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* TradingBarsForStripes: [[spoiler: At the end, it is revealed that every member of Breach is someone who had performed a major breach in the past. By the end, Borlú finds himself in this number. He even realizes that there is no way he could go back to being just a citizen of one city, his perception is too far changed.]]
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* OverlaidSocieties: The book is about two cities that exist in the same place, whose inhabitants have trained themselves to "unsee" whichever city they're not currently in.
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* CultureEqualsCostume: Besźel and Ul Qoma have different styles of dress and national colors used for buildings and decoration, which make it easy to tell who is in your city and who isn't. These different styles are rigidly enforced to prevent breaching. It becomes tricky when dealing with the small enclaves in each city composed of immigrants from the other city, since their restaurants selling 'home' food need to be decorated to match their ancestry as part of the tourist experience, but not so much that they actually look like they're still ''in'' their old city.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The killer slaps a thick coating of makeup on Mahalia's face before her body is dumped in the hopes that she will be mistaken for a prostitute when discovered. Conversation indicates that the Besźel police do not historically have a solid track record in investigating crimes against prostitutes, and even after noting that they have "come a long way" Borlú still expects a lot of his support to disappear once it is ''official'' that the body is a sex worker. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out that the victim ''isn't'' a sex worker]], and things get significantly more complicated.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The killer slaps a thick coating of makeup on Mahalia's face before her body is dumped in the hopes that she will be mistaken for a prostitute when discovered. Conversation indicates that the Besźel police do not historically have a solid track record in investigating crimes against prostitutes, and even after noting that they have "come a long way" Borlú still expects a lot of his support to disappear once it is ''official'' that the body is a sex worker. [[SubvertedTrope It turns out that the victim ''isn't'' isn't a sex worker]], and things get significantly more complicated.
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* NewWeird: With hints of MagicalRealism - there's something definitely ''off'' about Breach and characters often report them seeming supernatural. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Whether this is down to perception or actual supernatural ability]], however, is seemingly left up to the reader's imagination.
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* NewWeird: With hints of MagicalRealism - there's something definitely ''off'' about Breach and characters often report them seeming supernatural. supernatural, and the artefacts dug up in Ul Qoma are also thought to be somehow magical. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Breach really ''isn't'' magical - their seemingly supernatural abilities actually come from their exploitation of the characters' blind spots, much as Orciny is rumoured to do. That said, Breach are still quite strange and alien, but that can be put down to what occupying both cities simultaneously does to a person's psyche. [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Whether this is down to perception or actual supernatural ability]], The artefacts, however, is seemingly left up to the reader's imagination.are unaccounted for.]]]]
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* ForWantOfANail: [[spoiler:Bowden had intended to dispose of Mahalia's body in a canal, weighing the corpse down with junk metal, but ironically enough, Bowden's map was out-of-date, and so Mahalia's body ended up being disposed of in a skate park that had been built in the meantime.]]
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Borlú theorizes that what finally drove [[spoiler:Bowden to murder Mahalia]] was that she did not come to him to accuse him or harangue him, but instead to ''warn'' him. When he realized that she thought ''he'' had been tricked, that she never even considered that he was behind everything, drove him over the edge after so many decades of being scoffed at by the public.
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* DontYouDarePityMe: Borlú theorizes that what finally drove [[spoiler:Bowden to murder Mahalia]] was that she did not come to him to accuse him or harangue him, but instead to ''warn'' him. When he realized that she thought ''he'' had been tricked, that she never even considered that he was behind everything, it drove him over the edge after so many decades of being scoffed at by the public.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The killer slaps a thick coating of makeup on Mahalia's face before her body is dumped in the hopes that she will be mistaken for a prostitute when discovered. Conversation indicates that the Besźel police do not historically have a solid track record in investigating crimes against prostitutes, and even after noting that they have "come a long way" Borlú still expects a lot of his support to disappear once it is ''official'' that the body is a sex worker. [[ SubvertedTrope It turns out that the victim ''isn't'' a sex worker]], and things get significantly more complicated.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The killer slaps a thick coating of makeup on Mahalia's face before her body is dumped in the hopes that she will be mistaken for a prostitute when discovered. Conversation indicates that the Besźel police do not historically have a solid track record in investigating crimes against prostitutes, and even after noting that they have "come a long way" Borlú still expects a lot of his support to disappear once it is ''official'' that the body is a sex worker. [[ SubvertedTrope It turns out that the victim ''isn't'' a sex worker]], and things get significantly more complicated.
