Chung Kuo/YMMV
- Complete Monster: Wang Sau-leyan, the new T'ang of Africa, once his motives for wanting to bring down the City become clear. Unless his sadistic streak until then hadn't given any clues
- Moral Event Horizon: Howard deVore not only crosses the horizon, he vaporizes it
- Nausea Fuel: The infamous rape scene in the first novel
- The eyeball incident, also from the first novel.