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* [[Placebotinum Effect]]: A possible explaination for a Genius' Wonders.
* [[Poisonous Friend]]: Unmada Manes (the Manes spawned or attracted by the fields [[Reality Warper|Unmada]] produce) can guard areas, offer advice, or act as an information network for the Unmada in question. They also have [[Dream Apocalypse|vested interest]] in making sure the Genius [[Power Born of Madness|stays crazy.]]
* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Lemuria's quaint little racial hierarchies do not endear that organization to the rest of the Inspired world.]] A number of other sample antagonists are also insanely bigoted, and, of course, we have [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|the Nazis]].
** [[Politically -Incorrect Hero]]: The Peerage and the Directors in particular used to be just as racist as Lemuria, but they cleaned up their act around the same time as mundane society did.
* [[Post Modernism]]: The Hermetic Order of the 28 Spheres take a distinctly postmodern approach to mad science, styling their Wonders as magic artifacts to play with concepts like [[Magic-Powered Pseudoscience]] and [[Clarke's Third Law]].
* [[Power Born of Madness]]: All over the place. Geniuses are so crazy they can <s>break</s> bend the laws of physics.
* [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]]: Larvae are components for Wonders that require moral sacrifice, such as... well, the heart of a little orphan boy; the book even uses the ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' quote.
** With the Technomancer Merit, a genius can convert any sort of metanormal energy (Glamour, Mana, Vitae) into Mania. Yes, it is possible to ''turn blood into Science.''
*** Or you can just [[Werewolf: The Forsaken|Cramcram a fairly potent spirit into a tube and suck essence out of the thing]]—of course, doing so has a nasty tendency to piss off the other spirits in the area who'll then make trouble for you. And lord help you if the local Werewolves find out. Nothing quite says "Bad Day" like a pack of pissed off werewolves ripping your laboratory apart, destroying months of research, wonders, and possibly yourself if you don't either get out of there or pull out the death ray and start going to town.
** A subtle [[Fridge Horror]] here: the stock Ophidian Infiltrator has a larval Epikrato...egg. Ophidians are ''[[Lizard Folk|Snake People]]''. Who most certainly reproduce by oviposition. Which implies it '''was''' an ''{{smallcaps|Ophidian egg.}}'' And yes, the mind control is then ''literally'' [[Powered by a Forsaken Child]].
** [[Those Wacky Nazis]] can get extra Mania by using their [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Atrocity Halls.]]
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: [[Double Subverted]]; there are plenty of psychologists and therapists. [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes|They're as mad as everyone else,]] or [[Brown Note|they will be after talking to you]]. They tend to [[Manipulative Bastard|specialise in]] [[Mind Control Device|manipulation.]]
** Amusingly enough, the sourcebook ''opens with'' a therapist talking with one of the Inspired. {{spoiler|It does not end well.}}
* [[These Are The Things Man Was Not Meant To Know]]: Possible cause for a Breakthrough, especially in Staunens.▼
* [[They Called Me Mad]]: You ''are'' mad. But generally associated with the Neids.
▲* [[These Are The Things Man Was Not Meant Toto Know]]: Possible cause for a Breakthrough, especially in Staunens.
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: When the true horrors of Nazi Germany were exposed to the world and nearly all remaining faith in their ideology crumbled, Ubermensch Nazi Manes came into existence and took over the Hollow Earth.
* [[Time Police]]: The Guardians of Forever. The Terminals recruited them before they were [[Ret-Gone|removed from the timeline.]]
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** Nothing but utterly [[Egregious]] Mania cost stops you putting a wide area ''[[Inverted Trope|healing ray]]'' in orbit, either.
* [[Laser Blade]]
* [[Little People]]/][[Lilliputians]]/[[Lilliputian Warriors]]
* [[Love Potion]]/[[Love Is in the Air]]: Messing with someone's emotions is a minor Transgression. Taking sexual advantage of them afterwards is a ''huge'' one, on par with mundane rape.
* [[Master Computer]]: You can build one very good AI and let it remote-control your other robots so they all benefit from its superior mental and social skills. At least one Bardo was run by a computer.
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** [[Lizard Folk]]
** [[Pig Man]]
** [[[[Talking Animal|Talking]]/[[Intellectual Animal|Intellectual]] [[Uplifted Animal|Uplifts]]: For starters. Can be modified into any of the above.
* [[Phlebotinum Bomb]]: Weapons can be built to only affect specific targets. You could make a rust ray, a [[Ghostbusters|ghost gun,]] [[Power Perversion Potential|anti]]-[[The Nudifier|clothing]] [[Mahou Sensei Negima|lasers...]]
* [[Powered Armor]]: Mania-intensive; a full-featured basic suit requires:
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