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Uglies

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Uglies	comment	Uglies is the collective name given to a series of books by Scott Westerfeld:The series is: Uglies Pretties Specials Extras (A companion book)The series is set in the future, three hundred years after a petroleum-destroying bacteria and genetically modified orchids went out of control, leaving the humans of the world to rethink their destructive ways.Indeed, at first glance, this future seems to be a better place: clothes can be recycled on the spot, the environment is in better shape, and no one goes hungry. The people of the world live under a caste system: once they turn sixteen, teenagers are given operations to become 'Pretties,' beautiful, popular youths who can do what they want all day and night in New Pretty Town.Nothing is wrong with the world—or so it seems.A quick summary of the books can be found here.There is also a spin-off series called Impostors.The series was first optioned as a film franchise as early as 2006 but has been in Development Hell since then. In 2020, however, it was reported that the first book in the series will be adapted as a Netflix film, with Joey King in the starring role.
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Uglies / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Uglies / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Dr. Cable saves Tally from the surgery that would make her normal, since Tally is the last Special in existence.
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Uglies / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Uglies / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Shay saves Tachs from drowning on the way to The Smoke with David in Shayâ€™s Story and this leads Tachs to develop a crush on her but he doesnâ€™t admit this because she falls for David, but after they both turn Pretty, then they start dating.
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Uglies / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Uglies / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: The Specials except for Dr. Cable are revealed to be this, when Tally gets turned into one against her will courtesy of Shay and suffers Mind Rape as a result of new lesions.
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Uglies / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Uglies / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: All the interesting worldbuilding that Westerfeld couldn't put in the books, plus explanations for many of his ideas, are in companion book Bogus To Bubbly. It also addresses, if leaving ambiguous, some fanon, like that the Rusty Ruins are Seattle, and could easily serve as a sourcebook for a Role-Playing Game set in the Uglies verse.
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Uglies / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
Uglies / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: A lot of Uglies are this and it is to be expected in this society. A few of the Pretties are this as well, but it is less common and itâ€™s even rarer among Specials, although all of the Cutters quality since they were Crims when they were Pretty.
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Uglies / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Uglies / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: In Extras, Aya mentions that there are a group of crumblies who claim that the government has the secret to immortality and arenâ€™t sharing it. Considering her Rapid Aging in Specials and the fact that she is implied to be hundreds of years old, Dr. Cable could very well be the person who is making this claim and is leading the other crumblies to investigate it.
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Uglies / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
Uglies / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: Tally and Peris, Zane and Croy.
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Uglies / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Uglies / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Tally for most of Uglies, she gets better. Shay for most of Pretties, she gets better too.
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Uglies / int_2258ffbf	type	Betty and Veronica Switch
Uglies / int_2258ffbf	comment	Betty and Veronica Switch: In the first book, we have Tally (A Betty when she joins the Smoke and is a NaÃ¯ve Newcomer who turns into a Veronica once she accidentally betrays it and tries to save it. This makes Tally much more edgy in the rest of the book), David (Archie throughout the first book), and Shay (Is a Veronica as a fun loving and risk taking Ugly who turns into a Betty once she turns Pretty and is made placid and ditzy.)
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Uglies / int_22c41566	type	Trilogy Creep
Uglies / int_22c41566	comment	Trilogy Creep: Extras is dedicated to all the people who wrote to the author to "reveal the secret definition of the word 'trilogy'".
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Uglies / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Uglies / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: This seems to be Zane's tale. First we find out he was responsible for the Specials wanting to track down Shay, then his brain gets eaten up by nanites, crippling him and his girlfriend is brainwashed into becoming a Special. Just when it seems that he gets the surgery he needs, his brain rejects the new implants, and he becomes a vegetable on life support in the middle of a war. The hospital has to take him off it for the other wounded people coming in.
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Uglies / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Uglies / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Shay eventually becomes this, though in Specials after receiving the cure she becomes the inversion. The exact point that she does is an exercise left to the reader.Though Shay's character is treated with bafflingly little sympathy, considering that her original role was to save Tally from Pretty obscurity by introducing her to another culture only to have Tally return the favor by (mostly unintentionally) betraying her trust, moving in on her crush, and ultimately bringing ruin upon her home.
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Uglies / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
Uglies / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: Andrew Simpson Smith's reservation. Tally's city can be considered one of these, too: the self-sufficient citizens don't seem to know that there's much outside beyond Rusty Ruins.
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Uglies / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Uglies / int_2a090d00	comment	Also in the same book, Tally lampshades that dramatic exits and/or leaving without saying goodbye can be overly dramatic, even unnecessary at times.
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Uglies / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
Uglies / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Tally has two love interests. She chooses Zane in Pretties, but he dies in Specials, causing her to end up traveling the world with David.
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Uglies / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Uglies / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Defied by Maddy in Uglies; although she wants to try the pretty cure on Shay, she won't force it on the latter without "informed consent." As she explains to Tally and David, Specials like Dr. Cable killed her husband Az by forcing experimental surgery upon him, and she doesn't want to stoop to that level. Played straight by the town of Diego, though. They consider Tally in Special form a weapon and even though they'd need her consent to change her mind, her body can be Brought Down to Normal. For Tally, though, it would be a Fate Worse than Death. They then heavily drug her when she throws a temper tantrum and is reduced to begging for it not to happen, and would have succeeded if not for Shay.
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Uglies / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
Uglies / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: Averted, English has become much more flexible and has different grammar rules. Tally comments that old black and white movies are "in an English she could hardly understand."
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Uglies / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Uglies / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Petroleum-eating bacteria and an overgrowth of genetically modified white orchids cause destruction for the Rusties, who are now regarded as greedy and insane.
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Uglies / int_343d729e	type	Note to Self
Uglies / int_343d729e	comment	Note to Self: Tally writes a note to herself in Uglies to inform herself that she gave informed consent for the pills she was given the same time as her note that could reverse the lesions she got from the pretty operation.
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Uglies / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Uglies / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: In-Universe. In "Pretties", after a failed attempt to jumpstart her hoverboard, Tally falls asleep to her reoccurring Princess dream. In it, said-princess decides to escape her tower by floating down on a parasol. But as it turns out, the parasol proves incapable of carrying the princess through the air, much less bringing her safely to the ground. Throughout "Specials", the cutters think that everything they do is awesome and epic and intimidating. But gradually, Tally starts to realize that through the eyes of a normal person, some of the things cutters do are crazy at best and melodramatic at worst. Also in the same book, Tally lampshades that dramatic exits and/or leaving without saying goodbye can be overly dramatic, even unnecessary at times.
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Uglies / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Uglies / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Once a book, with the exception of Extras. In Uglies. David's father Az is dead as a result of Dr. Cable trying to install new lesions, and Maddy may have developed a pretty cure but they have no subject on which to test the pills. Tally decides to perform a Heroic Sacrifice in offering herself as a test subject, outing herself as the traitor who destroyed the Smoke, and willingly turning herself in to have the operation. In Pretties once again Tally accidentally betrays the New Smoke, this time through Zane's false tooth. She decides to stay with him as the New Smoke members escape, taking the cure with them, and Shay turns her into a brainwashed Special. Tally ends the war that she and Shay started, but not before Zane dies and as the only Special in existence she has to make sure the new world doesn't destroy itself the way the old world did. David joins her in the wilderness as she vows to keep the world safe.
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Uglies / int_42368755	type	Weather Report Opening
Uglies / int_42368755	comment	Weather Report Opening: Uglies begins with "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." And then describes the diet said cat would need to get all the colors right.
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Uglies / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Uglies / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Dr. Cable kills Az, David's father, when trying to surgically give him Laser-Guided Amnesia.
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Uglies / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
Uglies / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Tally, at first sent to infiltrate the Smoke, comes to like it and love David.
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Uglies / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Uglies / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: A little bit once Shayâ€™s Story and Cutters is taken into account.
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Uglies / int_459fb8f5	type	Animated Tattoo
Uglies / int_459fb8f5	comment	Animated Tattoo: In Pretties and Specials, Tally and the Cutters have facial tattoos that pulse with their heart rate.
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Uglies / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Uglies / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: The tribes maintained by scientists believe Pretties are a race of gods, because of their beauty.
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Uglies / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Uglies / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Sure, it's a utopia of sorts, but Pretties are mindless airheads.
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Uglies / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Uglies / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Tally is this to both David and Zane. Shay may count as one to David before Tally shows up, but this is subverted as Shay and David wind up breaking up although in Shayâ€™s Story she is one to Tachs.
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Uglies / int_465780af	type	Facial Markings
Uglies / int_465780af	comment	Facial Markings: The flash tattoo Tally gets in Pretties sticks around.
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Uglies / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Uglies / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Tally becomes progressively more broken as she's dicked about with by the various authorities. Also, Shay in both "Shay's Story" and "Cutters".
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Uglies / int_5312637f	type	Tomboy with a Girly Streak
Uglies / int_5312637f	comment	Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Most of the female cast in the series. In the original trilogy Tally and Shay are both One of the Boys, Action Girls, and they are both hover boarding thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies. They are also each otherâ€™s only female friends. Even though they both receive a Girliness Upgrade after they turn Pretty, their only real feminine traits are that they are both a little bit boy crazy and they appreciate romance and the fact that Tally in particular is a bit obsessed with beauty. Though they both display some interest in fashion too. In Extras, Aya is a hover boarding Intrepid Reporter, Tech-Savvy Tomboy except for the fact that she is obsessed with fame, celebrities and gossip. Eden Maru is a glamorous sports star. Some of the Sly Girls like Miki may qualify. Although Jai/Kai/Lai seems to be more of a Ladette.
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Uglies / int_5bb56da	type	Justified
Uglies / int_5bb56da	comment	Tally's parents are on the vapid side and encourage her to do what Dr. Cable says to get her pretty surgery. Justified for most of the adults in the series that come off this way due to the lesions that make them into vapid Pretties.
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Uglies / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Uglies / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Don't read the back of any of the books if you haven't completely finished the previous book. The very first sentence on the backs of Pretties, Specials, and Extras give away, respectively, that Tally becomes a Pretty, Tally becomes a Special, and Tally brings down the dystopian system at the end of the original trilogy.
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Uglies / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
Uglies / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: 'Happy-making', 'bubbly', 'icy'...Mostly notably, the English language has become more flexible. For example, instead of saying "It looks pretty", you could say "It's pretty-making." Amusingly, the author decided the only way to determine if the slang is good enough for a book series and not just silly is to try it out in real life, so he actually did use words like "bubbly" in real conversation without explaining to others what it was all about.
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Uglies / int_6259dfa3	type	Grey Goo
Uglies / int_6259dfa3	comment	Grey Goo: In Specials, Tally and Shay release a vial of silvery nanomachines that eat all but three things: the vial they were kept in, a special black foam, and dirt.
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Uglies / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Uglies / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: In Specials it's revealed that the Specials have nanobots in their blood to make them heal quickly, and Tally and Shay accidentally destroy a museum with some destructive nanos. Nanotechnology is so pervasive in this world that there is a type of glue with nanos in it that allows it to bond any materials together forever.
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Uglies / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Uglies / int_6439de78	comment	In Uglies. David's father Az is dead as a result of Dr. Cable trying to install new lesions, and Maddy may have developed a pretty cure but they have no subject on which to test the pills. Tally decides to perform a Heroic Sacrifice in offering herself as a test subject, outing herself as the traitor who destroyed the Smoke, and willingly turning herself in to have the operation.
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Uglies / int_6532850f	type	Her Heart Will Go On
Uglies / int_6532850f	comment	Her Heart Will Go On: Approaches Buffy-level in the third book. Zane rejects his new neural grafts at the same time the war Tally accidentally started jammed Diego's comms network. As a result the doctors don't reach him in time, and he is reduced to a vegetable. They have to switch the life-support off, yet she must dash over to her home city and give herself up.
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Uglies / int_66181568	type	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions
Uglies / int_66181568	comment	Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Gods? You mean those invisible superheroes in the sky that the Rusties believed in? Later subverted, in Extras Aya mentions that the post-mind rain society has rediscovered religion — there are even Tally Youngblood cults. And then double subverted, as religions are largely out of fashion after the first few years.
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Uglies / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Uglies / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Played straight by the town of Diego, though. They consider Tally in Special form a weapon and even though they'd need her consent to change her mind, her body can be Brought Down to Normal. For Tally, though, it would be a Fate Worse than Death. They then heavily drug her when she throws a temper tantrum and is reduced to begging for it not to happen, and would have succeeded if not for Shay.
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Uglies / int_673b2da6	type	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
Uglies / int_673b2da6	comment	Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Moggle from Extras. Despite being a cheap, run-of-the-mill video camera. How's that for a Playful Hacker achievement?
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Uglies / int_6806266d	type	No Fame, No Wealth, No Service
Uglies / int_6806266d	comment	No Fame, No Wealth, No Service: Aya Fuse's entire city has a fame and merit economy. You get merits by having a job, going to school, cleaning the streets etc. and can spend them on items or save for a bigger house/apartment. Fame however is what people value, and without fame you cannot get into any parties. They even have a ranking system for everyone in the city, from the most popular to the most obscure.
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Uglies / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Uglies / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Subverted with David and Zane. In From Bogus to Bubbly, Westerfeld reveals that he just chose the names of Tally's two love interests without knowing that both of them mean "beloved". Played straight with a lot of names, though.
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Uglies / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
Uglies / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: The reader is advised not to use nanotechnology to rewire your brain.
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Uglies / int_723be11b	type	Villain Has a Point
Uglies / int_723be11b	comment	Villain Has a Point: Dr. Cable tells Tally in Pretties that the reason why the Rusties died out was because they were wasting the resources they had and polluting the earth, though the fuel crisis was a part of it. The Smoke threatened to do that as well by building fires, cutting down trees for rabbit hutches, and other activities that could destroy the planet on a large scale. Tally thinks that Dr. Cable is merely trying to test if she's gotten cured but later on takes these points to heart, and decides with David to monitor the world so that history doesn't repeat.
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Uglies / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Uglies / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Informed consent." Also, "Special Circumstances".
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Uglies / int_7960ab92	type	Sanity Ball
Uglies / int_7960ab92	comment	Sanity Ball: The inverse. Throughout the entire trilogy most of the main characters are suffering from Mind Control or Brainwashing and there are only one or two characters who arenâ€™t. Who those one or two characters are changes throughout the books. Averted in Extras, because at this point Tally has set everyone free.
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Uglies / int_7b0b12af	type	Hover Board
Uglies / int_7b0b12af	comment	Hover Board: The only way of transportation for uglies. Pretties aren't able to focus enough to use them.
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Uglies / int_7b66bc3b	type	Big Anime Eyes
Uglies / int_7b66bc3b	comment	Big Anime Eyes: In the fourth book, there's a clique called "manga-heads", who get surgery to make their eyes appear larger and who have crazy hairstyles in order to look like they're from manga.
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Uglies / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Uglies / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: There's a trilogy that tells the story from Shay's point of view.
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Uglies / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Uglies / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Happens three times, for plot reasons: In Uglies, Tally is given a medallion to use to signal the specials to come take out the Smoke. She throws it in the fire once she decides to stay in the Smoke, not knowing that damaging the pendant causes it to automatically send out a signal. In Pretties, she and her new boyfriend find pills to reverse the Pretty brain lesions. Turns out that the two pills were supposed to be taken by one person. One pill eats the lesions. The second pill stops the first pill from eating the entire brain. This leads to Zane becoming paralyzed. In Specials, she and Shay break into a museum and accidentally release an old relic that causes a huge fire. This gives Dr. Cable the excuse to blame Diego and declare war on the other city for housing the runaway uglies.
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Uglies / int_830343d8	type	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future
Uglies / int_830343d8	comment	We Will Use WikiWords in the Future: Freeze-dried food is labelled like this. For example, 'SpagBol' is spaghetti bolognese.
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Uglies / int_83a8d697	type	Oblivious Guilt Slinging
Uglies / int_83a8d697	comment	After receiving the surgery that makes her pretty, lesions and all, Shay is bubbly with Tally despite their earlier fight over David. This makes Tally feel even worse. Averted later on in the series, though, as Shay remembers what Tally did and continues to do.
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Uglies / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Uglies / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Shay tells Tally that the latter needs to tell David about the new heart-shaped locket she's acquired, assuming that it's a romantic token from Tally's new partner. Said locket is a medallion that is meant to track down the Smoke, and David's parents run the Smoke. So yes, Tally should have told David about it instead of pitching it into the fire.
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Uglies / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Uglies / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Tally. She reverses her own brain damage through sheer determination. Could also have partially been a placebo effect. Even though the pill she took didn't do anything to fix her, she didn't know that at the time.
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Uglies / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Uglies / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Lots of fans on the author's website wondered what happened to Croy. The same goes for Tally's parents, Sol Youngblood and Ellie Youngblood.
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Uglies / int_89fb838b	type	Cold Ham
Uglies / int_89fb838b	comment	Throughout "Specials", the cutters think that everything they do is awesome and epic and intimidating. But gradually, Tally starts to realize that through the eyes of a normal person, some of the things cutters do are crazy at best and melodramatic at worst.
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Uglies / int_8b49514e	type	Magical Computer
Uglies / int_8b49514e	comment	Magical Computer: Apparently, the protagonist of Extras saved a backup copy of the entire Internet on her hovercam (which isn't even exactly a high-quality model). It should be noted that the future's version of the Internet is mostly video data (with some blogging).
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Uglies / int_8c7a3a45	type	Are We Getting This?
Uglies / int_8c7a3a45	comment	Are We Getting This?: In Extras, the main character, Aya, is constantly asking her hovercam, Moggle, "Are you getting this?"
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Uglies / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Uglies / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Tally embodies this trope. She is very impulsive, and Shay once mentioned she is self-centered. She accidentally betrays the Smoke by pitching her locket into the fire, rather than confessing to Maddy and Az and asking them what to do. Maddy didn't think about putting written instructions with the pills, that they both needed to be taken at the same time. Tally split one with Zane, not knowing the pills were different. He got a pill with nanites that would eat the lesion, and she got one with a failsafe for the nanites. Zane ends up with a portion of his brain eaten.Â
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Uglies / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Uglies / int_8db4988a	comment	Unusual User Interface: Most noticeable in Extras, where the characters could view the in-universe equivalent of internet, television, and video games through screens inside artificial eyeballs.
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Uglies / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Uglies / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: In the second book and parts of the third one, we have David (Betty), Tally (Archie), and Zane (Veronica).
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Uglies / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Uglies / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Dr. Cable after Tally cures her near the end of Specials.
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Uglies / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Uglies / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Dr. Cable. Subverted with the Extraterrestrials in Extras.
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Uglies / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Uglies / int_9b54d536	comment	We also have Shayâ€™s hoverboard Coach in Shayâ€™s Story who kicks her off of the team and serves as an Evil Counterpart to Shay seeing as how she is an accomplice to Dr. Cable and seems to have Shayâ€™s athleticism and passion.
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Uglies / int_9dbb9688	type	Fantastic Honorifics
Uglies / int_9dbb9688	comment	Fantastic Honorifics: People in Tally's city use '-wa' (if the name contains an L) or '-la' (if it does not) at the end of names to refer to their friends.
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Uglies / int_a31c79f3	type	Paparazzi
Uglies / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: In Extras, all the people with high ranks have paparazzi cameras following them at all times.
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Uglies / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Uglies / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Tally's parents are on the vapid side and encourage her to do what Dr. Cable says to get her pretty surgery. Justified for most of the adults in the series that come off this way due to the lesions that make them into vapid Pretties. The adults that avert this — the museum guard, the ones driving the helicopter, are the ones who need their brains for the jobs they have. Maddy and Az do their best to avert this, since they studied the lesions and realize what it would mean to forcibly receive said lesions. Even so, they're hampered by Tally accidentally betraying them, Dr. Cable killing Az, and Maddy having to rebuild her research from scratch.
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Uglies / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Uglies / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Prettyspeak. And it's infectious—beware, oh reader, of Got Me Doing It.
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Uglies / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Uglies / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Meta-example. Westerfeld gets this way in Bogus to Bubbly.
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Uglies / int_b349aa46	type	Premiseville
Uglies / int_b349aa46	comment	Premiseville: New Pretty Town, Uglyville, and Crumblyville. And in Extras, there is also a Prettyville.
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Uglies / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Uglies / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraphs: Used at the beginnings of the different parts of books in the Uglies Trilogy.
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Uglies / int_b54b5147	type	Trouble from the Past
Uglies / int_b54b5147	comment	Trouble from the Past: People in the future still have to clean up the hole in the ozone layer and deal with a species of nigh-invulnerable genetically engineered ecosystem-destroying orchids.
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Uglies / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Uglies / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Tally, Shay, and David in Uglies. Tally, David, and Zane in Pretties and Specials. In Shayâ€™s Story we also have Zane, Shay, and David before Zane turns Pretty and then after Shayâ€™s operation we have Shay, Zane, and Helen. Tachs, Shay, and David. Even though Shay is Oblivious to Love for most of the book, this is very evident to the reader and the characters eventually make Anguished Declarations Of Love in the text confirming the shipping. Then In Cutters we have Tachs, Shay, and Zane before Tally has the operation and then afterwards we have Tally, Zane, and Helen once Shay and Tachs become an Official Couple.
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Uglies / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
Uglies / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: Inverted with the people who started the utopia: they solved racial and image problems by making everyone a generic sort of beautiful.
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Uglies / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Uglies / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Tally, Zane, Peris, Fausto, Ho, Az, Tachs...David and Andrew Simpson Smith. This is very much on purpose, as the last two are the only characters born outside the city. In Extras, Aya, Hiro, Ren, Miki, Udzir and Jai/Kai/Lai/Ai are all names contrasting with Eden Maru, Nana Love and Frizz. Extras has an interesting twist on this. Aya, Hiro, Ren, Miki, Jai/Kai (though not Lai), and Nana are all rather standard Japanese names for today's time; Eden is not and Frizz not even possible to say using current standard Japanese phonemes. In terms of surnames, however, only Frizz's is a viable surname (Mizuno) and Eden's a Japanese word (maru, meaning circle).
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Uglies / int_c023a146	type	Hollywood Homely
Uglies / int_c023a146	comment	Hollywood Homely: Invoked. All of society is conditioned to view surgical, unnatural perfection as the baseline for attractiveness, and to find anyone who just looks like a normal person horribly ugly.
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Uglies / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Uglies / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: At the beginning of every book Tally has to re-learn why the status quo is bad. But it's justified because it's not stupidity, (not intentional stupidity at least). In the beginning of Pretties the Pretty operation has made her vapid and oblivious, while in Specials she starts out brainwashed to serve the city.
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Uglies / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Uglies / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: In Specials, Tally's operation. She's naked, conscious and about to be cut into pieces. Eww.
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Uglies / int_cfa1ad9	type	Life in Zero G
Uglies / int_cfa1ad9	comment	Life in Zero G: The "inhumans", the antagonists of the Extras, are revealed to be Good All Along. They aren't stealing metal to build a weapon, but to build rocketships, hoping to leave Earth, get into orbit, and start farming and establish a society in space to reduce human waste and footprint on Earth. Their bizarre, sometimes terrifying appearances, with prehensile toes and widened eyes, are adaptations made to make life in space easier. They also practice floating in zero-G as much as possible so they can get used to it ahead of time. To do this on Earth, they use hoverball rigs (a common piece of sports equipment in the series' future), setting them to zero-G mode and wearing them 24/7. As a result of the rigs and the body modifications, they've gotten phenomenally good at floating around and using whatever is nearby to propel themselves where they need to go. They call themselves Extraterrestrials, aka, Extras. The heroes support the Extras' endeavor once it's explained to them, and, to make up for the fact that they destroyed a few of the Extras' ships as a result of the misunderstanding, help them recruit, attracting several adventurous people to the project.
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Uglies / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Uglies / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: With the exception of Extras, the companion book, each book ends with what the operation Tally receives turns her into, i.e. "pretty" for Uglies or with the name of a stage of life.
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Uglies / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Uglies / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Ai, a non-English speaker, changes her name by adding a new consonant to the beginning, going through the English alphabet in order. Lampshaded in Bogus to Bubbly. note Jai/Kai/Lai's names change in alphabetical order, which makes no sense for someone who doesn't even speak English.
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Uglies / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Uglies / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Tally Youngblood, Shay, Aya Fuse, and Eden Maru. It's also implied that Maddy was somewhat one before David was born. We also have the Sly Girls in Extras and Frey in Impostors.
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Uglies / int_dfe888e0	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Uglies / int_dfe888e0	comment	Can Not Tell A Lie: The members of Frizz's clique in Extras, Radical Honesty, undergo (brain) surgery so that it's impossible for them to lie.
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Uglies / int_e04ed269	type	Urban Segregation
Uglies / int_e04ed269	comment	Urban Segregation: Uglies, New Pretties, and Middle and Late Pretties all live in different parts of the city.
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Uglies / int_e11b003d	type	Translation Convention
Uglies / int_e11b003d	comment	Translation Convention: Averted in Extras. Aya does not speak good English.
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Uglies / int_e17ca895	type	The Cake Is a Lie
Uglies / int_e17ca895	comment	The Cake Is a Lie: Inverted; Dr. Cable blackmails Tally to track down Shay and betray the Smoke by withholding the Pretty operation. As it turns out, she wants every Ugly to receive the operation, whether or not they want it.
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Uglies / int_e182e213	type	White Like Me
Uglies / int_e182e213	comment	White Like Me: When Tally and Shay are playing around with what they want their new faces to look like in the first book, Tally mentions moving Shay's skintone "closer to baseline" by making it paler. Add to this the fact that everyone's Pretty appearances are actually selected by a committee of doctors, not by their own preferences, and it seems like the Pretty surgeries often involve being made to look white, or at least having your skin lightened.
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Uglies / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Uglies / int_e49686	comment	Also a subverted example, Tally to Aya in Extras. As Aya is very similar to how Tally used to be before she became The Hero. However, Tally is able to warn Aya about the dangers of the world so that Aya won't become a Broken Bird Anti-Heroine like Tally.
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Uglies / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Uglies / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Tally, full stop. Tally is this in every single book. Shay definitely seems to be this too. David may have shades of this when it comes to persuing Tally and Dr. Cable is a villainous version.
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Uglies / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Uglies / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Tally in Uglies. This was also Shay and Tally's plan for Zane in Specials.
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Uglies / int_ea8ba51d	type	No Full Name Given
Uglies / int_ea8ba51d	comment	No Full Name Given: Only Tally, Dr. Cable, and Andrew Simpson Smith get last names in the original trilogy. Most of the Extras characters get last names, but we still don't find out those of the trilogy characters who show up.
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Uglies / int_eca97994	type	FaceHeelRevolvingDoor
Uglies / int_eca97994	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Revolving Door: Through no fault of her own, Shay in each book. Starts out on the good side, gets forcibly changed into a Pretty, which leads to her cutting herself to regain her brainpower after learning Tally gave the cure to Zane instead of to her. Then she gets changed into a Special, which puts her on the Face side, and then is forcibly given the cure in Specials before rescuing Tally in Diego. Tally arguably pulls one of these as well, but since it's mind control, it may not count.
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Uglies / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Uglies / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: In the tie-in book Bogus to Bubbly, Scott Westerfeld tells about the strict age-defined hierarchy in the society. Littlies (age 0-11) lived with their parents and were the only people allowed to have traditional family bonds. In fact, parents were encouraged only to have one child every 10 years to keep the population down and stop sibling bonds from forming. Uglies (12-16) were forced to move away to dorms and socially programmed to hate themselves and anticipate the upcoming "Pretty" surgery. New pretties were people who had just had the surgery to make them prettier and more complacent, and they were encouraged to live a crazy lifestyle. Middle pretties were pretties with children and jobs. Late pretties or crumblies were the elderly, who often lived to their middle hundreds
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Uglies / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Uglies / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Each book begins with party crashing. Every book also has Talky visit the Rusty Ruins and every book ends in a Late-Arrival Spoiler for the next book.
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Uglies / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: After receiving the surgery that makes her pretty, lesions and all, Shay is bubbly with Tally despite their earlier fight over David. This makes Tally feel even worse. Averted later on in the series, though, as Shay remembers what Tally did and continues to do. Subverted with David's mother. She doesn't forgive Tally for betraying the old Smoke, accidental was it was, and getting her husband killed. David himself forgives Tally, even when Tally betrayed the Smoke by accident and she called him ugly to make him leave her and Zane behind in Pretties.
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