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* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Oh, sorry, were you thinking this detective story would have the obvious hard-bitten [[Defective Detective]] (who knows very little about computers, yet the Daemon seems to be intently interested in) running the case? {{spoiler|Subverted when he comes back and does end up a major character.}}

* [[Defective Detective]]: Sebeck is cheating on his wife, whom he felt obligated to marry because he got her pregnant. His son is none too happy with him. And he's got an appetite for danger that borders on self-destructive. Then his mistress turns out not to be what she seems...

* [[Determinator]]: FBI Agent Roy "Tripwire" Merritt, of the hostage retrieval team that tries to get in Sobol's booby-trapped mansion is ''set on fire'' and ''still'' manages to breach the interior of the mansion. His run becomes the stuff of legend, the video passed around the darknet as recruitment material, members of which christen him "The Burning Man" as a measure of respect. {{spoiler|1=And he ''survives'', somehow, to later pursue Gragg/Loki and the AutoM8s in an epic chase through the streets of San Francisco.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: In ''Freedom™'', Loki ruins a queue-cutter's credit rating.

{{quote| "Primary data center penetrated. Commencing self destruct sequence." There was a pause. "And there is no countdown."<br />

"[[Oh Crap|Shit!]]" }}

** Played straight when it's discovered that {{spoiler|''the Daemon itself'' has infiltrated most of the accessible surveillance systems worldwide, either directly or through [[Social Engineering]].}} However it's again played in a reasonably realistic fashion.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Not an obvious or confirmed case, but you have remote control cars running amok as well as gunfire and explosions at the abandoned Alameda Naval base near San Francisco. [[Myth Busters|Sound familiar?]]