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* [[The Swear Jar]]: Every time you curse, a machine pops out a ticket. Do it enough, [[Disproportionate Retribution|it calls the cops]]. Unless you're already a cop, of course. When Spartan can't figure out the "[[Noodle Implements|three]] [[Running Gag|seashells]]", he swears at the machine until it gives him enough tickets to use as toilet paper.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: While nonviolent, all the San Angelinos are this by default since, as Lenina points out, the society can only exist because of the cryo-prison. Note that even before San Angeles evolved, it was possible to get a life sentence to cryo-prison, no rehab, no parole... effectively a death sentence with the technicality of the person not actually dying. Add to that, anyone sentenced before San Angeles was established is effectively auto-denied parole and has their sentence commuted to life, meaning that anyone who went in for ''any'' reason, despite having served their sentence and having been rehabbed, effectively sentencing them to death for no longer fitting in.
** The Scraps are a sort of inversion. While they appear threatening and have weapons (including guns) and want to be seen as tough and threatening, they seem really uninterested in hurting anybody. Edgar could have blown a barn door in Spartan's chest at the Taco Bell with no risk to himself, and instead elects to retreat. Apparently most of their "violence" involves graffiti.
* [[Terminator Twosome]]: Inverted, in that both time-travelling warriors go from the present into the future.
* [[These Hands Have Killed]], followed immediately by [[I Did What I Had to Do]]:
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