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* [[The Metaverse]]
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]:
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Yours Truly (Y.T.), Da5id, and ''Hiro Protagonist''. All of these, however, are handles.
* [[Badass]]: Between Hiro, Raven, Y.T., Uncle Enzo, and the cybernetic rat/dog thing, the book has more badassness than most books should be allowed to have.
* [[Badass Biker]]: How badass? No other biker drives around with a [[Crazy Prepared|nuclear bomb]] [[Dead
* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Hiro can be writing computer code one second, and kicking ass the next.
* [[Big Brother Is Employing You]]: the Fedland programming department tracks everything you do at work, including the keystrokes you type and the errors you make, and even performs some curious behavioural analysis on all of that.
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* [[Crapsack World]]: The USA. The nation has broken into corporate-run city-states, which causes quite a few problems. Even the job of pizza delivery requires a trusty weapon and can carry a death sentence for failure.
* [[Cyberspace]]: The Metaverse.
* [[Dead
* [[Deconstruction]]: ''Snow Crash'' does this in regards to the [[Cyberpunk]] genre.
* [[Determinator]]: The Deliverator, the greatest pizza delivery boy of all time. Nothing will stop him from delivering your pizza on time, because a mafioso will put a bullet in the back of his head if he doesn't.
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* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]: Not quite, but it's a major player in a world where no one government seems to have gotten the upper hand.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Hiro fights with katanas, and even went so far as to hard-code a katana simulator into the virtual universe he helped write. However, Hiro takes a moment to acknowledge that katanas are not supernaturally sharp, as movies would have you believe.
* [[Law Enforcement, Inc.]]: Franchises that don't handle their own security will generally subcontract it out to one of these.
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: And how!
* [[Living Legend]]: Raven, a one man nuclear power with an [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]] who wants to blow up America. Hiro counts in cyberspace, where he's a [[Memetic Badass]].
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: It might not make sense for there to be a biker with a nuclear bomb in his [[Cool Sidecar|sidecar]], or cyborg dogs that can run faster than the speed of sound, or couriers who skateboard down highways at 100 mph, but damned if it's not cool!
* [[Salvage Pirates]]: When Hiro and the Mafia [[Mooks|goons]] get a boat shot out from under them, they drift for a while in the North Pacific in a life raft, fighting off the occasional gang of pirates who want to kidnap them and <s>sell them into slavery</s> sodomize them all (most likely before killing them) rather than rescue the castaways.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have A Nuke]]: Raven.
* [[Serious Business]]: Pizza delivery, to the extent of there being a university devoted to the study of the pizza business. If a pizza from [[The Family for The Whole Family|Costa Nostra]] isn't delivered within half an hour, the head of the mafia himself will come to your house to apologize. And the delivery boy will probably be wearing [[Cement Shoes]].
* [[Sharpened to A Single Atom]]: Raven's glass knives are chipped down to a monomolecular edge.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: As usual, Stephenson really wants to tell you all about his latest obsession. This time it's Sumerian mythology.
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Some printings give Hiro's full first name as Hiroaki, while others say Hirohito. The latter doubles as a [[Meaningful Name]], considering his dad's past as a WWII vet and POW.
* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: {{spoiler|Raven, briefly, to Y.T. near the end. He's not all that persistent, but the creepiness does take its toll when you remember that she's half his age, and he's ''Raven''. She even thinks of him as a psychopath, though she's still attracted to him, and him to her, even after she accidentally knocks him out during sex.}}
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Fisheye says of the pirates, "I'm sure they'll listen to Reason." Later, we learn that he has a gigantic gatling gun code-named "Reason."
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