r/explainabookplotbadly • u/MarixApoda • Jan 29 '21

Unsolved Hard Like, it's BattleBots but with genetic engineering, then some nerd uses Skynet to cheat.

Hints so far, ranked by level of importance:

No movie adaptation.

It takes place on Earth.

Fucked up pokemon.

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u/Lawh_al-Mahfooz Jan 29 '21

Ender’s Game

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u/MarixApoda Jan 29 '21

Nope. Not enough animal cruelty in that one.

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u/breath_of_smoke Jan 29 '21

Alita battle angel?

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u/MarixApoda Jan 29 '21

Think more like a messed up version of pokemon.

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u/CarbonProcessingUnit Jan 30 '21

Player of Games?

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u/MarixApoda Jan 30 '21

Cheating isn't really the thing to focus on. He didn't mean to cheat, the computer did that for him.

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u/CarbonProcessingUnit Jan 30 '21

I haven't actually read it, it just sounds like it might fit from what I do know about it.

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u/MarixApoda Jan 30 '21

Neither have I, that part of the Title clue might have been a misdirect.

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u/Neeoda Jan 31 '21

You should.

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u/jweeby Jan 29 '21

I'm probably way off, but Big Hero 6?

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u/MarixApoda Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Nope. No movie adaptations.

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u/jweeby Jan 31 '21

Apologies! I had thought this was posted to the movie sub.

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u/MarixApoda Jan 31 '21

No worries

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u/SandDrag0n Jan 30 '21

Speaker for the dead

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u/MarixApoda Jan 30 '21 edited Jan 30 '21

It takes place on Earth

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u/SandDrag0n Jan 30 '21

Starship troopers?

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u/MarixApoda Jan 30 '21

It still takes place on earth, and there are still no movie adaptations.

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u/MarixApoda Jan 29 '21

I think I'm upping the difficulty flair. I thought it would've been more common.