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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: The author made the ''readers'' earn it.
* [[Earthshattering Kaboom]]
* [[Eats Babies]]: Subverted and ''inverted'' by the [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Esoteric Happy Ending]]: Deliberately invoked -- either or both endings could be considered this, depending on your values. According to the author, the ending that involves {{spoiler|killing billions of humans}} is the ''good'' one.
* [[First Contact]]: A triangular example between Humans, Babyeaters, and Superhappies all at the same time. Justified by all three races having been attracted by an unusual cosmological phenomenon in the vicinity.
* [[Gallows Humor]]: One of the main coping strategies of many characters in the last chapter.
* [[Genetic Memory]]: Also sexually transmitted.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted
* [[Groin Attack]]: Played for humor.
* [[Happily Ever After]]: The ''bad'' ending. For certain values of "happily".
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* [[Reality Ensues]]
* {{spoiler|[[Shoot the Dog]]}}: And how!
* [[Shout-Out]]: "The aliens will consider this one of their great historical works of literature, like [[Hamlet]] or [[
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Including a [[Grotesque Gallery]]. Could be considered a [[Deconstruction]] considering just exactly ''how'' different the aliens are.
* [[Universal Translator]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]. The aliens send them an entire copy of the ''internet'', and the humans use statistics to match up languages.
* [[Values Dissonance]]: [[In
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: "What is 'untranslatable 2'?"
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