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* [[Blessed With Suck]]: Congrats, you've survived a brush with the Zone, and now have incredible [[Psychic Powers]]. Now all you have to deal with is constant [[Power Incontinence|Burn]], being slightly insane (ranking up to moderately and severely after a few days), and being a [[Weirdness Magnet]]. Oh, and did we mention that you're unable to control your powers (always on) *and* pretty much every group wants to kill or experiment on you? You know, screw it, being a Zoner is a perfectly good reason for saying [[I Just Want to Be Normal]].

* [[Bond Creatures]]: Project Nephilim. See [[Mons]] below.

* [[Brainwashed]]: The Migou have a process known as "Assimilation" which is a perfect brainwashing system: it creates fanatically loyal subjects, is irreversible and can only be detected with advanced brain scans.

* [[Bug War]]: The Aeon War, with both the [[Starfish Aliens|Migou]] and the Rapine Storm's various monsters attacking humanity, certainly comes under this category.

** not to mention that the Migou themselves see the Aeon War as this, since for them ''humans'' are bugs to squash.

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The Engels are alive, they go berserk when the wrong person gets in them or when the right person is knocked out, they're the only proper defense Earth has against unstoppable [[Cosmic Horror|Cosmic Horrors]], and their pilots tend to be a little bit nuts. [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Sound familiar to anyone else?]]

** Also, Nazzadi= [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Zentradi]], Tagers and Dhohanoids= [[Guyver|Guyvers]] and Zoanoids, and so on.

* [[Cast From Hit Points]]: If a psychic runs out of MP, he can choose to do this. Just don't go near him [[Power Incontinence|for a few hours afterwards]].

* [[Child By Rape]]: Most Deep One Hybrids, though hardly all.

* [[Cloning Blues]]: The Nazzadi have mostly gotten over theirs, although the game mentions they still get sore when something reminds them of it.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The Chrysalis Corporation takes it to a whole new level, insofar as their Director is actually ''Nyarlathotep''. Don't think anyone else is gonna be toppin' ''that'' one any time soon.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Eldritch Society, despite happily worshiping [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], is pretty much the only thing keeping the Chrysalis Corporation from corrupting the NEG from within. You can also play a sorcerer, who indulges in what one would probably consider [[Black Magic]] in any other setting, albeit at a significant cost to their sanity. Then again, [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|everyone else is paying that cost too]].

** The Vade Mecum book adds ghouls, who, while they are certainly [[The Grotesque]] and have some [[I'm a Humanitarian|disgusting nutritional requirements]], are no better or worse then the mortal races -- heck, [[The Virus|some of them may have]] ''[[The Virus|been]]'' [[The Virus|mortal once]].

* [[Death World]]: The area around the [[Negative Space Wedgie|the Zone]].

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Finding out {{spoiler|there's a second Hive Ship headed towards Earth.}} The section of the adventure that this happens in is even called "That's It, We're Totally Effed." GMs are advised to have a supporting NPC or two ''[[Driven to Suicide|blow their brains out]] right there''. It's a ''tad'' bleak.

* [[Functional Magic]]: Parapsychics have an Innate Gift, sorcerers use a mixture of Rule Magic and Force Magic [[Doing in The Wizard|which is taught as a science]].

* [[Gender Bender]]: Beckon the Unexpressed, a spell that changes the target's sex over a period of three days. [[Hilarity Ensues|Often used as a college prank.]]

** The fact that they have no nudity taboo doesn't help matters.

** Justified in that the Nazzadi are basically humans with some minor changes.

* [[Grim Up North]]: The Migou mostly inhabit the polar regions.

** Nazzadi -- Human hybrids are justified -- since they are essentially the same race, it is natural that they would be able to interbreed.

** The Deep One Hybrids are...pretty much the same as they are in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," except that they can't pass down their Deep One genes if they marry an ordinary mortal -- at least until they become fully Deep Ones.

** Third, we have the Nazzadi mecha. While they're also [[Real Robot|Real Robots]], like the Swords, they are [[Lightning Bruiser|considerably faster and pack far more heat.]] This is offset by the fact that [[Too Awesome to Use|they are far more difficult to manufacture and field]].

** Fourth, we have the Migou biomecha, which are refered to as "Bugs" by NEG troopers, and with good reason. They all resemble Earth insects, such as mantises, fleas, cockroaches and dragonflies. On the power scale, they sit slightly higher than Swords in raw power, but only the most powerful Bugs can compete with Engels.

* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Innocent Fanservice Race]]: The Nazzadi have no nudity taboo. They don't run around naked in public or anything, but they think nothing of stripping down if the situation might possibly call for it.

* [[Internal Affairs]]: Sectarian Crimes at the FSB fills this role for the entire NEG, though they aren't there to irritate [[Cowboy Cop|Cowboy Cops]], they're there to clean out Cult infiltration in the NEG, and they have quite a few [[Cowboy Cop|Cowboy Cops]] on their own payroll.

* [[Mons]]: Project Nephilim introduces [[Cthulhu Tech]]'s own take on the anime genre, with genetically engineered mini-mecha horrors that have to be kept under control by [[The Kid With the Remote Control|psychic handlers]]. There's also a plethora of spells which allow sorcerers to summon various [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], usually to serve as assassins or bodyguards.

* [[Mission Control]]: The Eldritch Society Operators are this.

* [[Mutant Draft Board]]: All [[Psychic Powers|parapsychics]] (people born with innate abilities, which can range from mind control to having control over gravity) have to register with the [[State Sec|Office of Internal Security]], be tested, are subjected to surveillance, and if their powers are deemed [[Mind Rape|Invasive]] or Dangerous, they have to wear badges in public to inform people of it. On the other hand, looking at [[Cosmic Horror Story|what kind of place]] the Cthulhutech setting is, it's fairly justified.

* [[Nail Em]]

* [[Science Is Wrong]]: Averted. Science ''was'' wrong (well, technically incomplete). And then science got let loose against magic, and promptly [[Doing in The Wizard|stole it]] and then [[Functional Magic|did it]] [[Magitek|better]].

* [[Screw You Elves|Screw You, Nazzadi]]: According to some, the authors of Mortal Remains overemphasized the Nazzadi's natural fitness, and made their culture too aloof.

* [[STD Immunity]]: STDs have essentially been eradicated in the NEG, and any new outbreaks can be quickly solved with a little arcanotherapy.

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: ''Heavily'' averted, every NEG government person working with sorcery, arcanotech, or the sanity-straining bond with the inhuman Engels gets regular psychiatric care from well trained therapists to keep them sane. Well, sort of sane. Functional at the very least, so they won't (hopefully) have a breakdown in the middle of an attack and [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|be unable to pilot]].

* [[The Windy City]]: Chicago is a capitol of NEG.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Engel Pilots? Check. Sorcerers? Check. Zoner Parapsychics? Check-''squared''.

* [[You Have Failed Me]]: the Migou consider the Nazzadi as failed experiments, and mercilessly kill them at sight.