Category:Cyberpunk Tropes: Difference between revisions

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Here are tropes commonly associated with the genres [[Cyberpunk]] and [[Post Cyber Punk]], sub genres of [[Speculative Fiction]], in particular [[Urban Sci Fi]]. Both also have strong ties to [[Film Noir]] style. To read more about said genres, go ahead and visit their pages. If you want to know more about how to write one of your own, then check out [[So You Want To/Write a Cyber Punk Story|Write a Cyber Punk Story]].

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Themes And Concepts =

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]

* [[Big Brother Is Watching]]

* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]

* [[Do Androids Dream?]]

* [[Everything Is Online]]

* [[Gaia's Lament]]

* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]

* [[Machine Worship]]

* [[Police State]]

* [[Society Is to Blame]]

* [[The Singularity]]

* [[Transhuman]]ism

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]

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Settings and World=

* [[Always Night]]

* [[Black Market]]

* [[City Noir]]

* [[Coolest Club Ever]]

* [[Crap Saccharine World]]

* [[Crapsack World]]

* [[Cyberspace]]

* [[Divided States of America]]

* [[Dystopia]]

* [[Hacker Cave]]

* [[Industrial Ghetto]]

* [[Japan Takes Over the World]]

* [[Mega City]]

* [[Mega Corp]]

* [[The Metaverse]]

* [[Neo Africa]]

* [[Next Sunday A.D.]]

* [[NGO Superpower]]

* [[Nightmarish Factory]]

* [[One Nation Under Copyright]]

* [[Privately-Owned Society]]

* [[Skyscraper City]]

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]

* [[Wretched Hive]]

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Technology and Story Elements=

* [[Artificial Human]]

* [[Artificial Limbs]]

* [[Biodata]]

* [[Black Market Produce]]

* [[Brain-Computer Interface]]

* [[Brain In a Jar]]

* [[Brain Uploading]]

* [[Cyborg]]

* [[Designer Babies]]

* [[Deus Est Machina]]

* [[Dueling Hackers]]

* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]

* [[Hollywood Hacking]]

* [[Human Popsicle]]

* [[Magical Computer]]

* [[Morality Chip]]

* [[Neural Implanting]]

* [[Neural Interface]]

* [[Online Alias]]

* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]

* [[Schizo-Tech]]

* [[Sinister Surveillance]]

* [[Unusual User Interface]]

* [[Virtual Celebrity]]

* [[Virtual Ghost]]

* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]

* [[Wetware CPU]]

* [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future]]

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Character Types=

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

* [[Corporate Samurai]]

* [[The Cracker]]

* [[Evil Luddite]]

* [[Hackette]]

* [[Internal Reformist]]

* [[Playful Hacker]]

* [[Private Detective]]

* [[Salaryman]]

* [[Street Samurai]]

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Stylistic Elements=

* [[Cool Shades]]

* [[Badass Longcoat]]

* [[Cyber Goth]]

* [[Cyberpunk Is Techno]]

* [[Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain]]

* [[Film Noir]]

* [[The Future Is Noir]]

* [[Technology Porn]]

* [[Tron Lines]]

* [[Used Future]]

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