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* {{spoiler|[[Reality Warping Is Not a Toy]]}}
* [[Reset Button]]: Used in the film. In the novel it is attempted but the results are unclear. The book's ending is left ambiguous enough that {{spoiler|one can infer that the Reset Button attempt only made things ''[[It Got Worse|worse]]''. The line at the very end where Norman says Beth is looking "lovely" could mean that she, with her inferiority complex and her hunger for power, deliberately held on to her abilities while the others forgot them -- or it could imply that while they erased their memories of ever having had these powers, they failed to erase their ability to ''use'' them.}} [[The Film of the Book]] lacks this [[Karmic Twist Ending]].
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: The main characters are investigating a most-likely alien ship, that landed on the bottom of the ocean. Inside they find a perfect sphere with strange markings on it, {{spoiler|and after they've entered the Sphere, they can do stuff with the power of their minds! Which results in the underwater research facility being attacked by among other things, a giant squid. All but three of them die and at the end they figure out what's happening
:{{spoiler|When they are finally rescued, they decide that the power to do anything with just your thoughts is too dangerous, so they decide to forget everything that's happened, explain the deaths of everyone by a leak or something and just by thinking this, it becomes reality. So basically, everything that happened in the entire book has become irrelevant in the last paragraph or so. Or was it? There is the implication that Beth didn't actually give up the power after all.}}
* [[Sinister Geometry]]: The Sphere is a great example. It is enigmatic and scary by virtue of being so simple and featureless. It's nature is what you project on to it, which is perfect for the theme of the film. One character is very unnerved as he observes that, aside from the random pattern of grooves that criss-cross it, the rest of the surface seems to be ''perfectly'' spherical.
** Worse:
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