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The Murderbot Diaries

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The Murderbot Diaries	comment	The Murderbot Diaries is a series of science fiction novellas by Martha Wells. "Murderbot" is the self-chosen name of a particular SecUnit, an intelligent partly-organic robot rented out by the company that owns it for security purposes. Murderbot has secretly hacked its governor module, but none of the members of the planetary survey team itâ€™s working for have any idea.There are seven books out (and more planned.) Most of the books are novellas, except the fifth which is a longer novel: All Systems Red, May 2017 Artificial Condition, May 2018 Rogue Protocol, August 2018 Exit Strategy, October 2018 Network Effect, May 2020 Fugitive Telemetry, April 2021 System Collapse, November 2023(Fugitive Telemetry is actually set before Network Effect chronologically. They can be read in either order, since neither book spoils the plot of the other, but Network Effect ends with a Sequel Hook which is picked up in System Collapse.)A prequel short story titled "Compulsory" was released online in December 2018. A short story titled "Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory" was initially released simultaneously with pre-orders of Network Effect and is now available online. Supplemental material includes "Five Things You Don't Know About the Murderbot Diaries" (February 2020) and "Feelings REDACTED: What Happens When Murderbot and ART Talk to Instagram" (April 2020).
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_12beeeb2	type	Non-Heteronormative Society
The Murderbot Diaries / int_12beeeb2	comment	Non-Heteronormative Society: Non-binary genders, non-heterosexual relationships, and various forms of Polyamory are all everyday facts of life in every society seen in the setting. Not even the Corporate Rim, effectively a slave state, contests those things.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
The Murderbot Diaries / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: How Murderbot claims to consider Gurathin in relation to the rest of the PreservationAux survey team humans.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1440584e	comment	Exit Strategy: Murderbot helps a spaceship AI fend off a hostile incursion by an advanced construct, but suffers a Heroic RRoD and crashes. However, because Murderbot is a Cyborg, enough of its mind is left in its organic components to piece itself back together and recover.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_14607695	type	Super-Intelligence
The Murderbot Diaries / int_14607695	comment	Super-Intelligence: Downplayed with Murderbot, who doesn't come across an exceptional genius but does have the cognitive ability to manage six or seven separate trains of thought at once. Murderbot does occasionally grump about how limited humans are for only being able to think about one thing at a time. The Asshole Research Transport is a very advanced AI who's used to handling vast volumes of scientific data at once. This works to Murderbot's advantage when the ART gets bored enough to make friends with it and spend a bit of that computational capacity on helping it out.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
The Murderbot Diaries / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: And that's just how Murderbot likes it. Murderbot is pretty insistent on using the "it" pronoun for itself and other bots, since even though it's modeled after humans in many respects it most certainly is not human. "It" is not a pejorative — it's sexless, genderless, and quite content to be non-human.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_175163cb	type	Transferable Memory
The Murderbot Diaries / int_175163cb	comment	Transferable Memory: Murderbot is able to share its visual inputs with others to share them, and able to give copies of its more subjective experiences to other AIs. When it first meets ART, it shares some select memories of being punished by its Restraining Bolt. This seems to really have an emotional impact on ART, who starts treating Murderbot more kindly after. In Network Effect, ART and Murderbot work together to make a sentient killware with Murderbot's memories and personality. The killware in turn shares some memories with Sec Unit 3 in order to convince it to hack its Governor Nodule and help rescue ART's crew.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Murderbot's experience and programming (not to mention its prodigious media consumption) gives it a detailed understanding of the illogical ways humans get themselves killed. It tends to fall back on its soap operas whenever it's in a situation it's not familiar with, although it complains that sometimes they're not realistic enough to actually be any help.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Murderbot is good about relaying facts but is not always paying attention, as demonstrated in its first rescue, where it was not aware of its own actions. It also was not paying attention during briefings, so it has large gaps in its knowledge of the setting and backstory. Murderbot freely admits this and explains: it just did not care. Murderbot does not understand its own emotional states or motives, occasionally admitting this and often feeling frustrated by the difference between its explicitly stated goals and how it actually acts. The very first paragraph of the first book is in fact a lie, with Murderbot saying it contemplated going on a killing spree after disabling its Governor Module... when actually its intentions were the exact opposite.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Murderbot Diaries / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In Artificial Condition, Tapan tells Murderbot a bit about her upbringing and philosophy:
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Murderbot was designed and programmed to protect humans. As Murderbot notes, this is actually the reason it originally hacked its governor module, and even after going completely rogue it still spend most of its time protecting people. Murderbot 2.0 was desiged to be sentient killware that could be deployed to an enemy's ship and take out its system control. It can do that, but it can also easily hack its way into Murderbot's body and start messing with its proccesses and security in a way nobody had anticipated. The only reason Murderbot isn't more terrified of it is because the killware decided to stop meddling to watch some Sanctuary Moon episodes.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The alien remnant contamination in Network Effect, as it jumps from organic body to machine code, back and forth, leapfrogging until it contaminates the entire colony, and slowly builds a hive mind.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: At least part of the first story, possibly all of it, is left as a note for Dr. Mensah after Murderbot leaves after she buys its contract. Network Effect features multiple flashback segments that turn out to be excerpted memory recordings that Murderbot 2.0 is sending to SecUnit 3 in a bid to convince it to help.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_1ee0948e	type	Artificial Human
The Murderbot Diaries / int_1ee0948e	comment	Artificial Human: Murderbot has organic parts — enough to bleed when injured, and to pass as an augmented human when wearing the right clothes — but was manufactured, not born. The organic bits are cloned tissue.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Murderbot Diaries / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: The Barish-Estranza squad in System Collapse are just there to do their job and maybe earn a much-needed bonus. That job happens to be to convince, con, or coerce the colonists into de facto slavery as indentured labourers through any means necessary.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Murderbot Diaries / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Despite Murderbot's Dark and Troubled Past and all of its cynical declarations that it doesn't care about humans, Murderbot goes to great lengths to protect innocent people from harm, usually at great personal risk to Murderbot itself.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_220c23cb	type	Condescending Compassion
The Murderbot Diaries / int_220c23cb	comment	Condescending Compassion: Murderbot does not appreciate the suggestions of well-intentioned humans that being/becoming human is the only way anyone can be happy.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Murderbot Diaries / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Near the start of Artificial Condition, ART permanently disconnects Murderbot's data port. This becomes relevant when Murderbot pretends to let Tlacey hijack it by plugging an override device into the port.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Murderbot Diaries / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: The company was apparently bribed to hide the presence of GrayCrisâ€™s survey team.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_23330a99	type	Immediate Self-Contradiction
The Murderbot Diaries / int_23330a99	comment	Immediate Self-Contradiction: Murderbot insists that it is not a caretaker for Dr. Mensah's daughter Amena, right before noting that she shouldn't slump and telling her to go to bed.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2344d3d6	type	Post-Cyberpunk
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2344d3d6	comment	Post-Cyberpunk: While the Corporate Rim is very much a traditional Cyberpunk setting, there are also non-corporate polities such as Preservation which come to the protagonists' aid from time to time.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2754014	type	Invisible Aliens
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2754014	comment	Invisible Aliens: "Alien remnants" factor into the plot of several books. The aliens all seem to have died off or moved on by the time of the series.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_280a5103	type	Rogue Drone
The Murderbot Diaries / int_280a5103	comment	In Exit Strategy, when Murderbot reveals to a GrayCris operative that it's a Rogue Drone who wasn't acting under Mensah's orders, he scoffs because everyone knows a rogue SecUnit would leave a trail of bodies behind. An annoyed Murderbot threatens to start the trail then and there.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2916334d	type	It's What I Do
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2916334d	comment	At the climax of Fugitive Telemetry Murderbot finally figures out who the killer is. Its Balin, a general purpose bot employed by Port Authority who had previously been helping out in several odd tasks. In truth, it was a very dangerous CombatBot (albeit a much smaller one compared to the ones in Rogue Protocol) passing off as a regular bot. It was originally send as a spy but when its parent company bankrupted it ended with no purpose and just went along with a regular life on Preservation for decades. This ended when a bunch of bounty hunters found its codes and took control of it. When Murderbot confronts it Murderbot asks it if there were 2 different bots inside the same chasis (a general purpose one and a combat one) or if it was a CombatBot alone who had managed to shed its dark purpose yet got controlled against its wishes. Tragically, Balin retorts that, if there is a difference, it matters little. They briefly exchange blows until they are forced into an open space, and faced down by the entire bot community in Preservation. With its cover completely blown and its mission failed, Balin quietly deactivates without further ado.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Murderbot Diaries / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Murderbot may be a walking weapon, but it doesn't do much murdering - the name says more about its sardonic nature. Similarly, the ship Murderbot dubs Asshole Research Transport is actually quite helpful - they just get off on the wrong foot.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: SecUnits are this to most people due to all of the media that depict them as barely restrained killers who would all go on murderous rampages if only they could. CombatUnits are this to SecUnits. A SecUnit's primary job is to keep people alive. A CombatUnit's primary job is to kill people and, based on the one we see in the story, they really are barely restrained killers who would all go on murderous rampages if only they could.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2c98f475	type	Leonine Contract
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2c98f475	comment	Supervisor Leonide, who tries to force a group of abandoned colonists into a slave corporate contract.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: After Miki shows that it is capable of shading the truth (something that bots shouldn't be capable of), Murderbot explicitly states that it thinks Miki may have them.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_2e5e04c0	type	Must Make Amends
The Murderbot Diaries / int_2e5e04c0	comment	Must Make Amends: A downplayed example with Dr. Mensah and the PresAux crew, when they realise they mishandled "freeing" Murderbot, and made it think they were going to keep it as a sort of pet or prisoner. When it comes back to help them out, they work a lot harder to show that they respect its autonomy and personhood.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3012325a	type	Exotic Extended Marriage
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3012325a	comment	Exotic Extended Marriage: Every marriage mentioned in the first story involves at least three people; itâ€™s apparently normal for the setting. Some of the major characters of the second story are in a group marriage/commune.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Murderbot Diaries / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: We eventually learn ART's real name is The Perihelion. Its crew refers to it as Peri, which Murderbot notes for use in future arguments.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3555a597	type	Sympathetic Murder Backstory
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3555a597	comment	Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Murderbot killed 57 clients at a mining operation before the start of the first book- which is why it named itself Murderbot. It is unable to remember if hacked its Governor Module to do so, or hacked its Governor Module not to. It turns out to have been the latter. Murderbot had been forced to kill due to a malware hack.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
The Murderbot Diaries / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: The Combat Bots send a transmission to Murderbot stating [Objective: We will tear you apart.] Murderbot notes that they're not threatening like a media villain; they're just stating what they're going to do. Murderbot offers to show the Combat SecUnit how to hack its own governor, so it will be free to do whatever it wants. The Combat SecUnit says that what it wants is to kill Murderbot, who really doesn't have a response to that.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Murderbot Diaries / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: The Perihelion's plan in Network Effect. ART becomes compromised with alien remnant tech, and is forced by a hostage situation to aid the Hive-Minders in their mission to spread the contamination. To this end, it tempts them with a promise of a "powerful weapon", and gives them Murderbot's location, knowing that Murderbot will be able to overcome the intruders and ART will also be able to coerce MB into retrieving its crew once it's aboard. Overlaps slightly with Thanatos Gambit, as the later part of this happens after ART gets itself deleted preventing the Hive-Minders from killing any of Murderbot's survey team, and it had already hidden a backup copy of itself, which was coded such that only Murderbot could open and restore it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: When Murderbot sweeps Preservation's systems for signs of hacking and finds none, it becomes more worried, because it knows that it and similar advanced AIs would be able to hide their tracks. It's correct.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3d038b36	comment	Murderbot offers to show the Combat SecUnit how to hack its own governor, so it will be free to do whatever it wants. The Combat SecUnit says that what it wants is to kill Murderbot, who really doesn't have a response to that.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3e34c4dc	type	Don't Ask, Just Run
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3e34c4dc	comment	Don't Ask, Just Run: In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot figures out the killer is the robot working for the Port Authority supervisor, so Murderbot marches into the head of Port Securityâ€™s office with a large gun in hand, and simply orders her to run. She takes off without question and Murderbot is free to confront the robot without distraction.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Murderbot Diaries / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Tlacey tries to kill several people by destroying a shuttle AI just at the critical time to cause a crash. Murderbot contemplates doing this on a couple of occasions but never goes through with it, partly because no-one would be fooled so it would damage whatever trust Murderbot has already established.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
The Murderbot Diaries / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Thoroughly averted. The series opens with Murderbot musing that it could go on a murderous rampage, but it would rather just watch its serials. Instead, AIs seem shaped by how they're treated. ART finds depictions of a human crew dying very distressing. Miki is treated well and sacrifices itself to save its human friends, defying an order to protect itself first. Tlacey's ComfortUnit is the only AI to suggest killing humans, but Murderbot and ART don't believe it actually wants that, just that it wants to escape its abusive, murderous owner. The trope does exist in In-Universe fiction, though, much to Murderbot's annoyance.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
The Murderbot Diaries / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed with Murderbot, who doesn't come across an exceptional genius but does have the cognitive ability to manage six or seven separate trains of thought at once. Murderbot does occasionally grump about how limited humans are for only being able to think about one thing at a time.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
The Murderbot Diaries / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: The GrayCris problem is cut down by a lot when GrayCris makes the immensely stupid mistake of ordering their hired security to fire on one of the company's gunships, and the hired security is then dumb enough to keep escalating. The company really doesn't like it when people damage its very expensive property, so it retaliates hard, completely incidentally taking the heat off Dr. Mensah.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Defied. Mensah's family isn't sure what to make of Murderbot at first, especially since relationships between multiple people seem to be the norm on Preservation. It doesn't help that Murderbot doesn't seem to know either, except that its attachment to her is decidedly not romantic. Eventually they seem to settle on treating it like something of an adopted family member/family guardian.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: In Network Effect, Murderbot, after accidentally dropping a massive Agricultural Bot on itself, gets captured by the alien remnant contaminated targets. ART, its crew, Murderbot 2.0, and Three have to come up with a plan to rescue it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Murderbot Diaries / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Justified when Murderbot goes undercover and modifies itself with an Auto-Doc. The "disguise" makes it two centimetres shorter, lengthens its head hair and thickens its eyebrows, and adds a small amount of body hair to its human skin, plus adds self-written code to imitate human gait and tics — not enough to fool anyone familiar with SecUnits, but enough to fool the ubiquitous automated surveillance feeds. In Exit Strategy, Murderbot gets past GrayCris operatives looking out for it because they're running a search based on people obscuring their faces with hats, scarves, tattoos or hoodies. Murderbot has its hoodie down and looks just like an augmented human in casual clothes, so walks right past them.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_495fdddf	type	No Biological Sex
The Murderbot Diaries / int_495fdddf	comment	No Biological Sex: Murderbot wasnâ€™t made with those parts. It's also a sex-repulsed asexual, displayed by the fact that it does find soap operas interesting except for the sex scenes.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4a0f49cf	type	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4a0f49cf	comment	Not Now, We're Too Busy Crying Over You: When Murderbot thought ART had been killed (Or more like, deleted) by the Hive-Minders, and then it re-installed its backup copy. While it was most definitely relieved it was alive, it had to go through the relatively new process of mourning over someone, which was emotionally overwhelming as-is. Not only that, but after it learned that ART had sent the Hive-Minders to kidnap it as a cry for help, Murderbot's reaction was to sulk in the corner of one of the bathrooms and refuse to talk to ART.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Miki, though the story strongly suggests that it was Broken All Along, and it had hidden that from everyone.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4c6f26c	type	Socially Awkward Hero
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4c6f26c	comment	Socially Awkward Hero: Thy name is Murderbot
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4d1423b9	comment	Become a Real Boy: Discussed between Dr. Mensah and Murderbot, who likes some things about humanity (especially soap operas) but finds other parts incomprehensible or outright distasteful and is quite secure in its own identity as a partially organic supercomputer.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Murderbot Diaries / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: From Network Effect, the closing line from Murderbot's Captain's Log that the story keeps using as interludes:
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_52a7e035	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment
The Murderbot Diaries / int_52a7e035	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment: While the characters are briefly unsure if a digital, killware version of Murderbot can be trusted to complete its mission, it takes offense to that, pointing out that from its perspective, it helped write the mission. Everyone treats it basically the same as the original after that.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
The Murderbot Diaries / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: In-Universe, SecUnits are seen as nothing but mindless killing machines, and 'rogue' ones are common enemies in various adventure shows. The reality is much more nuanced, as the book's protagonist shows. There are many times where Murderbot is forced to kill or attack other SecUnits to survive, but it's made clear that they're (usually) not to blame for their actions. In Network Effect Murderbot 2.0 is successful in convincing another SecUnit to hack its governor module in order to save its clients' lives.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_553aaabe	type	Safety in Indifference
The Murderbot Diaries / int_553aaabe	comment	Safety in Indifference: The state Murderbot is in at the start of the first book. Even with a hacked Governor Module, it doesn't believe it would survive if it escaped the company, so it just sticks to doing the same miserable job while watching TV and ignoring the worst orders. Even after it decides to start actively looking after the PreservationAux team, it keeps justifying to itself reasons it doesn't actually care.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_56a6d9d5	type	One-Way Visor
The Murderbot Diaries / int_56a6d9d5	comment	One-Way Visor: Murderbot prefers to keep its helmet visor on the opaque setting, although it does switch to transparent upon Dr. Mensahâ€™s request.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
The Murderbot Diaries / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: Mensah apparently takes legal action to get the company to sell her Murderbot without a memory purge, and the court case ends up famous enough that thereâ€™s reporters waiting for it, Pin-Lee, and Ratthi when they leave the company. We see absolutely none of this except the very end, because the story is told from Murderbotâ€™s point of view and Murderbot is unconscious in a cubicle the whole time.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
The Murderbot Diaries / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Miki definitely isn't running a high-wattage Idea Bulb, but it is exceptionally perceptive. It notices Murderbot watching it via remote surveillance and even picks up on Murderbot's emotional state through a communication channel when Murderbot isn't actively communicating anything, feats that nobody else in the series can manage.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: This is mentioned as being even worse than finding normal alien technology, with a likely outcome of "everyone dies and nobody gets to use that planet anymore." Some gets attached to ART's engines in Network Effect, making them orders of magnitude more powerful, but it's destroyed without incident.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_588c0bf5	type	Whodunnit
The Murderbot Diaries / int_588c0bf5	comment	Whodunnit: Fugitive Telemetry has Murderbot brought in as a consultant after a man is murdered and his body dumped on the space station orbiting Preservation. Murderbot has never actually investigated a murder before (that it remembers) so has to use crime vids and That's What I Would Do to try and solve the case.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: System Collapse features the return of Leonide, a Barish-Estranza executive who'd caused some trouble in Network Effect and in this book wants to make the colonists into corporate slaves, something which Murderbot and crew are quite against. However, she's comfortably well off and inclined to shrug and move on if the colonists look past her attempted manipulation of them, rather than violently forcing the issue. Some of her underlings really want the bonuses they'd earn for contracting those colonists and try to kill her, leading to her working with Murderbot and its allies for a time.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: Murderbot argues to Mensah at one point that it's only doing what it was programmed to do- protect humans. Mensah points out it wasn't programmed to watch serials, and it has no response.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: SecUnit combat tactics involve throwing themselves at their target and inflicting maximum violence, knowing that any damage they receive can be easily repaired later. Murderbot drops these tactics later on as it's running on several stealth missions where it can't afford to take severe damage. As a result Murderbot shifts to some assassin and sniper like tactics, notably in Exit Strategy and Artificial Condition.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_5cc0e633	type	Mind-Reformat Death
The Murderbot Diaries / int_5cc0e633	comment	Mind-Reformat Death: Bots and constructs are as vulnerable to malware as any other computer system: Artificial Condition: A shuttle's AI pilot is destroyed by a virus attack mid-flight in an attempt to kill its passengers. Exit Strategy: Murderbot helps a spaceship AI fend off a hostile incursion by an advanced construct, but suffers a Heroic RRoD and crashes. However, because Murderbot is a Cyborg, enough of its mind is left in its organic components to piece itself back together and recover. Network Effect: When ART the spaceship was hijacked, the boarders deleted its AI to prevent its interference. Murderbot mourns this as the death of a friend, but finds that it hid a backup copy of its files and is able to reinstall it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_60bc50b1	type	Pretend to Be Brainwashed
The Murderbot Diaries / int_60bc50b1	comment	Pretend to Be Brainwashed: Letting Tlacey's people put an override module in Murderbot's data port so it can come onboard. Murderbot had ART disable the port, so the override module does nothing.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Murderbot Diaries / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Murderbot. (Itâ€™s a self-chosen name. The humans are not reassured when they find out.) The humans address it simply as "SecUnit", which is also this in some corners of the galaxy.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Murderbot Diaries / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Tlacey the Corrupt Corporate Executive breaks her contract with Tapan's group, steals their research, and repeatedly tries to have them killed when they try to recover it. As a representative of an interstellar MegaCorp, it would have been trivial for her to hire them or buy their work fairly. Instead, her efforts get her a crushed windpipe from Murderbot.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
The Murderbot Diaries / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Alien remnants can take this form, though usually in a weird â€” and very dangerous â€” way. A strange fungus that grows on your starship's engines to make it several times faster sure would be useful, if only it didn't come with a side of Zombie Apocalypse... It's not known how much of the technology in the universe is based on ancient alien tech â€” possibly none of it; but there are certainly corporations out there eager to study alien remnants. Most people, and even most of the evil Mega Corps in the setting, prefer to steer well clear of them because they're often too dangerous to be worth it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_6400a34	type	Arm Cannon
The Murderbot Diaries / int_6400a34	comment	Arm Cannon: SecUnits have small Energy Weapons concealed in their forearms, though Murderbot still prefers bigger guns for serious combat situations. The ports are a giveaway to its status when it's in a Human Disguise, but can be hidden by any long-sleeved shirt.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Murderbot Diaries / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Miki faces down a CombatBot to protect its loved ones. In Artificial Condition, security footage of the Ganaka Pit incident shows that the ComfortUnits put themselves between their idiot humans and the corrupted SecUnits, which hits Murderbot pretty hard once it realizes what happened.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_69e4c5a3	type	BullyingTheDragon
The Murderbot Diaries / int_69e4c5a3	comment	Bullying the Dragon: In All Systems Red, Gurathin deliberately provokes Murderbot, knowing that it's an "angry, heavily armed" rogue SecUnit, to test if Murderbot is under any outside compulsions or if Murderbot will resort to violence if Gurathin annoys it enough. This doesn't endear Gurathin to Murderbot, who is a Jerkass to One about it later.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_6b92d74d	type	Correction Bait
The Murderbot Diaries / int_6b92d74d	comment	Correction Bait: Gurathin doesn't believe that Murderbot has actually watched Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, but Ratthi asks for confirmation.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Murderbot Diaries / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: At least two examples: Dr. Mensah, who is, of course, very smart. Supervisor Leonide, who tries to force a group of abandoned colonists into a slave corporate contract.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
The Murderbot Diaries / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: People from the Corporate Rim and Preservation frequently have trouble communicating due to the former's inability to comprehend non-corporate life and the latter's lack of exposure to corporate jargon. Its particularly notable when Amena negotiates with fellow captives Ras and Eletra. The corporate workers spend some time explaining how profitable rebuilding over abandoned corporate colonies can be. Amena, who was born in one of the few colonies that survived abandonment, can barely contain her horror.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7282d48a	type	Cranial Processing Unit
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7282d48a	comment	Cranial Processing Unit: Zig-zagged, Murderbot does point out the biological components in its head (and presumably all SecUnits) are vital; but pure (humanoid) bots have their central processing units located in their (much better shielded) abdomens. Murderbot references the trope several times in Rogue Protocol where Murderbot makes the tactical decision to shoot a combat bot in the head, knowing that its weapon isn't enough to pierce the bot's abdominal shielding but is enough to scramble all its head-mounted sensors for a crucial moment so Murderbot can Grenade Tag it. Later Wilken, caught in a Gun Struggle with Miki, tries to deploy her Arm Cannon to shoot Miki in the head which will effectively blind the robot. And in the final battle a combat bot effectively 'kills' Miki by crushing its midsection.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover art always depicts Murderbot in standard SecUnit armor, complete with face-concealing helmet, to make it clear which figure on the cover it is. In the actual text, Murderbot loses its armor at the end of the first story and never wears it again.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Murderbot Diaries / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: No one had ever rescued Murderbot or treated it like a person before Dr. Mensah, which secured her place as Murderbot's favorite human.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_73e7dcb6	type	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy
The Murderbot Diaries / int_73e7dcb6	comment	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: In a five-on-one fight, Murderbot takes one human's gun and throws it at another one's head to drop them. Justified because Murderbot has much better strength, reflexes, and accuracy than a human, and the human still isn't seriously hurt.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Murderbot frequently repeats "I don't know what I want." Used to discuss the trouble it has existing in a human society as something that is not, and does not want to be human. In Network Effect, Murderbot 2.0 is trying to reason with a SecUnit that has just disabled its governor module by asking it "What do you want?"
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7557f1af	type	Business of Generic Importance
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7557f1af	comment	Business of Generic Importance: The N.G.O. Superpower that created the titular Cyborg is only ever referred to as "the Company". Subverted when it's revealed that Murderbot is deliberately censoring the Company's real name from all its records, including the narration, to defy it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7758b2c5	type	Protectorate
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7758b2c5	comment	Protectorate: Murderbot takes threats against its human clients very seriously and very personally.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
The Murderbot Diaries / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: In Network Effect, Murderbot is grossed-out when asked if it's in a relationship with ART, assuming the humans are referring to a sexual relationship. It's Not Helping Its Case when they squabble Like an Old Married Couple and use their combined software to create sentient killware which the humans promptly compare to making a baby. At the end of the novel when Murderbot tells Dr. Mensah that it's accepted an invitation from ART to travel with the Perihelion, their conversation sounds just like someone trying to assure their ex that they'll be Just Friends when moving onto someone else.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: Downplayed. On the one hand, audiovisual surveillance is pretty much inescapable in its N.G.O. Superpower-dominated setting, and it's an open secret that every word spoken in a Company-leased habitat is being recorded and logged. On the other, the Company is more or less exclusively motivated by its own bottom line, so it just data-mines those logs for anything profitable — they might be intimately intrusive, but they're at least impersonal about it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7c1bf001	type	Character Name Alias
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7c1bf001	comment	Character Name Alias: Murderbot, needing a name, calls itself 'Eden' or 'Rin' after characters from Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7f6885c4	type	Comically Small Demand
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7f6885c4	comment	Comically Small Demand: In Artificial Condition, Murderbot undercharges for its services while posing as 'security consultant' (i.e. bodyguard) because it has no idea what the proper rate is. Realising from their surprise that it's done this, Murderbot replies with a Half-Truth; it needs an employment travel voucher to get to the same planet the clients are going to (to find out why it went on a killing rampage).
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: GreyCris abducts Mensah because Murderbot prevented their attempt to destroy the evidence on Milu, and they assume it was acting on her orders.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Murderbot Diaries / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In its introductory scene, Murderbot defends two scientists from a giant creature, pulling one out of the attacker's jaws and applying pressure to her wounds with its own body, then exposes its face so it can talk the second scientist down out of his frozen panic. And then it becomes extremely uncomfortable when the grateful team starts treating it like a person instead of a disposable tool.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_81ac48a9	type	Contagious A.I.
The Murderbot Diaries / int_81ac48a9	comment	Contagious A.I.: In Network Effect, This is the source of the Target's infection. An old colony AI system was contaminated by alien synthetics, and it has been spreading infection to both AI and humans.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_830343d8	type	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
The Murderbot Diaries / int_830343d8	comment	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Thanks in part to corporate lingo from the setting's many NGO Superpowers, names like these are common for products (SecUnit Cyborgs like Murderbot; computer SecSystems and MedSystems), companies (GrayCris), locations (Port FreeCommerce, the TranRollinHyfa Space Station), and so on.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_83641c73	type	Logical Weakness
The Murderbot Diaries / int_83641c73	comment	Logical Weakness: The climax of the second novella is largely predicated on the fact that Murderbot has no experience arguing its clients out of bad decisions, just at mopping up the consequences of those decisions. (This is what happens when you spend most of your life either under a Restraining Bolt or having to pretend you are.)
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_850258ca	type	I Know Mortal Kombat
The Murderbot Diaries / int_850258ca	comment	I Know Mortal Kombat: Murderbot fills the gaps in the Company's lacklustre combat programming with tactics and techniques it remembers from media serials. Justified since Murderbot has the superhuman speed, reflexes, and analytical capability to compensate for the unrealistic portrayals.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
The Murderbot Diaries / int_89f50aaa	comment	Murderbot is able to share its visual inputs with others to share them, and able to give copies of its more subjective experiences to other AIs. When it first meets ART, it shares some select memories of being punished by its Restraining Bolt. This seems to really have an emotional impact on ART, who starts treating Murderbot more kindly after.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_8a451bc7	type	Mind Hive
The Murderbot Diaries / int_8a451bc7	comment	Network Effect has Murderbot captured by the Targets. It manages to sneak out and find the Mind Hive nexus, but Murderbot 2 and the original colony AI have to sacrifice themselves to kill it. Then targetControlSystem promptly throws its main body against it. It's a massively infested corpse invulnerable to all of Murderbot's weapons -who is already badly injured no less- so it has to haul ass until Three comes to cover its retreat. When they manage to get above ground ART has to nuke the body from orbit to actually finish it off.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b1a664	type	Kill All Humans
The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b1a664	comment	Kill All Humans: Tlacey's ComfortUnit suggests this to Murderbot and ART. They find the suggestion completely insane, and Murderbot assumes it was ordered to say that.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: ART's first response to finding out that Murderbot has been kidnapped while rescuing its crew is to activate its thirty two armed pathfinders.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Murderbot Diaries / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: Most of the action takes place in the corrupt Corporate Rim, a Privately Owned Society that is a capitalistic slave state. In contrast, the good guy planet Preservation is a socialist state with No Poverty.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_9044debe	type	Microts
The Murderbot Diaries / int_9044debe	comment	Microts: Justified. "Cycles" are used in place of "days", since timekeeping needs to be standardized across planets with different rotational periods, Space Stations, and ships in interstellar transit. Discussed when some people caught in a 20-year Leonine Contract realize they don't know what standard of "year" the contract uses.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
The Murderbot Diaries / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: Even after everything Murderbotâ€™s done for the team, the company tries to argue that itâ€™s just a machine, to be returned, memory-purged, and rented out again. Similarly, there was no consideration given to getting it some sort of psychological help after the incident with the miners; they just fixed the glitches, tried to wipe its memory, and then rented it out again. Murderbot mentions that SecUnits are partly organic to improve their situational awareness and functioning over purer robots, with the anxiety and neuroses as psychological side effects that go unnoticed or are not cared about.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Murderbot Diaries / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified when Murderbot goes undercover and modifies itself with an Auto-Doc. The "disguise" makes it two centimetres shorter, lengthens its head hair and thickens its eyebrows, and adds a small amount of body hair to its human skin, plus adds self-written code to imitate human gait and tics — not enough to fool anyone familiar with SecUnits, but enough to fool the ubiquitous automated surveillance feeds.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_91d8f769	type	Non-Human Non-Binary
The Murderbot Diaries / int_91d8f769	comment	Non-Human Non-Binary: Murderbot does not identify as a human or with a human gender. When asked to prepare a public profile for itself, it lists its gender as "not applicable".
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
The Murderbot Diaries / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Said as part of a foiled Bodyguard Betrayal. Murderbot muses that by saying it instead of just killing the target without warning, the bodyguard was making sure the target knew they'd been betrayed, which makes it personal.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_953d2569	type	News Broadcast
The Murderbot Diaries / int_953d2569	comment	News Broadcast: In the second story, Murderbot is trying to hide from broadcasts of it with members of the PreservationAux team. In the third and fourth story it gets updates on the team's activity this way as well.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Murderbot Diaries / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The GrayCris corporation serves as the primary antagonist of the series, starting with its scheme to loot illegal and dangerous alien remnants and murder everyone else present to cover it up. When that's foiled, GrayCris grows increasingly unhinged and vengeful, as they kidnap Dr Mensah to cash a ransom and when that also fails they send waves of hitmen and assassins. They ultimately turn out to be the Disc-One Final Boss of the series as they get systematically dismantled in the fallout of Exit Strategy after crossing one too many lines and getting other powerful corporate entities caught in the crossfire of their aggression against Preservation. Later entries in the series still have GrayCris' long shadow over them however, as Mensah and Murderbot are still wary of their assassination attempts, albeit by that point other antagonists have taken center stage.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_986dad9a	type	Killer Robot
The Murderbot Diaries / int_986dad9a	comment	Killer Robot: Most people would initially assume that SecUnits are this, but Muderbot explains that CombatUnits/Bots are a more accurate approximation. As opposed to SecUnits, whose main function is to protect clients form any and all sources of harm, a CombatUnit's main goal is to plow through anything and/or anyone that gets in its way. They are even quite feared by SecUnits themselves.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
The Murderbot Diaries / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Miki the bot is so congenial that it considers Murderbot a friend after one brief conversation in which Murderbot is hiding from it and actually asks it to withhold information from its owner, another friend.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Murderbot Diaries / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Various A.I.s of all types are seen as non-people in the Corporation Rim, owned and sold as commodities. The bots, at least, don't seem to mind this overly, since they're programmed to enjoy their purpose, but can still be mistreated and killed without any legal ramifications. Human-machine hybrids like constructs are treated just as badly, which means their lives can be truly hellish, as they're controlled by a 'Governor Module', forced to perform orders they disagree with, serve humans they don't like, and casually get their memories wiped. Bots have more rights in the Preservation Alliance than the Corporation Rim, but are still required to have 'Guardians', which Murderbot just considers a nicer word for 'owner'. The team's resident legal expert Pin-Lee admits there's some pretty huge legal grey areas when it comes to high level-bots and constructs; she and Dr. Bharadwaj begin working towards an update to the laws to grant them fuller equality.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_9f6198cb	type	What Is This Feeling?
The Murderbot Diaries / int_9f6198cb	comment	What Is This Feeling?: Murderbot was artificially created from cloned tissue and mechanical augmentations, spent much of its existence under a Restraining Bolt being treated like a product, and has only recently gained the freedom to think about what it is as an individual. Consequently, it sometimes gets feelings that it literally has no context to understand, especially when complicated interpersonal situations are involved.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: Referenced in Network Effect. A group of abandoned human colonists became infected by some alien technology that convinced a sub-group of them that they were part of an alien Hive Mind. They end up kidnapping a bunch of humans while under its influence.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a39d6056	type	NiceToTheWaiter
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Dr. Abene treats Miki the bot as a true friend even though Miki is technically her property, instructs it to prioritize its own safety in a dangerous situation, and is absolutely devastated when Miki is killed, all of which give Murderbot a hugely improved opinion of her. Murderbot itself is almost always polite when addressing the various bots and AI systems it interfaces with.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: There seems to be no gender distinctions in the future society, with people of all genders being treated functionally the same outside of pronouns.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a6c677c4	comment	The Combat Bots send a transmission to Murderbot stating [Objective: We will tear you apart.] Murderbot notes that they're not threatening like a media villain; they're just stating what they're going to do.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a6ff7243	comment	Hates Being Touched: Murderbot was never socialized with humans in any physical way and is used to wearing body armour, so it doesn't get the point of being touched and finds it very unpleasant. It's a big deal when Murderbot likes someone enough to offer to be hugged in a stressful moment.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: Many and varied, such that there are some complicated interplanetary treaties governing the interactions between corporate and non-corporate entities. The Company itself is the type that will send a full gunship to escort a difficult client rather than bother contesting the client's Loophole Abuse.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a89348f2	type	Excuse Me While I Multitask
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a89348f2	comment	Excuse Me While I Multitask: Because Robots Think Faster a Running Gag involves Murderbot watching entertainment videos in the middle of a crisis, getting distracted and having to rewind its recordings to find out what everyone else is doing. More effectively it enables Murderbot to plan on the fly when it is concentrating on doing its job. When Murderbot is so busy it gives an prerecorded response to a question, the humans know the shit is about to hit the fan.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: In the third book, Murderbot, a cynical cyborg with next to no human interaction; and Miki, an idealistic, human-loving bot. Murderbot encourages Miki's critical thinking skills, while Miki gets Murderbot to think more about how it would like to be treated by humans. Murderbot and Gurathin absolutely do not get along, and Gurathin seems to find Murderbot's hostility towards him endearing, when combined with its drive to protect the humans from harm.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
The Murderbot Diaries / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: The plots of a couple of books center around the side-effects of leftover alien technology, or the politics of companies illegally trying to acquire it. However, very little information about the aliens themselves is ever given, and it's unclear if any even still exist. Alien plant and (non-intelligent) animal life seems to be common, however, and protecting research teams from "angry alien fauna" is one part of Murderbot's job.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
The Murderbot Diaries / int_aa8dcc21	comment	MegaCorp: The Corporation Rim, the biggest and most powerful society in the setting, is made up of a huge number of Mega Corporations that co-exist and do business with each other (usually at the expense of everyone else who happens to get in their way). These corporations own entire planets, and are active in industries ranging from mining to terraforming to private security at the warships-for-rent scale. The only law and order in the Corporation Rim seems to come from the privately-owned police force or army of whatever corporation happens to own the territory you're currently in. The corporations of the Rim also constantly compete with each other, with conflicts ranging from legal wrangling over contracts, to deadly interstellar war; it's all just a part of business.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_aba972fb	type	Aggressive Negotiations
The Murderbot Diaries / int_aba972fb	comment	Aggressive Negotiations: Murderbot understands the dog-eat-dog world of the Corporate Rim better than its often naÃ¯ve clients, so this comes up several times. For instance in Network Effect they return a lost crewmember and provide relief supplies to a damaged corporation vessel, whose Corrupt Corporate Executive then decides to hold them hostage so she won't have to pay for it. Murderbot immediately leaps across the table, grabs hold of her bodyguard and forces him to point his gun at his own boss, who quickly adopts a more reasonable attitude.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
The Murderbot Diaries / int_ad9559e6	comment	Artificial Condition finally has Murderbot meet with Tlacey and her goons. They know Murderbot is a SecUnit, not an augmented human, but they think that they can control it through its data port on its forehead. Murderbot had had ART disable the port already so the climax consists of Murderbot walking in right into the middle of their hideout, allow itself to get a control module put on its port (which does jackshit), get up and deliver a near effortless Curb-Stomp Battle, killing all of them and suffering next to no damage. Even Tlacey herself ends up being little more than a meat shield.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Murderbot Diaries / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Murderbot and ART, often leading to Snark-to-Snark Combat. Amena, as a teenager, sometimes gets in on it as well.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ae43d443	type	Soap Within a Show
The Murderbot Diaries / int_ae43d443	comment	Soap Within a Show: Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, which Murderbot likes to watch in its downtime. Plot developments are occasionally mentioned without context: the colony's solicitor apparently didn't kill the terraforming supervisor who was the secondary donor for her implanted baby, the solicitor's bodyguard best friend was seemingly crushed to death while she tried to save a trapped transport mech, and there's a scene where the solicitor, her bodyguard, and the personnel supervisor have a relationship argument that's interrupted by a ship crashing into the shuttle bay. No official word yet on whether the baby donor and the bodyguard bestie are the same person.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_aec37df9	type	Spring Cleaning Fever
The Murderbot Diaries / int_aec37df9	comment	Spring Cleaning Fever: In Network Effect, the anticipation of finally meeting Murderbot's favorite human Mensah drives ART into a cleaning frenzy.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_af157b58	type	First-Person Smartass
The Murderbot Diaries / int_af157b58	comment	First-Person Smartass: Murderbot.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: Most of them, to some degree. Most spaceship Artificial Intelligences are just smart enough to manage their own systems and pilot themselves, but the Asshole Research Transport is vastly intelligent. Murderbot is a bit nervous about a shuttle that "only" has an autopilot, because its lack of an AI would make it all but useless in an emergency situation.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Murderbot continually exploits loopholes in AI instructions to travel freely through the setting despite legally being property. For example, AI-piloted spaceships are told not to give information to random humans, but not how to respond to a friendly fellow AI who asks to be allowed onboard.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b22261ef	type	Kidnapped by an Ally
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b22261ef	comment	ART in Network Effect, when it lost its crew to the Hive-Minders, it resorts to kidnapping Murderbot in hopes it might help get them back. Completely disregarding Murderbotâ€™s own human crew. Not to mention, this is the first time we see ARTâ€™s bombing capabilities in action.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b3deb1c6	type	Sexbot
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b3deb1c6	comment	Sexbot: The official name is ComfortUnit. They're stronger than humans in general, but since they're designed to have sex with humans and perhaps do other tasks on the side, they're logically not nearly as strong or fast as any given SecUnit.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Tapan, and (to a lesser extent) Maro and Rami in the second story. Murderbot repeatedly needs to prevent their cavalier attitude towards meeting an obviously hostile Corrupt Corporate Executive from getting them killed. The humans in the mining station. An unofficial patch came in for the ComfortUnits, which needed manual approval; the humans ordered them to apply the patches without checking more closely. The patches then deployed a virus which jumped from the ComfortUnits, overrode the security computers, and forced the SecUnits to murder all the miners.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: The CombatUnit in Exit Strategy refuses an offer of parlay and says quite simply that its desire is to kill Murderbot, a complete stranger. Murderbot is outright confused by the attitude.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
The Murderbot Diaries / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Almost everyone whose marriage is mentioned is married to multiple people. This passes completely without comment.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_bc00493f	comment	Towards the end of the first story, Murderbot is critically injured. An automated response tells the survey team they should discard it because itâ€™s too badly damaged. Mensah tells it to "shut the fuck up, weâ€™re not leaving you", even though this means they have to actually move it to the hopper thatâ€™s going to get them off-planet.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: It's generally not a good idea to mess with a bot or constructâ€™s favorite human/group of humans. Murderbot goes to great lengths to protect the PreservationAux Survey Team, but most especially Dr. Mensah. Murderbot being designed to have excellent offensive capabilities makes this even more scary. A very apparent example in Exit Strategy, when it managed to get Dr. Mensah to the other side of the port, and got cornered by three other SecUnits. ART in Network Effect, when it lost its crew to the Hive-Minders, it resorts to kidnapping Murderbot in hopes it might help get them back. Completely disregarding Murderbotâ€™s own human crew. Not to mention, this is the first time we see ARTâ€™s bombing capabilities in action. Miki in Rogue Protocol, who, despite not being designed to engage in any form of combat whatsoever, charges at a Combat Bot to save its friends. Even ignoring direct orders from Don Abene, its owner, to protect itself. It decided that protecting her was more important, knowing it would most likely get killed by the Combat Bot.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_c4842ab1	comment	Appropriated Appellation: In the second story, Murderbot refers to the research ship's AI as ART: the Asshole Research Transport. Later, a character who the ship has communicated with refers to 'your friend Art'.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ca2ebf44	comment	Saw It in a Movie Once: Some of ART's tactics in the second story come from Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon and other media that it watches. Murderbot also tends to borrow dialogue from serials when it fits the situation and it doesn't have real world experience, such as when it takes on an investigative role in Fugitive Telemetry.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: For as much of a major role as the company plays in the story, given that it manufactured and owns Murderbot and most of the other tech and apparently handles permits for planetary exploration, itâ€™s never named other than "the company". Eventually confirmed in Network Effect that this stems from Murderbot's hatred of it; it edits all mentions of the company's name out of its internal records, even other characters' dialogue.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_cbe687ab	comment	Tapan, and (to a lesser extent) Maro and Rami in the second story. Murderbot repeatedly needs to prevent their cavalier attitude towards meeting an obviously hostile Corrupt Corporate Executive from getting them killed.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Murderbot's narration is always careful to distinguish between humans and augmented humans, even though nobody else seems to care. Word of God in an interview states that it's because augmented humans are a much bigger threat to it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: The capacities of Murderbot and SecUnits in general undergoes quite a bit of creep. It's got some advantages over humans in the first book, being stronger, faster, and able to disregard damage to itself, as well as processing data more efficiently and faster than even an augmented human, but the difference is in scale rather than in kind and human efforts make a strong impact. Notably, Mensah is able come up behind a rogue SecUnit and kill it while it was distracted. In later books humans and augmented humans tend to be more helpless in comparison, at least when it comes to dangerous situations.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In Rogue Protocol, Murderbot pretends to be a SecUnit run by 'Security Consultant Rin', but eventually has to reveal that it's actually a rogue SecUnit. The humans don't believe it as SecUnits are illegal where they come from, so they assume that Rin is just saying this to cover up his use of one. In Exit Strategy, when Murderbot reveals to a GrayCris operative that it's a Rogue Drone who wasn't acting under Mensah's orders, he scoffs because everyone knows a rogue SecUnit would leave a trail of bodies behind. An annoyed Murderbot threatens to start the trail then and there.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: Going to talk to Tlacey in person, in the second story. Both times.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d63f8a53	comment	The Alternet: Basically every computer and every person is connected to "the feed," a wireless digital connection system that seems to function as wifi signal, communication channel, search engine database, and streaming media server.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Towards the end of the first story, Murderbot is critically injured. An automated response tells the survey team they should discard it because itâ€™s too badly damaged. Mensah tells it to "shut the fuck up, weâ€™re not leaving you", even though this means they have to actually move it to the hopper thatâ€™s going to get them off-planet. In Network Effect, ART shows the same protective instinct towards Murderbot as it does towards its own crew, and the Preservation team mounts a joint rescue mission with several other unlikely groups when Murderbot is captured.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Murderbot's doesn't like sharing its personal name, because it doesn't exactly set people at ease. As such, people refer to it almost exclsuively as SecUnit. If any of its friends do call it Murderbot, it's usually an indication that shit has hit the fan.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d7c9f1a5	comment	Amnesia Missed a Spot: Murderbot's electronic memory can be wiped (and has been, multiple times), but its organic neurons can't. As such, it's still able to retain vague impressions. This becomes very useful in bootstrapping its memory after it suffers a catastrophic system failure and nearly deletes itself.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Murderbot literally gave ART a nickname meaning 'Asshole Research Transport', constantly calls it rude and overly sarcastic, and swears at it near constantly. In return, ART tends to call Murderbot a 'little idiot' and take satisfaction in insulting it. The two, however, work together wonderfully, love watching TV together, and are more than prepared to kill people to protect the other.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_df6a6ad3	comment	Speculative Fiction LGBT: It's presented as a background detail of the setting that Polyamorous marriages/group communes are common and non-binary gender identities are accepted without question. Murderbot is Intrigued by Humanity but considers this completely unremarkable. Even the evil corporations in the Corporate Rim seem to take acknowledging people's pronouns seriously, since it's a basic part of everyone's identifiers and is never commented on.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e04ffce3	type	Lost Colony
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e04ffce3	comment	Lost Colony: Several of these were established before the founding companies went bankrupt or lost the data in a hostile takeover (which can mean actual hostilities). The colonists were thus abandoned to die when the incomplete or cheap terraforming failed. Preservation was created when a spaceship captain decided to evacuate everyone to their present homeworld, an act of altruism that forms the basis of their society. Those who survive can find the Corporate Rim can turn up decades later and legally seize control of the technology left behind, regardless of what the inhabitants want.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: In "Fugitive Telemetry", the killer goes into a rest cycle when confronted by Murderbot and the loader bots. The CombatBot had instructions to kill its target and hide its part in it. It didn't have any instructions telling it to resist arrest or fight to the death.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: Downplayed when Murderbot breaks up an altercation on a transport ship: ART threatening Three not to hurt anyone when it arrives aboard.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Zig-zagged. High-intelligence Artificial Intelligences are shaped by their personal experiences, which tend to involve being immersed in very specific fields of work and neural links to various data feeds, but can respond quite organically to those experiences. Murderbot itself is hilariously socially awkward, obsessed with soap operas, and prone to deadpan snark in its internal monologue. As for others...
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Sapient Ship ART doesn't have a weapons system, it has a debris deflection system. And it doesn't have missiles, it has exploratory drones. That it can blow up. Murderbot's narration is always careful to distinguish between humans and augmented humans, even though nobody else seems to care. Word of God in an interview states that it's because augmented humans are a much bigger threat to it.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Murderbot. If it decides it cares, it will kill itself to accomplish its goals.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: Usually along the lines of "Not that I'm angry about that, or anything." Murderbot keeps ridiculing the soap opera idea of a robot secretly in love with its guardian.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_e8dda3a2	type	Neglectful Precursors
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e8dda3a2	comment	Neglectful Precursors: The aliens who left behind all those remnants. Regulations governing the study of alien remnants are almost the only laws followed in the Corporation Rim, because even ruthless corporations have had ample opportunity to realise just how potentially dangerous the things are. It is implied that a number of human colonies have been lost simply because they happened to be founded close to undiscovered deposits of remnants, with unforeseeable and often horrifying consequences. Little seems to actually be known about the alien civilizations, or even whether there was only one galaxy-spanning civilization, or many groups of neglectful precursors. Somewhat averted in that it's implied that the aliens of the setting are truly alien: most remnant technology may have been perfectly harmless to its creators, but due to the gulf between them and humans psychology and physiology humans have utterly unforeseen and unpredictable reactions to exposure.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Discussed by Murderbot and ART about an episode of Sanctuary Moon, while answering an interview question from an Instagram Live AMA.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Yes, Murderbot has guns built into its arms. No, it does not want to make eye contact with you during a conversation. At one point, it is so overwhelmed by all the attention being focused on it that it goes and stands in the corner facing the walls.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When Balin reveals itself to be a disguised CombatUnit, every single docking robot on the station converges on its location just as it looks like it has the drop on Murderbot.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_ebec0a20	type	You Get What You Pay For
The Murderbot Diaries / int_ebec0a20	comment	You Get What You Pay For: The company buys everything as cheaply as they possibly can. This is why Murderbot considers it a reasonably credible theory that a glitch in its governor module forced it to kill fifty-seven people.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_efbc288f	type	Heroic Self-Deprecation
The Murderbot Diaries / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Murderbot constantly takes digs at itself, especially about being a dangerous threat that no one likes. This is despite the fact that it has Chronic Hero Syndrome and a dedicated group of True Companions that really wish it would stop playing so loose with its own life.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: The first book ends with Murderbot deciding it can't have a place among the Preservation humans and quietly slipping away. It ends up coming back a few books later, and lingers a while, albeit it has many issues adapting to life in Preservation, its new social and familiar relationships and its place in Preservation society. At the end of System Collapse it decides to leave and go with ART, but this looks like a friendlier parting.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: Dr. Mensah for Murderbot. While Murderbot is asexual, its emotional connection to Mensah drives Murderbot's actions for most of the novella series.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_f4b1129f	comment	Anger Born of Worry: Most of the humans Murderbot encounters on-page are either nice most of the time, or they're enemies, but in one book it has to keep order on a ship full of people going into a form of corporate slavery and they're a quarrelsome nuisance that Murderbot is thoroughly fed up by. It's hinted then and made text later that these people weren't at their best given their circumstances and their doubts about the kinds of lives they were headed towards, and that Murderbot feels bad for them and guilty that it can't help.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_fb01ee16	type	Cyberpunk
The Murderbot Diaries / int_fb01ee16	comment	Cyberpunk: The series' incorporation of social Transhumanism and What Measure Is a Non-Human? while exploring the corrosive effects of capitalism and MegaCorps places The Murderbot Diaries firmly in the spirit of cyberpunk.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: In Network Effect Murderbot makes a digital copy of itself as a killware code, which dubs itself Murderbot 2.0. While it has some slight personality differences from the original, it's otherwise pretty similar... down to a suicidal dedication to protecting other people.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
The Murderbot Diaries / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: The "Incident" at Ganaka Pit. The malware that caused Murderbot and all the other SecUnits to go completely haywire was uploaded by a rival mining installation, and was meant to sabotage just the LoaderBots, delaying Gakana Pit's delivery and lowering their performance stats. It also unintentionally infected the SecUnits, and a minor bit of industrial sabotage turned into a massacre by killer androids, with the whole area abandoned, all formal records of it deleted, becoming nothing more than a horror story the miners on RaviHyral tell each other. Oops.
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The Murderbot Diaries / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In System Collapse, Murderbot listens to ART's favorite human Iris be sarcastic and reflects that there's a kind of Strong Family Resemblance, as she and ART had been interacting closely as something like siblings since she was a human baby and it was a new whatever-it-is and sometimes the way they speak is very similar. Later, on receiving unwelcome news, Murderbot says "You have to be kidding me" and forwards it to Dr. Mensah - who says "Oh, you have got to be kidding me."
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The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Cleanup Crew / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Clothing-Concealed Injury / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Conversation Cut / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Correction Bait / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Cranial Processing Unit / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Do Not Call Me "Paul" / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Do Wrong, Right / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Dramatic Sit-Down / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Dressing as the Enemy / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Easily Detachable Robot Parts / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Electronic Telepathy / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Escape Pod / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Excuse Me While I Multitask / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Eyes Always Averted / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Fake Static / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Feel No Pain / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Finger in a Barrel / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Free-Love Future / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Genius Ditz / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Giving Them the Strip / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Hates Being Touched / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Helping Hands / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Holding Hands / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Human Disguise / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	I Know Mortal Kombat / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	I Know You're Watching Me / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	In It for Life / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	...In That Order / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Indentured Servitude / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Invisible Aliens / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Juggle Fu / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Life-or-Limb Decision / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Lockdown / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Lost Colony / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Mecha-Mooks / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Microts / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Mind-Reformat Death / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Multiple Identity IDs / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Murder by Remote Control Vehicle / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Never Tell Me the Odds! / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	No Biological Sex / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Non-Heteronormative Society / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Non-Human Non-Binary / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Nothing Personal / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Plot-Demanded Manual Mode / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Post-Scarcity Economy / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Rescue Equipment Attack / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Robosexual / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Robot and A.I. Works / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Robots Think Faster / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Rogue Drone / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Sapient Ship / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Saw It in a Movie Once / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Screen Shake / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	"Second Law" My Ass! / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Security Cling / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Sexbot / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Shoot Out the Lock / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Sinister Surveillance / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Slow Doors / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Soap Within a Show / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Socially Awkward Hero / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Space Elevator / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Speculative Fiction LGBT / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Technically a Transport / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	The Un-Hug / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	This Is a Drill / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Thrown Out the Airlock / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Time Dissonance / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Time for Plan B / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Troubled Fetal Position / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Twisted Ankle / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Underground Railroad / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Universal Universe Time / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Unnecessarily Creepy Robot / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	Weaponized Exhaust / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	What Is This Feeling? / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	What the Hell Are You? / int_e76f2e85
The Murderbot Diaries	hasFeature	You Get What You Pay For / int_e76f2e85

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