The Butterfly Effect: Difference between revisions

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* [[Blofeld Ploy]]

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Tommy. Even in a reality where he turns out alright, his hair is brown. Lenny also depending on the reality.

* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: Turns out this is what originally happened with the dynamite. Also {{spoiler|The ending. (Although that was hinted at throughout)}}.

* [[Burn, Baby, Burn]]: Turns out this is what originally happened with the dynamite. Also {{spoiler|The ending. (Although that was hinted at throughout)}}.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Taken to the extreme.

* [[Crapsack World]]: It starts here and gets ''worse''.

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** Let's not forget the [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realize {{spoiler|his mother made a reference earlier that she had 2 miscarriages before him...}} So [[Fridge Horror|they ALL came to the same conclusion, eventually.]]

*** Or the other [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you remember {{spoiler|the crazy fortune teller in the first timeline screaming that he has no soul and wasn't supposed to have been born.}}

* [[Exact Words]]: "Here, take this [[Buffy Speak|rusty spiky thing]]. You've got to stop Tommy! Cut the rope!"

* [[Exact Words]]: "Here, take this [[Buffy-Speak|rusty spiky thing]]. You've got to stop Tommy! Cut the rope!"

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Kayley's hair colour changes depending on how happy she is in whatever timeline. It's brown and mousy in the timelines where she's miserable and it's blonde when she's happy. {{spoiler|Her hair is blonde at the end}}.

* [[For Want of a Nail]]: A rusty, spiky nail, in all likelihood.

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** As if the movie wasn't enough of a [[Mind Screw]], every single other time Evan changed the past, no one else noticed ANYTHING different, but that ONE time his cell mate suddenly notices the "new" scars that should have been there the whole time from his PoV.

* [[Incest Is Relative]]

** [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Was it ever outright stated, or was it just heavily implied?

** [[Brother-Sister Incest]]: Was it ever outright stated, or was it just heavily implied?

*** Tommy made a rather un-brotherly remark towards his sister in one timeline.

** [[Parental Incest]]

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* [[My Sister Is Off Limits]]

* [[Next Sunday AD]]: The epilogue takes place eight years in the future, which would be 2010.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: Every single goddamn time he goes back to "fix" something. The first time, he seems to get it right and has the perfect life when he gets back to the present. But then {{spoiler|he manages to screw it up by murdering his girlfriend's psychotic brother and getting put in prison}}. Brilliant.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Every single goddamn time he goes back to "fix" something. The first time, he seems to get it right and has the perfect life when he gets back to the present. But then {{spoiler|he manages to screw it up by murdering his girlfriend's psychotic brother and getting put in prison}}. Brilliant.

* [[Nightmare Fuel ~~Stationattendant~~]]: Subverted, but still disturbing.

* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Subverted, but still disturbing.

* [[Not Quite the Right Thing]]: The reason [[It Got Worse]]. Any time Evan tries to go back and do what seems to be the right thing. ''Any'' time.

* [[Plot Hole]]: [[Timey Wimey Ball|Time travel inconsistencies]] aside, there's no mention of Evan ever having a trial before being sent to prison after he {{spoiler|kills Tommy}} nor is their any mention about why he didn't {{spoiler|plead self-defense}} when the murder was clearly witnessed as such and could have avoided any kind of stay in jail.

* [[Plot Hole]]: [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Time travel inconsistencies]] aside, there's no mention of Evan ever having a trial before being sent to prison after he {{spoiler|kills Tommy}} nor is their any mention about why he didn't {{spoiler|plead self-defense}} when the murder was clearly witnessed as such and could have avoided any kind of stay in jail.

** Concerning the second example: it's easy to extrapolate from his mother's visit that he did plead - and is still pleading through his lawyer - precisely that, but the court was unwilling to believe him because a) his force was excessive (was {{spoiler|beating Tommy ''to death''}} strictly necessary when he was already subdued with spray, on the ground?) and b) his girlfriend was the ''only'' witness; it's possible she argued against him. She didn't really like him doing that to {{spoiler|her brother}}.

* [[Prison Rape]]: A very brutal example.

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* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: '''Very''' subverted.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Tommy burns Evan's puppy to death right in front of him.

* [[Star Crossed Lovers]]: at least in the director's cut, {{spoiler|Evan}} and {{spoiler|Kayleigh}} just aren't meant to be together.

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: at least in the director's cut, {{spoiler|Evan}} and {{spoiler|Kayleigh}} just aren't meant to be together.

* [[Tap On the Head]]: Done quite realistically.

* [[Time Is Dangerous]]: The directors cut reveals that Evan suffers minor brain damage every time he majorly changes the past, resulting in severe migraines and nosebleeds as he gets the extra memories (often 20 years worth) burnt onto his existing ones. On the other hand, he's [[Genre Savvy]] enough to realise that repeated time travel might ultimately kill him, causing him to intentionally think through what he wants to change before each trip.

* [[Timey Wimey Ball]]

* [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]

* [[Train Station Goodbye]]

* [[When She Smiles]]: Evan has this reaction to Kayley in the first alternate reality. He's seen her sad and messed up so many times that when he sees her smile he's convinced he wants to marry her.

* [[Where It All Began]]

* [[Woobie Destroyer of Worlds]]: Evan unintentionally becomes one of these.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Evan unintentionally becomes one of these.

* [[World Half Empty]]