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* [[Law of Alien Names]]: Averted. The (uncapitalized) "prot" is a vowel ''shorter'' than its pronunciation would imply.
* [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: The series and film revolve around the idea that prot could be alien or human, there's good evidence for both.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "prot" is derived from {{spoiler|Porter, Robert's last name}}.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Subverted. See [[Starfish Aliens]] entry below.
* [[SchrodingersSchrodinger's Gun]]: The film and book both take different stances on their evidence that prot is human or alien. The book contains more in-depth hypnosis sessions that {{spoiler|1=have the Robert Porter personality come out and speak to Brewer, and flashbacks show a gradual growth in the detail of the world of K-PAX as he creates it in his mind, giving strong evidence that prot is just a split personality}}. The film leaves these two points out and has a greater focus on prot's inexplicable abilities, and twice when he would be "arriving" from his faster-than-light travel there's a glare of light and a quick cut away before he appears seemingly out of nowhere, giving a stronger implication that he's an alien.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Subverted. prot claims that K-PAXians are this on their home planet, but look like the most efficient creature of the places they visit. {{spoiler|It turns out that there's a bit more to it than that}}.
* [[The Stoic]]: prot in the film is universally calm and collected. Not so in the novel.
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