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** Susan, Renie's college mentor, gets [[Mentor Occupational Hazard|beaten to death]] by the Brotherhood's thugs, but manages to ''spell out'' a message with finger typing before expiring.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: John Dread is a quarter white, a quarter Australian aborigine, half Filipino. He's accustomed to being mistaken for everything, and it also helps explain his dark charisma. <ref> The more average a person's appearance (as in averaged over ethnicities), the more attractive they are to everyone.</ref>

* [[Another ~~Mans~~ Terror]]: Orlando has used VR simulations that play out fatal accidents or other forms of death. There's an urban legend that they're made by monitoring someone's actual death, but this is dismissed as ridiculous as someone would have to be loaded up with expensive recording devices in advance. He has reason to be preoccupied with the experience.

* [[Another Man's Terror]]: Orlando has used VR simulations that play out fatal accidents or other forms of death. There's an urban legend that they're made by monitoring someone's actual death, but this is dismissed as ridiculous as someone would have to be loaded up with expensive recording devices in advance. He has reason to be preoccupied with the experience.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Possibly the children in comas, although this is explained later not to be the case. {{spoiler|The Other}}, on the other hand, is an ''absolutely literal'' version of this. Also, the [[Karmic Death]] of {{spoiler|John Dread, in which every reader will rejoice}}.

* [[Anti-Villain]]: By the fourth book, you'll have long forgotten that Dulcinea Anwin is an international terrorist and a murderess.