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* [[Mission Control]]: For the entire Otherland expedition.

* [[Mysterious Informant]]: His recruitment scheme for his "volunteers" is designed to preserve his anonymity as much as possible; justified given the people he's working against. He's the thread that ends up connecting all the other protagonists, many of whom don't even know it.

* [[Trickster Mentor]]: A mild example, he tantalizes hundreds, if not thousands, of people with hints and riddles and clues to lead them to the Otherland, and only a small fraction make it, with people dying in the process. This is justified in that he's an imprisoned cripple capable of accessing the outside world only after he turned his body into a living antenna and he's fighting an organization that owns, at a guess, roughly two-thirds of ''everything''. Everyone he tried to talk to legitimately was quietly murdered.

* [[Voice With an Internet Connection]]

 

=== Inside Otherland ===

An American man who, in his waning years, started an online relationship with a girl whom he later discovered to be underage. He enters Otherland out of guilt when she enters a coma, feeling responsible for her.

* [[The Atoner]]: For his perceived sin of associating with an underage girl.

* [[Jerkass Facade]]

* [[Red Herring Mole]]: He pays for it with his life.

==== Jeremiah Dako ====

Susan's butler, he joins Long Joseph in watching over Renie and !Xabbu while they're immersed in VR within the decommissioned military base.

* [[Straight Gay]]

 

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Tends to this sort of behavior in real life, resulting in the badguys discovering their hideout.

* [[Nailed to The Wagon]]: At the decommissioned military base.

 

== The Grail Brotherhood and affiliates ==

A black-hat hacker who is recruited by Dread and falls into his charismatic web, until she discovers his dark secret.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: It backfires horribly.

* [[The Cracker]]

* [[Pet the Dog|Pet The Cat]]

* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Subverted ''hard''.

* [[And Call Him George]]: The Other's attempts to "play with" children online send them into comas. Ouch.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Quite literally. Its initial telepathic burst at its birth ''kills'' several attending doctors and nurses.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Subverted very sadly. It ''likes'' children, but ends up "breaking" them when it plays.

* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The entirety of the Other's existence.

* [[Psychic Powers]]: It has such strong telepathic power that it has to be isolated on a satellite in orbit and deep-frozen to keep it from ''killing'' anyone it touches.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The Other is at least thirty years old, but has never "grown up" mentally. It's never had the chance.

* [[Reality Warper]]: Within Otherland, that is.

* [[Taking You With Me]]

* [[Tortured Abomination]]

* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]

* [[Wetware CPU]]

* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]

 

* [[Brain Uploading]]: It turns out to have happened to him retroactively.

* [[Cloning Blues]]: As he finally realizes in the end, he is just a [[Brain Uploading|digital copy]] of himself.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[The Punishment]]: Reliving WWI in the trenches of France, again and again and again...