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* [[An Aesop]]: The main conflict comes from Junior, knowing what he knows, attempting to answer the [[Driving Question|question]] "Does anything I do matter?" {{spoiler|The answer is ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|yes]]''.}}
* [[An Aesop]]: The main conflict comes from Junior, knowing what he knows, attempting to answer the [[Driving Question|question]] "Does anything I do matter?" {{spoiler|The answer is ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|yes]]''.}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|"Listen: ''Everything ends, and Everything matters.'' Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but ''because'' of it. Everything is all you've got [...] it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the [[The Nothing After Death|one dreadful alternative]].}}}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|"Listen: ''Everything ends, and Everything matters.'' Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but ''because'' of it. Everything is all you've got [...] it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the [[The Nothing After Death|one dreadful alternative]].}}}}
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Life seems to be conspiring to destroy every [[Hope Spot]] Junior encounters in his life. So your druggie brother finally starts to get clean? {{spoiler|Oops, the drugs addled his brain. He'll live, but with the mentality of a child.}} You almost killed yourself to find a cure for your father's cancer? {{spoiler|Well, he'll fall asleep at the wheel and die before you get to see him again anyway.}} You finally convinced your girlfriend to escape your doomed planet with you? {{spoiler|She's going to be shot by terrorists a page later.}} Also applies to other characters, like the man who lost his legs to [[Death by Sex|rug burn]].
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Life seems to be conspiring to destroy every [[Hope Spot]] Junior encounters in his life. So his druggie brother finally starts to get clean? {{spoiler|Oops, the drugs addled his brain. He'll live, but with the mentality of a child.}} He almost killed himself to find a cure for his father's cancer? {{spoiler|Well, he'll fall asleep at the wheel and die before he get to see him again anyway.}} He finally convinced his girlfriend to escape his doomed planet with him? {{spoiler|She's going to be shot by terrorists a page later.}} Also applies to other characters, like the man who lost his legs to [[Death by Sex|rug burn]].
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: The Destroyer of Worlds.
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: The Destroyer of Worlds.
* [[God]]: One possible explanation for the voices.
* [[God]]: One possible explanation for the voices.
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: {{spoiler|Amy}} is subjected to this because of {{spoiler|her}} ties to a suspected terrorist.
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: {{spoiler|Amy}} is subjected to this because of the character's ties to a suspected terrorist.
* [[New Old Flame]]: Amy. Over and over.
* [[New Old Flame]]: Amy. Over and over.
* [[The Nothing After Death]]: Implied to be the truth.
* [[The Nothing After Death]]: Implied to be the truth.
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