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* [[Always Someone Better]]: Daneel is stronger than Lije, smarter than Lije, and never needs to rest or eat; Lije has to worry about the robot solving the case before him, and every aspect of the robot's superiority is seen as a threat to his job.
* [[Author Appeal]]: The crowded underground cities of Earth would be hellish to a claustrophobe, but Asimov was a claustro''phile''.
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* [[Cranial Processing Unit]]: Inherent to all robots.
* [[Cyberpunk]]: The City [[Unbuilt Trope|anticipates]] the dystopian urban landscape of [[Cyberpunk]], almost 30 years before [[Blade Runner]] and [[William Gibson]], but it was not necessarily intended to be dystopian. The idea of a vast, totally enclosed city did not bother Asimov at all (See [[Author Appeal]]).
* [[Dirty Foreigner]]: protagonist Elijah Baley notes that the Earth rhyme against the foreign "Spacers" (people who settled worlds besides Earth) always seems to include "Dirty Spacers", and that "dirty" seems to be a common insult against those you hate. Ironically, the Spacers consider Earth people as dirty, and are correct, as the Spacers have eliminated most communicable diseases and compared to them, Earth people are bags of disease and a danger to Spacers due to a mostly unused Spacer immune system.
** In addition, when Elijah Baley visits a Spacer world in the sequel, the bathroom is so clean it gleams (because it is cleaned by robots after every use and uses advanced materials) that he wonders how he will adjust when he had to go back to using communal bathrooms on Earth.
* [[Domed Hometown]]: All the cities of Earth (and what is, in our time, known as the "greater metropolitan area" thereof) are enclosed under massive domes.
* [[Dropped Glasses]]: Critical to the case.
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