech invited into his group and, after Wade and Aech find The Copper Key, makes what he knows about them public. This leads IOI to finding out the real identities of both Wade and Aech; they both spend significant time on Ludus, meaning they're school-aged — and given that they got their accounts when Halliday was still alive, they failed to take certain precautions — such as not giving their names and addresses to the school. IOI is thus able to track down Wade and bomb his stack.
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Ready Player One / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Ready Player One / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Sorrento's bosses in IOI.
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Ready Player One / int_9cc742f1	type	Level-Locked Loot
Ready Player One / int_9cc742f1	comment	Level-Locked Loot: Gear in the OASIS often has a minimum avatar level requirement in order to use it. One guy calls IOI's tech support line because a sword he bought in an auction isn't working, only for it to be pointed out to him that the minimum level required to wield the sword is ten and the guy is only level seven.
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Ready Player One / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Ready Player One / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: At one point, Wade mentions that if IOI tries to barricade a gate, it'll cause an all-out war the likes of which has never been seen before on the OASIS. This ends up happening when they try it with the third gate. Wade mentions that for all he and his classmates know, his history teacher Mr. Avenovich might actually be a woman who uses a male avatar and voice to make her students more likely to respect her. Wade's best friend, Aech, is a woman who uses a male persona in the OASIS to avoid discrimination. IOI's ability to find Wade's real life identity foreshadows their finding about Daito's first, then Shoto's and Art3mis', killing the former and prompting the latter two to run away from their houses after Wade warns them.
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Ready Player One / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Ready Player One / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Wade, well, doggedly pursued Art3mis after she cut off their (cyber) relationship, to the point of stalking her online. His being a genuinely nice guy probably helped him get together with her in real life in the end.
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Ready Player One / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Ready Player One / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: IOI practices a form of legally-sanctioned indentured servitude, which they can invoke on their debtors. Because of the low salaries and constantly accruing interest and fees on their debts, the "indents" are almost guaranteed to be corporate slaves for life. However, the economy is so bad that many people deliberately get into debt with IOI, as indentured servitude means that they will have guaranteed food and shelter. The government supposedly looks after indents, though it's not clear what good it does.
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Ready Player One / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Ready Player One / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Anorak (Halliday's avatar) and the Great and Powerful Og (Ogden's avatar) can basically do whatever they want, including causing a One-Hit Kill on as many avatars as desired, limitless teleportation, resurrection of avatars, and other abilities. Anorak gives his abilities to Parzival after obtaining the Egg, along with the kill switch for the entire OASIS, before disappearing forever.
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Ready Player One / int_a6c97a15	type	Benevolent Genie
Ready Player One / int_a6c97a15	comment	Benevolent Genie: When Wade uses his newfound control over the OASIS to wish his friends back to life, a voice asks if he wants to restore their equipment too.
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Ready Player One / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Ready Player One / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: There are three keys and three gates, with the last gate requiring 3 keys from three different users, and consisting of three parts, because three is a magic number. IOI progressively offers Wade three deals: become the head hunter and get a $50 million bonus upon finding the egg, or get $5 million in exchange for his information on the first gate. When Wade turns them both down, he's offered the second deal again, with the added condition that if he still refuses, they'll blow up his apartment in real life. The book is divided into three sections, referred to as levels.
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Ready Player One / int_a777acd4	type	Dreamville
Ready Player One / int_a777acd4	comment	Dreamville: The VR simulation called "Middletown" has 256 identical copies of James Halliday's hometown, complete with NPC citizens and a flawless mock-up of Halliday's family house.
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Ready Player One / int_aaab7224	type	We Will All Be History Buffs in the Future
Ready Player One / int_aaab7224	comment	We Will All Be History Buffs in the Future: Everyone who's anyone is an expert on The '80s, even though the story takes place in 2044. Justified because the Easter Egg hunt that forms the plot of the novel is organized by a man who grew up in that period and is a big fan of the pop culture from his youth. If you don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of that time, you simply don't have a shot.
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Ready Player One / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
Ready Player One / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: Wade starts off virtually penniless. He has to scrounge in a junk heap to find the right equipment to run his console and has no money to actually go anywhere or do anything in the OASIS until he finds the first key. He's up against a ruthless, billion-dollar corporation. Somewhat justified, as the contest was deliberately designed to make this outcome possible. The first key was hidden on a world containing virtual high schools, so even a broke student could afford to visit it once they realize where it is. Also, the dungeon containing the key was set up in such a way that even a low-level player could make it to the throne room if they're careful enough, and there's enough treasure lying around for them to level up dramatically and afford interplanetary travel for the next step of the hunt. Wade is also savvy enough to capitalize on being the first person on the Scoreboard by making a series of sponsorship deals, so he's pretty much set economically after the first step of the contest.
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Ready Player One / int_abf19ef6	type	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!
Ready Player One / int_abf19ef6	comment	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: The final battle involves Wade and co fighting the Sixers in mecha from Japanese Spider-Man and various anime.
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Ready Player One / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Ready Player One / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Sixers killing Daito turns Shoto vengeful, which eventually leads to him teaming up with Parzival, Aech and Art3mis plus every gunter in the OASIS
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Ready Player One / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Ready Player One / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Wade when he finds out that not only does IOI knows about Art3mis' and Shoto's real life identities, but that Sorrento has suggested kidnapping them and force them to solve the last gate before murdering them. Art3mis and Aech have this reaction upon seeing the Sixers' mechs in the final battle.
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Ready Player One / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
Ready Player One / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Wade, being a teenager, is rather sarcastic at times.
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Ready Player One / int_affd30b0	type	Stupid Evil
Ready Player One / int_affd30b0	comment	Stupid Evil: IOI and Nolan Sorrento films not only his chat with Wade where he threatens to kill him, but also Daito's murder for no other reason than apparently they like to watch it.
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Ready Player One / int_b099085e	type	In-Game TV
Ready Player One / int_b099085e	comment	In-Game TV: Wade, Art3mis and many other avatars run their own TV channels.
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Ready Player One / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Ready Player One / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Firearms in the OASIS never run out of bullets, as more ammo gets teleported into the weapons whenever necessary. It's still necessary to be mindful of how many shots one's taken, however, as there's a monthly bill on ammunition that can get expensive quickly.
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Ready Player One / int_b3deb1c6	type	Sexbot
Ready Player One / int_b3deb1c6	comment	Sexbot: Wade uses to own a "Shaptic UberBetty" before he got rid of it and went back to normal masturbating.
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Ready Player One / int_b663974e	type	We Will Spend Credits in the Future
Ready Player One / int_b663974e	comment	We Will Spend Credits in the Future: OASIS credits have become the Global Currency, surpassing even the U.S. dollar, British pound, European euro, or Japanese yen.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_b663974e
Ready Player One / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
Ready Player One / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Aech turns out to be a black lesbian. In a short but heavy-handed segment, Wade comments on how little it ends up mattering.
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Ready Player One / int_b6ec7566	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_b6ec7566
Ready Player One / int_b7059ab0	type	Dungeon Crawling
Ready Player One / int_b7059ab0	comment	Dungeon Crawling: The first challenge Wade has to do is a recreation of Tomb of Horrors. Later challenges recreate Zork and Black Tiger.
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Ready Player One / int_b7059ab0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_b7059ab0
Ready Player One / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Ready Player One / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Halliday, Ogden and Kira. Halliday became jealous of Odgen and Kira together as he didn't manage to date her first, and broke off his friendship because of that.
Ready Player One / int_b7e0c5ff	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_b7e0c5ff
Ready Player One / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Ready Player One / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: The book was written and released during the Great Recession, and takes place in a world where the Recession was still going strong in the 2040s. In real life, the Recession would end within a few years of the book's publication.
Ready Player One / int_bb40e7e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_bb40e7e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_bb40e7e0
Ready Player One / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Ready Player One / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The Great and Powerful Og does not appreciate people interrupting his invite-only party to pick a fight.
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Ready Player One / int_bc74ef27	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_bc74ef27
Ready Player One / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Ready Player One / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: IOI contacts Wade's Avatar and tries to convince him to work for them. IOI would keep most of the prize money, of course, but Wade would be set up for life with a cushy job. Wade briefly strings them along before ultimately refusing. Then Sorrento reveals that they know who he is in real life, and they've rigged the stack his family's trailer is in with bombs. Wade calls their bluff, and it turns out they weren't bluffing. He only survives because he was away in the secret hideout he used when he wanted to get away from his aunt and her boyfriend, which was pretty much all the time.
Ready Player One / int_bda3d68a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_bdd3fbbc	type	Coca-Pepsi, Inc.
Ready Player One / int_bdd3fbbc	comment	Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: All the old MMORPG worlds were merged into OASIS. Likewise, IOI seems to have absorbed every other Internet Service Provider.
Ready Player One / int_bdd3fbbc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_bdd3fbbc
Ready Player One / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Ready Player One / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Discussed. It's said that Wade's father gave him the name Wade Watts because he thought an alliterative name sounded more like a superhero's name.
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Ready Player One / int_be009bbc	featureConfidence	1.0
Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_be009bbc
Ready Player One / int_beda4b12	type	Warm-Up Boss
Ready Player One / int_beda4b12	comment	Warmup Boss: The Copper Key and Acererak. Simply finding the Tomb of Horrors is harder than exploring it, since any gunter can use the original module as a perfect strategy guide. Even if you can't beat Acererak in Joust, you can fight him or run away and try again later.
Ready Player One / int_beda4b12	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_beda4b12
Ready Player One / int_bf7cad7d	type	Locked Door
Ready Player One / int_bf7cad7d	comment	Locked Door: The gates are not only impenetrable, but invisible to anyone without the appropriate key.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_bf7cad7d
Ready Player One / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Ready Player One / int_c10da874	comment	The '80s: A large focus of the plot is almost every single trivial detail about Eighties pop culture. The entire world has found itself in an 80s time warp, as decoding Halliday's obsessions is the key to the contest.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_c10da874
Ready Player One / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
Ready Player One / int_c132c0c5	comment	I Have No Son!: Aech's mother's reaction when Aech came out to her. And this is after claiming that the OASIS is important to black women because it allows them to hide who they are from bigots. Aech has been on her own ever since.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_c132c0c5
Ready Player One / int_c1b7d6e2	type	Wizard Classic
Ready Player One / int_c1b7d6e2	comment	Wizard Classic: Both Halliday and Ogden Morrow have bearded wizards as their OASIS avatars.
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_c1b7d6e2
Ready Player One / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Ready Player One / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Wade Owen Watts notes with pride that his name spells out WOW. In the days of arcade games, having initials that spell out a cool word was considered particularly desirable due to the three-letter high score boards. This also might be a sideways reference to World of Warcraft, a popular real-world MMO (which also exists in OASIS, though the book never goes there). OASIS stands for Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.
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Ready Player One / int_c25c7890	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Ready Player One / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Heroic example: Og lied when he claimed that he and Halliday hadn't spoken for decades when he died. The two had actually reconciled during Halliday's last weeks and agreed that Og would oversee the contest in secret to ensure fairness.
Ready Player One / int_c3245c20	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_c3245c20
Ready Player One / int_c34f8d07	type	LOL, 69
Ready Player One / int_c34f8d07	comment	LOL, 69: Students attending school within the OASIS aren't allowed to display their avatar's name while on school grounds so the teachers don't have to call them by silly names. An example Wade provides of the alternative is a teacher asking a student called BigWang69 to stand up and give a book report.
Ready Player One / int_c34f8d07	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_c34f8d07
Ready Player One / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Ready Player One / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: By design, people hunting for the egg would want to keep everything to themselves and not give out hints in case it allows others to surpass them - only to encounter a gate that requires three of them to cooperate to pass, before switching back to a winner-takes-all scenario. The events of the book changed this for the final gate, where gunters would do anything to make sure IOI wouldn't win (even if it lets someone else take the prize.)
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Ready Player One / int_c3d60914	type	Continuing is Painful
Ready Player One / int_c3d60914	comment	Continuing is Painful: When an OASIS avatar dies, the user can easily create a new one. But that means they're starting over at level one, with all of their equipment gone and all the data stored in their account deleted.
Ready Player One / int_c3d60914	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_c57b21f9	type	Global Currency
Ready Player One / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: The OASIS credit is the de facto economy of the entire planet.
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Ready Player One / int_c64bdacd	type	Scoring Points
Ready Player One / int_c64bdacd	comment	Scoring Points: The scoreboard tracks everyone making progress in the hunt. The points don't really matter except for bragging rights, because the egg hunt is a race, so the first person to complete every task wins everything.
Ready Player One / int_c64bdacd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Ready Player One / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Half the point of the book. It has gotten so big, it deserves its own separate page
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Ready Player One / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Ready Player One / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The reader is not privy to Wade's plan to bring down the impenetrable shield IOI put around Castle Anorak until it's already in play.
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Ready Player One / int_cb243ede	type	Teleporters and Transporters
Ready Player One / int_cb243ede	comment	Teleporters and Transporters: Teleportation is both the fastest and most expensive method of interworld transportation. The price is based on distance traveled. When the story begins, Wade can't even afford to teleport to the other side of the planet he's on.
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Ready Player One / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Ready Player One / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Nolan Sorrento, the head of the egg-hunting division of IOI. He's willing to let his bosses oust him from his very cushy job if it means IOI gets closer to finding the egg. He's also not above cold-blooded murder of competitors in real life AND innocent people around them to make it easier for his company to find the egg and take over the OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
Ready Player One / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: The Sixers break into Daito's apartment and throw him out the window, making it look like a suicide.
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Ready Player One / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Ready Player One / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Arguably the entire premise of the novel. It's about how being an expert on 80s pop culture trivia makes you the saviour of the world!
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Ready Player One	hasFeature	Ready Player One / int_d148b019
Ready Player One / int_d19469d	type	Characterâ€™s Most Hated Song
Ready Player One / int_d19469d	comment	Characterâ€™s Most Hated Song: Wade Watts hates "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham! so much that he uses it as a sure-fire alarm clock.
Ready Player One / int_d19469d	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_d19469d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_d279adbb	type	Read the Freaking Manual
Ready Player One / int_d279adbb	comment	Read the Freaking Manual: Many of the OASIS users calling in to IOI tech support could easily solve their problems themselves, if only they bothered to try or even read an item description. One annoying guy complains about being unable to use a sword he just bought at an auction, only to be pointed out that it says right in the description that it can only be used by a level 10 avatar or above (the guy is level 7). He is then calmly informed to make sure he can use an item before buying it in the future. So... not so different from Real Life.
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Ready Player One / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Ready Player One / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Mrs. Gillmore, Wade's next door neighbor. While very religious and having a lot of cats, she also knows a lot about the eighties and shares a lot of her knowledge with Wade about the period she grew up in.
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Ready Player One / int_d3f57db5	type	Planetville
Ready Player One / int_d3f57db5	comment	Planetville: Variation in that if a planet exists to house a small area such as only one town or dungeon, it'll be covered with several hundred duplicates so multiple players can use it.
Ready Player One / int_d3f57db5	featureApplicability	1.0
Ready Player One / int_d3f57db5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_d8068af5	type	Ring World Planet
Ready Player One / int_d8068af5	comment	Ring World Planet: The Trope Namer is listed as being in the OASIS.
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Ready Player One / int_d8fdf777	type	Terminally Dependent Society
Ready Player One / int_d8fdf777	comment	Terminally Dependent Society: The OASIS is the world's most important economic resource; not just as an escape from the Crapsack World, but as a substitute for cheap transit. Instead of buildings and factories, everyone uses "surreal estate" as much as possible; kids go to school in virtual classrooms, office workers work in virtual offices, factory workers are remote operators, surgeons use telesurgery, etc. If the OASIS ever crashed, the world would end pretty much instantly.
Ready Player One / int_d8fdf777	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Ready Player One / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Aech was disowned and kicked out by her mom upon turning 18, then spent some time homeless before living in an RV for "many years", but is also stated to be 19.
Ready Player One / int_da1c8191	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Ready Player One / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: Ultraman, and with the same weakness from the show: the transformation only lasts a few minutes.
Ready Player One / int_db6230b7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_dba1f5b5	type	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
Ready Player One / int_dba1f5b5	comment	Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: The Battle of Castle Anorak has at its core a matchup between, one on side Leopardon, Minerva X, RX-78, and Raideen; and on the other, Mechagodzilla, Voltron, and a few Evangelions and Battletechs.
Ready Player One / int_dba1f5b5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Ready Player One / int_de5f028b	type	Barbarian Hero
Ready Player One / int_de5f028b	comment	Barbarian Hero: Wade gets turned into one when doing a challenge based on Black Tiger. Another is Wade's first customer when he's working IOI customer service.
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Ready Player One / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
Ready Player One / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: In-universe example; Daito is immersed in a massive PVP melee in the OASIS when IOI agents break into his apartment and murder him in the real world. Wade only avoids dying this way by chance, since he had no idea IOI could figure out where he lives, but his normal behavior happened to trick IOI into believing he was logged into OASIS from home.
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Ready Player One / int_e4400c35	type	CloudCuckooLand
Ready Player One / int_e4400c35	comment	Cloud Cuckooland: A literal place in OASIS though it's only mentioned in the side story Lacero, it's apparently a place where all conspiracy theories are true.
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Ready Player One / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Ready Player One / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: OASIS credits are shown to be used as a real-life currency; at the end, half the population of the OASIS, along with their credit accounts and items they paid real money for, was wiped out, yet there's no discussion or consideration of the economic effects of the sudden disappearance of such a huge amount of lucre or whether Parzival did anything to compensate. (Ready Player Two would later clarify that after taking charge of GSS, Wade and his colleagues restored all the assets lost in the battle.)
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Ready Player One / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Ready Player One / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: The incredible glut of '80s culture referenced and experienced in this story is laid in great detail.
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Ready Player One / int_e63317eb	type	Green Hill Zone
Ready Player One / int_e63317eb	comment	Green Hill Zone: Ludus, the first area of the OASIS that Wade has access to consists entirely of green hills.
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Ready Player One / int_e63f5f28	type	Faux Symbolism
Ready Player One / int_e63f5f28	comment	Faux Symbolism: In-Universe example. The final gate bears the inscription, "Charity. Hope. Faith." Sorrento believes it to be a reference to the Beatitudes, but the password turns out to be the chorus of "Three Is A Magic Number."
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Ready Player One / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Ready Player One / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: The Sixers willingly submit to this trope. In exchange for access to IOI's suite of top-of-the-line equipment and experts, they forfeit their stake in the Egg and have to leave their avatar's appearance on the default settings. They are also obligated to use their six digit IOI employee number as their username. It's also all but stated that Sorrento can take control of any given Sixer avatar.
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Ready Player One / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Ready Player One / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Just when the High Five are in need of some way to connect to OASIS for a long period of time to carry out their attack on IOI, Ogden "Og" Morrow appears to offer them a haven.
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Ready Player One / int_ebe5d89c	type	Disco Dan
Ready Player One / int_ebe5d89c	comment	Disco Dan: Many worlds in OASIS are created by people looking to use them to relive their nostalgia for favorite movies and the like.
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Ready Player One / int_eeaee38c	type	Geeky Turn-On
Ready Player One / int_eeaee38c	comment	Geeky Turn-On: During the course of his research into the pop-culture of the 80s, Wade watches numerous online videos of geeky girls playing covers of 80s music on ukuleles.
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Ready Player One / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
Ready Player One / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: Opens in 2044. A lot of the conditions in the world are said to be a result of either the Great Recession or a worldwide fuel shortage.
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Ready Player One / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Ready Player One / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Sorrento has IOI destroy Wade's stack after they discover the latter's real-life identity.
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Ready Player One / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Ready Player One / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: In-Universe, Wade and the other top gunters (the "High Five") do endorsements for loads of OASIS money after they get on the scoreboard, which can be exchanged for real life currency.
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Ready Player One / int_f7567671	type	Game Within a Game
Ready Player One / int_f7567671	comment	Game Within a Game: OASIS has recreations of all the old video games. Some parts of the hunt could be considered a game within a game within a game.
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Ready Player One / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Ready Player One / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Wade realizes that pining for Art3mis completely threw him off his groove for the Hunt, allowing others to take first place from him on the Scoreboard. Art3mis and company are all astonished when Parzival goes public to declare that he plans to share his winnings when he wins Halliday's egg with Shoto, Aech and Art3mis after she still balks at the idea he really loves her.
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Ready Player One / int_f8cddfb2	type	Laser Blade
Ready Player One / int_f8cddfb2	comment	Laser Blade: Wade says lightsabers are a dime a dozen and that he owns more than 50.
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Ready Player One / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
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Ready Player One / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Art3mis, in an attempt to ward Wade off, tells him she is a fat black woman. She is not, but it turns out that Aech is.
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Ready Player One / int_fe5e40e2	type	Gondor Calls for Aid
Ready Player One / int_fe5e40e2	comment	Gondor Calls for Aid: In order to provide enough of a distraction to get them in to pass the Crystal Gate, Wade sends out a message to every single user on the OASIS, including gunter "solos" who are known to just go on their own. He expects a big showing, but for most of them to just stay back and watch. But every single one of them charges in to help.
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Ready Player One / int_ff2f3468	comment	Anti Matter: The gunter clans pool their resources to buy two antimatter bombs off eBay to blow the Sixers' forcefield domes on Ludus.
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Ready Player One / int_ff934825	comment	Evil, Inc.: Innovative Online Industries (IOI). They're looking for Halliday's egg as well, and if they find it they will introduce monthly fees for the currently free to play OASIS, plaster ads on every visible surface, and basically ruin the only thing that still makes life bearable.
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