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** {{spoiler|Lucius DeBeers and a younger Morgan Everett finally make their appearance}}.
* [[Corrupt Cop]]: Some of the police officers in Prague are shown to be little better than the terrorists and mobsters they're dealing with. {{spoiler|Joseph Manderly also counts, being the Director of Task Force 29 and part of the Illuminati}}.
* [[Crapsack World]]:
* [[Crazy Prepared]]:
** David Sarif evidently wanted Adam to be prepared for just about any eventuality. Which explains the augmented enhancements Adam never had in ''Human Revolution''.
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** And it even becomes a gameplay mechanic, as some of his augmentations grant great power with some very potentially nasty side effects, granting him [[Power At a Price]], unless he completes a certain sidequest that helps remove these limitations.
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Averted. The gameplay is stated to be such that just about everything seen in the trailers released so far is perfectly doable.
* [[Cutting Off the Branches]]: While canonically Panchaea was destroyed, it's unclear if Jensen was the one responsible, so the Eliza ending isn't necessarily canon either, and the game notes that Panchaea would have been crushed by the pressure of the ocean once Hyron was deactivated, which happens in all endings. Further, three of the endings in ''Human Revolution'' amounted to sending out stories about what caused the Aug Incident, while Mankind Divided mentions that there were many, many theories and rumors that sprang up surrounding that incident, which neatly subsumes all three of those endings. It's implied that Darrow and Taggart died in Panchaea's destruction, with Darrow's wish for mechanical augmentation being viewed as a threat to humanity being realized and the U.N. creating the Taggart Act, which severely regulated and restricted augmentation manufacturing. Sarif survived, but was severely injured and was hospital-bound for months. Almost every augmentation manufacturer has gone out of business due to the Taggart Act; with the exception of the Illuminati-backed Tai Yong Medical, who went on to release a "prevention" chip in 2028 and progressively bought the assets of all their rivals, including Sarif Industries. An [[Easter Egg]] obtained by examining Jensen's cereal in his apartment reveals that Malik canonically survived.
* [[Cycle of Revenge]]: This is beginning to happen as aug and non-augmented factions retaliate against each other.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Befitting the setting, the game is decidedly darker and more ominous than even ''Human Revolution''.
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* [[Evil Old Folks]]: {{spoiler|Lucius DeBeers in 2029 is old enough to have been the Illuminati's leader when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. By his orders, no less}}.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: The trailers suggest that Sarif Industries {{spoiler|might have been co-opted by the Illuminati}}. In the game itself, however, {{spoiler|it's mentioned that the company closed down after what happened in Panchaea, its assets seized by Tai Yong Medical}}.
* [[Fantastic Slur]]: "Hanzer" from the first game returns, but has entered much more common use. Several other slurs for augmented people take on even more dehumanizing connotations, like "clank" and "wrench". Among the augmented themselves "shiny" is a derisive term for those with new or well-maintained augmentations, carrying an implication of naivete, being too pampered, or an unwillingness to get their hands dirty.
* [[Foreshadowing]]/[[Call Forward]]: Task Force 29 is basically a predecessor to UNATCO in the original ''[[Deus Ex]]''.
* [[From Bad to Worse]]: The live-action ''Mechanical Apartheid'' trailer shows the increasingly severe and tragic consequences of animosity against augs {{spoiler|in the wake of the Panchaea incident}}.
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