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''Sapphire'' is essentially [[Spy Fiction]]; the stories are set during the [[Cold War]]; more specifically, [[The Seventies|the late 1970s]] and [[The Eighties|80s]]. But instead of regular Russians, the antagonists (and some of the minor protagonists) have [[Psychic Powers]].

 

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* [[Action Girl]]: Michiru.

* [[Affably Evil]]: Boris would prefer to show someone a magic trick [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|before killing him or her]].

*** {{spoiler|Although, Alec and Michiru eventually try to make love, but are rudely interrupted by Daisuke.}}

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: Michiru and Daisuke use Psychic-scanning [[Aura Vision]] binoculars.

* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: Not only are Russian, [[Gratuitous Japanese|Japanese]] and [[Gratuitous French|French]] [[Poirot Speak|stock phrases used]], but the Psychics [[Calling Your Attacks|call their attacks]] in their native language.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Gabriel Garnett and Claude Duchamp. Or perhaps Claude falls more into [[Chivalrous Pervert]] territory.

** {{spoiler|Not to mention trying to start ''another'' war between North Korea and Japan in Episode II,}} plus whatever he has up his sleeve for Episode III...

* [[Ring of Fire]]: Daisuke creates a green ring of fire during his duel with Michiru. {{spoiler|She defeats him by ''[[Screw the Rules I Have Plot|teleporting out of the ring]]'', [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|then leaps back into it and skewers him]].}}

{{quote|[[Tethercat Principle|THERE'S A BOMB THAT'S SET TO GO OFF TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO THAT DESPERATELY NEEDS OUR ATTENTION!]]}}

** Chapters 8-9 of Episode III are set to break that record...

* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: Almost happened. Even after {{spoiler|Boris}} killed {{spoiler|Ivanka}} after promising Alec would be spared, {{spoiler|he proceeds to kill Alec as well. He is saved, however, when his friend Andrew pulls a little [[Deus Ex Machina]].}}

** {{spoiler|Turns out it ''was'' senseless after all. You can imagine Alec's surprise when he saw Boris alive two years later.}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Elodie Duchamp's first name was originally written without the accent mark. However, after the author did some research and learned that there is a French name with the accent mark but not without, it has been [[Retcon|retconned]] as such. The only reason it's not written like that on [[This Very Wiki]] is because the accented 'E' gets corrupted to 'É'.

* [[Spy Fiction]]: Martini, more so in Episode III than the first two. [[Psychic Powers|With eye of newt.]]