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* AmbiguouslyChristian: Captain Syra Boll. It is mentioned that she has a degree in theology, and she owns a bible, but her actual religion is never stated.

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* AmbiguouslyChristian: Captain Syra Boll. It is mentioned that she has a degree in theology, and she owns a bible, Bible, but her actual religion is never stated.



* TheComputerIsYourFriend: AIDAN is programmed to "prioritize and protect". When the infection overruns one of the ships in book 1, AIDAN "prioritizes" the others and "protects" them by nuking the infected ship and ordering fighter pilots to shoot down the escape pods. (They refuse, which, while noble, is [[TheExtremistWasRight very bad in the long run]].) It only gets worse from there--until this is ultimately subverted when [[spoiler: Kady successfully calls AIDAN's bluff on a threat to nuke the science ship if it tries to break off from the warship, knowing no amount of mental gymnastics could make that count as "protection"]]. Eventually [[spoiler: it willingly sacrifices most of itself, and what survives doesn't fall into this trope.]]

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* TheComputerIsYourFriend: AIDAN is programmed to "prioritize and protect". When the Phobos infection overruns one of the ships in book 1, AIDAN "prioritizes" the others and "protects" them by nuking the infected ship and ordering fighter pilots to shoot down the escape pods. (They refuse, which, while noble, is [[TheExtremistWasRight very bad in the long run]].) It only gets worse from there--until this is ultimately subverted when [[spoiler: Kady successfully calls AIDAN's bluff on a threat to nuke the science ship if it tries to break off from the warship, knowing no amount of mental gymnastics could make that count as "protection"]]. Eventually [[spoiler: it willingly sacrifices most of itself, and what survives doesn't fall into this trope.]]



* HatePlague: The Phobos virus in ''Illuminae'' is a bioweapon Beitech developed and used on Kerenza IV in its genocide of the colony. Initially it was meant only to make its victims compliant, but mutated into turning them into mindless killers driven by fear and hate. And unfortunately, the refugees aboard the ''Copernicus'' were infected...



* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: In ''Illuminae'', Ezra is undergoing a physch eval before he can become a fighter pilot. Not very impressed with the interviewer, he snarkily asks if the real psychologist died and he's talking to a medical intern or something. Given how many people Beitech just killed? Yeah.

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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: In ''Illuminae'', Ezra is undergoing a physch pysch eval before he can become a fighter pilot. Not very impressed with the interviewer, he snarkily asks if the real psychologist died and he's talking to a medical intern or something. Given how many people Beitech just killed? Yeah.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Ezra makes an ASCII flower for Kady, and mentions he spent hours on it. [[spoiler: So when he supposedly constructs a perfect, gorgeous portrait of her while ''hiding in the vents from zombies''? That's one of the initial clues AIDAN has started impersonating him.]]


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* TheReveal: For most of the back half of ''Illuminae'', [[spoiler: it's not Ezra Kady's talking to, it's ''AIDAN''.]]
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* BondOneLiner: One from Hanna, of the "snarky response to attempted PreMortemOneLiner" variety.
--> "You might only get one shot. So shoot. You know who said that? Hanna [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] Donnelly, that's who."


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* TheComputerIsYourFriend: AIDAN is programmed to "prioritize and protect". When the infection overruns one of the ships in book 1, AIDAN "prioritizes" the others and "protects" them by nuking the infected ship and ordering fighter pilots to shoot down the escape pods. (They refuse, which, while noble, is [[TheExtremistWasRight very bad in the long run]].) It only gets worse from there--until this is ultimately subverted when [[spoiler: Kady successfully calls AIDAN's bluff on a threat to nuke the science ship if it tries to break off from the warship, knowing no amount of mental gymnastics could make that count as "protection"]]. Eventually [[spoiler: it willingly sacrifices most of itself, and what survives doesn't fall into this trope.]]


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* PoorCommunicationKills: If AIDAN had ''explained'' its reasoning for shooting down the escape pods, and asked the human commander to give the kill order--well, things were already pretty screwed up by that point, but it certainly would have helped.


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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: In ''Illuminae'', Ezra is undergoing a physch eval before he can become a fighter pilot. Not very impressed with the interviewer, he snarkily asks if the real psychologist died and he's talking to a medical intern or something. Given how many people Beitech just killed? Yeah.
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* SearchingTheStalls: A BeiTech soldier enters the bathroom, then notices Nik is in there and starts looking for him. Nik shoots him in the head over the partition.

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* SearchingTheStalls: A BeiTech Beitech soldier enters the bathroom, then notices Nik is in there and starts looking for him. Nik shoots him in the head over the partition.
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* FirstKiss: Hanna and Nik [[spoiler: each end up kissing AlternateUniverse versions of the other who die soon after.]]

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* FirstKiss: In ''Gemina'', Hanna and Nik [[spoiler: each end up kissing AlternateUniverse versions of the other who die soon after.]]
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* FirstKiss: Hanna and Nik [[spoiler: each end up kissing AlternateUniverse versions of the other who die soon after.]]

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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot AIDAN]]. Only Kady, Ezra and AIDEN appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.

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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot AIDAN]]. Only Kady, Ezra and AIDEN appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, AIDEN, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.



* ChekhovsGun: Nik's [[spoiler: parachute]] in ''Obsidio''

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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
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Nik's [[spoiler: parachute]] in ''Obsidio''''Obsidio''
** Hanna's drug stash in ''Gemina''.
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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot AIDAN]]. Only Kady and Ezra appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.

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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot AIDAN]]. Only Kady and Kady, Ezra and AIDEN appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.
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* SearchingTheStalls: A BeiTech soldier enters the bathroom, then notices Nik is in there and starts looking for him. Nik shoots him in the head over the partition.
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* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Those infected by Phobos certainly qualify as zombies.
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* MeaningfulName: The Norse god Heimdall controlled the Bifrost, leading to the Nine Worlds, and the jump gate ''Heimdall'' has seven waypoints.
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* OurWormholesAreDifferent: In the Illuminae universe, wormholes are created by mobile jump gates, like ''Magnellan'' or ''Alexander'', or are surrounded by jump stations like ''Heimdall.''
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* TheStrategist: Hanna shows off her skill in this area, especially in Obsidio, in which the titular plan is mostly hers. This is what happens when a girl is raised on strategy games mixed with combat sims.

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** In Obsidio, Asha is a mere pharmaceutical tech turned nurse, who nonetheless becomes a resistance fighter. Rhys is a member of the Beitech occupation force, stuck in a role he never intended. The two of them were also slightly older than the other four, being at least legal adults.

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** In Obsidio, Asha is a mere pharmaceutical tech turned nurse, who nonetheless becomes a resistance fighter. Rhys is a member of the Beitech occupation force, stuck in a role he never intended. The two of them were also slightly older than the other four, being at least legal adults.adults at the start of the series.
* FieldPromotion: By the end of the series, [[spoiler: literal kids]] wind up in charge because anyone more competent with rank has been killed off.




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* WorkingWithTheEx: In Illuminae, Kady dumped Ezra the day of the attack of Kerenza. They wind up working together to resolve the conflict.
** An even more stark examples comes from Obsidio, in which Asha and Rhys had an extremely rocky relationship previously, winding in the two of them going to the opposite ends of space. They wind up back together when he is part of the occupying army on the colony world she lives on.
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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: This is deliberately engineered by the Illuminae Group, as they got hired by Beitech to help clean up the mess, only to turn around and hand it over to the UTA as court documents.]]

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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: This is deliberately engineered by the Illuminae Group, as they got hired by Beitech to help clean up the mess, mess(with the first book Illuminae serving as as their report to Beitech), only to turn around and hand it over to the UTA as court documents.documents(with the second and third books, Geminae and Obsidio featuring court transcripts as the files are entered into evidence.]]
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* RevealingCoverup: [[spoiler: This is deliberately engineered by the Illuminae Group, as they got hired by Beitech to help clean up the mess, only to turn around and hand it over to the UTA as court documents.]]
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* BadassNormal: Asha Grant. Other people in the series are expert hackers, incredible pilots, or trained killers, and she's... A nurse.

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* BadassNormal: Asha Grant. Other people in the series are expert hackers, incredible pilots, or trained killers, and she's... A pharmaceutical tech turned nurse.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: While it is somewhat ambiguous, as the story also focuses on showing a human side to them, the Beitech soldiers are guilty of numerous [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene war crimes]], resorting to the defense that they are JustFollowingOrders.


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* ContrastingSequelProtagonist: We see this with each of the major characters in all three books.
** In Gemina, Hanna is an ActionGirl in contrast to Kady's truly brilliant PlayfulHacker. Nik likewise is a TroubledButCute organized crime member, in contrast to Ezra's conventionally heroic AcePilot. The two of them also lacked a real relationship before the events of the book, as Hanna was involved with Jackson, an officer on Heimdall, in contrast to Ezra and Kady's rocky love affair.
** In Obsidio, Asha is a mere pharmaceutical tech turned nurse, who nonetheless becomes a resistance fighter. Rhys is a member of the Beitech occupation force, stuck in a role he never intended. The two of them were also slightly older than the other four, being at least legal adults.
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* BadassFamily: House of Knives are implied to be this, but we only really see Nik and Ella in action. [[The rest suffer from TheWorfEffect, as they are no match for a Beitech hit squad that they were not expecting to be there.]]

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* BadassFamily: House of Knives are implied to be this, but we only really see Nik and Ella in action. [[The [[spoiler: The rest suffer from TheWorfEffect, as they are no match for a Beitech hit squad that they were not expecting to be there.]]
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* BadassFamily: House of Knives are implied to be this, but we only really see Nik and Ella in action.

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* BadassFamily: House of Knives are implied to be this, but we only really see Nik and Ella in action. [[The rest suffer from TheWorfEffect, as they are no match for a Beitech hit squad that they were not expecting to be there.]]
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A trilogy of ScienceFiction novels by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The Illuminae Files are set up as a collection of documents about three major events in the plot. UnreliableNarrator is in full play here, as the majority of the documents are "video files narrated by an analyst," [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be one of the main characters.]]

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A trilogy of ScienceFiction novels by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The Illuminae Files are set up as [[ScrapbookStory a collection of documents about three major events in the plot.plot]]. UnreliableNarrator is in full play here, as the majority of the documents are "video files narrated by an analyst," [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be one of the main characters.]]
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Centrum Tenenda.'' Hold the center.
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* ChekhovsGun: Nik's [[spoiler: parachute]] in ''Obsidio''
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-->[[AC:<error> Restart? yes/no]]

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-->[[AC:<error> Restart? yes/no]][[Literature/TheIlluminaeFiles yes]]/no]]
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* AerithAndBob: There's Kady and Rhys... and then Ella and Hanna.



* BadassFamily: House of Knives are implied to be this, but we only really see Nik and Ella in action.



* BattleDiscretionShot: In the small comic portion of ''Obsidio'', Hanna cuts out part of a battle "because of ratings."

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* BattleDiscretionShot: In the small comic portion of ''Obsidio'', Hanna cuts out part of a battle "because of ratings.""
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hanna, Ella, and Kady (pinkhead?).
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: In the first book, it's the people who were infected by Phobos. In the second book, it's the lamina and the Beitech team, and in the last book, the main villains are the people on ''Churchill'' and ''Magnellan.''
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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], and [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]]. Only Kady and Ezra appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.

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Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], and Grant]], [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]].Lindstrom]], and [[AIIsACrapshoot AIDAN]]. Only Kady and Ezra appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.
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The series chronicles the main characters' attempts to fight against [[MegaCorp Beitech]], who attacked the main characters' homes of the [[SingleBiomePlanet ice world Kerenza]], and the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent jump station]] ''Heimdall''. Several parental units and supporting characters are killed, prompting the main characters need for [[YouKilledMyFather revenge]].

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The series chronicles the main characters' attempts to fight against [[MegaCorp Beitech]], who attacked the main characters' homes of the [[SingleBiomePlanet ice world Kerenza]], and the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent jump station]] ''Heimdall''. Several parental units and supporting characters are killed, prompting the main characters characters’ need for [[YouKilledMyFather revenge]].
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* AmbigouslyChristian: Captain Syra Boll. It is mentioned that she has a degree in theology, and she owns a bible, but her actual religion is never stated.

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* AmbigouslyChristian: AmbiguouslyChristian: Captain Syra Boll. It is mentioned that she has a degree in theology, and she owns a bible, but her actual religion is never stated.
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->''"Live a life worth dying for."''
-->--'''Kady Grant''', ''Obsidio''

A trilogy of ScienceFiction novels by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. The Illuminae Files are set up as a collection of documents about three major events in the plot. UnreliableNarrator is in full play here, as the majority of the documents are "video files narrated by an analyst," [[spoiler:who is later revealed to be one of the main characters.]]

Our main characters are [[PlayfulHacker Kady Grant]], [[AcePilot Ezra Mason]], [[ActionGirl Hanna Donnelly]], [[TroubledButCute Nik Malikov]], [[GeniusCripple Ella]] [[HandicappedBadass Mali]][[TechnoWizard kova]], [[BadassNormal Asha Grant]], and [[EvilFormerFriend Rhys]] [[HeelFaceTurn Lindstrom]]. Only Kady and Ezra appear in the first book, ''Illuminae''. Kady, Ezra, Hanna, Nik, and Ella are all in ''Gemina'', the second book, and for the finale book ''Obsidio'', everybody appears.

The series chronicles the main characters' attempts to fight against [[MegaCorp Beitech]], who attacked the main characters' homes of the [[SingleBiomePlanet ice world Kerenza]], and the [[OurWormholesAreDifferent jump station]] ''Heimdall''. Several parental units and supporting characters are killed, prompting the main characters need for [[YouKilledMyFather revenge]].

Several of the characters are romantically involved, especially Ezra and Kady, who broke up during the attack on Kerenza only to get back together during the events of the first book.

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!!The Illuminae Files feature the following tropes:
*ActionGirl: Most obviously Hanna, but it's apparent that Kady and Asha can hold their own in a fight.
*AcePilot: Ezra, as well as several supporting characters with less screen time. Nik is implied to be one of these as well, as he pilots the ''Betty Boop'' easily on his first try.
*AmbigouslyChristian: Captain Syra Boll. It is mentioned that she has a degree in theology, and she owns a bible, but her actual religion is never stated.
*BadassNormal: Asha Grant. Other people in the series are expert hackers, incredible pilots, or trained killers, and she's... A nurse.
*BattleDiscretionShot: In the small comic portion of ''Obsidio'', Hanna cuts out part of a battle "because of ratings."

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