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* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]] - Subverted. {{spoiler|Sadie is disfigured and given a [[Glasgow Grin]] on one side of her face by her crazy ex-husband. She gets better by the end of the book but still retains a scar.}}

* [[Butterfly of Doom]] - The "butterfly effect" is explicitly mentioned (multiple times) in the novel. [[Ray Bradbury]] 's A Sound of Thunder is named. {{spoiler|It's impossible to make a completely positive change to the past. Positive changes will be accompanied by some negative effect--and a large enough change can [[Time Crash|unravel the very fabric of the universe]].}}

* [[Continuity Nod]] - During his stay in Derry, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, two of the "Losers Club" from ''[[IT]]''. A certain [[Monster Clown|clown]] is referenced as well.

** The number 19 crops in a few places. An example would be Jake's safe deposit box number being 775. This may make this book fit in with The Dark Tower series.

* [[Historical Domain Character]] - A chunk of the book is Epping keeping a close eye on Lee Harvey Oswald and monitoring his life and relationships with friends and family.

* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]] - Extends it to every major event in history. {{spoiler|It turns out that changing such events can and often ''will'' lead to a slow-but-certain [[Time Crash]], other nasty side effects notwithstanding. Jake finds this out the [[Bad Future|hard]] [[Crapsack World|way]].}}

* [[John F Kennedy]] - Saving him from death is the main plot point.

* [[The Mafia]] - Jake wins a few longshot bets from them to fund his time in the past. {{spoiler|It burns him when he doesn't account for their ''interstate'' connections.}}

* [[Mommy Issues]] - Oswald has these.

* [[My Beloved Smother]]

* [[Portal to The Past]] - At the back of a diner. Turns out that's where the owner is [[Mundane Utility|getting an amazing deal on meat]].

* [[Reset Button]] - Anyone who travels through the portal overwrites the actions of the previous person. {{spoiler|Zack Lang a.k.a. the Green Card Man hints that there may be a lot more work involved offstage.}}

* [[Russian Guy Suffers Most]] - Lee's Russian bride Marina certainly has it worst.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] - That's the plan at least.

* [[Shown Their Work]] - King did extensive research on what life on the 50s and even interviewed historians about what life may have been like had Kennedy not been shot.

* [[Somebody Else's Problem]] - Jake notes humorously that the broken sewer pipe never gets fixed in any of the alternate realities.

* [[What Could Have Been]] - One of King's earlier ideas for the story:

{{quote| I'd like to tell a time-travel story where this guy finds a diner that connects to 1958... you always go back to the same day. So one day he goes back and just stays. Leaves his 2007 life behind. His goal? To get up to November 22, 1963, and stop Lee Harvey Oswald. He does, and he's convinced he's just FIXED THE WORLD. But when he goes back to '07, the world's a nuclear slag-heap. Not good to fool with Father Time. So then he has to go back again and stop himself... only he's taken on a fatal dose of radiation, so it's a race against time.}}

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]] - No matter how long one spends in the past, returning through the portal dumps you two minutes after you left.