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* [[Depraved Homosexual]]: And Depraved Heterosexuals, Depraved Bisexuals, Depraved Asexuals, Depraved Omnisexuals...just depravity in general.
* [[Designated Hero]]: Slothrop who spends his entire quest on various sidetracks.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The hunting of Dodos to extinction<ref>By Katje's great-something Grandfather</ref> and the <s>Nazi</s> Imperial German genocide of Hereros in <s>South Africa</s> Deutsch-Südwestafrika (now Namibia) are detailed instead of the Holocaust.
* [[Doorstopper]]: Well past the 700 pages mark in most editions.
* [[Flash Forward]]: To [[The Seventies|1970s]] Hollywood.
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* [[Groin Attack]]: What happens to Major Marvy at the hands of Muffage and Spontoon.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: ''Horribly'' applied to Gottfried.
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* [[Hooker With a Heart of Gold]]: Savagely subverted.
* [[Hot Witch]]: Geli Tripping, apprentice German witch.
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* [[Viewers Are Geniuses|Readers Are Geniuses]]
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Slothrop and The Schwarzcommandos.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]: Justified in that...well...um...what?
* [[Faux Symbolism|What Do You Mean That Comma On Page 642 Is Not Symbolic?]] More in the case of the [[Wild Mass Guessing]] around elements of the book than the author himself (see "Rule Of Symbolism")
** ''Everything'' in this book is symbolic, even when it's not.
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