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Atlas Shrugged

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Atlas Shrugged	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It's 20 Minutes into the Future. The USA is a mixed-market dystopia wherein the federal government is as oppressive as it is incompetent. The average Joe is being pushed further into poverty by each measure intended to relieve it, and can see no way out. The upper classes are Les Collaborateurs gaming the system for every drop before it crashes, or self-deluded fools certain they can fix the socio-economic problems created by failed government initiatives with more government initiatives. There is little public dissent with the status quo.Worse, the handful of scientists, entrepreneurs, and managers sustaining the system are disappearing one by one. No one ever hears from them again, and their friends and relatives are left with nothing but a question:"Who is John Galt?"Welcome to the world of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })The title is based on a popular misconception that in Greek mythology Atlas carried the world on his back (he actually carried the sky); as Hank and Francisco discuss during the book, if he ever tired of carrying that weight on his shoulders, all he needed to do was shrug, and it would fall off. The working title for the novel, before its publication, was The Strike—but Rand changed it because she feared it would be a Spoiler Title.The book is most widely known for its philosophical condemnation of religion and altruism, as well as its advocacy of free-market classical liberalism (which Rand termed "Capitalism", though non-Objectivists use the word to describe the Capitalist system). Other themes include its celebration of the individual and the argument that suffering is not a necessary part of the human condition.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })For those that are interested in the technical details of Rand's ideas, there is a Useful Notes page on Objectivism (warning: RL politics/philosophy ahead).After decades in Development Hell, a film adaptation of the novel was released in three parts. The release dates were April 15, 2011 (the deadline to file income tax returns in the United States); October 12, 2012; and September 12, 2014. All three parts are covered here.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Atlas Shrugged / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: John Galt is a Gadgeteer Genius with cast-iron lungs; Galt's Motor, Galt's Gulch's Invisibility Cloak, Galt's Cool Plane... There's also Rearden "Miracle" Metal, and Project Xylophone (which also contains Explodium).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_11d798db	type	Railroad Baron
Atlas Shrugged / int_11d798db	comment	Railroad Baron: Dagny and James Taggart. What's more, they are the latest generation of railroad barons.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_14780a0b	type	I Don't Pay You to Think
Atlas Shrugged / int_14780a0b	comment	I Don't Pay You To Think: Directive 10-289, the "moratorium on brains," chains all existing employees to their jobs, with a potential penalty of jail for any that quit. If any do quit, anyway (or lose their job for other reasons), that job is then assigned to someone else by a government committee, regardless of that person's ability to actually do the job. "There had been a time when he had been expected to think. Now, they didn't want him to think. Only to obey."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Atlas Shrugged / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The fate of the Comet in the Taggart Tunnel disaster is similar to a real-life rail disaster in southern Italy in 1944; but the second train loaded with explosives didn't happen in reality.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_185ea595	type	The Trickster
Atlas Shrugged / int_185ea595	comment	The Trickster: John Galt, Francisco d'Anconia and Ragnar Danneskjöld.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
Atlas Shrugged / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: Galt gives several while he's being held captive.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Atlas Shrugged / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Unintentional, with the novel being renamed as publication neared.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Atlas Shrugged / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: The first guy to produce steel in Galt's Gulch is driven out of business when a better man joins the strikers. The beaten man happily works for the new steel producer, in a position which is a much better fit. The winner himself tells Dagny that he looks forward to the day when Rearden joins the strikers: Hank will certainly beat him, but it'll be an honorable defeat.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
Atlas Shrugged / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: A mild example with Galt's speech which is four hours long in the book. In real life, no-one has been able to read the entire thing, clearly and distinctly, in less than six.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Atlas Shrugged / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Galt's speech can essentially be summarized as him telling the world: "You all keep saying that you want a world without selfish people who are only in it for themselves. I have given you exactly that. If anything goes wrong from here on out, you have no one to blame but yourselves."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_19add21f	type	Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Atlas Shrugged / int_19add21f	comment	Why We Can't Have Nice Things: The creators in the world willingly want to help the rest, but socialist and bureaucratic types screw it up. So they basically take their inventions and leave.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
Atlas Shrugged / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: There are interesting shades of this in Dagny's relationship with her father. Although he mainly gave to company to James, he knew from watching her childhood that she was the Taggart to run the railroads. In turn, Dagny admires her father for being a self-made, hardworking man, but also regrets that being born into his family made her success a little easier.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
Atlas Shrugged / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brother-Sister Team: Subverted with Dagny and James Taggart. While both are in major leadership roles at Taggart Transcontinental, it's Dagny who keeps the railroad running and James who keeps either harming its interests or advancing it through dishonest means. When the three were children, Francisco always thought of Dagny and Eddie Willers, not James, as "the Taggart children," so Dagny and Eddie, who becomes her Special Assistant, count in spirit.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1c8e096e	type	ChildhoodFriendRomance
Atlas Shrugged / int_1c8e096e	comment	Childhood Friend Romance: Dagny and Frisco
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
Atlas Shrugged / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: The final chapter of Atlas Shrugged does this with Ragnar Danneskjöld, who only has to say his name to inspire fear.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Atlas Shrugged / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The looters' policies hurt the protagonists a lot, but hardly benefit the looters themselves. Especially egregious when several laws are passed as part of a plot to "kill Colorado."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1e1f2e51	type	Raygun Gothic
Atlas Shrugged / int_1e1f2e51	comment	Raygun Gothic: An adamantium like metal, portable X-Ray machines, and a Weapon of Mass Destruction powered by sound are several examples of the "futuristic" tech in Atlas Shrugged.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1e6dfea1	type	Ãœbermensch
Atlas Shrugged / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Übermensch: All of the heroes are or ultimately become this.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Atlas Shrugged / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The press, as seen starting with the campaign to slander Rearden Metal started by Orren Boyle, Rearden's chief competitor and head of a national metalurgical committee.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atlas Shrugged / int_1f799027	comment	Dagny does this to a couple of legislators during the construction of the John Galt Line. However, it is implied that the rules she is bribing to get around are just obstructive red tape. She also orders her employees to bribe any officials trying to hinder new track being laid around the Taggart Tunnel after its cave-in, but since the government has passed Directive 10-289 at that point she can't really be blamed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
Atlas Shrugged / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set: Your radio set, anyway.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Atlas Shrugged / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Intellectuals such as Balph Eubank and Simon Pritchett like to present the world as one of these, a place where reason and logic are useless, man cannot achieve anything significant in the universe, and suffering is the essence of life. The general state of the world seems to imply that they are right, except that their insistence on treating those opinions as fact is causing them to become true. In contrast the Strikers use Genius and Determination to create infinite energy machines and cloaking devices, thereby Earning Their Happy Ending.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Atlas Shrugged / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Hank Rearden resorts to this when he finally decides to divorce his wife Lillian. Dagny does this to a couple of legislators during the construction of the John Galt Line. However, it is implied that the rules she is bribing to get around are just obstructive red tape. She also orders her employees to bribe any officials trying to hinder new track being laid around the Taggart Tunnel after its cave-in, but since the government has passed Directive 10-289 at that point she can't really be blamed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_234bd900	type	For Science!
Atlas Shrugged / int_234bd900	comment	For Science!: Dr. Stadler supported the State Science Institute for the sake of freeing scientific research from the shackles of corporate funding. He started going downhill from there.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Atlas Shrugged / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: So many times it crosses with Chekhov's Boomerang;Stadler considers his greatest failure to be a student with "the kind of intelligence one expects to see, in the future, changing the course of the world" which "vanished without a trace into the great unknown of mediocrity."Rearden pessimistically says that if the creator of the super-motor was still alive, "The whole world would know his name by now."Ivy Starnes remembers the second man to quit when she took over Twentieth Century Motors, but not the first - "He wasn't anybody important."Akston slyly notes that though he knows the student Stadler speaks of, but that "His name would mean nothing to you. He is not famous." The man's name? "Who is John Galt?"
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Atlas Shrugged / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Atlas Shrugged / int_23ff95fb	comment	Kinnan is particularly interesting: true to both this and Kinnan's trope, he's not just the only Looter who gives half a damn about his employees, he's the only one who's aware that they're going to lose. He emerges from a meeting with Galt saying that he enjoyed the conversation, particularly Galt's Brutal Honesty, and then calmly admits that as a career criminal like himself would be pointless in a world without regulations, he would be "the first one to go down the drain when (Galt) wins."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_24c685bf	type	Good Bad Girl
Atlas Shrugged / int_24c685bf	comment	Good Bad Girl: Dagny Taggart. She doesn't exactly have a world-beating sex drive, but she is absolutely guiltless about the sex she does have and has sex because she wants to have sex. She also engages in two relationships which would be considered morally controversial by some people's standards; first, a teenage passion with Francisco D'Anconia whilst they are underage, and second, an affair with married man Hank Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_24cf8a0e	type	Speech-Centric Work
Atlas Shrugged / int_24cf8a0e	comment	Speech-Centric Work: Among other things, it features a single monologue which goes on uninterrupted for fifty pages.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Atlas Shrugged / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: All of the protagonists and members of Galt's Gulch are described as being exceptionally attractive, while the villains are generally described as pudgy and watery eyed. To be fair, however, Rand might have been trying to say that being talented, hard working, and passionate makes you attractive, and not the other way around. Averted with Lillian Rearden, who is described as quite attractive—just creepy. Also Dr. Ferris, who is Tall, Dark, and Handsome, albeit in a slightly foppish way.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2bf1fd90	type	Proud Merchant Race
Atlas Shrugged / int_2bf1fd90	comment	Proud Merchant Race: Galt's followers although the more scientifically inclined combine this with Proud Scholar Race.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2da5273e	type	Just Like Robin Hood
Atlas Shrugged / int_2da5273e	comment	Just Like Robin Hood: Zig-Zagged with Ragnar Danneskjöld. The Government insists that he's a pirate stealing from the poor, while he sees it as stealing from the government's rich taxmen and returning it those who were taxed into poverty. He also says what he is doing not selfless - he's hastening the government's end by stealing their goods, and funding those who will rebuild civilization after Galt's strike is complete.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2dc726c8	type	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard
Atlas Shrugged / int_2dc726c8	comment	Gold–Silver–Copper Standard: The strikers' society in Colorado operates on this basis, and Danneskjold gives Rearden a bar of gold as compensation for the income taxes he has paid over the last several years.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Atlas Shrugged / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The siege of the Rearden Steel plant, which was planned to be passed off as a workers' riot to encourage Hank to accept the Steel Unification Plan.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2e032e41	type	Latin Lover
Atlas Shrugged / int_2e032e41	comment	Latin Lover: Subverted with Francisco D'Anconia, who hails from Argentina and is a shameless womanizer... but only in his disguise while striking. Played straight in his relationship with Dagny, although even then she is only attracted to him for his talent.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
Atlas Shrugged / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: As noted, Atlas held up the sky, not the Earth, and was doing so as a punishment imposed on him by Zeus, and so couldn't "shrug" even if he wanted to. Unless one considers, that Atlas couldn't "shrug" only if he wanted to prevent sky from falling onto the world, and destroying it... unlike the strikers who were willing to let the old world be destroyed, if it meant release from their burden! Also, in most versions his task ends when Heracles builds him some pillars to put it down on while still technically holding it up. While they had a deal going this wasn't part of it, Heracles was just being generous. It's fairly obvious why the story doesn't go there.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_306b9de9	type	Electric Torture
Atlas Shrugged / int_306b9de9	comment	Electric Torture: Project F. Subverted in that once the machine breaks, none of the torturers know how to fix it. Galt calmly explains how to repair it, and a Eureka Moment ensues: they can't even hurt Galt without his assistance, and the Übermensch 'does not want to play anymore.' Cue the Villainous Breakdown!
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Atlas Shrugged / int_307d41e7	type	¡Three Amigos!
Atlas Shrugged / int_307d41e7	comment	¡Three Amigos!: Francisco formed one with Dagny and Eddie when they were children and with Ragnar and John Galt while in college.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
Atlas Shrugged / int_30d1e0df	comment	Full-Name Basis: When Francisco wants to emphasise himself, he goes for the full "Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastián d'Anconia."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_313e9485	type	Hero with Bad Publicity
Atlas Shrugged / int_313e9485	comment	Hero with Bad Publicity: Intentionally.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Atlas Shrugged / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: During the meeting to plan Directive 10-289, the question of what to do about any industrialists who are caught deserting is brought up. Dr. Ferris says that since the directive makes deserting a crime, it should be treated as treason, and perhaps the death penalty should be applied in such cases. Fred Kinnan instantly calls him out on it, and nobody ever brings up the thought again. Inverted later in the book, when violating Directive 10-289 means that you can no longer be legally employed and doomed to a slow death by starvation.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_34dcfc96	type	KickTheDog
Atlas Shrugged / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Dr. Stadler admitting to Dagny that the State Science Institute is launching a smear campaign against Rearden Metal because it makes them look incompetent, and then deliberately choosing not to tell the truth about it because he believes that life in society means that someone always has to be sacrificed. He doesn't want it to be the Institute. This is pretty much James Taggart's modus operandi whenever he appears.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Atlas Shrugged / int_35022c20	comment	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Subverted for Galt's Engine. He left all three behind at the Starnes Motor Company (he invented it on the clock, after all, and Galt is nothing if not an Honest Man), and all it did was prove that it once existed. Looters (both high and common) tear up the prototype for spare parts, and leave the plans and theoretical research notebooks to rot. Even when Dagny realizes what she has, almost all of the "engineers" she calls upon to study the remains refuse to believe it could work (some even say that the Engine, if it worked, would be immoral, because it would make other scientists look stupid). Plans, prototypes and backups are only useful to people with enough intelligence to know their value - which for groundbreaking work, can set the bar pretty damned high.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Atlas Shrugged / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Very cynical in its appraisal of the motivations of high government officials who wish to exercise control over the country. However, Rand had a decidedly idealistic take on humanity as a whole, or at least human potential, and she also argued for a very benevolent conception of the world itself (i.e. she denied any person's joy need come at any other person's cost).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_3a4522df	type	PietÃ Plagiarism
Atlas Shrugged / int_3a4522df	comment	Pietà Plagiarism: John Galt carries Dagny away from the site of the plane crash. Hank Rearden carrying the dead body of the Wet Nurse to the mill infirmary back from the slag heap.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_3b0977b	type	BoringInvincibleHero
Atlas Shrugged / int_3b0977b	comment	Boring Invincible Hero: The villains never stand the slightest chance against Galt & Co. Every confrontation in the book between the two, whether it's physical, economic or intellectual, is handily and easily won by the heroes. Dagny and Hank do suffer several defeats in their overall goals for most of the novel, but this is only because they try to fight the looters on their terms - terms which the looters and their predecessors have refined for generations to be in their favor. Once they cross over to the strikers, their foes are utterly helpless.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_3d455888	type	Then Let Me Be Evil
Atlas Shrugged / int_3d455888	comment	Then Let Me Be Evil: The story is, in a way, about a group of very rich people who got so tired of being called greedy and selfish by people in society who were mooching off them that they basically just "Hang it. You want to call us greedy and selfish? Fine, then we'll go off on our own where you can't find us and be exactly that and you can just see how you do without us. Goodbye."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_3f2e21a1	type	Prince Charming Wannabe
Atlas Shrugged / int_3f2e21a1	comment	Prince Charming Wannabe: James Taggart marries Cherryl Brooks so he can play the Prince Charming to a Cinderella.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4127eb1	type	ShutUpHannibal
Atlas Shrugged / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Atlas Shrugged / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Atlas Shrugged / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The tactic of the strikers. Many of them take menial jobs in "hell" (the world at large) and don't even bother to use fake names. John Galt works as a track laborer at Taggart Transcontinental for over a decade, using his real name.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Atlas Shrugged / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: John Galt spent his time out of the Gulch as an unskilled laborer at Taggart Transcontinental: - the same one Eddie Willers exposited to regularly.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Atlas Shrugged / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Eddie Willers' last-ditch expedition to re-establish transcontinental rail service. Dagny tries but fails to talk him out of it. This results in what is almost certainly a downer ending for Eddie on the penultimate page of the novel, which can be considered a Family-Unfriendly Aesop.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Atlas Shrugged / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Revolving around Dagny.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Atlas Shrugged / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Just about every politician in the book is either a weak, amoral slug or a deliberately destructive leech.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Atlas Shrugged / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The government, the public, the heroes. Pretty much everybody. Done intentionally.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Atlas Shrugged / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Dagny's favorite type of people.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_47b6a1e5	type	"Just Joking" Justification
Atlas Shrugged / int_47b6a1e5	comment	"Just Joking" Justification: Lillian Rearden often uses this as her excuse after insulting Hank.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4920f624	type	Hidden Villain
Atlas Shrugged / int_4920f624	comment	Hidden Villain: Subverted. Mr. Thompson is just as meaningless as all his lackeys.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4966bf38	type	Perpetual Motion Machine
Atlas Shrugged / int_4966bf38	comment	Perpetual Motion Machine: John Galt's Static Motor, which collects the static electricity in the atmosphere.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Atlas Shrugged / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: John Galt.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4c5724ab	type	God Help Us All
Atlas Shrugged / int_4c5724ab	comment	God Help Us All: So says Hank Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Atlas Shrugged / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Hank Rearden turns down a large lump payment of government money for the rights to Rearden Metal, because he is proud of the fact that he invented it and of the honest money he could make with it. Promising young scientist Quentin Daniels turned down Dr. Stadler's offer of a presumedly prestigious post at the State Science Institute due to his views on governmental involvement in science. When Dagny first meets him, he is working as night watchman at an abandoned technical institute.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Atlas Shrugged / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Arguably the Trope Codifier.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4ebc2ce5	type	Opposed Mentors
Atlas Shrugged / int_4ebc2ce5	comment	Opposed Mentors: Robert Stadler(physicist) and Hugh Akston(philosopher) for Francisco, Ragnar, and John Galt.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_4f84cdef	type	SmugSnake
Atlas Shrugged / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: If you're not a Striker or a Muggle, you're a Looter and smug about it. But especially Dr. Floyd "Why Do You Think You Think" Ferris.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_50166c5d	type	Good Pays Better
Atlas Shrugged / int_50166c5d	comment	Good Pays Better, which is why, according to the heroic characters, the only true businessman is an honest businessman who doesn't need to resort to force, fraud, or coercion to profit.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
Atlas Shrugged / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Hank Rearden flips out when he finds out Dagny slept with Francisco d'Anconia... years before the former ever met her. The scene ends with Rearden and Dagny having the greatest sex they've ever had.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
Atlas Shrugged / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Cherryl towards James
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Atlas Shrugged / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
Atlas Shrugged / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: Francisco tries to tell Hank Rearden this when the latter walks in on him with Dagny in her apartment.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Atlas Shrugged / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Emma "Kip's Ma" Chalmers, fan of soybeans and Control Freak determined to improve the country's diet.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Atlas Shrugged / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: When a riot breaks out at Rearden Steel, one of the men later identified as Francisco d'Anconia stands on the roof and picks off looters, using two pistols, one in each hand. He uses them to shoot at the mob which is on both sides of the building.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_54bb2c63	type	The Alleged Boss
Atlas Shrugged / int_54bb2c63	comment	The Alleged Boss: This is a major theme. Alleged Bosses are among the book's prime villains, and they are villains precisely because they fail to act like bosses. Case in point: Jim Taggart, who is the president of a large railroad company but is so spineless and incompetent that it's his sister Dagny, the company's Vice President, who actually runs things.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Atlas Shrugged / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Gender Flipped and subverted. After Hank Rearden and Dagny Taggart's first sex scene, it is Hank that plays the "fallen woman" routine; he pleads for Dagny's forgiveness for "debasing himself by giving in to his low, animalistic desires". Dagny considers it utterly ridiculous that anyone could possibly hold such shame for being a sexual creature, and bursts out into laughter.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Atlas Shrugged / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Lillian Rearden and Jim Taggart each got married for the sheer, sadistic joy of psychologically crushing and breaking a person.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Atlas Shrugged / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Rand certainly thinks so. When someone lights up in the book, it's used as a metaphor by Rand for thinking. All the Strikers smoke - and the rare handmade cigarettes from Galt's Gulch, "stamped with the sign of the dollar" in gold foil, are a major plot device. Kinnan is the only Looter who smokes, and is the one smart enough to get his way all the time despite being just a union boss to their CEOs, Senators and Professors.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_5e111c91	type	Uncle Pennybags
Atlas Shrugged / int_5e111c91	comment	Uncle Pennybags: Hank Rearden is this to his mother and brother Phillip as well as to his friend, the unsuccessful businessman Paul Larkin. Unfortunately they all betray his generosity in one way or another - His mother and brother live off Rearden's money while making no effort to support themselves or even be nice to him, and Paul Larkin ends up betraying Rearden by forming a coalition with the looters which would legally force Rearden to sell Larkin his ore mines.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_5fa937a	type	CompletelyMissingThePoint
Atlas Shrugged / int_5fa937a	comment	Completely Missing the Point: After listening to Galt's four-hour long tirade about the evils of government interference in industry, the looters proceed to capture him and offer him the role of economic director, a job in which he will be free to run industry as he sees fit. And then when he replies that his first order is to abolish all income taxes, Thompson balks and refuses. After Dagny returns from her idyllic sojourn in Galt's Gulch, James Taggart (who probably majored in Missing the Point) brags about how much money he has made the railroad in her absence. He gloats, because all Dagny ever cared about was making lucre. He "made" that money by pulling strings with his friends to get the government to give him outrageous subsidies and advantages. Dagny's... not impressed. James...again, after his sister's dynamo performance on Bertram Scudder's radio program. When Cherryl asks him about Dagny's comments, James responds by attacking Scudder and pointing out that he has been kicked off the radio, and Cherryl disliked Scudder anyway. Cherryl becomes quite exasperated.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Atlas Shrugged / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Deconstructed, but still played straight; Rand defined Romantic love as a capitalist exchange of values like any other; affection for affection, gratification for gratification. Under this definition, a Yandere would be just another Looter, gratifying themselves with their "beloved's" pain: - better to break it off cleanly. And one vertex of a love triangle breaking away before things are settled will only leave everyone bitter about what could have been. Played straight with Rearden and Dagny. He doesn't seem that upset when he realizes that Dagny's public confession of being his mistress referring to him in the past tense means she found someone else.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Atlas Shrugged / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Intentionally Averted. None of the major characters die for the sake of others.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
Atlas Shrugged / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Word of God (i.e. Rand herself) admits that she is the Fishwife in Galt's Gulch. Rand also referred to her real life husband-at-the-time as "my John Galt".
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Atlas Shrugged / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
Atlas Shrugged / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: John Galt invents one and uses it to hide Galt's Gulch.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Atlas Shrugged / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Oh dear. Enormous psychological dissertations between each and every line of dialogue, street lamps that are "glass globes filled with light", not to mention... THE SPEECH.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6a3d66f6	type	The Simple Life is Simple
Atlas Shrugged / int_6a3d66f6	comment	The Simple Life Is Simple: Industrialists and businessmen take to farming with no trouble at all and even have enough time left over to write symphonies and work on inventions. On one hand, they're explicitly described as the world's most capable people, but on the other, they have no specific farming knowhow and no labor but themselves. Of course, they also have unrestricted access to their inventions and no "looters" demanding a cut. Galt has his power station, and the doctor has a portable X-Ray machine of his own design(in the film, it's a smartphone). It's also stated that their holdings are the merest fraction of what they had Outside, but it was also 100% theirs.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Atlas Shrugged / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love/Love Is a Weakness: Comes up in the conversation surrounding the Sadistic Choice Dr. Ferris gives Hank Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Atlas Shrugged / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A whole philosophy and cult of personality sprang up around Ayn Rand and her literature. The philosophy itself is still going; the cult of personality has significantly waned (especially after she died).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Atlas Shrugged / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: A Face–Heel Turn does not protect you from this trope, as Dr. Robert Stadler learns the hard way.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6b7668fa	type	Rich Idiot With No Day Job
Atlas Shrugged / int_6b7668fa	comment	Rich Idiot with No Day Job: This is all part of Francisco d'Anconia's Obfuscating Stupidity.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Atlas Shrugged / int_6bda9a30	comment	On the other hand, companies with the Meaningful Names of people strapped to them are usually good, while companies with names like National, United or Amalgamated are Obviously Evil™. The point of the whole thing may be summed up by how Rearden wishes he didn't have to call all of his businesses by different names, but simply call his entire business empire "Rearden Life". Putting your name on something means nothing. But if you do something, it's a part of you no matter what it's called.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6c81c95	type	TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
Atlas Shrugged / int_6c81c95	comment	True Art Is Incomprehensible: Once again seen in-universe. The preferred philosophy of modern academia in the book. During Lillian Rearden's party, a group of unadmirable pseudo-intellectual types gather and talk about how plot in fiction, and melody in music, are completely unnecessary.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Atlas Shrugged / int_6ee10e0	comment	Stadler considers his greatest failure to be a student with "the kind of intelligence one expects to see, in the future, changing the course of the world" which "vanished without a trace into the great unknown of mediocrity."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_6fc21d06	type	Fiction 500
Atlas Shrugged / int_6fc21d06	comment	Fiction 500: Too many examples. The Taggarts, the D'Anconias, Midas Mulligan, and Hank Rearden are a few. Ironically, John Galt is not one.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Atlas Shrugged / int_722171e7	comment	Strawman Political: Almost all characters who don't agree with the protagonists' (and Rand's) philosophy are portrayed as corrupt, thieving, lying, comically incompetent fools, all working towards the country's destruction while spouting platitudes about the "common good," and stabbing each other in the back while shooting themselves in the foot.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Atlas Shrugged / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Dagny abruptly picks it up in Part III when she swallows Mr. Thompson's bait hook, line, and sinker of wondering aloud if John Galt is still alive.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Atlas Shrugged / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: None of the heroes can ever do something kind or noble or what we could call sacrificial without insisting it's selfish.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Atlas Shrugged / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Promising young scientist Quentin Daniels turned down Dr. Stadler's offer of a presumedly prestigious post at the State Science Institute due to his views on governmental involvement in science. When Dagny first meets him, he is working as night watchman at an abandoned technical institute.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Atlas Shrugged / int_7464705c	comment	The man's name? "Who is John Galt?"
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7480eb67	type	Green-Eyed Epiphany
Atlas Shrugged / int_7480eb67	comment	Green-Eyed Epiphany: Eddie Willers has one when he sees Hank Rearden's dressing gown in Dagny's apartment.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Atlas Shrugged / int_75538142	comment	Oh, and Orren Boyle's personal spin doctor is overly fond of children.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7580e1bb	type	Straw Loser
Atlas Shrugged / int_7580e1bb	comment	Straw Loser: Lee Hunsacker, former wannabe big industrialist who sued banker Midas Mulligan for refusing to give him a loan he couldn't possibly pay back, hates everybody and everything for not "giving him a chance", and refuses to do the dishes. Almost every antagonist in the book fits this trope, to one extent or another — they all whine, blame others for their (frequent) failures, and demand that the more competent protagonists keep bailing them out.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
Atlas Shrugged / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: The looters frequently resort to "public-spirited" laws with huge loopholes meant to hurt their enemies, like the "Anti Dog-Eat-Dog Rule" or Directive 10-289.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
Atlas Shrugged / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: A Strawman Political tries to (un)reason a mother who lost her son in an accident that she doesn't really know he's dead — or that he ever even existed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
Atlas Shrugged / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: Hank Rearden, Dagny Taggart, Ellis Wyatt, Ken Danagger, Midas Mulligan... By the protagonists' moral code, the only true industrialist is one who succeeds honestly — by being tougher than the toughies, smarter than the smarties, and earning money square, not by trading favors with government and plundering from those who are more successful.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Atlas Shrugged / int_7abd339f	comment	Black and White Morality: Explicitly endorsed by John Galt in his huge, huge speech:
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Atlas Shrugged / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The evil characters are all physically grotesque with either bulbous nose or a potbelly or watery eyes or bad posture and have ridiculous names like Orren Boyle, Wesley Mouch and Tinky Holloway. The good characters by contrast are always tall, thin and handsome with haughty, angular faces and good posture. Subverted with Midas Mulligan, a good guy who is short and stocky and again with Dr. Ferris, the book's most evil vilain who is given no description other than being tall, thin and graceful.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Atlas Shrugged / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: John Galt's Speech, four whole hours of uninterrupted castigating that no one can escape from. Plenty of other speeches of similar tone and purpose are directed towards the bad guys by various characters throughout the novel. The villains in turn try to give similar speeches to the heroes from time to time, but they never succeed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Atlas Shrugged / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: Galt, the hero, doesn't show up in a major way for about 700 pages. He's in the first couple chapters, but it takes the looters about 400 pages before they really start to screw up society. That "early" portion of the book is devoted to introducing characters and establishing their personalities through extensive, extensive dialogue and flashbacks.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_7fbb2a3	type	NiceJobBreakingItHero
Atlas Shrugged / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Dagny accidentally leads the Looters to Galt. (However, Galt had accepted, and prepared for, this eventuality.)
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8071af62	type	Don't Think, Feel
Atlas Shrugged / int_8071af62	comment	Don't Think, Feel: Deconstructed. The villains of the piece base their economic policies on emotionalism and feelings and (what they call) 'love for others'.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8151ec48	type	Driving Question
Atlas Shrugged / int_8151ec48	comment	Driving Question: The Arc Words.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_818fa473	type	The Dark Side Will Make You Forget
Atlas Shrugged / int_818fa473	comment	The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Dr. Stadler
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Atlas Shrugged / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Atlas Shrugged / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: At first played straight, and later subverted, with Francisco d'Anconia who tells Dagny that the purposefully orchestrated San Sebastián disaster was “much funnier” than a recent divorce scandal. He also doesn't deny it when Dagny accuses of him “seeking a thrill” by destroying industry and swindling dumb investors.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
Atlas Shrugged / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: Could be a subtitle.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
Atlas Shrugged / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Atlas Shrugged / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Dr. Robert Stadler, brilliant and idealistic scientist who becomes just another part of the looters' machine.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Atlas Shrugged / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: John Galt's philosophy is arguably summed up in one sentence:
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Atlas Shrugged / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Atlas Shrugged / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: The looters in general.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Atlas Shrugged / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: This features very prominently in its final chapters, ultimately culminating in Dagny and her allies murdering security guards in cold blood on the way to rescue John Galt, despite - or perhaps even because - the narrative saying they're too paralyzed with indecision to step aside. There's a bizarre undertone of, "Help us, fight us, or get the hell out of our way, just do something besides just sit there" during the rampage. One can argue that the questionable behavior up until that point was just washing one's hands clean of a broken system, but at that point the Strikers are just flat-out executing people for what they consider the ultimate sin - apathy. Some believe that's the point.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Atlas Shrugged / int_8aa0f76	comment	Rand also deconstructs the trope with the actress who joined the strike because she was typecast as the Veronica: - she was tired of having to play characters who were more interesting than the Betties in formula films while always losing to them in the end.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Atlas Shrugged / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The chapter detailing the fate of the Twentieth Century Motor Company is a deconstruction of the Marxist slogan "From Each According to Ability, To Each According to Need." Ultimately, the plot of the novel is intended to be a deconstruction of traditional (i.e. altruistic) moral principles.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Atlas Shrugged / int_8b60a09b	comment	Capitalism Is Bad: The Class-2 Apocalypse How caused by the intellectual elite's refusal to reform society, and decisions to speed up its disintegration and death instead, have caused altruistic readers to take this message from the book even though Rand believed that unregulated oligarchic/monopolistic free-market capitalism was an absolutely meritocratic political and economic system. This message was likely unintentional, as Objectivism maintains that refusing to act altruistically is perfectly 'moral' as long as you do not feel bad about refusing (like John Galt), and altruistic behaviour is only 'moral' when it makes you feel good (rather than it being inherently or ojbectively good).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Atlas Shrugged / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The entire book is the fall of industrial society.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Atlas Shrugged / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Eddie Willers, whose conversations with a mysterious co-worker provide both the reader and said co-worker with vital plot-relevant information...
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Atlas Shrugged / int_8f70bc54	type	Self-Defeating Prophecy
Atlas Shrugged / int_8f70bc54	comment	Self-Defeating Prophecy: The novel itself, or so the author hoped.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
Atlas Shrugged / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Right before directive 10-289 is approved of, it is evident that James Taggart is getting very uncomfortable with the way the conversation is going when one of the looters denounces a quote of George Washington's as being "Outdated", and he keeps staring out at the Washington Monument throughout the entire meeting. Just as he seems to be getting the point through his head that what they are about to do is wrong, he closes the window shades. Robert Stadler is shocked by his research being used to create the weapon of mass destruction best known as Project X, and an idealistic young man begs him to publicly denounce the thing as a great evil. Stadler goes ahead and gives the speech that Floyd Ferris asked him to give, a speech explaining how the weapon will bring peace and harmony to the world.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Atlas Shrugged / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 2, planetary scale societal collapse. The resulting society is not better off, but it is implied that a new civilization will rise that eliminates, forever, the problems that caused the old to fall.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
Atlas Shrugged / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quiet... Too Quiet: A society-wide example. After they complete the John Galt Line, Hank and Dagny spend several weeks on a vacation in the Midwest... and find themselves disturbed to find that much of the country has reverted to Wild Wilderness. They wistfully note that though many people despise gas stations and billboards, they're signs of civilization — that there are people traveling to, from and through those areas — and their lack can only be seen as evidence of a creeping Class 2 Apocalypse.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Atlas Shrugged / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Hank Rearden and Francisco D'Anconia, with John Galt as Third-Option Love Interest. Rand also deconstructs the trope with the actress who joined the strike because she was typecast as the Veronica: - she was tired of having to play characters who were more interesting than the Betties in formula films while always losing to them in the end.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Atlas Shrugged / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: James Taggart suffers one at the very end.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Atlas Shrugged / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Taggart has one, then goes nuts, after realizing that he wants to break Galt's spirit even if it kills both Galt and himself. A more tragic example: "the Wet Nurse" of Rearden's mills.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Atlas Shrugged / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Pretty much every unadmirable character in the book will refuse to take responsibility for things which they actually are responsible for. Contrast this with the heroes, who will take responsibility or downright abuse even when they morally shouldn't. The latter approach is treated much more favourably, but it's also insinuated that both these tropes are examples of refusing to acknowledge reality.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Atlas Shrugged / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: Inverted. Mr. Thompson tries to offer John Galt what he thinks are comically large bribes to cooperate with the government, such as a billion dollars in gold and total economic power over the whole country. Galt points out that, in fact, such money and power would only be of value to him once he creates said value himself, making them completely worthless. Inverted again when Dagny receives a $500,000 reward check for helping the government find Galt. She never cashes it, knowing that it will be worthless in both a financial and a philosophical sense.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9ad00243	type	Family-Unfriendly Aesop
Atlas Shrugged / int_9ad00243	comment	Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Deliberately invoked, in-universe, as the book sought to argue against traditional definitions of morality. Specifically, it promotes selfishness as a virtue. It also argues for atheism and justifies sex as a moral triumph. Moral Guardians from all over the political spectrum flew into utter outrage these messages. Gore Vidal (Socialist) said Rand's philosophy was "perfect in its immorality," and the National Review's Whittaker Chambers (ex-Communist who became a Christian conservative) said that from every page in this book he could hear a voice calling "to a gas chamber, go!" Thus, regardless of whether or not one agrees or disagrees with the aesops presented in Atlas Shrugged, they clearly fall under the category of "family unfriendly." Ayn Rand was no ally of traditional moral beliefs, after all. Furthermore the book clearly promotes the position that if you are a 'productive' member of society and your spouse and children are not, then regardless of how much they love and support you in non-financial ways you should be disgusted by their fiscal parasitism. Finally the book asserts that if you are digusted by their looting of value from you and do dismiss their love for you, then allowing them to sufffer (and likely die) is a morally good decision because your actions (hurtful/murderous) would match your inner feelings (hatred/indifference).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Atlas Shrugged / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Many passages in the book are exactly this. Justified Trope given the genre.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9b54d536	type	EvilCounterpart
Atlas Shrugged / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Hank Rearden and Orren Boyle. Hugh Akston and Robert Stadler. John Galt and Fred Kinnan. Kinnan is particularly interesting: true to both this and Kinnan's trope, he's not just the only Looter who gives half a damn about his employees, he's the only one who's aware that they're going to lose. He emerges from a meeting with Galt saying that he enjoyed the conversation, particularly Galt's Brutal Honesty, and then calmly admits that as a career criminal like himself would be pointless in a world without regulations, he would be "the first one to go down the drain when (Galt) wins."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9b9d2629	type	Evil Will Fail
Atlas Shrugged / int_9b9d2629	comment	Evil Will Fail: John Galt's theory of society, very much endorsed by the omniscient narrator. Socialism is a failed ideology that will cause any society that adopts it to collapse, and there's no use fighting it once the Gullible Lemmings have made their choice. Every "victory" by the looters simply brings their own defeat that much nearer by stamping out the last vestiges of productive humanity in America.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Atlas Shrugged / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: The opinion of progressive-minded author Balph Eubank on the role of women. He sees Dagny's position of railroad executive as unnatural and wrong.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Atlas Shrugged / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny: Rearden says exactly this after his first time with Dagny, who promptly tells him he's being stupid.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Atlas Shrugged / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: The book's villains think this, and the protagonists believe that a lack of ambition is evil.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9e9e8623	type	It Is Beyond Saving
Atlas Shrugged / int_9e9e8623	comment	It Is Beyond Saving: John Galt and his followers feel this way about America.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Atlas Shrugged / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: The dedication to Nathaniel Branden was removed in later printings of the book after his falling-out with Ayn Rand.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a0566bcc	type	Ye Goode Olde Days
Atlas Shrugged / int_a0566bcc	comment	Ye Goode Olde Days: The Looters look at the collapse of industrial civilization with a degree of satisfaction as a return to these; Dagny is present as they comment on the stability of newformed Indian feudalism, and is horrified when none care about how many are suffering and dying for lack of modern necessities luxuries such as drinkable water.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a148f27b	type	Living Legend
Atlas Shrugged / int_a148f27b	comment	Living Legend: Who is John Galt?
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a16fafdd	type	JamesBondage
Atlas Shrugged / int_a16fafdd	comment	James Bondage: Galt during his electrical torture scene.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Atlas Shrugged / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Dagny and Rearden
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a284511d	type	Balance Between Good and Evil
Atlas Shrugged / int_a284511d	comment	Balance Between Good and Evil: Actively averted: Rand's view was that evil is a parasite on the good of the world, which cannot survive without willing virtues to loot.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a3a6fdb2	type	Room 101
Atlas Shrugged / int_a3a6fdb2	comment	Room 101: The residents of Galt's Gulch nickname the room where they all spend their first night in the valley "the torture chamber" because of the psychological trauma they suffer the first night of leaving their old life behind.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a4a91366	type	It's All Junk
Atlas Shrugged / int_a4a91366	comment	It's All Junk: Hank Rearden, when he realizes and accepts that his company, Rearden Steel, is a lost cause.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Atlas Shrugged / int_a6c69bd	comment	Wesley Mouch can arguably be called a human MacGuffin. While not appearing for an amazing length of time, he is able to stay prominent in the plot by being a giant hammer over the heads of the protagonists due to his new position.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Atlas Shrugged / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The boy sent by Washington to oversee Rearden's mills is nicknamed "the Wet Nurse."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
Atlas Shrugged / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: Deconstructed and gender-flipped via James Taggart. He doesn't want to be loved for his money, his skills, the pleasure of his company... no, he wants to be loved for himself. Not for any benefit he can bring into one's life (after all, that would be selfish!). He wants to be loved for himself, or ultimately he wants to be loved for no reason at all.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Atlas Shrugged / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: A fandom explanation for the importance of radios, trains, and the lack of post-WWII technology is that the timeline splits around the '30s when FDR is elected, resulting in decades of stagnation, and major events such as World War II never happened in this universe.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Atlas Shrugged / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Dagny for John Galt
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Atlas Shrugged / int_a971e83c	type	Hidden Elf Village
Atlas Shrugged / int_a971e83c	comment	Hidden Elf Village: Galt's Gulch - Unbuilt. Although the valley is shielded from the outside world by Galt's hologram device, the strikers spend only one month out of each year there solely as a "vacation" from the corrosive mediocrity of the outside world, so that they can express themselves freely.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Atlas Shrugged / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Quite a few. A four hour long speech appears verbatim, right before the climax. After that, the rest look like zingers.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ad362cc1	type	Dead Air
Atlas Shrugged / int_ad362cc1	comment	Dead Air: After John Galt hacks the radio transmissions and delivers his speech, the other characters do anything to fill up the dead air afterward, but this is treated more as a Follow the Leader response of the radio producers that came before them.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Atlas Shrugged / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: A facet of its Central Theme; though the looters always get whatever physical wealth they lay claim to, they never get the true source of that wealth. Whenever the looters are going to seize one of the properties of the actual or future strikers, they end up with either a worthless property, or one with no one competent to operate it. D'Anconia blows up his ore mines and docks, Dannager abandons his coal mines, Wyatt blows up his oil fields, Rearden walks away from his steel mill, etc.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Atlas Shrugged / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker - Most of the good characters but particularly Dagny.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_aebae11c	type	Viewers Are Morons
Atlas Shrugged / int_aebae11c	comment	Viewers Are Morons: In-universe: Dr. Floyd Ferris writes the propaganda piece Why Do You Think You Think? for the general public, whom he believes have the intellectual ability of "drunken louts", and Dr. Stadler agrees with his premise enough to not publicly protest his methods, even though Ferris has cited Stadler's own research, completely out of context, to prove his points. Stadler's agreement with this trope is also why he had the State Science Institute founded in the first place. Many regular people in this universe seem to play this trope straight, although it is also hinted that acting on it is actually causing it to become true.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Atlas Shrugged / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Ayn Rand genuinely believed that economics worked as the 'Austrian' school of philosophical 'economics' assumed that it did through the use of axiomatic logic ('Praxeology') without reference to the study of the real world. In the book this is how economics works, so one of the its Aesops is that industrial society would collapse if those who collected economic rents from the population and corporate welfare from the government ever decided that they didn't want that money:
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Atlas Shrugged / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word:
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Atlas Shrugged / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: Jim Taggart has a Villainous Breakdown when he realises that he is this.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b2f4114e	type	Heir Club for Men
Atlas Shrugged / int_b2f4114e	comment	Heir Club for Men: The father of James and Dagny Taggart leaves the controlling interest in Taggart Transcontinental to James, with very bad results.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b333f02e	type	Achilles in His Tent
Atlas Shrugged / int_b333f02e	comment	Achilles in His Tent: The idea behind John Galt's strike.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Atlas Shrugged / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Earns more than a few. The book itself throws the middle finger at Christianity, Marxism and all their intellectual and philosophical descendants (and antecedents, too). There are a handful of specific people targeted: several of the looters say "in the long run we're all dead," which is a verbatim quote from economist John Maynard Keynes. When Head of State Thompson signs the most odious of the economic legislation, he says the government will keep trying different tactics until something works. Franklin Roosevelt said much the same thing when launching The New Deal. The rhetoric "against unfair competition and monopolies" is yet another direct quote of Roosevelt. The talk of unfair competition and monopolies refers specifically to the antitrust laws, and especially the first of them, the Sherman Act of 1890.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Atlas Shrugged / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: As quote on the Author Filibuster Quotes page says, "Eventually the question you ask stops being 'Who is John Galt?' and becomes 'When will John Galt shut up?'" Atlas Shrugged has one of the longest examples in print, with 60 to 70 pages (depending on printing) of John Galt lecturing the entire world. There are other, shorter filibusters as well scattered through the book. It must be noted that Ayn Rand was inspired by Victor Hugo, whose novels did include numerous examples.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b6cebad3	type	DoubleStandard
Atlas Shrugged / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: Within the world of the novel. Dr. Ferris lampshades this when he threatens Hank Rearden with the public revelation of his affair with Dagny, mentioning that Rearden's own "conquest" would be perceived as normal, even admirable by some, while Dagny would be seen as a slut and be totally dishonoured. The fear of tarnishing Dagny's good name is exactly what drives Rearden to cave in to the looters' demands. Possibly averted when Dagny proudly declares on public radio how she has been Rearden's mistress, and actually receives some admiration.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Atlas Shrugged / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The Taggart siblings, James and...Dagny.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Atlas Shrugged / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: The Tunnel Disaster is a series of these for everyone involved who was paying attention. Dr. Ferris' ultimatum to Hank Rearden — the rights to Rearden Metal, or Dagny's reputation.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Atlas Shrugged / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The good characters would swing from the chandelier to proclaim their own selfishness but are actually the only characters in the story concerned with others' welfare. The evil characters vocally proclaim themselves paragons of selflessness but actually only care about destruction, particularly abusive spouses James Taggart and Lillian Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_be03ba89	type	Lost World
Atlas Shrugged / int_be03ba89	comment	Lost World: Galt's Gulch, where industry produces miracles like it used to.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_be102b6a	type	GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung
Atlas Shrugged / int_be102b6a	comment	Götterdämmerung: Rand saw the "men of the mind" as Gods...
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Atlas Shrugged / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Atlas Shrugged / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Although Rand intended her protagonists to be morally unassailable, even many people who agree with the book's Objectivist philosophy don't perceive them as pure heroes. Dagny Taggart and Francisco D'Anconia are somewhere between Type III and Type IV, Hank Rearden is more of a Type II. John Galt is arguably a Type III, albeit only to his enemies. By the time you get to pirate Ragnar Danneskjold, who steals ships of goods from governments so he can sell them, and give the money to people he judges as worthy/owed restitution, you're into Designated Hero territory.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Atlas Shrugged / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Ragnar Danneskjold and Kay Ludlow.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_bf4fb49b	type	Aerial Canyon Chase
Atlas Shrugged / int_bf4fb49b	comment	Aerial Canyon Chase: When Dagny follows John Galt's airplane into the mountains, she has to do some precision flying to avoid crashing into the canyon walls.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_bffc7851	type	Humanity on Trial
Atlas Shrugged / int_bffc7851	comment	Humanity on Trial: Subverted. John Galt claims in his speech that the world is on trial, but humanity is not the defendant; its moral code is.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c1e6c92c	type	UnluckyChildhoodFriend
Atlas Shrugged / int_c1e6c92c	comment	Unlucky Childhood Friend: Eddie Willers; Francisco d'Anconia.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Atlas Shrugged / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Ragnar Danneskjöld, the most fearsome pirate on the high seas, is also a philosophy major who enjoys reading Aristotle. He worked his way through college as a library clerk.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Atlas Shrugged / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The immediate aftermath of the first ride on the John Galt Line. For a brief moment, it looks like Rearden, Dagny and Wyatt might well be able to save the country in spite of its leadership. Things don't work out that way, as Wyatt predicted.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Atlas Shrugged / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: The looters try to make this offer to Galt at gunpoint after the speech. He points out that all they need to do to save their civilization is start releasing controls, but they refuse, saying that that's not his concern - they just want him to "do something", refusing to accept that their controls are what is causing civilization to collapse. By the end, they're torturing him to force him to become their leader.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Atlas Shrugged / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-Universe—Hank Rearden recognizes that some may cross over to this level of unforgivable evil, where he comes to realize that "to convict a human being of that practice was a verdict of irrevocable damnation... a verdict of total evil" and that "he would not believe it of anyone, so long as the possibility of a doubt remained."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Atlas Shrugged / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Simultaneously averted and played straight. Averted in that in the world of the novel, the USA is well on track to becoming just like the People's States it regularly sends government aid to (and, by the end of the novel, American society has indeed collapsed). Two heroes (D'Anconia and Ragnar The Philosopher Pirate) are Argentinian and Scandinavian, respectively. Present in that all of the novel's heroes extol (what they refer to as) American values and the majesty of a country founded on the pursuit of individual happiness. By the end of the novel all the productive people are living in lovely Colorado.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c54adf15	type	#1 Dime
Atlas Shrugged / int_c54adf15	comment	#1 Dime: Unsurprisingly, considering the similarities between the novel and the Trope Namer, Dagny has two — the bracelet Hank Rearden had made from the very first pour of Rearden Metal, and the first coin she earned working in Atlantis.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c58a2047	type	Brain Drain
Atlas Shrugged / int_c58a2047	comment	Brain Drain: This is John Galt's major plan: to drain all of America.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c6655b23	type	Fallen Hero
Atlas Shrugged / int_c6655b23	comment	Fallen Mentor: Dr. Stadler was one of Galt, Danneskjöld, and d'Anconia's mentors in college, and a confidant for Dagny.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c675d08c	type	Compliment Backfire
Atlas Shrugged / int_c675d08c	comment	Compliment Backfire: Hank Rearden is thrown a banquet after the tremendous success of Taggart Transcontinental's Rearden Metal line, at which he is praised loudly for being someone who people desperately needs. He's not very impressed. Composer Richard Halley joins the strike after the night his opera became a roaring success for the same reason.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Atlas Shrugged / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Rand read both 1984 and Animal Farm. Her villains not only must master the art of doublethink to function in their new jobs and environment but (sincerely) espouse words of wisdom such as "slavery is freedom."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Atlas Shrugged / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Most of the heroic businesspeople, such as Dagny Taggart, Midas Mulligan and Hank Rearden will be this, having already made millions of dollars but staying in business pretty much because they love doing it. The entire D'Anconia family also counts, although Francisco pretends to be a worthless playboy for a while as part of his cover when striking.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
Atlas Shrugged / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: Cherryl Brooks upon her marriage to James Taggart... which is when all her troubles start.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Atlas Shrugged / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Galt, complete with a Crucified Hero Shot as he's enduring Electric Torture at the hands of the villains. Subverted, since he's not acting out of altruism.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ca4e05a4	type	Peace & Love Incorporated
Atlas Shrugged / int_ca4e05a4	comment	Peace & Love, Incorporated: All of the villainous businessmen claim to be working only for "the public good", while in fact they are anything but. The heroic businessmen make no secret of the fact they are only out to make money: or so it seems. Most seem to actually be motivated more by the love of running a business well than anything. Twentieth Century Motors under the leadership of the Starnes children is a notable example. The two brothers were pretty much hypocrites, but Ivy Starnes was quite sincere and had no interest in money. The workers found her to be the most loathsome of the three siblings.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Atlas Shrugged / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Oil tycoon Ellis Wyatt sets his fields ablaze as a parting shot before disappearing.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Atlas Shrugged / int_cbe687ab	comment	All of the villainous businessmen claim to be working only for "the public good", while in fact they are anything but. The heroic businessmen make no secret of the fact they are only out to make money: or so it seems. Most seem to actually be motivated more by the love of running a business well than anything.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Atlas Shrugged / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God (i.e. Rand herself) admits that she is the Fishwife in Galt's Gulch.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Atlas Shrugged / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Nukes may have not yet even been around when the idea behind Project Xylophone came together.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Atlas Shrugged / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Averted by simply not getting too technical, right up until Dagny's crash, where she follows the other aircraft's "taillights" and clings to the "steering wheel." Also, she tends to "leap behind the wheel" and take off without any kind of preflight—which is not impossible, just inadvisable.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d2bff11f	type	Loads and Loads of Characters
Atlas Shrugged / int_d2bff11f	comment	Loads and Loads of Characters
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d3aad64a	type	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
Atlas Shrugged / int_d3aad64a	comment	Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Averted. Several characters on the looter side have doctorates, such as Dr. Ferris (who is a biologist by training), Dr. Simon Pritchett, and Dr. Stadler. However, it is not insinuated that university education itself is bad: Fred Kinnan, the most clear-headed and honest of the looters, once says that he is clear on things "because he never went to college", but it's heavily implied that this is because the philosophy of the looters has taken over the education system in this world, not because intellectualism is bad on its own.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Atlas Shrugged / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: The brothers who ran the 20th Century Motor Company into the ground. They preach equality and Communism but spend lavish amounts of money on parties and fancy cars. Interestingly, however, the most terrifying sibling executive was the sister, who was completely and totally sincere about her philosophy.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Atlas Shrugged / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Francisco's full name is "Francisco Domingo Carlos Andres Sebastian d'Anconia."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d6310c42	type	Steel Mill
Atlas Shrugged / int_d6310c42	comment	Steel Mill: The one at Rearden Steel headquarters is given some description. Unusually for the setting, it is described positively.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d7f21602	type	Holding Out for a Hero
Atlas Shrugged / int_d7f21602	comment	Holding Out for a Hero: One of the central themes of the book, the looters can't get anything done on their own. At one point, the government tries to force John Galt to help them. He says no.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d842e380	type	Love Redeems
Atlas Shrugged / int_d842e380	comment	Love Redeems: Subverted by James Taggart's courtship of Cherryl Brooks from the dime store.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
Atlas Shrugged / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: The bonds of "friendship" among the looters, a.k.a. the "Aristocracy of Pull."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d94ff9b3	type	Wall of Text
Atlas Shrugged / int_d94ff9b3	comment	Wall of Text: Several characters interrupt conversations to hold what amounts to speech-like monologues, sometimes with literally pages of oration on end without so much as a paragraph break.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Atlas Shrugged / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Dr. Robert Stadler — too late to do him any good.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Atlas Shrugged / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: A particularly egregious example. When the first train is riding on the John Galt Line, we are given the following bits of information, in three successive sentences: The train passes a signal light 'every few seconds'; The distance between each signal light and the next is two miles; The train is doing a hundred miles an hour. Now, if the train is really travelling at a hundred miles an hour, it will take (3600/(100/2)) = 72 seconds to cover a distance of two miles, i.e. well over a minute. Then again, perhaps this is Ayn Rand's concept of 'a few seconds'.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_da3043c5	type	Fake Ultimate Hero
Atlas Shrugged / int_da3043c5	comment	Fake Ultimate Hero: James plays this to Cherryl after they meet.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Atlas Shrugged / int_da8c447e	comment	Unobtainium: Rearden Metal
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Atlas Shrugged / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Atlas Shrugged / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: In addition to her intellect and industrial competence, Dagny Taggart has moments of more concrete badassery. For instance, she is an accomplished airplane pilot, which comes in handy during a genuinely awesome air chase scene — where she manages to track down her quarry in a small, under-fuelled plane, over dangerous territory, while suffering from sleep deprivation.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_dd509c96	type	What We Now Know to Be True
Atlas Shrugged / int_dd509c96	comment	What We Now Know to Be True: Galt's engine is called out as working on a new principle and proving several laws of physics to be false.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Atlas Shrugged / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Cherryl
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Atlas Shrugged / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Atlas Shrugged / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Heavily implied to be occurring in this world especially when it is revealed that Wesley Mouch, at one point the most powerful man in the United States, is "the zero at the meeting point of forces unleashed in destruction against one another" — that is, he's enough of a non-entity to satisfy rival factions trying to put their "friends" in important positions and keep their enemies out. Also occurs every other page between the "businessmen" who are incapable of earning an honest living helping each other and stabbing each other in the back as the plot demands.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Atlas Shrugged / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: When Dagny discovers through the newsapaper that Directive 10-289 has been passed into law, which forbids anyone from quitting, (and realizes James was involved) she walks into James' office, throws the newspaper in his face, and quits, saying she won't be a slave or a slave driver. "Wyatt's Torch" is lit when Ellis Wyatt blows up all of his oil fields after the government passes laws that would doom his business, and the John Galt Line, to a slow death. "I am leaving it as I found it. Take over. It's yours."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
Atlas Shrugged / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: John Galt's view is that humans are the only species that use reason to survive and achieve, as well as the only species to be capable of deliberate self-destruction. About half of Galt's Character Filibuster reads like a Patrick Stewart Speech about the virtues of human beings at their best.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e057ad12	type	I'm Not Here to Make Friends
Atlas Shrugged / int_e057ad12	comment	I'm Not Here To Make Friends: "I don't give a damn about 'the public good'. I'm running a business."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e06d3a98	type	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Atlas Shrugged / int_e06d3a98	comment	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: Averted. John Galt claims that humanity has been acting to destroy itself for most of its history: however, this is not insinuated to be part of basic human nature, but a choice made based on the attempt to follow bad philosophies such as altruism and mysticism. He also claims that those whose nature is to destroy themselves, such as James Taggart, would have long ago if the productive hadn't kept enabling them.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e30a4813	type	Third-Option Love Interest
Atlas Shrugged / int_e30a4813	comment	Hank Rearden and Francisco D'Anconia, with John Galt as Third-Option Love Interest.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Atlas Shrugged / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Subverted. James Taggart wants Cherryl to be this, but instead she realises what he is and refuses to play her part.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e3def52f	type	Egopolis
Atlas Shrugged / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: - Averted by Galt. Everyone else calls the hidden valley where the strikers are living "Galt's Gulch", but he calls it by its owner: "Mulligan's Valley". Played straight by the planned "Meigsville". On the other hand, companies with the Meaningful Names of people strapped to them are usually good, while companies with names like National, United or Amalgamated are Obviously Evil™. The point of the whole thing may be summed up by how Rearden wishes he didn't have to call all of his businesses by different names, but simply call his entire business empire "Rearden Life". Putting your name on something means nothing. But if you do something, it's a part of you no matter what it's called.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Atlas Shrugged / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Dagny, particularly in regards to how she finds Galt. She finds his plane, grabs her own, follows it until it seemingly disappears into the side of a mountain, and follows. Hank Rearden went through countless failures before he finally invented a successful version of Rearden Metal.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Atlas Shrugged / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Eddie Willers, unknowingly, in a way. He tells everything about what's happening with Dangy Taggart and Taggart Transcontinental to a man in a cafe, not realizing that man is John Galt.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Atlas Shrugged / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: Whenever a looter's utopian plan for a world without self-interest goes bad, they will claim the failure is due to this trope. The novel very much insinuates that Hobbes was wrong, and Galt deconstructs this trope in his speech when he mentions that those who damn humanity should have a good look at the moral code they are judging humanity by.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Atlas Shrugged / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Akston slyly notes that though he knows the student Stadler speaks of, but that "His name would mean nothing to you. He is not famous."
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Atlas Shrugged / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Atlas Shrugged / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Lillian Rearden, who we discover married Hank just to drive him to have an affair and break his spirit.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Atlas Shrugged / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: The looters' policies end up turning America into this, with critical resource shortages, riots, greatly increased unemployment rates, and trains not running on time all across the nation. By the end of the novel American society has pretty much collapsed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Atlas Shrugged / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: John Galt's rescue by Dagny, Hank, Frisco and Ragnar. Ragnar even crashes through a window, guns akimbo to ambush the guards.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Atlas Shrugged / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: James and Dagny Taggart; Phillip and Hank Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ebab0a5b	type	Best Her to Bed Her
Atlas Shrugged / int_ebab0a5b	comment	Best Her to Bed Her: Dagny Taggart is a strong, powerful woman — who can only feel attracted to a man if she sees that he is even stronger still. The book is full of florid prose about how much she's always wanted to find a man who would be capable of dominating her, and how much Dagny enjoys being submissive when romanced by a worthy male. The contrast between this and her strength and competence is emphasized. To her credit, however, Dagny remains capable and intelligent, and being submissive to a man in a romance does not relegate her to playing second fiddle to him in other contexts, or prevent her from challenging him when needed.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Atlas Shrugged / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Hank Rearden, John Galt. Most of the minor heroic industrialists, such as the Starnes heirs' father, are also hinted or outright stated to be this. Inverted by Orren Boyle, who likes to present himself as one of these but in fact got the majority of his head start using a hundred million dollar loan from the government. Francisco d'Anconia, in his spare time during college, works at a copper mine and rises to own it, just so he can prove he could.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ee19033d	type	Atlantis
Atlas Shrugged / int_ee19033d	comment	Atlantis: Francisco D'Anconia's preferred nickname for Galt's Gulch.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_eef85d73	type	People's Republic of Tyranny
Atlas Shrugged / int_eef85d73	comment	People's Republic of Tyranny: By the end of the novel every country in the world sans the United States is a "People's State" (read: a communist dictatorship).
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
Atlas Shrugged / int_ef4d8558	comment	A World Half Full: Despite all the social and economic collapse, the world of the novel is really one of these, as it is clear that evil and suffering are completely unnecessary and will collapse in on themselves once the good stops feeding them.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Atlas Shrugged / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Francisco d'Anconia became famous for this after adopting his playboy persona. James Taggart also goes on a spree of this later on. Notably averted with most of the heroic characters, even very rich ones: they may purchase extremely expensive objects, but do this for their quality rather than showing off how rich they are.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Atlas Shrugged / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Tony (a.k.a. the "Wet Nurse") who was attached to Rearden's company as a part of the "rationing" program forced upon Rearden.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f1ef5d62	type	Bromance
Atlas Shrugged / int_f1ef5d62	comment	Bromance: Hank Rearden and Francisco d'Anconia; Dr. Akston and John Galt; Kenneth Danagger and Hank Rearden...
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f231fc12	type	I Love You Because I Can't Control You
Atlas Shrugged / int_f231fc12	comment	I Love You Because I Can't Control You: The novel's explicit philosophy of love that all the protagonists live by.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f627b434	type	Platonic Life-Partners
Atlas Shrugged / int_f627b434	comment	Platonic Life-Partners: Dagny Taggart and Eddie Willers
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f68664dc	type	Science Is Bad
Atlas Shrugged / int_f68664dc	comment	Science Is Bad: Various characters believe this, especially Balph Eubank who believes that machines have destroyed humanity's connection to the earth, to the point where women are now running railroads instead of raising children. Averted with Dr. Stadler, however: He has become a villain but this is only because he is using science to serve the looters.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f69a5d0	type	Good People Have Good Sex
Atlas Shrugged / int_f69a5d0	comment	Good People Have Good Sex / Good Adultery, Bad Adultery: Dagny's affair with married man Hank Rearden is portrayed as an exalted, beautiful and fulfilling relationship, whereas Hank's wife Lillian (a villain) believes Sex Is Evil and uses Hank's guilt over his fondness for sex to control and manipulate him. In contrast, James Taggart's one-night stand with Lillian is treated as disgusting, as those involved are doing so not out of their enjoyment of the act itself, but out of their (mistaken) belief that the act will somehow harm Hank Rearden. James actually calls Lillian "Mrs. Rearden" as he gets off.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Atlas Shrugged / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: Midas Mulligan, banker and striker; he legally changed his name from "Michael" when his enemies gave him the nickname. Also:
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f8351d7b	type	Self-Destructing Security
Atlas Shrugged / int_f8351d7b	comment	Self-Destructing Security: John Galt's preferred method of security.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f8b3d078	type	True Art Is Angsty
Atlas Shrugged / int_f8b3d078	comment	True Art Is Angsty: In-universe example - Balph Eubank is a major proponent of this idea. It says something that no book of his has ever sold more than three thousand copies. So, he proposes a law which states that ten thousand copies is the maximum legal sale limit for any book...
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Atlas Shrugged / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Atlas Shrugged / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: After capturing Galt, the various Looters try and talk him into helping them out. We see Mr. Thompson's conversation at length, and it's clear he cannot understand anything Galt believes. The two talk past each other most of the time.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: [Dagny saw that Rearden] "had the gayest smile she had ever seen." The term gay is used frequently in Atlas Shrugged, including Hank Rearden proclaiming that "he liked to see people being gay, even if he didn't understand this kind of enjoyment." This kind of enjoyment referred to the party his wife was throwing. Dagny Taggart finds Francisco d'Anconia "sitting on the floor playing with his marbles." Many events and items (like Galt's motor) are "queer." Oh, and Orren Boyle's personal spin doctor is overly fond of children.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_fb914165	comment	I Was Just Passing Through: This trope is virtually a way of life for the strikers.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_fbd285b7	comment	After listening to Galt's four-hour long tirade about the evils of government interference in industry, the looters proceed to capture him and offer him the role of economic director, a job in which he will be free to run industry as he sees fit. And then when he replies that his first order is to abolish all income taxes, Thompson balks and refuses.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Remember how Dagny returns from Galt's Gulch just in time to hear that the engines from their star line and the cars from a coal run were being appropriated to pick up a shipment of grapefruit? Two-hundred and fifty pages later, after the looters have captured Galt, it's mentioned that Mr. Thompson's doctor had prescribed him grapefruit juice to help with an "epidemic" of colds. And we learn of this because they just at that moment ran out of juice. Right up until the collapse, resources were put aside so the Head Of State could have grapefruit juice.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_fe61495d	comment	Grail in the Garbage: the Static Motor (infinite energy generator) which John Galt invelted all by himself while working at the Twentieth Century Motor Company is never put into production even though he left behind a working engine, complete blueprints, and all his research notes when he resigned (and the company holds the patent). That the Looters are completely incapable - or worse, unwilling - to put an infinite energy generator into production in the absence of men (and women) with John Galt's capitalist-entrepeneurial drive, symbolizes their utter incompetence. Galt later says that he abandoned the engine as easily as he would a cigarette butt, since he designed it while working for the company and he respected the company's right to the intellectual property. Galt himself is one, overlooked by the government in their search for anyone with that name who might be in charge of the strike... because he's working for Taggart Transcontinental as a track laborer. Under his own name.
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Atlas Shrugged / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Dr. Stadler shows genuine interest in the motor which Dagny finds, and his speech about how he is so pleased to see a new, brilliant idea which is not his own is very touching. For a while it seems he may have some hope of redemption as he recommends a scientist who may be able to reconstruct it to Dagny... it didn't last, though.
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