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* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture: According to WordOfGod, ''Infiltrator'' takes place in an AlternateTimeline of 2026 where a Hillary Clinton {{Expy}} won the Presidency and has been President for eight years. ''Agent G: Assassin'' takes place in a {{Dystopian}} 2041.
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* RealityEnsues: A curious example of it as combat in the books is extremely brutal and fast paced with people tending to die quickly or being finished off soon after being injured. The exception of this is the HollywoodCyborg characters who pretty much are superheroes compared to everyone else and thus ''terrifying.''
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* {{Arcology}}: Most of America's major cities have been rebuilt as these in the wake of the Eruption and Long Winter.
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* {{Arcology}}: Most of America's major After the Long Winter and Eruption, Black Technology is used to rebuild the world's largest cities have been rebuilt as these in to house the wake massive populations of the Eruption displaced peoples. Rather than become ecological paradises and Long Winter.self-sufficient trading hubs, they rapidly become hellish prison with 'Refugee Zones.'
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* NeonCity: This is the fate of Los Angeles after the Eruption and Long Winter. The city is rebuilt as an arcology with holograms, neon lights, and a Las Vegas meets Tokyo feel. It's such a dramatic change that the locals name it New Los Angeles after a few years.
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* CorporateWarfare: The books include an organization called the International Refugee Society. It provides the world's richest corporations assassination, espionage, and sabotage services. The Society uses cybernetic assassins to make sure its patrons remain the richest corporations in the world as well as the governments that support them. This is arguably unnecessary because they already have access to technology far in advance of what is available to the public.
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* LaResistance: H.O.P.E has turned into a terrorist organization that resists the power of the megacorporations.
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* G makes a comparison between the Invisible Hand and Rollo Tomasi from ''Film/LAConfidential''. Basically saying that TheIlluminati-esque organization does not literally exist but serves as a representation of forces beyond his control.
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** The New Dragon Inn Grand Hotel is a reference to the ''Film/NewDragonInn''.
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* BigBadWannabe: Zheng Wei is a CorruptCorporateExecutive with an EvilPlan [[spoiler: that involves putting out a nonfunctional nanotech treatment that will defraud millions.]] He is considered a nobody by everyone involved.
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: The State of Emergency Council, the Federation Bureau of Entertainment, Technology, and Weapons
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** Creator/DinaMeyer is apparently having a career resurrection.
** Creator/DinaMeyer is apparently having a career resurrection.
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The first three volumes were collected as ''The Agent G Omnibus'' in December, 2020.
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* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler: How Daniel Gordon manages to compel Marissa's obedience. He killed one of her sisters and kidnapped the other with an explicit threat to her neices as well.]]
* ShoutOut: G watches a movie based on ''Literature/TheRulesOfSupervillainy'' starring Lucita as Cindy. It is an in-joke given the works share the same author.
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** Creator/CTPhipps references several of his books as in-universe movies.
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* ActionGirl: Claire is a assassin and soldier that works for H.O.P.E.
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* {{Arcology}}: Most of America's major cities have been rebuilt as these in the wake of the Eruption and Long Winter.
* BigBad: The assassin A is the primary antagonist despite being more like TheHeavy than the prime mover and shaker. [[spoiler: The real BigBad and emotional core of the climax is Marissa.]]
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* CityNoir: Los Angeles has become one of these with the Long Winter. It is also a CityOfAdventure and MegaCity. It is specifically now known as the Los Angeles Arcology.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: While the previous books were cyberpunk themed, this book drops the pretense and makes it every cyberpunk trope combined.
* EvilCounterpart: A is another one of these to G, being a brutal Letter who possesses vast skill in both assassination as well as psi-ops.
* HoneyPot: [[spoiler: Marissa created Claire to serve as one of these to G. She ended up proving a valuable operative in her own right.]]
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** Agent G is this for "G-man" which serves as a Federal government official. [[spoiler: Which he becomes at the end of ''Infiltrator.'']]
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** Agent G is this for "G-man" which serves as a Federal government official. [[spoiler: Which he becomes at the end of ''Infiltrator.'']]'']] Later it becomes [[spoiler: Case Gordon that signifies both his homage to cyberpunk as well as ties to the Gordon family.]]
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* BrainComputerInterface: All of This is called a IRD implants in the Letters setting. They allow human beings to store their memories, interact with computers directly, and properly manage their cybernetics. [[spoiler: It's subverted when G discovers that he doesn't have this and it's one since his entire brain is a fairly common piece of cybernetic hardware.computer due to being a bioroid rather than a "real" cyberized human.]]
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** G, himself, is a combination of this and HitmanWithAHeart. He is pleasant and mild-mannered with a bit of an {{Adorkable}} side when off-mission. However, he has murdered innocents before and is utterly ruthless in pursuing his goal of getting his memories back.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The conflict is between Agent G and his murderous associates versus a variety of nebulous criminal organizations as well as secret conspiracies. There's a lot of BlackAndBlackMorality with EvilVersusEvil as Agent G plays the role of the Gray between them.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Actually, a BigBad Triumvirate as the Triumvirate are the leaders of the Society's remnant. [[spoiler: They get HijackedByGanon with Daniel Gordon proving a much bigger threat.]]
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Actually, a BigBad Triumvirate as the BigBadTriumvirate: The Triumvirate are the leaders of the Society's remnant. [[spoiler: They [[spoiler:They get HijackedByGanon with Daniel Gordon proving a much bigger threat.]]
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* {{Maguffin}}: The nano-therapy treatment is meant to cure all diseases and potentially pave the way to create a {{Transhuman}} future for humanity. Whoever controls it will make trillions and potentially dominate the future of human destiny. [[spoiler: It doesn't work and can never work because nanotech can't be made small enough or intricate enough to be effective. The current plan is just to sell it as working and cover-up the resulting deaths.]]
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* {{Maguffin}}: {{Macguffin}}: The nano-therapy treatment is meant to cure all diseases and potentially pave the way to create a {{Transhuman}} future for humanity. Whoever controls it will make trillions and potentially dominate the future of human destiny. [[spoiler: It doesn't work and can never work because nanotech can't be made small enough or intricate enough to be effective. The current plan is just to sell it as working and cover-up the resulting deaths.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Marissa and Claire end up dead while the conspiracy goes ahead with the completely useless nano-therapy. G prevents it from being used as a substitute for real medicine, though, and only as a additional charge. G reunites with his daughter and makes billions that he continues to use to help the poor.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: A major theme of the book. [[spoiler: H.O.P.E rather than attempt to expose the megacorporations and risk them surviving it has been using "Black Files" of hacked information to blackmail them. They use the billions in product they demand to help the public and keep the poor alive. G can't honestly say whether it's a better decision or not.]]
* {{Blackmail}}: A major theme of the book. [[spoiler: H.O.P.E rather than attempt to expose the megacorporations and risk them surviving it has been using "Black Files" of hacked information to blackmail them. They use the billions in product they demand to help the public and keep the poor alive. G can't honestly say whether it's a better decision or not.]]
* {{Maguffin}}: The nano-therapy treatment is meant to cure all diseases and potentially pave the way to create a {{Transhuman}} future for humanity. Whoever controls it will make trillions and potentially dominate the future of human destiny. [[spoiler: It doesn't work and can never work because nanotech can't be made small enough or intricate enough to be effective. The current plan is just to sell it as working and cover-up the resulting deaths.]]
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* XanatosGambit: Nano-therapy [[spoiler: doesn't work and the companies are simply going to pretend it works and charge billions of credits from the public while claiming it does. Agent G ends up blackmailing the corporates to making it a placebo therapy used in conjunction with real medicine as the only victory he can.]]
* WretchedHive: Los Angeles and most of the other cities in America have become this way. This is a DownplayedTrope in the city proper that is run by the corporations and played straight in the Refugee Zones that are little more than enormous slums behind gigantic walls of concrete.
* WretchedHive: Los Angeles and most of the other cities in America have become this way. This is a DownplayedTrope in the city proper that is run by the corporations and played straight in the Refugee Zones that are little more than enormous slums behind gigantic walls of concrete.
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* ActionGirl: Claire is a assassin and soldier that works for H.O.P.E.
* AfterTheEnd: The Long Winter leaves the world changed for the worst.
* ApocalypseHow: The eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano kills 50 million people in the United States and plunges the world into a years-long winter.
* CityNoir: Los Angeles has become one of these with the Long Winter.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: G and the other surviving Letters have become this, creating Atlas Security as the world's largest provider of PrivateMilitaryContractor forces.
* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: Artificial rain with disinfectant is now induced over the cities on a daily basis.
* {{Dystopia}}: The United States now consists of a bunch of heavily populated arcologies that are ruled by corporations.
* FemmeFatale: Marissa was always one of these but drops the pretense. [[spoiler: It gets her killed.]]
* GenreShift: The book shifts the genre from TenMinutesIntoTheFuture into a full {{Cyberpunk}} {{Dystopia}}.
* HackerCave: The H.O.P.E. Refugee Zone hackers have one of these under a club.
* LaResistance: H.O.P.E has turned into a terrorist organization that resists the power of the megacorporations.
* LayeredMetropolis: The arcologies are divided between their super-structures, factory districts, and Refugee Zones.
* MagicPlasticSurgery: Apparently, basic surgery now costs 250 credits and takes about an hour at the mall.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Claire and Marissa end up killing one another.]]
* PrivateMilitaryContractor: Atlas Security is a global army
* ShoutOut: ''The Long Winter'' to ''Series/GameOfThrones.''
** Claire is named for ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'''s Claire Redfield.
* TimeSkip: The book takes place twenty years after the events of ''Saboteur.''
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: Claire discovers she's a bioroid reprogrammed by Marissa to seduce G and serve as her agent.]]
* TwentyMinutesInTheFuture: Set in the 2040s.
* UnproblematicProstitution: Zig-Zagged. Many people have taken to becoming contracted live-in prostitutes to the super-rich.
* WretchedHive: Los Angeles and most of the other cities in America have become this way.
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