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* {{Cyborg}}: The villains of ''The Emerald Forge'' have used Jananin's technology to place the brains and some of the body tissue of dolphins into mechanical wyvern bodies that [[spoiler:Gamma]] can control with her mind.


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* FullConversionCyborg: The villains of ''The Emerald Forge'' have used Jananin's technology to place the brains and some of the body tissue of dolphins into mechanical wyvern bodies that [[spoiler:Gamma]] can control with her mind.
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* SpitefulSpit: In ''The Emerald Forge'', the villain Sanderson spits on the floor while complaining about America, "land where a minority of intelligent people work in state-of-the-art facilities to advance scientific understanding, so their majority of obese illiterate religious-fundamentalist rednecks can have weapons of mass destruction to go with their fast food meals.

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* SpitefulSpit: In ''The Emerald Forge'', the villain Sanderson spits on the floor while complaining about America, "land where a minority of intelligent people work in state-of-the-art facilities to advance scientific understanding, so their majority of obese illiterate religious-fundamentalist rednecks can have weapons of mass destruction to go with their fast food meals."
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* SpitefulSpit: In ''The Emerald Forge'', the villain Sanderson spits on the floor while complaining about America, "land where a minority of intelligent people work in state-of-the-art facilities to advance scientific understanding, so their majority of obese illiterate religious-fundamentalist rednecks can have weapons of mass destruction to go with their fast food meals.
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* HeroicFireRescue: While [[spoiler:the Emerald Forge]] is burning down, [[spoiler:Gamma]] climbs a chimney to escape the flames. Dana flies to her on the wyvern's back and pulls her onto the wyvern. Too weighed down to fly, the wyvern enters a controlled descent and deposits both of them relatively unharmed on the ground.
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* ItsAllMyFault: In ''The Emerald Forge'', [[spoiler:Dana releases a bunch of experimented-on animals, which travel to Gamma's former mental hospital and set it on fire, killing dozens. Dana blames herself for the attack, but Jananin tells her that they were programmed to do it, and were probably going to be released soon anyway.]]
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* MercyKill: In ''The Emerald Forge'', Dana throws the "sphinx," a product of inhumane experiments, off a building because she knows from its signal that it doesn't want to live.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: The villains of ''The Emerald Forge'' conduct experiments on animals that include grafting a monkey's head onto a cat's body and grafting multiple cobra heads onto a Komodo dragon in order to satisfy [[spoiler:Gamma]]'s obsession with mythological creatures.
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* InterruptedSuicide: While [[spoiler:Gamma]] was a child in an abusive mental hospital, she broke out of her room at night, went into the bathroom, and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists with a disposable razor. She was found before she lost consciousness.

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* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Prendick, one of the villains of ''The Emerald Forge'', lost both his eyes in an industrial accident. He can see through the eyes of one of [[spoiler:Gamma]]'s mind-controlled eagles, since both of them have computers in their brains. [[spoiler:Gamma]] uses this to ensure his loyalty, as she can take away his sight at a moment's notice.

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Prendick, one of the villains of ''The Emerald Forge'', lost both his eyes in an industrial accident. He can see through the eyes of one of [[spoiler:Gamma]]'s mind-controlled eagles, since both of them have computers in their brains. [[spoiler:Gamma]] uses this to ensure his loyalty, as she can take away his sight at a moment's notice.notice.
** When Dana rides a horse that also has a computer in its brain, she can feel its heartbeat and the dirt under its hooves, hear the flies buzzing in its ears, and see its panoramic view.
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* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: Prendick, one of the villains of ''The Emerald Forge'', lost both his eyes in an industrial accident. He can see through the eyes of one of [[spoiler:Gamma]]'s mind-controlled eagles, since both of them have computers in their brains. [[spoiler:Gamma]] uses this to ensure his loyalty, as she can take away his sight at a moment's notice.
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* {{Cyborg}}: The villains of ''The Emerald Forge'' have used Jananin's technology to place the brains and some of the body tissue of dolphins into mechanical wyvern bodies that [[spoiler:Gamma]] can control with her mind.
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* ElectiveMute: Cale is capable of speaking, but doesn't like to, and stays quiet unless he really needs to talk.

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* ElectiveMute: Cale is capable of speaking, but doesn't like to, and stays quiet unless he really needs to talk.to. Dana does most of the speaking for him.
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* DisappearedDad: Eric mentions that his dad left, he doesn't know where, and that his parents never really knew each other.


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* ElectiveMute: Cale is capable of speaking, but doesn't like to, and stays quiet unless he really needs to talk.
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* ABNegative: Dana has a rare blood type, which Jananin shares, allowing her to donate blood when Dana is found to be anemic [[spoiler:from the forcible blood draw]] in ''The Emerald Forge''.
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* SarcasticConfession: In ''The Emerald Forge'', Eric pretends his DisappearedDad was actually a spy and his mum was the Duchess of Essex, who put him up for adoption. Dana tells him that her father was a mad scientist who created her in a test tube before going into hiding in a secret bunker on a haunted island off Scotland. Eric says, "Seriously, that's really good. You should write a book or something. Or a computer game."


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* UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000: In ''The Emerald Forge'', Eric and Dana play "Pillage and Burn III," where you loot villages and use what you find to make better weapons.

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* CameraSpoofing: When Pilgrennon, Jananin, and Dana break into the building where Cerberus's English computer is hidden, Dana overrides the security camera feed with images of the empty corridor.

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When Pilgrennon, Jananin, and Dana break into the building where Cerberus's English computer is hidden, hidden in ''Pilgrennon's Beacon'', Dana overrides the security camera feed with images of the empty corridor.corridor.
** She does the same thing to a school CCTV camera in ''The Emerald Forge'' so people won't know she and Eric are alone in the building after school.
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* GymClassHell: Dana hates PE, partly because of having to change in front of people and see their revolting bodies, and partly because her classmates always call her names and hit her, supposedly as part of the subject.
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* CopeByCreating: In ''The Emerald Forge'', Dana has started making Airfix models, on her therapist's advice that she go somewhere quiet and do something she enjoys that takes up all her concentration whenever she gets upset.
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* DesignerBabies: Pilgrennon created most of his children by switching the eggs and sperm of people at fertility clinics with the eggs and sperm of autistic teens who went to his center. If the parents found the resulting children unmanageable, they would sometimes be returned to the center, where Pilgrennon could experiment on them all he liked. Meanwhile, he was working on a clone of himself that was modified to have autism genes, but when the clone was born, it died. Pilgrennon decided that he must have accidentally copied a fatal recessive and decided to combine the clone's DNA with Jananin's to create Dana. Jananin refers to his efforts as "eugenics experiments."

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* DesignerBabies: Pilgrennon created most of his children by switching the eggs and sperm of people at fertility clinics with the eggs and sperm of autistic teens who went to his center. If the parents found the resulting children unmanageable, they would sometimes be returned to the center, where Pilgrennon could experiment on them all he liked. Meanwhile, he was working on a clone of himself that was modified to have autism genes, but when the clone was born, it died. Pilgrennon decided that he must have accidentally copied a fatal recessive and decided to combine the clone's DNA with Jananin's to create Dana.Dana and Cale. Jananin refers to his efforts as "eugenics experiments."
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* SickeningCrunch: When Cerberus forces Alpha to attack Dana with a knife, Jananin kicks it out of her hand with a sickening crump.
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* {{EMP}}: Compton bombs can overload electronic devices for miles around. When Pilgrennon first went into hiding, he set off a bomb that destroyed his research institute and fled in the chaos. There's worry that Cerberus will set off a bomb that will destroy the computers in Pilgrennon's children's brains, causing severe brain damage. [[spoiler:Pilgrennon tries to use a bomb to destroy Cerberus's English computer, but it doesn't go off, thanks to a broken fuse. He uses another one to allow him, Jananin, and Dana to escape London undetected. The bomb kills Alpha, who was outside Pilgrennon's radiation-proof car thanks to [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a Good Samaritan who was concerned about children left unattended]], and sets off a wave of crime and destruction for miles around. Pilgrennon sets off his last bomb while being pursued in a helicopter, [[HeroicSacrifice destroying his helicopter]] as well as those of his pursuers so they won't be able to find Cerberus in the ocean.]]
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* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The protagonists steal Cerberus's main computer from London, put in in a Faraday cage, and drop it into the ocean.]]
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* ThePowerOfHate: During her BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind with Cerberus, Dana draws on every horrible experience she's ever had, which gives her the strength to force two heads to kill each other and contaminate the third with her humanity.
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* BlindWithoutEm: When Pilgrennon, Jananin, and Dana secretly enter London in ''Pilgrennon's Beacon'', Jananin is forced to take off her glasses, because she's a terrorism suspect and the photo of her includes the glasses. Without them, she's so blind that she has to hang onto Pilgrennon's arm.
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* GroinAttack: Jananin kicks Pilgrennon in the crotch while torturing him for information.

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* GroinAttack: HumanShield: In ''Pilgrennon's Beacon'', Jananin kicks aims a rocket launcher at a helicopter that contains Pilgrennon in and Dana. Pilgrennon grabs Dana and leans out of the crotch while torturing him helicopter with her to show Jananin there are children on board. Jananin fires anyway, because her desire for information.revenge is stronger than her concern for human life.

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