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* [[Gray Eyes]]: Susan Calvin's eyes are frequently described as being cold.
* [[A God Am I]]: Q-T, although it's more like "a prophet of god am I".
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Susan Calvin is based in John Calvin, influential French Theologian whose theories could be over simplified in: [[Humans Are Bastards]] and they cannot get [[Earn Your Happy Ending|salvation for themselves]], is [[You Can't Fight Fate|“God who adopts some of the hope of live and and judges other to eternal death”]] (between the former, presumably, is [[Hypocrite|Calvin)]]. Notice how Susan seems to think she has the right to [[Driven to Madness|destroy the mind]] [[And I Must Scream|who is not deactivated]] of RB-34 in ''"Liar!"'', She insists in destroying the NS-2 [[The Evils of Free Will|who are allowed to let a human come to harm by inaction]] in ''"Little lost Robot"'', but she approves of a robot who could get power over humans in ''"Evidence"'' only because he is smart, and easily [[You Can't Fight Fate|accepts the fact that are the machines who secretly control the humanity for it’s own good]] in ''"The evitable conflict"''.
* [[Hates Everyone Equally]]: Susan Calvin, though it's more of a withering dislike for humans. Robots make much more sense.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: This is Susan Calvin's perspective of humanity. "Robots are essentially decent."
* [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place]]: Powell and Donovan are ''dead'' during the hyperspace jump. The period of their deaths was made... interesting, with an advertisement for Cadaver's Coffins and the lines to get into hell.
** [[Invoked Trope]]. The computer that sent them there knew this, and even though it was temporary, it unbalanced the computer, causing it to become a practical joker.
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* [[Logic Bomb]]:
** The short story, "Liar" has one at the climax, causing a mind-reading robot to self destruct.
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