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* [[Depopulation Bomb]] / [[Doomsday Device]]: At face value, the Killotron is a device which inexplicably kills all human life in the universe. {{spoiler|However, with the proper preparations, it can be used to prune off alternate quantum possibilities and thus control entropy. The upshot of this is that proper use of the Killotron can apparently result in Utopia.}}
* [[Easter Egg]]: [http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/41.html Page 41] and [http://www.shigabooks.com/interactive/meanwhile/47.html page 47]. There are links (tabs) that go to these pages, but none of them are reachable from the start.
** {{spoiler|Also the alternate ending, an infinite loop hidden in plain sight on one page spread. In it, Jimmy finds Ultima, a Utopian world free of entropy. On this note, during the argument between Jimmy and his past self, there is one panel that cannot ever be reached normally where one of the two Jimmies says "Ultima" for no apparent reason. This is potentially a clue to the above-mentioned alternate ending for those who know what it's a [[Shout -Out]] to (see below).}}
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Mundane Utility]]: The Doomsday Machine also makes ice cream.
** It controls entropy, which allows it to reconfigure matter. {{spoiler|[[Bokurano|And it destroys entire parallel worlds to do so.]]}}
* [[Shout -Out]]: {{spoiler|Ultima (see [[Easter Egg]] above) is a reference to the [[Easter Egg]] of the same name in the [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] book Inside UFO 54-40. The Ultimas of both books are utopias that can only be reached one way: cheating.}}
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Jimmy used the time machine to go back in time and raise his younger self as his own son. This is not quite a [[Stable Time Loop]] in that he also prevented his younger self from using the SQUID to implant himself with his father's memories, therefore ensuring that he himself never came into existence. Of course, by this point, the universe's failure to [[Time Crash|implode properly]] is the least of the world's problems.}}
* [[Time Machine]]