The Interman: Difference between revisions

* [[Adaptive Ability]]: Van Meach’s superpower is a relatively low-key version. He can survive poisons and oxygen deprivation, grow gills for swimming underwater, and has a ''very'' limited form of [[Super Strength]]. Also, he does not keep his "adaptations" past the need for them.

* [[A Good Way to Die]]: Outcalt points out that the Fox would have wanted to die as he did, in a sword fight.

* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: {{spoiler|Outcalt is too professional to do this... but he does call his employers one last time to see if the new information they gained over the course of the story would lead them to call off the hit on Van. They did.}}

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: {{spoiler|May. Her handlers expected her to have superpowers, didn't know what to expect, and raised her to be a perfect assassin. They never even realized that she was a normal human.}}

* [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke]]: The main character, and his [[Evil Counterpart]] May- {{spoiler|except she’s not genetically engineered- she was completely normal, and her apparent superpowers are the result of being raised by someone who expected a supersoldier but didn’t have any details}}.

* [[It Gets Easier]]: Killing gets easier for Van Meach. At first, he's upset when he kills someone- shortly later, he's disturbed by how little he cares anymore. He attributes the swiftness of this change to his adaptation abilities working on a psychological level. {{spoiler|In the final showdown, he chooses not to try to kill May regardless.}}

* [[Men Are the Expendable Gender]]: Sort of. It must be said that all but one of the characters killed in the book are assassins. However, two out of three female assassins survive, compared to one of the seven males (the one who ultimately did not choose to try to kill the protagonist). Ten assassins (three female, seven male). Three survive (two female, one male).

* [[Mission Control]]: North serves this role for the Compass.