Ready Player One: Difference between revisions

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Some of the planets have Latin names. Incipio (Latin for 'I begin') is the starting planet. Ludus (Latin for school) is the planet where Wade and Aech go to school.

* [[Black Best Friend]]: {{spoiler|Aech turns out to be one}}.

* [[Butch Lesbian]]: {{spoiler|Aetch, who behaves so similarly to a boy her age that no one seems to doubt her gender, even her best friend}}.

* [[Cheaters Never Prosper]]: IOI seeks to win the contest by any means possible such as cheating, bribing participants, and {{spoiler|even going as far as to kill off participants in the real world. In the end, they still manage to lose when Wade outwits them and still wins the contest}}.

** The Beta Capsule appears as a [[Infinity+1 Sword]], turning its user into [[Ultraman]] for three minutes.

** The mechs at the end include Mechagodzilla, Gundams, Voltron, Evangelions, and tons of other classic giant robots.

** Wade has two space vessels on his asteroid base: an [[Star Wars|X-Wing]] and a [[Firefly|Firefly-class]] ship.

** At one point, the elections in OASIS are held and [[Cory Doctorow]] and [[Wil Wheaton]] are re-elected as President and Vice-President. This becomes doubly funny when you realize that the audiobook is narrated by [[Wil Wheaton]] himself.

* [[The Three Trials]]: The three keys and three gates.

* [[Total Party Kill]]: The Cataclyst wipes out every player in the ''entire sector of space'' when active. {{spoiler|This includes the entire party of heroes and the entire army of Sixers. The game isn't over for only two reasons: the Sixers hid a backup contingent just outside the sector, and Wade had the extra life he unknowingly obtained in his perfect game of Pac-Man.}}

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: Opens in 2044. A lot of the conditions in the world are said to be a result of either the Great Recession or a worldwide fuel shortage.

* [[Underdogs Never Lose]]: Wade is virtually penniless. He has to scrounge in a junk heap to find the right equipment to run his console and has no money to actually go anywhere or do anything in the OASIS until he finds the first key. He's up against a ruthless, billion-dollar corporation.

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