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* [[Bug War]]: The Insect Spirits don't want to kill humanity, but given that they need human sacrifice to cross over, it often becomes this when they get involved.
* [[The Cake Is a Lie]]: What many runs all too often turn out to be. Especially if you've got a [[Killer Game Master]].
* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: Many of the earlier novels. Before the 2nd Edition, when the game really found its voice, Shadowrun was portrayed very much as [[Dungeons and Dragons]] [[Recycled in Space/Tabletop Games|In The Future (!!)]], with a heavy emphasis on bizarre creatures, cyborgs, mad science, and otherworldly spirits. This led to such things as characters somehow rising from the dead, invasions by [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] across the planes, and ''(especially)'' a dying corporate CEO having his brain implanted into a glorified tumor in a jar, communicating via Matrix hookup. Nothing is ever declared non-canon, per se, but whenever a sourcebook finds itself having to cover material from this earlier era, the Shadowland commentators make a note to remark on just how utterly bizarre these events and creatures are, many thinking them to be just hoaxes or exaggerations.
** For example, in the novels, Dunkelzahn's death was a {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]] meant to help his agents prevent a premature invasion of Earth by the Horrors because of a side effect of the Great Ghost Dance}}. But in all subsequent sourcebooks, this aspect of the event is never touched upon, with Dunkelzahn's death being an assassination by unknown parties.
*** Which ''still'' fits in the continuity of the game, technically, as only maybe ''two'' people know what really happened to Dunkelzahn (Harlequin is one of them, and even he's not entirely sure). As far as everyone else in the world is concerned, it really ''was'' an assassination by unknown parties.
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