Extras has an interesting twist on this.In Extras, Aya, Hiro, Ren, Miki, Udzir and Jai/Kai/Lai/Ai are all names contrasting with Eden Maru, Nana Love and Frizz.This is very much on purpose, as the last two are the only characters born outside the city. Aerith and Bob: Tally, Zane, Peris, Fausto, Ho, Az, Tachs.David and Andrew Simpson Smith.

Arc Words: 'Informed consent.' Also, 'Special Circumstances'.Animated Tattoo: In Pretties and Specials, Tally and the Cutters have facial tattoos that pulse with their heart rate.Cable killing Az, and Maddy having to rebuild her research from scratch. Even so, they're hampered by Tally accidentally betraying them, Dr. Maddy and Az do their best to avert this, since they studied the lesions and realize what it would mean to forcibly receive said lesions.The adults that avert this - the museum guard, the ones driving the helicopter, are the ones who need their brains for the jobs they have.Justified for most of the adults in the series that come off this way due to the lesions that make them into vapid Pretties. Tally's parents are on the vapid side and encourage her to do what Dr.We also have the Sly Girls in Extras and Frey in Impostors. It's also implied that Maddy was somewhat one before David was born. Action Girl: Tally Youngblood, Shay, Aya Fuse, and Eden Maru.In 2020, however, it was reported that the first book in the series will be adapted as a Netflix film, with Joey King in the starring role. The series was first optioned as a film franchise as early as 2006 but has been in Development Hell since then. There is also a spin-off series called Impostors.

Nothing is wrong with the world-or so it seems.Ī quick summary of the books can be found here. The people of the world live under a caste system: once they turn sixteen, teenagers are given operations to become 'Pretties,' beautiful, popular youths who can do what they want all day and night in New Pretty Town. Indeed, at first glance, this future seems to be a better place: clothes can be recycled on the spot, the environment is in better shape, and no one goes hungry. The series is set in the future, three hundred years after a petroleum-destroying bacteria and genetically modified orchids went out of control, leaving the humans of the world to rethink their destructive ways. Uglies is the collective name given to a series of books by Scott Westerfeld:

Specials uglies series