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* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Pretty much the whole point of the plot is Will stealing time from the immortal and giving it to the dying. |
* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Pretty much the whole point of the plot is Will stealing time from the immortal and giving it to the dying. |
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* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: When Leon is stranded in the ghetto, away from his car and access to his time allotment, he's forced to walk until someone picks him up. Seemingly ''the entire town'' takes some time from their busy day to mock him, '''for the entire walk'''. You'd almost feel bad for him if the Timekeepers weren't portrayed as anything other than jerks who do nothing to help the common man. |
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: When Leon is stranded in the ghetto, away from his car and access to his time allotment, he's forced to walk until someone picks him up. Seemingly ''the entire town'' takes some time from their busy day to mock him, '''for the entire walk'''. You'd almost feel bad for him if the Timekeepers weren't portrayed as anything other than jerks who do nothing to help the common man. |
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* [[If You Know What I Mean]]: "After I've taken you, I'll take her. ''[[[Beat]]]'' And her time too, of course." |
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* [[Leonine Contract]]: A way of life when bankruptcy kills you and everyone can see how much time you have to live if you refuse the deal. Pawn shops will fleece customers if they think they can get away with it (can't afford to wait a day until we open again, sucks to be you) while the biggest mogul in the country runs payday lending facilities with staggering interest. |
* [[Leonine Contract]]: A way of life when bankruptcy kills you and everyone can see how much time you have to live if you refuse the deal. Pawn shops will fleece customers if they think they can get away with it (can't afford to wait a day until we open again, sucks to be you) while the biggest mogul in the country runs payday lending facilities with staggering interest. |
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* [[Life Will Kill You]]: Played straight in the story, brutally subverted by the setting. Within the story, characters die from the smallest mistakes, such as only keeping enough cash for the bus ride home (without knowing that the fee has been increased), or getting so absorbed in your duty that you don't take the time to refill your clock when you have the chance. On the political level, however, it is made clear that the system has been engineered for these kinds of mistakes to occur. The government is murdering their citizens on a genocidal level, while building in an element of randomization as an excuse to pretend that it's the victim's own fault. |
* [[Life Will Kill You]]: Played straight in the story, brutally subverted by the setting. Within the story, characters die from the smallest mistakes, such as only keeping enough cash for the bus ride home (without knowing that the fee has been increased), or getting so absorbed in your duty that you don't take the time to refill your clock when you have the chance. On the political level, however, it is made clear that the system has been engineered for these kinds of mistakes to occur. The government is murdering their citizens on a genocidal level, while building in an element of randomization as an excuse to pretend that it's the victim's own fault. |
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