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* [[Unstuck in Time]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: There are a couple parts of the book that were based on Vonnegut's own experiences, such as the descriptions of Dresden post-bombing and Edgar Derby being executed for looting a teapot.
* [[War Is Hell]]: Mrs. O'Here certainly feels this way and this is proven in a surprisingly non-[[Anvilicious]] way.▼
* [[World War II]]
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: One of the Tralfamadorians says, "I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe.... Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."
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** The narrator also says that the climax will be when Edgar Derby is shot for stealing a teapot, and that is probably the textbook example of a [[Bathos|deliberate anticlimax]].
** On a more meta example, the prologue explains [[Foregone Conclusion|exactly how the book will end]].
▲* [[War Is Hell]]: Mrs. O'Here certainly feels this way and this is proven in a surprisingly non-[[Anvilicious]] way.
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