History Fanfic / TheNewManAnAdamSmasherSI

* RefugeInAudacity: Rogue immediately recognizes Adam despite his new body and confronts him with guns drawn. Adam is certain he's able to kill her and backup with ease but doesn't want to ruin the kids' celebration of a successful operation, so he has Uriel diffuse the situation by insulting the Queen of the Afterlife's fashion sense.

* WorldsStrongestMan: Downplayed, but Falco considers Vincent to be "the strongest man without chrome I ever met".

* IncestantAttraction: Downplayed; Valerie isn't really interested in her mother, but her mother is the superior corporate officer she can most often observe throwing her weight around, which Valerie is ''very much'' interested in. Kate, for her part, seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that her daughter gets voyeuristic thrills out of listening to her badmouth and threaten subordinates.

* FlawedPrototype: The Cyberskeleton is this according to its creator. It was simply a vehicle meant to test if Arasaka's new anti-grav technology could be scaled down and made more efficient, but it was sorely lacking in anything else, had a bunch of useless accessories and it was lacking in protection for its user. He has such a low opinion of it that hearing about David's rampage with the thing has him thoroughly impressed.

* FriendsWithBenefits: Adam eventually starts propositioning Chiri Tanaka, the head of his PR team, for casual but intense hook-ups. She agrees with extreme enthusiasm, and may be angling for something more given that she starts bringing up her family life whenever she gets a chance to speak to him. For his part, Adam is not interested in anything deeper but at least finds her attractive and remembers her name.

* {{Troll}}: When confronted by Rogue when he visits Afterlife (a place he's considered PersonaNonGrata), he proceeds to go on a tirade about her fashion sense and gets into a petty argument with her. This serves the purpose of de-escalating tensions as well as still royally pissing her off.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Corpo V is the child of Adam's handler, and Nomad V is friends with Falco [[spoiler: and David's father]].

* EmptyShell: While Adam is a high-functioning sociopath who is highly adapted to his violent lifestyle and not in danger of cyberpsychosis causing him to breakdown, that does not mean that his way of life has had no deleterious effects at all. For decades he has been so consumed by his job and so dissociated from human experiences that he had absolutely no relationships or even hobbies of any kind. His apartments where empty of any furniture except for a bench to sit on, his only downtime activity was to review clips of past battles or watch the plaza from his balcony, and he never spoke to anyone except his direct handler and repairmen. Many commentators and omake-writers joke that past-Adam comes off somewhere between severe depression and the aftermath of a Soulkiller test. Fusing with Uriel and taking in David and his friends have alleviated this massively.

* FantasticFightingStyle: The cyborg martial art Panzerfaust, which was developed particularly for zero-gravity, will almost certainly kill a partially-modded practitioner with sheer kinetic blowback if they try to copy an attack, and Adam is banned from learning advanced moves in it for fear of his destructive potential.

* FlawedPrototype: The Cyberskeleton is this according to its creator. It was simply a vehicle meant to test if Arasaka's new anti-grav technology could be scaled down and made more efficient, but it was sorely lacking in anything else and it didn't even protect its user. He has such a low opinion of it that hearing about David's rampage with the thing has him thoroughly impressed.

* FriendsWithBenefits: Adam eventually starts propositioning Chiri Tanaka, the head of his PR team, for casual but intense hook-ups. She agrees with extreme enthusiasm, and may be angling for something more given that she starts bringing up her family life whenever she gets a chance to speak to him. For his part, Adam is not interested in anything deeper but at least finds her endearing and remembers her name.

* PowerIsSexy: Valerie ascribes to this, liking both power itself and getting to see power be exercised by the powerful upon the powerless. One mini-interlude has her getting sexually aroused by watching her mother chew out a PR director, which is them amplified [[JizzedInMyPants to the point of completion]] by the experience of Adam merely entering the room and cowing everyone into silence with his glare.

* UnskilledButStrong: Adam knows only the most basic techniques of Panzerfaust, as no master is willing to make him even more deadly, but has sharply refined what moves he does know and is able to deal greater damage than even most masters thanks to the sheer mass and force of his augments.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Smasher is given a new Cyberbody that gives him a more humanoid appearance compared to the Dragoon armor he uses, as part of his arrangement to make him more PR friendly.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Adam Smasher is inarguably the most evil character of the TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} setting. Here, circumstances force him to curb the worst of his excesses as he becomes David's new mentor figure.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Adam quickly established himself in David's mind as a nigh-insurmountable pinnacle of combat experience and chrome-tolerance that checks all of his preconceived notions of what a top fighter is capable of and how close he was to that peak.

** The Dai-Oni chassis as well but in the opposite direction. Adam waxes lovingly about its size and damage-output specs, but the thing is too bulky and resource-intensive for him to run around the city in during routine missions, so he keeps his modified Dragoon chassis.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Adam spares David and his crew in the hope of using him to turn the tide against the ghost of Johnny Silverhands. He also gets talked out of immediately trying to shoot or pulverize his corporate managers over petty annoyances by the reminder that time spent to replace those people to do the same song and dance over again is taken out of his scant year to train and upgrade for the fight for his life.

* DisappearedDad: [[spoiler: Vincent]] Martinez works outside of Night City and can only manage to visit and drop off money to his family every couple of years or so. He doesn’t even know Gloria is dead until Falco tells him a year later.
* EasySexChange: Vee is a full-borg who switches between male and female genitalia whenever they feel like it.

* FlashbackEcho: Anytime anything reminds David of his mom, his dead crewmates, or his chrome addiction, he tends to lapse into an intense memory of specific, emotionally heavy stuff people had said to him. As a lingering scar of both PTSD and his brush with cyberpsychosis, Adam is aware of it and speaks up to cut it off whenever David slips.

* FriendlySniper: Adam eventually gifts Rebecca a miniaturized artillery rail-gun and a suit of PowerArmor to be able to wield it so she can accompany him and David as a longe-range support fighter. She is still every bit a spunky little gremlin with the new toys.
* FriendsWithBenefits: Adam eventually starts propositioning Chiri Tanaka, the head of his PR team, for casual but intense hook-ups. She agrees with extreme enthusiasm, and may be angling for something more given that she starts bringing up her family life whenever she gets a chance to speak to Adam. For his part Adam is not interested in anything deeper, but at least finds her endearing and remembers her name.

* MuggingTheMonster: Vee is first introduced as being set upon by thugs before Adam and David rescue her, only to find out that this seemingly helpless joytoy is fully chromed out.

* RuleOfCool: The first thing Uriel asks after Adam secures David is if they can get a sword. When Adam asks why, he just says swords are cool. Adam has no rebuttal and puts in an order. When it arrives and he takes it out for a spin, David asks Adam for one of his own. Adam actually cuts training for that day early just to put the order in.
* SchrodingersPlayerCharacter: Averted, all of the lifepaths are present here:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Adam forces David to become his protégée and offers to let his surviving crew come along for the ride, Falco politely declines and requests a ride out of Night City. Adam is not offended and indeed praises his survival instincts in wanting to avoid corpo-war entanglements.

* SlaveToPR: As part of his arrangement to take in David, Rebecca and Lucy, Smasher is forced to comply with Arasaka PR. This means the elimination of his "Collateral damage guaranteed" clause of his contract as well as being fit with a new more conventionally attractive body. Attempts to make him [[CallingYourAttacks shout attack names]] have been ignored so far.

* WorthyOpponent: Adam considers the PowerArmor-toting railgun sniper to be easily the most exhilarating fight he’s had in years, and pays her the courtesy of a quick death as the building she was camped in collapses around them. [[spoiler: He gets a lot more ambivalent about that scrap after learning that the woman was outfitted by Morgan Blackhand]].
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Vee makes a habit of posing as a seemingly innocent joytoy to attract hostile gangoons as part of their submission kink. They then kill anyone that doesn't pay, strip them of their chrome and sell it to their ripperdoc for proffit.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: After David settles in as Adam's trainee, he discovers to his shock that the man is a hyper-competent, no-nonsense master of his craft that gives fantastic advice on more than just combat and corrects his shortcomings without being abusive. At least part of this is thanks to Uriel handling Adam's talking.

** When Uriel commandeers Adam's old Gemini bodies (stated to look like blonde, buff Elvis clones in canon), he takes the opportunity to talk and even flirt with Rebecca in the voice of WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo.

** Adam's first redesigned chassis is stated by Rebecca to look like "if [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Arnold]] and [[Franchise/RoboCop Murphy]] had a baby]]". Becca in general has a fairly in-depth knowledge of century-old (by her time) sci-fi media, and is delighted whenever she can coax Adam to acknowledge and quote back her references.

** Katanas. Adam and Uriel have a long rant to each other about how their design is [[CripplingOverspecialization overly optimized as a result of pre-modern Japan's resource limitations]] and that swords in general are of limited utility against armored cyborgs and the like. Doesn't change the fact that they are insanely ''fun'' to use. Adam gets one to use against poorly armed gangbangers, and mournfully hangs it up when serious assasssins start coming after him.

* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Adam refers to everyone as "meat" or "meatbag" until they do something to impress him enough to consider them a person. Uriel considers this one of his edhiest character traits.

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Corpo V is the child Adam's handler, and Nomad V is friends with Falco [[spoiler: and David's father]].

** Adam's first redesigned chassis is stated by Rebecca to look like "if [[Franchise/Terminator Arnold]] and [[Franchise/RoboCop Murphy]] had a baby]]". Becca in general has a fairly in-depth knowledge of century-old (by her time) sci-fi media, and is delighted whenever she can coax Adam to acknowledge and quote back her references.

* FlashbackEchoes: Anytime anything reminds David of his mom, his dead crewmates, or his chrome addiction, he tends to lapse into an intense memory of specific, emotionally heavy stuff people had said to him. As a lingering scar of both PTSD and his brush with cyberpsychosis, Adam is aware of it and speaks up to cut it off whenever David slips.

* ShoutOut: The railgun-toting sniper that shows up in chapter 4 is a dead ringer for [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots Crying Wolf]].

* WorldsStrongestMan: Downplayed, but Falco considers Vincent to be "the strongest man without chrome I ever met".

* MoralSociopathy: Downplayed; Uriel is claimed by both himself and WordOfGod to possess a very muted capacity for empathy but a highly developed sense of ethics. Commentators eventually made a strong for him actually being above average on the Cyberpunk empathy scale (if only by a little bit) due to just how [[WretchedHiveOfScumAndVillainy brutal Night City is]] and how [[ApatheticCitizens callous its residents are as a consequence]].

''The New Man: An Adam Smasher SI'' is a ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''/''Anime/CyberpunkEdgerunners'' crossover fanfic by [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/members/brosef.69409/ Brosef]]. Links are [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.20227/ here]] and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.1051921/ here]].

* AwesomeButImpractical: Katanas. Adam has a lot of fun with them but they're not really practical for the jobs he's expected to take on. He uses a custom one while he's training David, but quickly hangs it after encountering an assassin specifically gunning for him.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Adam trains David this way. He takes the boy to watch him kill various assorted gangoons and then has him analyze what he did and why.
* CallAHumanAMeatbag: Adam refers to everyone as "meat" or "meatbag".
* DisappearedDad: Vincent Martinez hasn't been back to Night City in years and only learns about the fates of his family from Falco.
* EasySexChange: Vee is a full-borg who switches between male and female bodies whenever they feel like it.

* LoopholeAbuse: Smasher justifies sparing David to the Arasaka Corpo by stating that his mission was to destroy the Cyberskeleton, which he did.

* MuggingTheMonster: Vee is first introduced as being set upon by thugs before Adam and David rescue her, but they find out that this seemingly helpless joytoy is fully chromed out. In the following multi-POV interlude, Vee is shown to be a BlackWidow of sorts; looking for men to dom them and killing the ones who don't pay to sell off their cyberware.
* ParryingBullets: Adam deflects railgun rounds with his sword.
* PowerIsSexy: Valerie ascribes to this, liking power and seeing power be exercised by the powerful upon the powerless. An interlude sees her getting sexually aroused by watching her mother chew out a PR director, which is them amplified when Adam enters the room.

** Vincent is David's father here.

** Vincent [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Martinez]] is Nomad V.

* SlaveToPR: As part of his arrangement to take in David, Rebecca and Lucy, Smasher is forced to comply with Arasaka PR. This means the elimination of his "Collateral damage guaranteed" clause of his contract as well as being fit with a new more conventionally attractive body.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Adam trains David this way. He takes the boy to watch him kill various assorted gangoons and then has him analysis what he did and why.

* EasySexChange: Vee is a Full-Borg who switches between male and female bodies whenever they feel like it.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Vee makes a habit of posing as a seemingly innocent streetwalkers to attract hostile gangoons as part of their submission kink. They then kill anyone that doesn't pay, strip them of their chrome and sell it to their ripperdoc for proffit.

* AmbiguousGender: Vee is a Full-Borg who switches between male and female bodies whenever they feel like.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Adam Smasher is inarguably the most evil character of the Cyberpunk setting. Here, circumstances force him to curb the worst of his excesses as he becomes David's new mentor figure.

* MuggingTheMonster: Vee is first introduced as being set upon by thugs before Adam and David rescue her, but they find out that this seemingly helpless joytoy is fully chromed out. In the following multi-POV interlude, Vee is shown to be a BlackWidow of sorts; looking for men to dom her and killing the ones who don't pay to sell off their cyberware.

Links are [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.20227/ here]] and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-new-man-an-adam-smasher-si-cyberpunk-edgerunners.1051921/ here]].

* FullConversionCyborg: Aside from Adam himself, Vee (Streetkid V) is also a full-borg but it's not readily apparent.