History Literature / BZRK

* ElectricTorture: Sugar Lebowski tries this on Nijinsky. [[TortureNeverWorks All she gets is snark]], and then RealityEnsues as the apparatus blows her house electricity.

* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Dietrich]], as Nijinsky finds out. Much to his delight.

* BadassGay: Nijinsky.

All around us, there's a hidden war being fought. One side wants to [[MindRape control our minds]] to create [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans utopia]], and the other is fighting for us to be miserable if we chose. It's being fought with state-of-the-art technology in the nano, in ''us.'' Our bodies. Our brains. And if any of the lose, it could mean madness for them.

* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one, named after famous figures who descended into madness or were mad to begin with; [[Creator/SylviaPlath Plath]], [[Creator/JohnKeats Keats]], [[Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring Nijinsky]], [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Vincent]], [[Literate/{{Misery}} Wilkes]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Renfield]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}} Caligula]], and [[Theatre/KingLear Lear]]. We do, however, know most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligula, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man's real name is given as well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.

* [[FeelNoPain Feel No Pleasure:]] Oh, Vincent.
* FiveBadBand: The Armstrong Cooperation forms a loose one.
** TheBigBad: The Armstrong twins
** TheBrute: Sugar
** TheDarkChick: One-Up
** TheDragon: Bug Man
** TheEvilGenius: Burnofsky

* NakedFirstImpression: When Vincent first meets Sadie, she's in the bathtub. He does not realize this until Sadie points this out, leading to this whole scene being a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}. Another CrowningMomentOfFunny.

''BZRK'', written by Creator/MichaelGrant (husband of Creator/KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, Literature/{{Remnants}}, Literature/EveAndAdam and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong Twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.

* BigBadEnsemble: Four of them. The Armstrong Twins, Charles and Benjamin, wanting to brainwash the entire world into a HiveMind. [[spoil:Karl Burnofsky, wanting to destroy everyone on the planet. And Lystra Ried, otherwise known as Lear, wanting to drive everyone on the planet mad and have them all kill each other]].

* AManIsNotAVirgin: Vincent, who despite his anhedonia is explicitly stated in the book to be, well, not asexual.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: When the events of the book actually take place is never really said, but apart from the nanomachines everything is pretty much exactly the same as present day. There are casual references to modern pop culture (the {{Saw}} series of movies, for one) and things like Starbucks, but none of the mentioned heads of state match up with their current real-life counterparts, either.

* BlackAndGreyMorality: The Armstrong Gift Corporation is pretty evil, but BZRK (the good guys) pretty much do anything in order to defeat them.

''BZRK'', written by Creator/MichaelGrant (husband of Creator/KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, Literature/{{Remnants}}, Literature/EveAndAdam and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding:]] [[spoiler: BZRK fails their objective to protect the president. Ophelia has her legs blown off and has apparently gone mad. Vincent loses a biot and falls into a depression. At least everyone is alive, more or less.]]

''BZRK'', written by Creator/MichaelGrant (husband of Creator/KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and Literature/{{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.

''BZRK Reloaded'' is the second novel in the trilogy released Fall 2013, which deals with the devastating aftermath of the first novel. The third and final novel, ''BZRK Apocalypse'', is set for release in 2014.

* {{Foil}}: Wilkes and Ophelia, Vincent and Nijinsky.

* ReallyGetsAround[=/=]AllGaysArePromiscuous: Nijinsky is hinted to be wanton a couple of times in the books. Burnofsky taunts him about that fact and reveals Nijinsky's father kicked him out as a teenager when he saw Nijinsky bent over "entertaining" a cable repairman.

* BigDamnHeroes: Caligula [[spoiler:when he runs in on the scene where Sadie and Noah are receiving their biots.]] Wilkes, [[spoiler:when she saves Vincent from having his biots killed in Anya's body.]]

* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one, named after famous figures who descended into madness or were mad to begin with; [[Creator/SylviaPlath Plath]], [[Creator/JohnKeats Keats]], [[Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring Nijinsky]], [[Creator/VincentVanGogh Vincent]], [[Literate/{{Misery}} Wilkes]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Renfield]], [[EmperorCaligula Caligula]], and [[Theatre/KingLear Lear]]. We do, however, know most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligula, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man's real name is given as well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Caligula. Another CrowningMomentOfFunny.

->''"In this war, there are only two outcomes: [[HappilyEverAfter victory]] or [[WarIsHell madness]]."''

''BZRK'', written by MichaelGrant (husband of Creator/KAApplegate, co-author of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, Literature/{{Everworld}}, and Literature/{{Remnants}} and author of {{Literature/Gone}}) is a ([[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids ostensibly]]) YoungAdult series about a group of freedom fighters fighting against the Armstrong twins in a micro-war to save human free will. Teenagers Noah and Sadie are recruited after both are dragged into the war after family tragedies and they find themselves in a high-tech conspiracy where there's even doubt on whether or not the ''good guys'' are all that good.

* NomDeGuerre: Everyone on the biot side has one, named after famous figures who descended into madness or were mad to begin with; [[Creator/SylviaPlath Plath]], [[Creator/JohnKeats Keats]], [[Theatre/TheRiteOfSpring Nijinsky]], [[VincentVanGogh Vincent]], [[Literate/{{Misery}} Wilkes]], [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} Ophelia]], [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Renfield]], [[EmperorCaligula Caligula]], and [[Theatre/KingLear Lear]]. We do, however, know most of the twitchers' real names during their point of views (with the exception of Ophelia, Caligula, Lear, and other minor characters such as Dr. Pound). Bug Man's real name is given as well, and the reader learns of Alex Cotton's real name before his identity as [[spoiler: Kerouac]] is revealed.

''BZRK Reloaded'' is the second novel in the trilogy released Fall 2013, which deals with the devastating aftermath of the first novel.

-->Bug Man had a fantasy: he wanted to take one of Vincent's biots alive and haul it out into the macro. Keep it alive and play with it for a while. As Vincent went slowly mad.

* TheHedonist: Nijinsky, as a stark contrast to Vincent. Other characters hint that he's really enjoys seeking pleasure, and [[ReallyGetsAround he's hinted to be promiscuous]], especially with [[AllGuysWantBadBoys men with an "edge" to them]].

The series is also [[TheresNoSuchThingAsNotability notable]] for expanding the world of the novel with extensive [[AlternateRealityGame transmedia]] projects. The ARG, Nexus Humanus is [[http://nexushumanus.com/ here]], with the official website being [[http://gobzrk.com/ here]].

* CainAndAbel: Averted. Stone is wistfully envious of Sadie's freedom but is not resentful in any way.

* AllAsiansAreAlike: Lampshaded with Nijinsky, a Chinese-American. See the below conversation in DeadpanSnarker.

-->'''Lebowski''': ''[[spoiler:(smacks him with a club)]]'' [[AllAsiansAreAlike What are you, Chinese? Korean?]]

* [[SirSwearsALot Lady Swears-a-Lot]]: A minor character, Little Cora, according to Noah.