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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: "If he dies, I'll kill him!"
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Strackman Lux, set up as a paranoid, un-co-operative type obsessed with patents and IP, but it's all a front to keep CAL safe -- he's actually quite nice.
* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: The scenes appearing on CAL's TV, complete with music. She, like many of the viewers, spends a good part of the episode clutching a pillow and trying not to scream.
** Time in the computer progresses "like a dream" -- people just mention where they're going to be, and then they're there. In other words, it's like television. Cutting between scenes in a conventional way, and then revealing that that's how the ''characters'' are experiencing it, adds a meta level to the are-you-sure-you-know-what-is-and-isn't-real theme.
* [[Living Shadow]] - Invisible air piranhas, who are very light-sensitive (or maybe just appear as shadows, and are very slow-moving) but can strip the flesh from a chicken leg in the time it takes to fall to the ground. And they learn quickly...
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: CAL is an acronym of the girl's full name. Also, there's Dr Moon, the doctor moon.
* [[More Expendable Than You]]: River takes out the Doctor to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in his place.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: CAL. First she (inadvertently) "kills" her father after being upset at [[The Reveal]]. Then she tries to break the remote, triggering the self-destruct mechanism. ''Then'' she "kills" Doctor Moon, ''on purpose'', when he tries to stop her. Granted, she's been hit with the [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]], and Doctor Moon [[Unexplained Recovery|recovers]] but still.
** It isn't necessarily an unexplained recovery since all we know is that she removed them from her virtual reality, it isn't ever indicated that she deleted them.
* [[Orphean Rescue]]: Getting Donna back out of the computer.
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* [[Papa Wolf]]: Though technically the little girl who Strackman Lux is willing to go to such lengths to protect is his ''aunt''.
* [[Platonic Cave]]
* [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]]: The Library exists for the sole purpose of keeping CAL occupied, which makes this an inversion.
** The library itself is an inversion - there is a child with a terminal, incurable illness, but her family is rich, so [[Brain Uploading|her brain is uploaded]] and she is given a library the size of a planet to keep her entertained. However, when something threatened the people in the library, they all tried to [[Teleporter Accident|teleport away at once]] and wound up getting stored in the computer. That was causing problems for the child, so in a way the lifeboats were [[Powered Byby a Forsaken Child]].
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]
* [[Ship Tease]]: The Doctor and River.
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