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* [[Deflector Shields]]: A personal one is used at the end of the first episode to defend against Jack’s death ray. It’s “about the size of a fold-up highway map and the color of Windex.”
* [[Disintegrator Ray]]: After Jack accidentally shoots his kitchen island, it shivers, takes on an ashy appearance--as though it were merely newspaper image lit on fire--and then collapses into a pile of dust.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Squishier With Cephalopods]]: One of the strangest creatures in the novel so far is a hyperintelligent cuttlefish named "Gwendolyn."
* [[For Science!]]: Jack justifies his study of the perpetual motion machine {{spoiler|and his eventual murder of Nico}} on the basis that figuring out how it works will mean infinite renewable energy and the solution to a host of the world’s problems.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: When Jack fires his death ray, he can actually see a red beam of light emit from the end of the weapon, and he has time to see it travel from the barrel to his target.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Jack is able to build a disintegrator gun out of parts from his microwave, flatscreen TV, laser pointer, refrigerator, and his wife’s hair dryer that plugs into any standard wall socket.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Jack’s study of his student’s perpetual motion machine caused him to go insane.
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* [[Ray Gun]]: Jack’s first creation as a mad scientist results in one of these.
* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]: Attempting to use his student’s perpetual motion machine to {{spoiler|re-integrate his wife after she shoots herself with his death ray}} results in Jack’s committing sins number two and four.
* [[Science -Related Memetic Disorder]]: {{spoiler|Lydia}} calls it Hypercognitive Dementia. It’s characterized as the ability to create devices that “regular” science would classify as impossible. However, there are downsides as well, including a marked reduction in empathy, an inability to see how one’s actions affect others, and a belief that the sufferer’s struggles are the only ones that matter.
* [[The Spark of Genius]]: In the second episode, the reader learns that what Jack and those like him do can never be replicated by regular scientists, and often not even by other mad scientists.
* [[Tagline]]: Brilliance. Madness. Ray Guns.
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