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* [[Holographic Terminal]]: Both regular ones for starships, and personal ones for backpacks.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]]: One of the major influences of the series, according to [[Word of God]].
* [[Humans Are Insane]]: Given all the horrors seen across the odyssey of three games (and adjacent DLCs), comic book content, some print literature coupling in a host of spin-off material. One would think it best our hero; Isaac Clarke, amongst others, is better off sticking to slaughtering and/or eviscerating undead terrors than ever trying to buddy up with other still living human beings throughout the full story. Especially given that a great many of what little survivors of a plague of Necromorphs remain tend to be (A) not long for this world as the few good, actually stable people either [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth|end up dead]] by their wounds or [[Cruel and Unusual Death|viscerally butchered]] by the undead monstrosities in full viewing glory, (B) poor unfortunate souls found still living beforehand [[Driven to Madness|turned mad]] (many of whom being [[Driven to Suicide]] as a consequence) by the either the [[Brown Note|Marker's effect]] or the horrors they were beholden to, (C) all a bunch of [[Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance|ignorant]] or [[It's All About Me|self-righteous]] [[Slime Ball|slimemolds]] whom claim to act on the behalf of all humanity or are simply no account good for nothings who think they know better when they really don't. I.e. self serving sociopaths like in EarthGov relating to [[Smug Snake|Kendra]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Daniels]], the movement built on delusionality of Unitology pertaining to [[Mad Scientist|Challus Mercer]] or Daina, radicalistic omnicidal
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: When it all boils down to it, the people portrayed in Dead Space are at least fiftythousand shades of [[Too Dumb to Live|catastrophically incompetent]]. From most agents as well as citizens within EarthGov to scientists on the Ishimura, as well as both the tame and more fanatical numbers of the Unitology death cult in its entirety. There is no shortage in the deficit of congenially smart human beings who go fiddling with [[Artifact of Doom|Marker's]], the few who claim to know better have a nasty habit of killing off their own faction workers in droves for a pointless pursuit of the deathly McGuffin which any sensible individual can see is the main cause of the dead rising from grave as reanimated monstrosities.
** Case in point, 200yrs ago one of the leading generals of EarthGov's military division stationed on Tau Volantis literally killed the only real hope of preempting the nightmare that they all came across while digging up what they mistakenly believed to be the archeological find of the century from reaching their home world. On orders from [[My Country, Right or Wrong|their own commanding power]] no less. Practically murdering a means of stopping a necromorph infestation from coming to earth in its crib.
** The whole mythos surrounding how the Unitologist faith came to be in the beginning is built on a whole mess of convolution and endless secrets & lies. When the supposed founder of their movement started becoming more and more perturbed by what it was they found. Members of the spelunking unit he discovered it with ended up killing him and turning the guy into a martyr to enforce a false belief in what boils down to being self disposing sacrilegious joke. One that becomes so twisted, contradictory and disastrously self-harm influenced that its very existence stands against all it was mistakenly built upon to begin with. Some of the more psychopathically hypocritical members of the church blaming their own kind for the mess of the necromorphs due to human hands tampering with their holy object. Despite their constructing replicas of which begat these mutant zombie atrocities popping up in the first place.
** Even the ruling power of humanist space colonization itself can take a bit of stick here too, given how at best they are self-betraying sadomasochists whose members are a bunch of halfwits whom refuse to put two & two together when it comes to the Markers and the Necromorphs. At worst, they're more than willing to sacrifice hundreds, if not thousands of their own to probe the doomsday devices secret despite being fully aware of just how cataclysmic the proportions of messing around with those things well & truly tends to be. Not even being above casting individual survivors of they're failed attempts at exploiting said apparati without losing countless lives to its disastrous functionality as criminals to compensate their atrocities.
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Not Isaac's suit, which is bulky as befitting his position as an engineer, but casual ones are shown to be skin-tight.
* [[Life Meter]]: The R.I.G. has a spine-mounted life meter, which is actually in-universe and not just a convenience for the player. All adults wear them.
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