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* BlemishedBeauty: [=Art3mis=] resists meeting Wade in real life because of a large birthmark on her face.
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* CapturedOnPurpose: During the campaign for the final gate, Wade's plan requires him to [[spoiler:let himself get taken into indentured servitude by IOI (under an assumed name) so that he can use secret access codes to hack the company intranet from inside and plant various traps to take down the defences they have established around the gate]].
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: The book was written and released during the Great Recession, and takes place in a world where the Recession was still going strong in the 2040s. In real life, the Recession would end within a few years of the book's publication.
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* AuthorTract: Frequent in the book. The subjects range from deriding traditional beauty (to glorify [=Art3mis=] and her “Rubenesque” figure) to the benefits of [[{{Squick}} masturbation]] to aid in thinking.
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* AuthorTract: Frequent in the book. The subjects range from deriding traditional beauty (to glorify [=Art3mis=] and her “Rubenesque” figure) to the benefits of [[{{Squick}} masturbation]] mastur]][[ADateWithRosiePalms bation]] to aid in thinking.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The Battle of Castle Anorak has at its core a matchup between, one on side [[Series/SpiderManJapan Leopardon]], [[Anime/MazingerZ Minerva X]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78]], and [[Anime/BraveRaideen Raideen]]; and on the other, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]], Anime/{{Voltron}}, and a few [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelions]] and TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}s.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The Battle of Castle Anorak has at its core a matchup between, one on side [[Series/SpiderManJapan Leopardon]], [[Anime/MazingerZ Minerva X]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam RX-78]], and [[Anime/BraveRaideen Raideen]]; Anime/{{Raideen}}; and on the other, [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]], Anime/{{Voltron}}, and a few [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelions]] and TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}s.
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* TrashyTrailerHome In the dystopian future the novel is set, [[PostPeakOil the lack of gasoline]] has forced the majority of the people to live in huge trailer parks where the trailers are (poorly) stacked onto freestanding girders. Protagonist Wade Watts lives in one of these until he gathers enough money to move to his own apartment.
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* VirtualRealityWarper: The founders of OASIS have characters that can do literally anything within the simulation. [[spoiler: After winning the contest, Wade Watts gains these capabilities and complete control of the OASIS - and some of his new powers explicitly violate clear rules of the virtual reality, such as being able to enter a private room without the knowledge or permission of its operators]].
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** However, it could be an inversion for the fact that he believed that the Sixers were all being feed the entire script via an earpiece and done none of the dialogue from memory, while Wade in the later instance, did most of the reciting of dialogue himself and only signaled his friends to feed him a line with a visual movement if he needed it. So, in short, he was upset that the Sixers that were going through the challenge didn't even bother to watch the film to the point where they could recite it by heart, while he did recite ''Holy Grail'' by heart and only got an occasional clue when needed (which reflects the Sixers non-experience due to cheating and everything being handed to them and the Gunters experience from putting in the leg work aspect of the Gunters vs. Sixer conflict, with it coming to a head with the final battle at Castle Anorak).
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: Cline did not come up with the culture and other elements out of nothing, he did research in the closest thing available pre 2011 - Second Life. The pop culture avatars and items, the dance parties, the shops where you also can buy magic items and moves all seem very familiar to anyone who delved deeper into the mmo sandbox and are quite recognizable even in the movie adaption.
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* WorldShapes: ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' and ''Franchise/Discworld'' are listed as playable planets in the OASIS.
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* TruthInTelevision: Despite living in a PostPeakOil era with repeated references to food shortages and receiving government issued food vouchers(and having to repair and pawn electronics to pay for his own food and clothes because his aunt ''steals'' the vouchers), Wade is overweight. This is actually a serious problem in TheNewTens; one ''can'' avoid starvation on inexpensive microwaved and fast food -- if one is willing to accept the ridiculous amounts of sugar and starch food manufactures use as bulk protein. The balanced diet and exercise routine Wade begins after finding the first Key is only possible due to the windfall.
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* TruthInTelevision: Despite living in a PostPeakOil era with repeated references to food shortages and receiving government issued food vouchers(and vouchers (and having to repair and pawn electronics to pay for his own food and clothes because his aunt ''steals'' the vouchers), Wade is overweight. This is actually a serious problem in TheNewTens; one ''can'' avoid starvation on inexpensive microwaved and fast food -- if one is willing to accept the ridiculous amounts of sugar and starch food manufactures use as bulk protein. The balanced diet and exercise routine Wade begins after finding the first Key is only possible due to the windfall.
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* GreenHillZone: Ludus, the first are of the OASIS that Wade has access to consists entirely of green hills.
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* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The final battle involves [[spoiler:Wade and co fighting the Sixers in mecha from [[Series/SpiderManJapan Japanese Spider-Man]] and various anime.]]
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* ArtificialGravity: Ogden's nightclub, The Distracted Globe is spherical with the walls and ceilings also being the floor and a zero-gravity dancefloor in the center.
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* PlanetSpaceship: "Moon-sized freighters" are among the larger ships that show up to attack the Sixers at the end.
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* BarbarianHero: Wade gets turned into one when doing a challenge based on ''VideoGame/BlackTiger''.
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* BarbarianHero: AutomatedAutomobiles: There are self-driving taxis called autocabs. Human driven buses still exist.
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** Wade gets turned into one when doing a challenge based on''VideoGame/BlackTiger''.''VideoGame/BlackTiger''.
** Another is Wade's first customer when he's working IOI customer service.
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* NoFairCheating: Your avatar is vulnerable to attack for a full minute after you log out of the OASIS to stop people logging out to avoid being killed.
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* {{Planetville}}: Variation in that if a planet exists to house a small area such as only one town or dungeon, it'll be covered with several hundred duplicates so multiple players can use it.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Wade's plan to [[spoiler:infiltrate IOI]] isn't explained to the reader until he's near the end of it.
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* WorldShapes: ''Literature/{{Ringworld}}'' and ''Franchise/Discworld'' are listed as playable planets in the OASIS.
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* KnowMortalKombat: Wade has mastered the arcade game Black Tiger, but while the levels are the same, his skills at playing with a controller don't help him when he must play through the game as a first person VR simulation.
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* DungeonCrawling: The first challenge Wade has to do is a recreation of ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors''.
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* DungeonCrawling: The first challenge Wade has to do is a recreation of ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors''. Later challenges recreate ''VideoGame/{{Zork}}'' and ''VideoGame/BlackTiger''.
* DungeonShop: Wade comments in the absurdness of setting up shop in a dungeon while playing ''Black Tiger''.
* DungeonShop: Wade comments in the absurdness of setting up shop in a dungeon while playing ''Black Tiger''.
* {{Sexbot}}: Wade uses to own a "Shaptic [=UberBetty=]" before he got rid of it and went back to normal masturbating.
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* JustForFun/XMeetsY: In-universe, the OASIS is virtual reality meets the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMO]].
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** ''USA Today'' called it [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Sonja]] meets ''Film/TheMatrix''.
** In-universe, the OASIS is virtual reality meets the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMO]].
** ''USA Today'' called it [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Sonja]] meets ''Film/TheMatrix''.
** In-universe, the OASIS is virtual reality meets the [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMO]].
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* IDontKnowMortalKombat: Inverted. Wade has mastered the arcade game Black Tiger, but while the levels are the same, his skills at playing with a controller don't help him when he must play through the game as a first person VR simulation.
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* IDontKnowMortalKombat: Inverted. KnowMortalKombat: Wade has mastered the arcade game Black Tiger, but while the levels are the same, his skills at playing with a controller don't help him when he must play through the game as a first person VR simulation.
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* BottomlessMagazines: A new cup gets teleported in when Wade's gun runs out of ammo but the cost gets added to a monthly bullet bill.
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* FuturisticPyramid: Replicas of the Tyrrel Building from ''Film/BladeRunner'' are one of the most common buildings in the OASIS. [[spoiler:The Second Gate can be accessed from any of them.]]
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* AntiMatter: The gunter clans pool their resources to buy two antimatter bombs off eBay to blow the Sixers' forcefield domes on Ludus.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Wade doesn't submit to Sorrento when he [[spoiler:threatens to blow up the stacks because he figures Sorrento is bluffing or will blow up the stacks anyway after he gets the information he wants so Wade can't tell the police.]]
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* TheNightThatNeverEnds: The planet Neonoir is a {{Cyberpunk}} themed world that is always nighttime.
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* NeoNoir: There is actually a planet called ''Neonoir'' in the OASIS. It's one of the oldest {{Cyberpunk}} themed world's.
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* ArtificialGravity: Ogden's nightclub is spherical with the walls and ceilings also being the floor and a zero-gravity dancefloor in the center.
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* WizardClassic: Both Halliday and Ogden Morrow have bearded wizards as their OASIS avatars.
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* RidiculousFutureSequels: There's been more ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' made but neither Halliday nor Wade like them. This trope is otherwise averted with people obsessing over 1980s media in order to find Halliday's clues.
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* RidiculousFutureSequels: RidiculousFutureSequelisation: There's been more ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' made but neither Halliday nor Wade like them. This trope is otherwise averted with people obsessing over 1980s media in order to find Halliday's clues.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: OASIS credits are shown to be used as a real-life currency; at the end, [[spoiler:half the population of the OASIS, along with their credit accounts and items they paid real money for, was wiped out]], yet there's no discussion or consideration of the economic effects of the [[spoiler:sudden disappearance of such a huge amount of lucre or whether Parzival did anything to compensate]].
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* NoEndorHolocaust: OASIS credits are shown to be used as a real-life currency; at the end, [[spoiler:half the population of the OASIS, along with their credit accounts and items they paid real money for, was wiped out]], yet there's no discussion or consideration of the economic effects of the [[spoiler:sudden disappearance of such a huge amount of lucre or whether Parzival did anything to compensate]]. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerTwo'' would later clarify that [[spoiler:after taking charge of GSS, Wade and his colleagues restored all the assets lost in the battle]].)
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** Don't judge people by their online avatar is brought up a number of times but [=Art3mis=] looks almost identical to her real-life self. [[spoiler: Zigzagged as Wade's best friend is actually a African American girl.]]
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** Don't judge people by their online avatar is brought up a number of times but [=Art3mis=] looks almost identical to her real-life self. [[spoiler: Zigzagged as Wade's best friend is actually a an African American girl.]]
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* GreenHillZone: Lidia, the first are of the OASIS that Wade has access to consists entirely of green hills.
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* GreenHillZone: Lidia, Ludus, the first are of the OASIS that Wade has access to consists entirely of green hills.
