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* UnreliableNarrator: The ''"Present day, Present time!"'' dateline that opens each episode, close-but-not-exactly-true, which oddly enough sets the [[MindScrew tone]] quite well.
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* UnreliableNarrator: The ''"Present day, Present time!"'' dateline {{dateline}} that opens each episode, close-but-not-exactly-true, which oddly enough sets the [[MindScrew tone]] quite well.
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%%* ArcWords: "Everything is Connected" "Close the World. Open the [[UsefulNotes/MacOS neXt]]." "Fulfill the prophecy."
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%%* ArcWords: "Everything is Connected" "Close the World. Open the [[UsefulNotes/MacOS [[Platform/MacOS neXt]]." "Fulfill the prophecy."
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* AllLowercaseLetters: the series' title is stylized like this.
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* AerithAndBob: Lain and Alice's names stick out in a cast full of otherwise normal Japanese names.
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* AerithAndBob: Lain Lain, Alice, and Alice's Julie's names stick out in a cast full of otherwise normal Japanese names. There's also Karl, but he's implied to be [[TokenWhite German.]]
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* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:If one chooses to interpret Lain as an AI. She was created to merge reality into the Wired, but turns on "God" instead and chooses to erase herself rather than assimilate humanity into the Wired.]]
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** Alice, Lain, and Julie all frequent the Cyberia as well despite only being 14. [[spoiler:The other Lain]] has apparently organized raves there.
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** Alice, Lain, Reika, and Julie all frequent the Cyberia as well despite only being 14. [[spoiler:The other Lain]] has apparently organized raves there.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Taro, Myu Myu and Masayuki hang out at the Cyberia, a [[CoolestClubEver cyberpunk nightclub]] mostly attended by people twice their age who goes in cyber-drugs and party hard all the time.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior:
** Taro, Myu Myu and Masayuki hang out at the Cyberia, a [[CoolestClubEver cyberpunk nightclub]] mostly attended by people twice their age who goes in cyber-drugs and party hard all thetime.time.
** Alice, Lain, and Julie all frequent the Cyberia as well despite only being 14. [[spoiler:The other Lain]] has apparently organized raves there.
** Mika, a high schooler, is implied to be having sex with a man who's at least in college.
** Taro, Myu Myu and Masayuki hang out at the Cyberia, a [[CoolestClubEver cyberpunk nightclub]] mostly attended by people twice their age who goes in cyber-drugs and party hard all the
** Alice, Lain, and Julie all frequent the Cyberia as well despite only being 14. [[spoiler:The other Lain]] has apparently organized raves there.
** Mika, a high schooler, is implied to be having sex with a man who's at least in college.
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Lain's parents turn out to be adoptive, because Lain is an ArtificialHuman]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler:Lain's parents turn out to be adoptive, because Lain is an ArtificialHuman]].ArtificialHuman]] They then abandon her after their "role" in her life is over, though [[spoiler:her father at least disobeys enough to say goodbye to her and tell her he loved her.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Lain's mother doesn't seem to care at all about her, ignoring her daughter's clear emotional distress after going through multiple traumatic events. [[spoiler:This is because she's not her real mother.]]
* ParentalNeglect: Lain's mother doesn't seem to care at all about her, ignoring her daughter's clear emotional distress after going through multiple traumatic events. [[spoiler:This is because she's not her real mother.]]
