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All around us, there's a hidden war being fought. One side wants to control our minds to create utopia, and the other is fighting for us to be miserable if we chose. It's being fought with state-of-the-art technology in the nano, in ''us.'' Our bodies. Our brains. And if any of the lose, it could mean madness for them.
''[[BZRK]]'', written by Michael Grant (husband of [[
The series is also [[
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* [[All Asians Are Alike]]: Lampshaded with Nijinsky, a Chinese-American. See the below conversation in [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Vincent, who despite his anhedonia is explicitly stated in the book to be, well, not asexual.
* [[And I Must Scream]]:
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* [[Anti
* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Tony, the boy that Sadie goes to the football game with at the beginning of the novel.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: In a way, with the deformed Armstrong twins, who are very much not good. Played straight with Stone, who was described as handsome and had too short a scene to be anything other than neutral or good.
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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: The Armstrong Gift Corporation is pretty evil, but BZRK (the good guys) pretty much do anything in order to defeat them.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Noah has been described as having a pair of very brilliant ones. His blue eyes fulfill Types 1, 2, and 3, based on which point you're on at the story.
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* [[Body Horror]]: Lots of gruesome descriptions, and also the Armstrong twins are described as grotesque and they share one eyeball. The general body horror is noted by Sadie, who is greatly disturbed by what Noah might have seen in her body while looking through the eyes of his biots.
** Ophelia {{spoiler|gets both feet blown off in an explosion at the end of the novel.}}
* [[Brainwashed]]: Anya and Jessica, who were both programmed by Vincent and Bug Man, respectively, to "love" them. Vincent so he can get access to Anya's technology, Bug Man for selfish reasons. Vincent at least tries not to take advantage of Anya.
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'''Vincent''': There is to me. }}
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful in any way.
* [[Coup De Grace]]: Caligula tells Sadie to shoot the man she accidentally [[Groin Attack|shot in the balls]]. When she refuses, he shoots the man in the head.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Nijinksy. More snarker than deadpan.
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'''Nijinsky''': Santino Corleone.
'''Lebowski''': That's very cute. Funny, you don't look Italian.
'''Nijinsky''': You're very observant.
'''Lebowski''': ''{{spoiler|(smacks him with a club)}}'' [[All Asians Are Alike|What are you, Chinese? Korean?]]
'''Nijinsky''': I thought I was Italian. }}
** and this:
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'''Nijinsky''': Oh, how I've waited for this moment. }}
* [[Don't Make Me Destroy You]]: Caligula to Anya.
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* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]:}} {{spoiler|BZRK fails their objective to protect the president. Ophelia has her legs blown off and has apparently gone mad. Vincent loses a biot and falls into a depression. At least everyone is alive, more or less.}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: The best way for a biot in get into the brain is through the the eyeball, so not only do we get lots of eerie descriptions of eyes, but eye violence later such as ''jamming fingers into someone's eyeball.''
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* [[Flesh Versus Steel]]: Biots versus nanos.
* [[Foil]]: Wilkes and Ophelia, Vincent and Nijinsky.
* [[Friends
* [[Groin Attack]]: Sadie accidentally shoots a man in the crotch. Caligula [[Coup De Grace|mercy kills]].
* [[Gross Up Close
* [[He Who Must Not Be Seen]]: Lear, who is mentioned and deferred to, but does not appear once throughout the entire first book.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Possibly Vincent and Nijinsky. Especially when they're [[Like an Old Married Couple|arguing]] about whether to {{spoiler|send Keats and Plath in on a direct attack on the Twins}}. Vincent addresses Nijinsky by the name Shane, which [[Yaoi Fangirl|some]] might move up to [[Ho Yay]]. YMMV though.
* [[I Can Change My Beloved]]: Anya to Vincent, in a way.
* [[If I Wanted You Dead...]]: Vincent to Sadie when he's in her bathroom.
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* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Caligula. In the first two pages he's introduced, he shoots a man in the forehead, follows it up by shooting another man in the windpipe, and then mercy kills another man ''without looking in his direction.''
* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Noah's is particularly distressing.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: The whole point of their ''noms de guerre'.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: When {{spoiler|Vincent is about to have his biots killed}}, he requests that Caligula kill him rather than allow him to go mad.
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* [[Mind Control Conspiracy]]: The whole premise.
* [[Naked First Impression]]: When Vincent first meets Sadie, she's in the bathtub. He does not realize this until Sadie points this out, leading to this whole scene being a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
* [[Nom De Guerre]]: Everyone on the biot side has one, named after famous figures who descended into madness or were mad to begin with; [[Sylvia Plath|Plath]], [[John Keats|Keats]], [[The Rite of Spring
* [[Off
* [[Opium Den]]: The China Bone where Burnofsky goes.
* [[Patricide]]: The Armstrong Twins mention smothering their father to death with a pillow.
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* [[Reverse Mole]]: {{spoiler|Dietrich}}, as Nijinsky finds out. Much to his delight.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Subverted and lampshaded with Sadie.
* [[
** Also, possibly Ophelia. Though in the first book, it's not explicitly stated. However, she does say, "I don't hit on boys," in response to Wilkes asking whether she's hit on Vincent. A few pages later, when they are discussing what comes after death, Wilkes says, "A bunch of hot guy virgins ... A couple girls, too, maybe, just because life is short and try everything, right?" which Ophelia pointedly ignores.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: Pretty cynical. Neither side is wholly good.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The biotic twichers name themselves after famous people in history who went mad. It's meant to remind them that [[Tagline|their only outcomes are victory or madness.]]
* [[The Stoic]]: Vincent, countered by pleasure-seeking Nijinksy. Vincent suffers from [
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Wilkes and Ophelia, respectively, who are foils.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: When the events of the book actually take place is never really said, but apart from the nanomachines everything is pretty much exactly the same as present day. There are casual references to modern pop culture (the [[Saw]] series of movies, for one) and things like Starbucks, but none of the mentioned heads of state match up with their current real-life counterparts, either.
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* [[When She Smiles]]: Ophelia. According to Sadie, she has a smile that lights up the room.
* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: Vincent to Sadie and Noah.
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* [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry]]: Caligula. Another [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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