History YMMV / DeceptionPoint

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sexton demonstrates himself to be beyond forgiveness when he shows indifference to the fact that his daughter is in danger while he prepares to turn the evidence of the meteorite forgery public, thus destroying Herney's reputation. And when Gabrielle asks him what if she gets killed, what is his reply? "''Then she will cement my sympathy vote''."]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sexton not caring that his daughter is in danger while he prepares to turn the evidence of the meteorite forgery public, thus destroying Herney's reputation. And when Gabrielle asks him what if she gets killed, what is his reply? "''Then she will cement my sympathy vote''."]]

** Lawrence Ekstrom, Christopher, and the rest of NASA's about 15,000 civil servant workforce:{{Corrupt Bureaucrat}}s who would lie to the general public for the 110,000 annual salary while earthbound humanity by savaging any private industries attempting to get human off the planet. Plus, trying to start up World War III.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - It is a common myth among the general American public and politicians that UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} receives '''a lot''' of support from the general public. The reality is a bit complicated - a majority of Americans do supports space exploration, but a majority of that majority also support abolishing NASA [[note]] the number changed with time thought, in Apollo era [[http://www.academia.edu/179045/_Public_Opinion_Polls_and_Perceptions_of_US_Human_Spaceflight_ the public was not in support of NASA]], but it increased in 1997. A [[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-gallup-poll-reveals-americans-continue-to-strongly-support-space-exploration-57138912.html 2006 poll]] shows somewhat the same result. When the news of success from the private industries sinks in (their message in 2004: [[http://www.phaster.com/snapshots/space_ship_one_frame28.jpg "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero"]], which translates to "DEFUND NASA NOW"), the public turned against NASA: [[http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/07/24/polls-suggest-support-for-space-exploration-but-not-bigger-budgets/ 58% want it gone in 2011]] [[/note]]. This is the world of Deception Point and real life. Therefore, it is likely that a majority Americans (in universe and maybe in real life) would view these people as:[[note]]subjective tropes shouldn't be used in real life, but politics is all making people associate these tropes to various politician. Besides, this is a work of fiction and we are in YMMV[[/note]]

** Lawrence Ekstrom, Christopher, and the rest of NASA's about 15,000 civil servant workforce :{{Corrupt Bureaucrat}}s who would lie to the general public for the 110,000 annual salary while earthbound humanity by savaging any private industries attempting to get human off the planet. Plus trying to start up World War III.

** William Pickering: A misguided [[MyCountryRightOrWrong intelligence officer]] who would ignore the future of humanity and disregard his daughter's death just for the sake of nostalgia. For those who interpret that William Pickering secretly wants to defund NASA, it's {{The Extremist was Right}}.

** Rachael Sexton: [[AbusiveParent Past]] have rob her of logic, so she ended up helping the Big Bad.
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Sexton not caring that his daughter is in danger while he prepares to turn the evidence of the meteorite forgery public, thus destroying Herney's reputation. And when Gabrielle asks him what if she gets killed, what is his reply? "''Then she will cement my sympathy vote''."]]

* CompleteMonster: Senator Sexton is so cartoonishly evil he makes Duke Igthorn from ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' look like a complex villain.

* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:Sexton not caring that his daughter is in danger while he prepares to turn the evidence of the meteorite forgery public, thus destroying Herney's reputation. And when Gabrielle asks him what if she gets killed, what is his reply? "''Then she will cement my sympathy vote''."]]
* RelationshipSue - Michael, who is good looking, famous, well spoken, and nice serves very little purpose other than for Rachel to become interested in. This is especially glaring since all of the other scientists are average looking at best, unsociable, crass, and generally unpleasant.
** Justified in that he ''does'' run a TV show, and TV hosts in general are expected to be comely and affable.

* RelationshipSue - Michael, who is good looking, famous, well spoken, and nice serves very little purpose other than for Rachel to become interested in. This is especially glaring since all of the other scientists are average looking at best, unsociable, crass, and generally unpleasant.

** Sedgewick Sexton: A {{Hero with Bad Publicity}} politician - somewhat. Sure, he is [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero racist]] and abusive, but at lease he is trying to reform the government. But the "racist" part along would net him a huge flame war on media - just [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed like]] {{Ron Paul}}.

** William Pickering: A misguided [[MycountryRightOrWrong intelligence officer]] who would ignore the future of humanity and disregard his daughter's death just for the sake of nostalgia. For those who interpret that William Pickering secretly wants to defund NASA, it's {{The Extremist was Right}}.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - It is a common myth among the general American public and politicians that {{NASA}} receives '''a lot''' of support from the general public. The reality is a bit complicated - a majority of Americans do supports space exploration, but a majority of that majority also support abolishing NASA [[note]] the number changed with time thought, in Apollo era [[http://www.academia.edu/179045/_Public_Opinion_Polls_and_Perceptions_of_US_Human_Spaceflight_ the public was not in support of NASA]], but it increased in 1997. A [[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-gallup-poll-reveals-americans-continue-to-strongly-support-space-exploration-57138912.html 2006 poll]] shows somewhat the same result. When the news of success from the private industries sinks in (their message in 2004: [[http://www.phaster.com/snapshots/space_ship_one_frame28.jpg "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero"]], which translates to "DEFUND NASA NOW"), the public turned against NASA: [[http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/07/24/polls-suggest-support-for-space-exploration-but-not-bigger-budgets/ 58% want it gone in 2011]] [[/note]]. This is the world of Deception Point and real life. Therefore, it is likely that a majority Americans (in universe and maybe in real life) would view these people as:[[note]]subjective tropes shouldn't be used in real life, but politics is all making people associate these tropes to various politician. Besides, this is a work of fiction and we are in YMMV[[/note]]

* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:Sexton not caring that his daughter is in danger while he prepares to turn the evidence of the meteorite forgery public, thus destroying Herney's reputation. And when Gabrielle asks him what if she gets killed, what is his reply? "''[[CompleteMonster Then she will cement my sympathy vote]]''."]]

* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler: Senator Sedgewick Sexton. See MoralEventHorizon below for details.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation - It is a common myth among the general American public and politicians that {{NASA}} receives '''a lot''' of support from the general public. The reality is a bit complicated - a majority of Americans do supports space exploration, but a majority of that majority also support abolishing NASA [[note]] the number changed with time thought, in Apollo era [[http://www.academia.edu/179045/_Public_Opinion_Polls_and_Perceptions_of_US_Human_Spaceflight_ the public was not in support of NASA]], but it increased in 1997. A [[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-gallup-poll-reveals-americans-continue-to-strongly-support-space-exploration-57138912.html 2006 poll]] shows somewhat the same result. When the news of success from the private industries sinks in (their message in 2004: [[http://www.phaster.com/snapshots/space_ship_one_frame28.jpg "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero"]], which translates to "DEFUND NASA NOW"), the public turned against NASA: [[http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/07/24/polls-suggest-support-for-space-exploration-but-not-bigger-budgets/ 58% want it gone in 2011]] [[/note]]. This is the world of Deception Point and real life. Therefore, it is likely that a majority Americans (in universe and maybe in real life) would view these people as:[[hottip:*: subjective tropes shouldn't be used in real life, but politics is all making people associate these tropes to various politician. Besides, this is a work of fiction and we are in YMMV]]

* {{Narm}} - The sentence below makes Senator Sexton look like an overblown evil parody of right-wing politicians rather than just the evil right-wing politician he's supposed to be.