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=== This series contains examples of: ===
* [[Actually, I Am Him]]: Sort of. In the second book, Lilith introduces herself to a human who had run away from the Oankali. He remarks that she has an unfortunate name, since it's the same as the woman who betrayed humanity by allying with the Oankali, before she explains she ''is'' the woman.
* [[After the End]]: The first book opens after nuclear war, which the Oankali almost interpreted as a collective suicide by humanity.
* [[Benevolent Alien Invasion]]: The Oankali generally mean well, as they see themselves making humanity better by creating a new, unflawed race. Many of the humans, however, don't see it that way.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: The Oankali are ''very'' alien, even the ones that are specifically modeled to look more human, so much so that the humans have a hard time accepting them, and many never do.
* [[Bizarre Alien Reproduction]]: Oankali have three genders: female, male, and ooloi. Ooloi have "sensory arms" which they use during sex (and also for microsurgery/healing/taking DNA samples).
* [[Brother
* [[Contemptible Cover]] / [[Covers Always Lie]]: The cover of ''Lilith's Brood'' makes it look like a romance novel.
** It ''is'' a romance novel. It's just a very, very, ''very'' unconventional one. What's contemptible about the cover is that the woman on it generally looks nothing like Lilith is described.
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* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]: {{spoiler|Turns out the Oankali aren't that nice after all - they're basically strip-mining Earth to make more spaceships, hence they can't just let a society of fertile humans alone}}.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: The Oankali solution to humanity's "flaw".
* [[Half
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: It turns out {{spoiler|that the Oankali's sterilization of humanity wasn't entirely perfect; by the time of the third book, there's one settlement that's inhabited by the (extremely inbred) descendants of the two remaining fertile humans}}.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: see below
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* [[In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves]]: The Oankali believe that humanity is doomed to destroy itself because of its contradictory traits - intelligence and hierarchical social structures.<ref> Indeed, Oankali and their hybrid descendants can ''see'' this contradiction. A hybrid who argues for permitting a pure-human settlement on Mars does so knowing that the settlement ''must'', inevitably, destroy itself.</ref> The only solution is to correct it by breeding with the Oankali, removing the hierarchical instincts.
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: The Oankali really seem to genuinely love humanity.
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* [[Living Ship]]: Oankali ships are living organisms grown for the purpose.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lilith [[Lampshade Hanging|occasionally references]] her Biblical namesake, and how fitting it is that she should have it, given that she's demonized for "betraying" humanity.
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** [[Rape As Drama]]: A lot of the humans don't take kindly to the treatment
** [[Rape Is Love]]: And some do...
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** [[Mind Rape]]: Of a sort. Lilith mentions in a later book that if someone goes through the transformation stages of an Ooloi with them, they ''can't'' choose to leave them afterward.
** [[Aliens Made Them Do It]]: ...with the aliens.
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