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====Rampancy====
====Rampancy====
The world [[wiktionary:rampant|rampant]] had existed before Bungie, but the specific concept of [[rampancy]] was coined and subsequently [[wikipedia:Marathon_Trilogy#Motifs|developed by the Marathon team]]. The three/four stages of a rampant (abnormally self-aware) AI are Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy, Meta-Stability. The tirades of the Deadly Brain are a reference to this, as well as Shinatama's "Clearly, it's gone rampant".
The world [[wiktionary:rampant|rampant]] had existed before Bungie, but the specific concept of rampancy was coined and subsequently [[wikipedia:Marathon_Trilogy#Motifs|developed by the Marathon team]]. The three/four stages of a rampant (abnormally self-aware) AI are Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy, Meta-Stability. The tirades of the Deadly Brain are a reference to this, as well as Shinatama's "Clearly, it's gone rampant".
;From [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/newjan-feb01.html here]...
;From [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/newjan-feb01.html here]...
:''A very blatant Marathon reference in Oni. In level 2 (see http://oni.bungie.org/res/) you have to fight a "[[Deadly Brain]]". It is a human brain hooked up to a computer. As you disable it, it tries to leave its intranet. At one point [[Shinatama]] says that "Clearly, it's gone rampant...".
:''A very blatant Marathon reference in Oni. In level 2 (see http://oni.bungie.org/res/) you have to fight a "[[Deadly Brain]]". It is a human brain hooked up to a computer. As you disable it, it tries to leave its intranet. At one point [[Shinatama]] says that "Clearly, it's gone rampant...".