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Line 19: * [[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]].}}}} * [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Life seems to be conspiring to destroy every [[Hope Spot]] Junior encounters in his life. So ~~your~~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.}} ~~You~~He almost killed ~~yourself~~himself to find a cure for ~~your~~his father's cancer? {{spoiler\|Well, he'll fall asleep at the wheel and die before ~~you~~he get to see him again anyway.}} ~~You~~He finally convinced ~~your~~his girlfriend to escape ~~your~~his doomed planet with ~~you~~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. * [[God]]: One possible explanation for the voices. * [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: {{spoiler\|Amy}} is subjected to this because of ~~{{spoiler\|her}}~~the character's ties to a suspected terrorist. * [[New Old Flame]]: Amy. Over and over. * [[The Nothing After Death]]: Implied to be the truth.