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*** Sams also deliberately left one of his key people in an exposed position with a faulty mind-shield... so that he'd know ''which'' one of his crew Telzey would be mind-controlling. He only lost because he didn't know that one of Telzey's nearby acquaintances was also a psionic.
** Quillan is himself [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] in ''Forget It''. The instant he sees Colonel Adorjan leading the raid party out to capture him in the climax he deduces that Adorjan, despite having visibly been in command of the Ralan ship the whole time, is not actually the [[Big Bad]] but is instead merely [[The Dragon]] -- because no Ralan senior officer would expose themselves to danger if they had a subordinate available to do the job for them. He goes on from this to deduce that if Adorjan is not the chief Ralan agent then the only person it could be is Adorjan's 'mistreated slave' who has been so graciously helping him to escape (and in the process lead the Ralan directly to the object that they're searching for), and so right after Adorjan's defeat and while she's breathlessly congratulating him he calmly sticks a pistol in her back and forces her to jump into the containment tank he just stuffed Adorjan into.
*** He is also genre savvy in how he escapes the memory trap. Upon seeing the menacing-looking fleegle the second time around, he deliberately does ''not'' draw his weapon on it -- because he knows himself well enough to know that's what he would have done the first time he saw it, during the time period he still has temporary amnesia for, and it clearly didn't work out too well then so why to it again? Sure enough, it turns out the fleegle's defense mechanism is the ability to blank out the recent memories of anyone who threatens it... but if you don't threaten it, it does nothing.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: In "The Symbiotes"
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Trigger and Heslet Quillan.
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