When asked why she doesn't have it removed, she mentions she's keeping it to remind her that she's not as good a fighter as she used to be. Molly/Sally has a long one on her belly after the match that got her to retire - her wired reflexes have slowed down as she's getting older and she almost died in that fight. Then someone dug up some dirt on her and blackmailed her into one more job. Retired Badass: Molly/Sally Shears quit doing Runs and bought a German casino some time ago, and gave up her Blood Sport 'hobby' five years ago.Rags to Riches: With the real Angie Mitchell's consent, Mona goes from a hooker who has to shower at swimming pool locker rooms to becoming jet-set superstar Angie Mitchell permanently.To the point of taking her place in the sims, with only Porphyre the wiser. Magic Plastic Surgery: Mona undergoes plastic surgery that effectively turns her into a clone of Angie Mitchell.

Sally: (Shakes her head) Your old man, Kumi? He is it. Embarrassing Nickname: Sally apparently fought in illegal blood matches for a while under the name 'Misty Steele'.Disposable Sex Worker: Subverted Mona realizes that her captors consider her this, escapes, and winds up playing a significant role in the story.Camp Gay: Porphyre, Angie's hairdresser, who is no longer on speaking terms with the guy who usually plays her boyfriend.Kumiko has Petal, Mona has Prior, Angie has Swift. The Butler Did It: Almost all of the plot threads features a suspicious butler-like figure, who, shockingly, turns out to have shady motives.Also Little Bird, Slick’s racist comrade. Asshole Victim: Eddy, Mona’s abusive boyfriend/pimp.Action Girl: Molly/Sally Shears, as usual.Mona Lisa Overdrive provides examples of: Characters who return from the first two books include Angie and Bobby Newmark (from Count Zero), Molly from Neuromancer (now called Sally Shears), and the Finn, from both (well, sort of). Published in 1988, the book switches off between the interwoven stories of four different protagonists, who are each involved in a plot to kidnap famous sim-star Angie Mitchell: Mona, an innocent young prostitute Kumiko, the daughter of a Yakuza businessman, Slick Henry, an ex-convict turned junk artist and Angie herself, who has the unique power to enter the Matrix without a computer. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson is the third novel in the Sprawl Trilogy.

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